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Shane Dawson Wiki Biography

Shane Lee Yaw was born on 19 July 1988, in Long Beach, California USA, and as Shane Dawson he is one of the most popular YouTube personalities, certainly best known for his YouTube channel called ShaneDawsonTV, which has over six million subscribers. In addition, he is also known as an actor, film director and comedian. Shane has received such awards as Best Vlogger Award and Choice Web Star Award. He has even started a career as a musician.

So just how rich is Shane Dawson? It is estimated by authoritative sources that Shane’s net worth is over $5 million, as of late 2017, the main source being Shane’s activities as a YouTube personality, during his career which began only a little over 10 years ago.

Shane Dawson Net Worth $5 Million

Shane studied at Lakewood High School. His childhood was difficult as he had problems with his weight and experienced bullying from other children. What is more, his father was addicted to alcohol, and so his family experienced a lot of struggles in their life; his father eventually left. When he was still attending school, Shane started making videos, and later this hobby developed into a career.

In 2008 Dawson created his YouTube channel, called “ShaneDawsonTV”, and fairly quickly gained an impressive number of views. Now Shane post his videos everyday on another channel, simply called “Shane”, and even collaborates with other noted YouTubers, including TheFineBros, BrittaniLouise Taylor and iJustine” among others, which has also helped add to Shane’s popularity and his net worth.

In addition, Shane Dawson has appeared in several movies and television shows, for example “Smiley”, and “Not Cool” in “The Chair” competition, in which two novice directors are givne the same script and each make their own film out of it, after which the audience watches both films and vote online for their preference. “Not Cool” was competing against Anna Martemucci’s “Holidaysburg”. Zachary Quinto, producer of “The Chair”, disliked Shane’s work, but the test audience liked the movie, and Dawson won the competition, the first prize being $250,000 to work on another film project, but also a significant boost to his net worth.

As mentioned, Shane has also begin his professional career as a musician; since 2010 he has released eight singles, and is believed to be working  on his first studio album.

To talk about Shane Dawson’s personal life, he is in a relationship with Lisa Schwartz, who is also a YouTube personality; they both live in Hollywood, California.