But my family and friends have known for like three years. Personal life Ĭruikshank came out publicly as gay in a YouTube video released August 20, 2013, saying, "I'm gay. Ĭruikshank made an appearance on Brandon Rogers' Four Million Subscriber Freakout video after the latter gained four million subscribers as of June 2018. In April 2019, Cruikshank's channel name was changed to "Lucas", and currently sees over 3 million subscribers as of 2020.
After Jenny left the channel in November 2014, Cruikshank reverted the channel name back to "lucas" and continued to release vlogs.
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Between 20, Cruikshank partnered with Jennifer Veal to produce a series of videos on the channel, which was renamed "Lucas and Jenny," adding to the duo's popularity. In January 2009 he set up his own channel, called "lucas", in which he appeared as himself. Cruikshank formally left the group and deleted his individual videos. In 20 he starred as the lead in the Nickelodeon television show Marvin Marvin, as an alien "teenage" boy adjusting to human life.Ĭruikshank was originally a part of JKL Productions, a group comprising twins Jon and Katie Smet and Lucas Cruikshank, their cousin. In 2011, he appeared on the Cartoon Network Hall of Game Awards and in an episode of Supah Ninjas. He appeared at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards as well as the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards presenting awards to winners off-stage. Ĭruikshank appeared in the Hannah Montana episode "Come Fail Away", which aired December 6, 2009. He made a guest appearance as both "Fred" and himself on Nickelodeon's iCarly in "iMeet Fred", which first aired on February 16, 2009. In addition to promoting his own movies and albums, Cruikshank has also promoted the movies City of Ember, Year One, and Adventures of Power, and the artist Kev Blaze, by featuring in his song "Watch How I Do This". He is seen using a Zipit, as well as his own products and T-shirts. In the Fred series, Cruikshank promotes various products and movies.
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In 2012, Fred: The Show aired, consisting of twenty-four 22-minute episodes, and a third movie called Fred 3: Camp Fred. Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred aired on October 22, 2011, also on Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon created a franchise surrounding the character, and began producing the sequel in March 2011. In December 2009, Cruikshank filmed Fred: The Movie, which aired on Nickelodeon in September 2010. By April 2009, the channel had over one million subscribers, making it the first YouTube channel to do so, and the most subscribed channel at the time.
Upon the success of Fred, he started a video series, and set up the Fred channel in April 2008. Cruikshank, while testing character ideas, created the Fred character in a Halloween video, and uploaded it to a YouTube channel that he had started with his two cousins.