Vitaly Zdorovetskiy vih-TAL-ee z?-DOR-?-VYET-skee (Russian: ???????? ????????????; born March 8, 1989), better known by his YouTube username VitalyzdTv, is a Russian American YouTube personality whose main channel videos, as of January 2018, have reached over 1.5 billion views and over 9.5 million subscribers, while his vlog channel has more than 250 million views and 1.9 million subscribers.
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Early life and education
Zdorovetskiy attempted to become a professional skateboarder at an early age but gave up due to injuries.
In the video titled "Why I Did Porn!", Zdorovetskiy's tells his audience he got his first job at age 15 as a garbage collector making $5.00/hour. His second job was a sign-spinner dressed as Uncle Sam making $20 for 3 hours of work. After that, Vitaly picked up a job as a bus boy at a restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida, later becoming a waiter at the restaurant, Villagio, in Boca's Mizner Park, where he worked for 7 years and was fired 5 times, before being fired for the last time. Just shortly after turning 18, Zdorovetskiy also took part in an adult film scene with pornographic actress Diamond Kitty for the adult entertainment company Bang Bros in 2011.
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Career
Beginning of his YouTube career- 2012-2014
Zdorovetskiy decided to outside a YouTube career after being inspired by the success of Justin Bieber, The Impractical Jokers, and others who had been discovered on YouTube and were later propelled to mainstream success and stardom. Zdorovetskiy has said that he has always wanted to be an actor, and this was his way of getting into "the business".
Zdorovetskiy starting by making YouTube videos and pranks in Palm Beach County, Florida, usually is areas near he and his mother's home in Boca Raton, specifically in the towns of Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, and he would occasionally go to Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach, and South Beach to film pranks.
In 2012, Zdorovetskiy received his first significant success, with the video "Miami Zombie Attack Prank!" Inspired by the cannibal attack of a homeless man in Miami in May 2012, Zdorovetskiy dressed up as a zombie and traveled to some of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami to scare random bystanders. By January 2015 the "Miami Zombie Attack Prank!" had been viewed more than 30 million times. It is now in the lower end of his top 10 most popular pranks. A sequel video prank was produced in Columbus, Ohio. The video got five million views within a week on YouTube.
On June 16, 2012, Zdorovetskiy and cameraman Jonathan Vanegas filmed the "Russian Hitman Prank". As part of the prank, Zdorovetskiy approached a Boca Raton man and informed him they had 60 seconds to get away from a briefcase he placed on the ground. After Zdorovetskiy revealed the whole thing to be a prank and that there was a hidden camera nearby, the man started attacking him and his partner and called the police. Zdorovetskiy was arrested by Boca Raton police department, on charges of threatening to detonate a bomb. At the time of the prank Zdorovetskiy's YouTube channel had only about 100,000 subscribers, but after the incident his channel grew to over four million subscribers within just over a year.
On July 20, 2013, Zdorovetskiy released the video "Extreme Homeless Man Makeover", in which he befriends a homeless man named Martin and provides him with new clothes and a hotel room. The video posting resulted in a job offer that Martin accepted. He was also reunited with his wife. The project also included an attempt to raise money to have Martin's teeth fixed, for which Zdorovetskiy was able to raise about $10,000 online. The fundraising campaign was canceled before it was completed, because of Zdorovetskiy's criminal history. However, Zdorovetskiy received several offers from surgeons to do the dental work for free. The surgery and the video story was featured on television news casts including the Good Day LA Fox morning show.
His "Gold Digger Prank", featuring a woman who rebuffs his advances until she believes he drives a Lamborghini Gallardo sports car, generated more than 18 million views in its first week of posting, making VitalyzdTV the third most watched YouTube channel in the world during that week with over 45 million views.
On October 15, 2014, Zdorovetskiy pulled a prank which involved himself dressing up as Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, pretending to saw off the legs of Hanhart syndrome patient Nick Santonastasso with a chainsaw in front of unsuspecting witnesses. The prank went viral, receiving over 30 million views in 3 weeks.
Move to California, beginning of film career- 2016- present
On May 25, 2016 Zdorovetskiy was arrested for trespassing after climbing the Hollywood Sign, as part of a video stunt.
On June 10, 2016, Zdorovetskiy was again arrested for streaking during Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors with authorities quickly apprehending and arresting the YouTuber.
During the bottom of the 7th inning in Game 5 of the 2017 World Series, he was arrested for running onto the field at Minute Maid Park shortly after Carlos Correa of the Houston Astros hit a home run .
Characters
In his videos, besides vlogging as himself, he has portrayed a number of characters of his own creation. Below are several of his characters featured in many of his pranks and other videos.
Tonisha
Zdorovetskiy plays "Tonisha", a transgender (transwoman) prostitute who wears a pink wig, skimpy outfit, and thong, who propositions and solicits random people and offers prostitution services often for the comical prices of $10 or free, pranks featuring Tonisha were especially common in Zdorovetskiy's early period in 2012-2014, when most of his views were generated. Once he moved to California, and began filming videos there, Tonisha was not featured in a video for several years until November 2017, in a video entitled "MY YOUTUBE CAREER IS OVER!", in which Tonisha returned as Zdorovetskiy stated that he would have to begin a real career as a transgender prostitution in order to supplement his earnings from YouTube, which at the time had declined. It was in this video that Tonisha debuted a new appearance, with a blonde wig instead of the original pink, a pink shirt with many holes in it and a black bikini.
Film career
He is currently filming a movie with Danny Trejo.
In 2014 he filmed a movie, "Hard Left", in which he played "Viktor", a character very similar to his Russian Hitman character.
In 2016 a movie with his friends Roman Atwood and Dennis Roady, both fellow YouTube pranksters. In November 2015, Lionsgate officially acquired worldwide distribution rights for Natural Born Pranksters.
In 2017, Zdorovetskiy filmed a movie in Bulgaria with Nicolas Cage and Amanda Cerny, it has yet to be released.
Personal life
Zdorovetskiy currently lives with his mother, Elena, in Los Angeles, California.
On December 31, 2017, Zdorovetskiy and his now former girlfriend, Bri Teresi, were escorted off Boca Raton Resort because online posts were discovered about a potential New Year's Eve prank, but Zdorovetskiy said he had no intention of making any prank videos at the resort.
References
External links
- Official YouTube channel
- Vitaly Zdorovetskiy on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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