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Joseph Graham Sugg (Born 8th September 1991) is a British Youtuber, Filmmaker, Author, Presenter, Actor, Thatcher and A Blogger. He is known for his Youtube Channels, ThatcherJoe, ThatcherJoeGames and ThatcherJoeVlogs. He is also known for competing on the 16th Series of Strictly Come Dancing where he ended up finishing runners up with professional dance Partner Dianne Buswell.

YouTube
Sugg created his "ThatcherJoe" channel in November 2011 and was able to reach the 1 million subscriber mark two years later. As of 26 October 2017, he has over 8 million subscribers and over 1 billion video views. His videos consist of challenges, pranks, and impressions. He created a "YouTuber Innuendo Bingo", similar to the BBC Radio 1 segment, and was later invited to appear on the Radio 1 segment himself.

Music
Sugg was a member of the YouTube Boyband that raised money for Comic Relief and was featured in The Guardian.He also featured on the 2014 single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" as part of the Band Aid 30 charity supergroup, raising money for the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

Film and television
Sugg made an uncredited cameo voiceover as a seagull along with flatmate Caspar Lee, comic Alan Carr and singer Stacey Solomon in the 2015 UK version of the film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. Also in 2015, Sugg appeared alongside Caspar Lee in the direct-to-DVD film Joe and Caspar Hit the Road, which was shown on British television channel E4 in April 2016. A second DVD, Joe & Caspar Hit the Road USA, was released in 2016.

Alongside fellow YouTubers Alfie Deyes and Marcus Butler, Sugg starred in an episode of the British television show Release the Hounds. The episode aired on 2 March 2017.

It was announced on the 18th December 2018 that Sugg would be hosting BBC's New Years Eve concert alongside fellow Strictly finalist and Winner Stacey Dooley in which gives Sugg his first presenting Job.

Graphic novels
Sugg is the author of the graphic novel Username: Evie, published in 2015 by Hodder & Stoughton. The writing is by Matt Whyman, with artist Amrit Birdi, colourist Joaquin Pereyra, and letterer Mindy Lopkin. The story tells of bullied teenage schoolgirl Evie, who dreams of a place she can be herself. Her terminally ill father creates a virtual reality for her but dies before it is completed. After he leaves her an app that allows entry, Evie is transported into a world where everything is influenced by her personality. A second graphic novel, Username: Regenerated, was published in 2016 as a sequel to Username: Evie. In 2017, Sugg announced a third and final graphic novel in the "Username" series titled Username: Uprising. It was released on 21 September 2017.

Sugg Life
In late 2016, Sugg and his sister, Zoe Sugg, released a range of branded merchandise called 'Sugg Life', created in collaboration with The Creator Store, a company owned by Alfie Deyes and Dominic Smales. The term 'Sugg Life' is a play on 'Thug life', a phrase popularised by Tupac Shakur and more recently an internet meme.The online shop offered a range of products such as hoodies, stickers and phone cases. In August 2017, The Creator Store opened a pop-up shop in Covent Garden which, for ten days, sold limited edition 'Sugg Life X PB' merchandise; a collaboration of Sugg Life and Deyes' 'Pointless Blog' brands. As of May 2018, the Sugg Life online shop is no longer active.

Strictly Come Dancing
Sugg began competing in the 16th Series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Australian dance Partner Dianne Buswell. Together they reached the Final's of the Show where they lost out to Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton who lifted the Trophy. Throughout the Course of the Series, it was reported that Sugg and Buswell were together in which everytime they got asked about their relationship they just blew it off. Then Sugg released an Instagram post on the 16th December in fact announcing that he and Dianne are dating.


 * Notes
 * ^A  Alfonso Ribeiro filled in for Tonioli

Personal Life
Sugg is the younger brother of Zoe Sugg, who is also a blogger and internet personality and known on YouTube as Zoella.

The name of Sugg's YouTube channel is derived from his training as a roof thatcher.

Until early 2016, Sugg lived in an apartment in London with fellow YouTuber Caspar Lee. Currently, he lives in an apartment with his close friend Byron Langley, located near to Lee's new apartment.

In December 2018 it was announced that Sugg had begun to date his Strictly Partner Dianne Buswell after months of speculation.