GloZell Biography
GloZell (born as GloZell Lyneette Simon) is a comedian as well as a YouTube personality of American nationality who is based in California and has been known for her videos and song parodies. She has been into the heights of fame since the establishment of her YouTube Channel in 2008. She was born to Gloria Green and Ozell Green on the 30th of July, 1972. Her bio and career details are often searched by keen fans around the world.
GloZell established her YouTube channel in 2008, with video interviews, a comedy about her life and song parodies. By 2015, the channel had accumulated more than four million subscribers and more than 700 million total views.
Her most popular videos include her cinnamon challenge video, which has accumulated more than 53 million views, and “My Push up Bra will help me get my man” video, with more than 25 million views.
She gained wide notice when her blog about meeting Elijah Wood was mentioned by the actor during a 2011 interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In 2012, she appeared in the web series Dr. Fubalous.
In 2015, GloZell interviewed President Barack Obama in a YouTube Livestream hosted at the White House. In 2018, Green had a small role as Little Debbie in Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Age And Height
GloZell Lyneette Simon, better known as GloZell Green or simply GloZell, is an American YouTube personality, rapper, singer, and comedian.
GloZell established her YouTube channel in 2008, with video interviews, a comedy about her life and song parodies. She was born on July 30, 1972, in Orlando, FL.
Lyneette Simon is 47 years old as of 2019. She has a height of 5 feet 10 inches and has a net worth of 500 thousand. Her actual salary, however, is not known.
GloZell Early life
GloZell was born to Gloria and Ozell Green, her name being a portmanteau of the names of her parents. She has one sister, DeOnzell, who is an opera singer. In 1997, GloZell graduated from the University of Florida with a BFA degree in musical theatre.
GloZell Personal life
GloZell was married from 2000 to 2003. She described her relationship with her ex-husband and their divorce in her autobiography Is You Okay?. GloZell lives in Los Angeles with her manager and husband Kevin Simon. The two got married on August 9, 2013. On August 4, 2016, GloZell and her husband welcomed their first child, via surrogate, naming their daughter O’Zell Gloriana De Green Simon.
GloZell Married
GloZell is a married woman and has a spouse. She has been married for the past four years and has announced that she is expecting a child with her husband. Her manager and longtime boyfriend made their affair public by announcing their engagement on August 13, 2012.
The relationship was made public through their channel. They later got married after a long affair on the 9th of August, 2013. The date from which they started dating has not been known to the judges. They announced their pregnancy in December 2015 and they are expecting a child through a surrogate mother.
Apart from Simon, she has not been known to be in a relationship with anybody else.
She has no other children. She has also never been known to have cheated on her husband. She has also never been surrounded with rumors of being a gay or a bi-sexual.
GloZell Career
In 2003, GloZell moved to Hollywood, California, to pursue a career in acting and comedy. She joined The Groundlings and studied her favorite comedian, Jay Leno, by attending 600 consecutive tapings of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She began a blog that included a series of interviews with other audience members at Leno’s show, but she soon began using YouTube as a video host for the interviews.
She began to create and post original comedy videos when people she met at Leno tapings told her that she was funny on her own. Her first viral YouTube video, in 2008, was “My Push up Bra will help me get my man”; by 2013, it had gained over 20 million views.
She began to make more frequent YouTube comedy videos focusing on her daily life, celebrity impersonations, song parodies, and Internet fads. Some of her most popular early videos were her “translations” of pop songs, such as Kesha’s “Tik Tok” and Rihanna’s “Rude Boy”.
In 2011, GloZell gained wider notice when her vlog about meeting Elijah Wood was mentioned by the actor during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Her 2012 cinnamon challenge video became quickly popular and was ranked fourth on The Guardian’s “Viral Video Chart” in February 2012. As of 2016, it had amassed more than 48 million views.
In June 2012, she was featured in the video Beauty and the Beat by Todrick Hall, which reimagines the opening of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, in which Belle lives in an urban African-American neighborhood.
Also 2012, GloZell was featured alongside Danny Trejo and Flavor Flav and fellow YouTube personalities Antoine Dodson and Colleen Ballinger in the musical web series Dr. Fubalous, where GloZell played the titular doctor’s “ranch dressing-loving secretary”, Maude “Ma” Cakes.
GloZell has performed her stand-up act at such comedy venues as The Comedy Store, The Improv, the Laugh Factory, Showtime at the Apollo, Steve Harvey Talent Show, and the J. Anthony Brown’s J Spot Comedy Club.
She has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, 20/20, ABC News and MTV and has been featured in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, People and Forbes magazines, among other media.
Each year since 2013, GloZell has hosted a free live variety show called GloZell Fest, with celebrity and YouTube guests including Sisaundra Lewis, Meghan Tonjes, Frankie Grande, Miranda Sings and Far Young. She has also published a book of inspirational poems called Wait! Let Me Tell You.
In May 2013, GloZell released her first single, titled “Pick Up After Your Dog”, on the iTunes Store, and the music video was soon released on YouTube. She released her second single, “Glozell’s Cinnamon Challenge”, later in May.
By 2013, GloZell’s YouTube channel had received more than 400 million total views, with 2.7 million subscribers, and was ranked the 25th most viewed comedy channel on YouTube. By 2015, the channel had accumulated more than 4 million subscribers and more than 700 million views.
On January 22, 2015, GloZell interviewed Barack Obama in a YouTube Livestream hosted at The White House. She talked to him about, among other issues, racial profiling, and officer-involved shootings, relations with Cuba and cybersecurity.
At the end of the interview, she handed Obama green lipstick to give to the first lady and their children but misspoke saying, “One for your first wife…” resulting in some laughs from the audience in the room.
GloZell made a guest appearance in the Nickelodeon sitcom Game Shakers and played a role in the 2015 film The Wedding Ringer. She plays the voice role of Grandma Rosiepuff in DreamWorks’ animated film Trolls. She also has a docuseries, Glo All In, about her and her husband’s quest to have a child, ultimately with a surrogate mother.
In June 2016, GloZell released an autobiography, Is You Okay?, written in collaboration with Nils Parker. In 2016, GloZell had a lead role as the Jazz Singer in the YouTube Red (now YouTube Premium) original series Escape the Night.
The cast of the show, including her, Shane Dawson, Joey Graceffa, Lele Pons and Sierra Furtado, won the Streamy Award for the best ensemble cast.
In 2017, Green launched a new channel for preschoolers called GloBugz!, the series was produced by Bunim/Murray Productions. In 2018, Green had a small role as Little Debbie in Ralph Breaks the Internet.
GloZell Net worth
GloZell Green is an American comedian and YouTube personality who has a net worth of $2 million. GloZell Green was born on July 1972 and lives in Hollywood, California. She graduated with a degree in musical theater from the University of Florida. After moving to Hollywood Green joined The Groundlings.
She attended 600 consecutive tapings of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and started a blog where she interviewed other audience members.
Her first YouTube Video was titled “My Push up Bra will help me get my man” and had more than 20 million views by 2013. Her YouTube channel features interviews, song parodies, and comedy about her own life.
As of August 2014, her YouTube channel had over 500 million total views and three million subscribers. She has had six different videos get more than 10 million views. Actor Elijah Wood mentioned GloZell in a 2011 interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! which led her to gain notoriety.
She appeared in the web series Dr. Fubalous in 2012. She has released four albums available for digital download and was nominated for a Screen chart! Channel Award for Best Female Personality in 2014. As of December 2018, she has just under 5 million subscribers on YouTube and has generated just under 1 billion video views across various platforms.