The YouTubers shared the large information in a 47-minute video uploaded on Monday
YouTubers Dan and Phil have finally confirmed their romance following 16 years of rumours.
Dan Howell and Phil Lester have been creating content material collectively on YouTube since their first assembly in 2009, subsequently branching out into movies, books, tv, radio and reside excursions. The pair run a joint channel that includes entertaining response movies, comedy sketches and private anecdotes.
The duo, who’ve shared a house for 14 years, individually revealed they had been homosexual by way of their respective channels in 2019. They subsequently acknowledged being romantically concerned at the beginning of their partnership however declined to elaborate additional, experiences the Mirror.
In a 47-minute video uploaded on Monday, the pair lastly revealed they have been romantically collectively for 16 years, prompting followers of the pair to remark “lastly”.
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“Alright, let’s get this over with. Are Dan and Phil in a relationship?” Dan opened the video as each settled onto a mattress. Phil responded: “Sure,” earlier than Dan quipped: “Alright, bye.”
“We fell into it exhausting and quick in 2009,” Dan defined. “It was so quick that we by no means labeled it. We simply ended up residing collectively and right here we’re!”
Phil added: “We’re companions in all the things. And no, it isn’t all the time good. Do not get into your head that we’re the best of human partnerships.”
Dan then confessed he was so ‘deep within the closet’ throughout his mid-20s that he believed they “needed to conceal the connection as a result of I used to be nonetheless hiding who I used to be to my buddies, household, myself.
“A giant motive why I have been like I by no means wanna discuss that is I would not deal with folks’s reactions.”
Phil expressed: “I felt like I would gone again in a mini closet in a method, which was bizarre. I knew this was all very delicate, uncomfortable and scary for you. So I form of simply wished to present you time to determine what you wished to do.”
Dan and Phil revealed that they stored their relationship non-public as they wished to be recognised as a comedy duo somewhat than boyfriends.
“It hits completely different,” Dan commented. “Who’s to say there’s something incorrect with having the lovable homosexual couple present? It is simply that we wished the main target to be on what we had been doing.”
Phil added: “Being humorous, entertaining. Let’s be sincere, there’s numerous homophobia on the market,” earlier than Dan chimed in: “There’s numerous straight guys that will merely have by no means watched us on YouTube as a result of it made them uncomfortable.”
In addition they aimed to keep away from the ‘dystopian nightmare’ of ‘couple vlogging’.
Dan and Phil’s movies can be found to look at free on YouTube
