Shay Carl Bio, The Wife Colette Butler, Kids, Net Worth and Cheating Scandal

Quick Facts

Being successful, for many may mean just about being at one’s best all the time, but for Shay Carl, its also about giving your best as well. The popular Vlogger has proven this through his YouTube channels ‘Shaycarl’ which has approximately 1.7 million subscribers, and ‘Shaytards’, with about 5 million subscribers.

His commitment to changing lives through his channels that mostly centers on topics like parenting, weight loss, life adventures, cannot be overemphasized. Many families and individuals look up to him for advice on important issues. In fact, it cannot be gainsaid that Carl is one of the most successful vloggers of our time.

Shay Carl’s Biography

Born in the city of Logan, Utah, USA, on March 5, 1980, Carl whose birth name is Shay Carl Butler was raised by his parents Carl and Laurie Butler as the oldest of four children. The names of his siblings are Casey, Logan, and a sister Carlie. Interestingly all his siblings are YouTube personalities like him. For instance, his brother Casey has over 500,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel while Logan has about 400,000. Carl’s nationality is American and his ethnicity is North American.

Born into a Christian home, Carl served a two-year mission term for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) before attending Idaho State University. He, however, dropped out to pursue a business of his own. As one with a burning desire to pursue a career as a social media personality, Carl worked towards it but first, he had to take up some menial jobs like bus driving, to make a living and as he became financially stable, he bought himself a Dell laptop and found himself in the world of YouTube videos, thanks to his friends who encouraged him to do so following his comedy skills.

Career History

Carl’s first channel, “shaycarl”, was created in December 2006. Making his first appearance on the YouTube channel, the comedian uploaded funny videos mostly about himself and members of his family. Occasionally, Carl involves his audience in a one-on-one conversation, he would also include an actual event going on in his life. Most of his conversations with his audience focused on weight loss and other important issues. Within six months of his Vlogging, Carl began to receive a payment of about $2,000 a month with over 1.6 million viewers.

On October 1, 2008, he created another channel named “SHAYTARDS”. The name of the new YouTube channel was coined by Carl during a video stream in which his fans referred to themselves as “Shaytarded”. Carl’s popularity grew further after a YouTube personality Philip DeFranco watched one of his videos and gave him a shout-out. Posting a video each day, Carl’s second channel grew faster and higher than his first, reaching a total subscriber of over 4.9 million people. One of the key reasons why Carl garnered such a huge viewership in such a short time was because he was fond of sharing his family’s experiences and intimacy to his audience although this also generated some controversies as some of his viewers opposed his use of his family for commercial and financial gains, saying his actions must be legally and ethically looked into.

In November 2009, Carl established his third YouTube channel called ShayLoss which focused mainly on weight-loss, exercises, and diet. The channel also featured a bit of his inspirational and encouraging words from carl on topics like healthy lifestyles. His focus on weight loss could be inspired by his 280+ pounds weight gain after he got married. After rigorous exercises, he was able to return to 180 pounds and takes his viewers all through his weight-loss challenge. Carl is even currently doing the 5 Week Challenge with his brother, Logan, on his ShayLoss channel.

 Net Worth

Being a successful owner of three YouTube channels which are independently performing greatly, Shay Carl Butler should undoubtedly be among the top richest YouTubers of his time. The YouTube personality is believed to have a net worth of $25 million. Confirming his huge earnings from the YouTube business, Carl said during an interview with Fobes in 2011, that he is happy he is making more money than he has ever made doing something that he actually loved doing.

After making huge earnings from his YouTube channel, Carl sold his production company Maker Studios which he formed in 2009 after moving with his family to Los Angeles. The company was successfully formed along with friends and fellow YouTubers like Philip DeFranco, Lisa and Ben Donovan, Dan Zappin and Kassem Gharaibeh and its programming is divided into four networks: “Men”, “Women”, “Family”, and “Entertainment. Carl later sold the company to The Walt Disney Company for $500 million on March 24, 2014. To date, his YouTube channel Shaytards has over 4.9 million subscribers and over 2.6 billion views. Shay revealed in 2016 that he would be taking a year-long break from vlogging. He, however, returned in 2017.

Shay Carl’s Wife Colette Butler, Kids

Carl married Colette Butler on January 3, 2003, after long courtship. The pair first became best of friends after Carl was invited by a close friend to watch the musical performed by a local theatre group in which Colette Crofts was playing the character of a classy nightclub singer. A year later, Carl Proposed to Colette but she rejected the proposal on the basis that she was waiting for her then-boyfriend to return from a trip abroad. After a while, she finally accepted and off they went to make it official. Currently, the couple is blessed with five children which include Sontard aka. Gavin, Princesstard, (Avia), Emmi, Brock and Daxton.

Carl’s success as a Vlogger was not without help and support from his wife Collette (pseudonym Katilette). Through her support, his first YouTube channel won Mashable’s ‘Best YouTube Channel’ award in 2009. He also won the 2014 4th Streamy Awards ICON award for the entrepreneurship category.

Shay Carl’s Cheating Scandal

Before his decision to take a year-long break, Carl was involved in a relationship scandal with a webcam performer Aria Nina who claimed that she was in an online relationship with the prominent family vlogger which lasted for about three months. Nina went on to state that Carl Butler had sent her explicit messages and videos of himself masturbating.

Although he did not directly respond to her claims, Carl revealed on his Twitter handle that he was suffering from alcoholism, and said he would be seeking treatment because he has a sick heart.

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