{"id":2090367,"date":"2025-10-14T14:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2090367"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:07:12","slug":"youtubers-dan-and-phil-confirm-theyre-dating-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/youtubers-dan-and-phil-confirm-theyre-dating-after-16-years\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTubers Dan and Phil confirm they&#8217;re dating after 16 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F10%2F113451216.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dan and Phil are a couple!<\/p>\n<p>Famous YouTube duo Dan\u00a0Howell\u00a0and\u00a0Phil\u00a0Lester confirmed that they\u2019ve been in a relationship since they started making videos together in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The pair <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cxe_YMJ4nUs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a 46-minute video<\/a> on Monday, titled \u201cAre Dan and Phil in a Relationship?,\u201d to share the news about \u201cPhan\u201d with their almost 3 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dan and Phil reveal they\u2019re dating on YouTube. <span class=\"credit\">Dan and Phil\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dan and Phil in their Oct. 13 YouTube video. <span class=\"credit\">Dan and Phil\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAlright, let\u2019s get this over with. Are Dan and Phil in a relationship?\u201d Howell, 34, said, as Lester, 38, replied, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Howell and Lester \u2014 who both came out as gay separately in June 2019 \u2014 recalled that they fell into their romance \u201chard and fast in 2009\u201d but didn\u2019t put an official label on their relationship.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Are Dan and Phil in a Relationship?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cxe_YMJ4nUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd here we are, almost 16 years later,\u201d Howell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s not always perfect,\u201d Lester noted of the relationship. \u201cDon\u2019t get it into your head that we are the ideal of human partnerships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had ups and downs like anybody,\u201d added Howell. \u201cWe have lived a thousand lifetimes of a normal person\u2019s partnership and I have no idea why we\u2019ve survived.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Phil Lester and Dan Howell in a selfie. <span class=\"credit\">danielhowell\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Phil and Dan on the beach. <span class=\"credit\">danielhowell\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Howell also explained that it took him time to talk about the relationship openly because of his \u201cextremely homophobic childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my mid 20s I felt we had to hide the relationship because I was still hiding who I was to my friends, family, myself,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is why all of the digging from people online hit a nerve, because Phil was my safe space. You were my first boyfriend\u2026 You were a literal ray of light in my life back then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howell added: \u201cHaving all of these people trying to out us, and being so hostile to me when I tried to hide it, was so triggering. Honestly, it could have killed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dan and Phil doing the \u201cTitanic\u201d post on a boat. <span class=\"credit\">Dan and Phil\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Howell also said that the couple \u201ccan\u2019t live in fear anymore\u201d and are done hiding their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the video, the duo clarified that their content won\u2019t turn into \u201ccouple vloggers in bed\u201d because of their romance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been held back from doing this for so many years,\u201d said Howell, \u201c\u2019cause of all the past trauma and terror of what could happen in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dan Howell and Phil Lester attend the 7th Annual VidCon at Anaheim Convention Center in June 2016. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dan and Phil on their comedy tour. <span class=\"credit\">amazingphil\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut if you\u2019ll have us,\u201d Lester added, \u201cwe\u2019d love to just finally be ourselves and do what we love, which is really how this should have been this whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The YouTubers ended their video by announcing \u201cThe Dan and Phil Podcast,\u201d as Lester joked, \u201c15 years of suppressing all of these stories and opinions and they\u2019re finally gonna come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan and Phil are a couple! Famous YouTube duo Dan\u00a0Howell\u00a0and\u00a0Phil\u00a0Lester confirmed that they\u2019ve been in a relationship since they started making videos together in 2009. The pair posted a 46-minute video on Monday, titled \u201cAre Dan and Phil in a Relationship?,\u201d to share the news about \u201cPhan\u201d with their almost 3 million subscribers. 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