Caspar Lee, the South African YouTube star with a 7.6-million subscriber-base, has announced that he will be publishing a memoir.
The book, written in collaboration with the 21-year-old’s mother Emily Riordan Lee, will be published by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Caspar Lee will be released globally on 31 May in hardback and digital formats.
Lee was born in London, England but raised in Knysna and Durban. He now lives in London. His self-produced videos regularly get over 3-million views, and have featured Kevin Hart, Chris Pratt and Will Ferrell.
Referring to the high number of books published by famous vloggers recently, Lee joked: “I’m really pleased to be the only YouTuber who has published a book in the last couple of years … oh wait.”
He added: “In all seriousness it’s been so interesting to hear about all the things my family went through when we were living in South Africa but that I wasn’t aware of because I was too young. Thanks so much to my mum for capturing my life story so far and to everyone who has gotten me to this point.”
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A limited number of signed copies are available for pre-order from Waterstones in the UK, but Lee’s fans managed to overload the site within minutes of the announcement:
Look what you did in 30 seconds O: #CasparLeeBook pic.twitter.com/sNCB9G2iTY
— Caspar Lee (@Caspar_Lee) March 7, 2016