Logan Alexander Paul is an American actor, YouTuber, professional wrestler, and influencer who was born on April 1, 1995. He is presently under contract with WWE, where he is serving as the organization's first-ever WWE United States Champion. His YouTube channel boasts over 23 million followers, and in 2017, 2018, and 2021, Forbes listed him among the top paid YouTube creators. Since November 2018, Paul has also been the host of the Impaulsive podcast, which has amassed over 4 million YouTube followers.
Early Life And Career
Logan Alexander Paul was born on April 1, 1995, in Westlake, Ohio, to Gregory Paul and Pamela Stepnick. He states that he is descended from Jews, French, German, Scottish, Irish, and English people. Along with his younger brother Jake (born 1997), a well-known media figure, he grew up in Westlake. Paul started making films when he was ten years old for the Zoosh YouTube channel. Attending Westlake High School, he qualified for the state-level Ohio High School Athletic Association 2013 Division I Wrestling Individual Championships and was selected The Plain Dealer's All-Star football linebacker in 2012.
As an actor, Paul has starred in films and television shows such as The Thinning (2016) and The Thinning: New World Order (2018). He has also had cameo appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Bizaardvark. He has also pursued other interests; in 2016, he dropped his first song "2016," and in 2018, he engaged in amateur white-collar boxing with English media figure KSI. The bout was declared a majority draw. In the professional rematch in 2019, KSI prevailed via split decision. Following a few short WWE appearances in 2021, Paul made his professional wrestling debut in April 2022 as The Miz's tag team partner in a bout they won, earning Paul plaudits for his performance.
Paul's Vine account on YouTube had garnered a small audience by the time he started college. After leaving Ohio University in 2014 to pursue a career as a full-time social media entertainer in Los Angeles, where he moved into an apartment complex with other Vine stars, he majored in industrial engineering.
Paul became well-known after signing up for the Vine video sharing website. He possessed more than 3.1 million followers across many social media networks in February 2014. He has accumulated 105,000 Twitter followers, 361,000 Instagram followers, 31,000 Facebook page likes, and over 150,000 YouTube channel subscribers by April 2014.
Personal Life
Along with his housemates, Mark Dohner and Evan Eckenrode, Paul shared an apartment block on Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, California, with other well-known figures from the social media world, such as Amanda Cerny, Juanpa Zurita, and Andrew Bachelor, in October of 2015. Their close closeness allowed for several collaborations on their own videos. Paul and Eckenrode moved to an estate in Encino, California, in October 2017. Paul talked on religion in Impaulsive episode 198 with Carl Lentz, the guest speaker at the time and the pastor of Hillsong Church NYC. Paul characterised himself as "not overly religious". Paul declared himself to be a Christian as well. He stated that although he believes in a "creator," he is unsure of this creator's function in the lives of humans.