The Rise of Yung Filly

Yung Filly, born Andres Felipe is a Columbia born online entertainer, moving to the UK at a young age as a refugee, being raised in Ladywell, Lewisham. The star started his online career in 2013, posting skits and public questions, however his earlier YouTube videos have now been removed as the channel starts from 2017. By this point Filly had started his music adventure.

His Spanish hit 'La Paila' was released in the early stages of 2018. The track is currently sat on just over a million YouTube views as he goes from speaking Spanish to his effortless London sound. The comments to this video are loving it, with comments like "Is it me or is Filly's smile infectious", "This song is a big tune, can't believe your talent is madness, keep it up", "always got time for this brother, got nothing bad to say to you, bless", and "Damn Yung Filly, didn't know you could spit fire like this".

A few months later, from what we can see on his channel page, Filly dropped a general knowledge quiz with Chunkz and old friend LV, racking up seven million views. Over time, these videos did very well online as there would always be a funny forfeit, for example, neck slaps or some sort of eating dare. This carried on throughout the months, until Filly went out in public to ask random people on the streets of London some awkward questions, instead of his friends, these videos then created a lot of entertaining memes online when a stranger would answer a question awfully wrong. These racked up a lot of millions of views.

Yung Filly made his debut Soccer Aid appearance in 2020 as it was aired on ITV via Old Trafford in Manchester. During the match, singer James Bay had crossed the ball to Yung Filly as he then tapped it into the goal, celebrating with Chunkz on the touch line. He then took to Instagram to post photos from the match, captioning them "I SCORED AT OLD TRAFFORD, thank you to everyone for the constant support, it's the reason I can share this huge moment with my brother Chunkz. GOD IS GREAT. A huge thank you to Socceraid and Unicef, and everyone that donated". Following this post up the next day with another post captioning "A moment I will never forget".

Filly had then started his own BBC series 'Hot Property' in which he would be the ultimate wingman, helping singles snoop around the homes of potential partners, with no idea who's behind the rooms. This went on to produce two seasons with another season being a celebrity special, featuring the likes of Chloe Ferry, Snoochie Shy, Scott Thomas, and Ryan-Mark Parsons as Filly went all over the UK to help find love.

He has also gone on to present on a lot of different platforms, for example, Kingpyn Boxing, Footasylum, a bunch of YouTube videos for brands, and spin off series 'Freeze the Fear' with social media comedy star Munya Chawawa.

What would you like to see from Filly this year?