South African YouTube star releases memoir

Viral star, South African YouTube  sensation Caspar Lee, announces that he will be publishing a memoir.

The 21-year-old star who has over 7.6-million subscriber-base on YouTube and 3.8 million followers on Instagram told his followers on Twitter the book will be written in collaboration with his mother Emily Riordan Lee.

Immediately after his announcement, the Waterstones website crashed.

The book will be published by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House and released globally on 31 May in hardback and digital formats.

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.”

Caspar Lee was born in London, England but raised in South Africa. His YouTube channel is 165th most subscribed channel in the world, and he was named by Yahoo! News as one of "12 Web-savvy entrepreneurs to watch"

His self-produced videos regularly get over 3-million views, and have featured Kevin Hart, Chris Pratt and Will Ferrell.

Watch the book trailer below:

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