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Rose and Rosie, Joe Sugg, Zoella and KSI among YouTube stars at new interactive Birmingham event

Top YouTube and social media stars will descend on Birmingham when HelloWorld Live comes to the Genting Arena.

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HelloWorld Live: (From top left, clockwise) Joe Sugg, KSI, Jim Chapman, Marcus Butler, Louise Pentland, Alfie Deyes (PointlessBlog), Zoella and Caspar Lee

The four-hour show, set to take place two days in a row, will see stars such as Zoella, PointlessBlog, Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee, Rose and Rosie, Jim Chapman, Louise Pentland, KSI and Marcus Butler - plus more yet to be announced.

The event will feature an interactive 'Main Street', where guests can listen to live music, learn dance routines and watch comedy shows.

The second act of the show will then see some of the world's biggest social media stars will perform.

Find out more about each star below:

(BEWARE: Some of these videos may contain language some may find offensive)

Joe Sugg

Joe is a 25-year-old author, film-maker, YouTuber and vlogger from Wiltshire.

He is known for his YouTube channels ThatcherJoe, ThatcherJoeVlogs and ThatcherJoeGames.

Clips he makes include pranks, challenges and dares.

On YouTube, Joe has more than 8,000,000 subscribers and more than one billion views.

See what Joe does here:

Caspar Lee

Room mate of Joe Sugg Caspar Lee will also be at the Birmingham event.

Caspar is a 23-year-old South African vlogger and YouTube star from London who has more than 7million subscribers on YouTube.

As well as appearing in many of Joe Sugg's videos, Caspar also speaks to stars on his channel (such as Wolverhampton's Liam Payne - see below), as well as carrying out challenges and pranks.

See one of his videos here:

Zoella

Zoe Elizabeth Sugg, best known by her YouTube username Zoella, is a 27-year-old English fashion and beauty vlogger, YouTube star and author.

She has a total of 11,847, 206 subscribers on YouTube and almost one billion views.

Get a taste of what Zoella does here:

Louise Pentland

Louise is a 32-year-old fashion and beauty vlogger, blogger, YouTuber and author from Northampton.

She is best known to her fans as SprinkleofGlitter or Sprinkle of Chatter.

As well as her online success, Louise has also been named Sunday Times number one best-seller.

On YouTube, the SprinkleofGlitter vlogger has more than 2,500,000 subscribers and more than 180,500,000 views.

Get a taste of what Louise does below:

KSI

English rapper, YouTube personality, comedian and actor KSI is a 24-year-old star from Watford.

He is known for a number of songs, such as Lamborghini, Keep Up and Friends With Benefits.

The star frequently interviews stars such as Matt Damon and Conor McGregor.

KSI has a total of 16,155,932 subscribers on YouTube.

Get an idea of what KSI is about here:

Rose and Rosie

Rose and Rosie are a married couple who release weekly comedy entertainment videos.

They regularly release videos where they chat to stars, such as Meghan Trainor and Antoine Fuqua.

Jim Chapman

Norwich-based model, presenter, blogger and YouTube star Jim Chapman is a 29-year-old vlogger.

As well as being known for his own channel, Jim is also married to fellow vlogger Tanya Burr.

Jim is best known for releasing videos on pop culture and men's fashion.

See what Jim does here:

Marcus Butler

Comedy vlogger Marcus is a 25-year-old YouTube star from Shoreham-by-Sea.

He has two channels on YouTube named Marcus Butler, which is a comedy channel, and MoreMarcus, where he runs daily content including vlogs, reaction videos and product testing reults.

As well as appearing alone, Marcus frequently releases videos with other vloggers, such as Joe Sugg and Louise Pentland.

See one of Marcus' videos here:

Pointlessblog

PointlessBlog is ran by Alfie Deyes - a 23-year-old author and YouTube star from London.

As well as having his own online career, Alfie is in a relationship with fellow YouTuber Zoella.

He runs YouTube channels PointlessBlog, PointlessBlogVlogs and PointlessBlogGames.

Since 2014 he has released two books in his Pointless Book series and one as an autobiography.

The PointlessBlog has more than 5,500,000 subscribers.

See what the Pointlessblog is all about here:

Tickets for the show will go on sale soon.

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