Colin Furze
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Colin Peter Furze (born 14 October 1979)[2] is a British YouTube personality, stuntman, inventor, and filmmaker from Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. Furze left school to become a plumber, a trade which he pursued until joining the Sky1 programme Gadget Geeks. Furze has used his plumbing and engineering experience to build many unconventional contraptions, including a hoverbike, a wall of death, a jet-powered motorcycle made with pulsejet engines, and the world's fastest mobility scooter, pram, and dodgem.
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Born | Colin Peter Furze 14 October 1979 (1979-10-14) (age 44) Stamford, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||
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Years active | 2006–present | ||||||||||||
Known for | YouTube and other film making platforms | ||||||||||||
Website | www YouTube information | ||||||||||||
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Subscribers | 12.9 million[1] | ||||||||||||
Total views | 1.71 billion[1] | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: 3 February 2024 | |||||||||||||
Certain projects he has undertaken have been funded by television and video game franchises for promotion, including a spring-loaded hidden blade and grappling hook from the Assassin's Creed franchise, an artificial-turf-covered BMW E30 containing a hot tub and barbecue grill, and a bunker underneath his back garden to promote Sky1's television series You, Me and the Apocalypse. He celebrates reaching YouTube subscriber milestones by staging extravagant firework stunts that get more extravagant for each milestone reached.