Wil Lising Dasovich (born August 26, 1991) is a Filipino-American television personality, model, and vlogger. He is known for his vlogs on YouTube. In television, he has appeared on various shows, but most notably on Pinoy Big Brother.
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Early life
Born in California, United States to a Croatian-Irish father, merchant mariner Steve Dasovich, and a Filipino mother, interior designer Charry Dasovich. Dasovich was raised in Novato, California just north of San Francisco, where he grew up with Zac Efron. He is a nephew of ABS-CBN news presenter Karen Davila.
He attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. There he studied business and was accepted into an entrepreneurial internship program. In his third year in college he started up and ran his own residential painting business for nearly 2 years.
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Career
Modeling
After graduation from college in 2013, Dasovich travelled around Asia for three months. When he came to the Philippines, he decided to stay to learn its language and culture after growing a fondness for his Filipino roots. In an interview, he said:
During the same year, while having lunch at Greenbelt in Makati, he was discovered and offered a job to be a commercial model. For the next 2 years he appeared on several advertisements in both print and video. He would eventually make his way local television. After being exposed to showbiz and finding some success as a host & TV personality, he decided to stay and pursue his career in the entertainment industry. He eventually fully committed to YouTube focusing all his efforts on creating content. The first video he ever posted is called "10 Hours of Walking in Manila".
YouTube
While learning the local language, Dasovich also started writing episodes of "The Art of Tagalog." After a year of writing, he began filming videos of him learning Filipino.
Wil Dasovich gained recognition when his videos with his father Steve Dasovich speaking Swardspeak or "bekinese" went viral. He has grown the audience of his vlog since then. His vlog features different aspects of Filipino culture he discovers in his adventures around the country.
Work with Janina Vela
In 2016, Dasovich and fellow Youtuber Janina Vela were the two fastest growing YouTube vloggers in the Philippines. He and Vela became brand endorsers for Jollibee. They performed together at the 2016 YouTube FanFest in Manila. The tandem has produced several collaboration videos of mostly food reviews and interviews with one another.
Vlogging group
Dasovich started a vlogging group called the "#VlogSquad" with fellow Youtubers Daniel Marsh and his sister Haley Dasovich. The three have appeared together in numerous travel vlogs on their respective YouTube channels. As a group they have been endorsers of many large companies including Coca-Cola, Converse, Jollibee, Forever 21 and many other notable brands. The Vlog Squad is managed by Producer and YouTuber (PaperBugTV) Jako de Leon. Overtime Wil introduced vlogging to many other influencers and TV personalities including fellow Big Brother housemate Baninay Bautista , who became a later addition to the squad amongst many others. Also part of the team is Elvin Mendoza who is the "VlogSquad IT" who is in charge of all the Tech Stuff, he also uploads behind-the-scene videos of the squad. The squad, featuring Wil, Haley, and Daniel, appear on an international ad campaign for Coca-Cola.
Big Brother
Dasovich became a "housemate" of the thirteenth season of Pinoy Big Brother after a successful third audition. He had previously attempted to enter the show, but failed to make it to the cut twice.
During his residence in the Big Brother house, he was nominated for every eviction night but survived by succeeding save challenges or getting the highest text votes. He was evicted on his fifth time to be nominated for eviction after garnering the second lowest text votes.
Personal life
In August 2017, upon returning to San Francisco after three years abroad, Dasovich explained that he came for treatment for internal bleeding that was apparently contracted from a parasite. Dasovich later revealed that he was diagnosed with a stage III colon cancer. He finished his last cycle of chemotherapy in early January 2018. In early February 2018, he revealed that he is now cancer-free.
On February 14, 2018, Dasovich confirmed that he and Alodia Gosiengfiao are in a relationship.
He is now back in the Philippines, travelling, vlogging and everything that he has been doing before he was diagnosed with cancer.
On April 15, 2018 at the 10th Shorty Awards he won the Shorty Awards for Vlogger of the Year.
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Wil Lising Dasovich on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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