Hannah Hart
Hannah Maud Hart (born November 2, 1986)[2][3] is an American internet personality, comedian, author, and actress. She is known for starring in My Drunk Kitchen, a weekly series on YouTube in which she cooks something while intoxicated. She also runs a second channel where she talks about life in general and gives her opinions on various topics. She co-produced and starred in the independent comedy film Camp Takota, released in 2014. She wrote a parody cookbook which was a New York Times bestseller for five weeks in August–September 2014. She is a 2017 recipient of the Alex Awards.
For the murder victim Hannah Jean Hart, see Hart family murders.Early life[edit]
Hart graduated from the University of California, Berkeley[4] in May 2009 with two degrees, one in English literature and one in Japanese language.[5][6] Upon her graduation, Hart moved to San Francisco to live with her best friend and Hannalyze This podcast co-host, Hannah Gelb. She later moved to Brooklyn, New York, to pursue a writing career. She ended up proofreading Japanese and English for a Manhattan-based translating firm instead of her initial dream of writing screenplays.[7][8] Within two months of launching her YouTube channel, she ended up quitting her 9-to-5 job in order to focus on My Drunk Kitchen.[7][9]
Career[edit]
2011: Launch of My Drunk Kitchen[edit]
My Drunk Kitchen traces its beginnings to March 2011, when Hart was at her sister's home, chatting with a friend over a webcam. Hart used her Macintosh computer to record herself drinking wine while attempting to make a grilled cheese sandwich without any cheese.[10] Hart uploaded the video to YouTube as My Drunk Kitchen.[7] Viewers began asking for another "episode" of the video, and Hart complied with more recordings. To establish the initial upload as the first episode of a series, she renamed it "Butter Yo Shit."[11] By July 2011, My Drunk Kitchen had gathered 800,000 views.[12] Hart has hosted several celebrity guests on My Drunk Kitchen, including British chef Jamie Oliver,[13] actress Mary-Louise Parker, actor/host Chris Hardwick, video blogger Tyler Oakley, former NSYNC member Lance Bass, and author John Green, who subsequently wrote the foreword to Hart's cookbook.[14] Comedian Sarah Silverman was also featured in the show in December 2014 in an episode which demonstrated the therapeutic and medicinal use of cannabis.[15] New episodes of My Drunk Kitchen are uploaded each Thursday on Hart's main channel. In 2013, at the 3rd Streamy Awards, Hart won the Streamy Award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy.[16] In 2014, Hart co-hosted the 4th Streamy Awards with her colleague Grace Helbig.[17] My Drunk Kitchen would also win the presentation's award for best comedy.[17] As of June 2015, her channel MyHarto had over 2.3 million subscribers and over 206 million views.[18]
2013: Hello Harto, No Filter, Camp Takota[edit]
On January 2, 2013, Hannah posted a video on YouTube stating that she was considering doing a world tour. She launched a campaign to fund this trip on Indiegogo, aiming to raise $50,000 within a month. After a couple of hours, the $50,000 goal had already been met. Hart decided to keep the funding going until her initial end date of February 2, 2013. Depending on the final amount of money, the tour would be expanded to Canada, Europe, and Australia.[19] By February 2, she had raised over $220,000. The first leg of the tour kicked off in April 2013.
Hello Harto: The Tour Show consists of three parts: vlog, travel, and kitchen.[20] Hart uploads various videos about her traveling experience on her second YouTube channel, YourHarto. The vlog (a recap of the city she is in) gets uploaded each Tuesday to her main channel, MyHarto. The kitchen episodes, which she films at a host's house in the city she visits, are uploaded on Thursday, also to her main channel.
The team consists of four people, Hannah Hart (host), Pearl Wible (producer), Sam Molleur (director), and Nick Underwood (RV driver). The theme song for the tour, written by Hart, was accompanied by a video of fans jaunting in front of their favorite places. The song is called "Don't Wait To Say Hello".[21]
After receiving negative feedback from a minority of fans that complained about the lack of places at the meet-ups, Hannah uploaded a video called The Real Hello Harto on her main channel, giving her fans an exclusive look behind the screens of a regular day on the Hello Harto tour. The video explained the work that goes into making content videos, as well as shooting My Drunk Kitchen videos and meeting up with fans all over Canada and the United States.[22]
In November 2014, Hart started uploading more episodes of her travel show in Australia and New Zealand. These episodes were from a trip she took almost a year before that was sponsored by Contiki, along with other content creators.
Personal life[edit]
Hart is a lesbian.[50] On July 27, 2018 she announced her engagement to longtime girlfriend Ella Mielniczenko, with plans to wed in 2020 that they had to postpone due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[51] They married on June 12, 2021.[52] On May 23, 2023, Ella announced via a Twitter post that she and Hannah had decided to part ways.[53]
