David "Dave", better known online as Blue Van Man, is an English YouTuber from Leicestershire, England. He mainly uploads videos where he does in depth reviews of different food and drink items. In the past, these have included McDonald's, Five Guys and, KFC menu items, reviews of local chip shops and butchers, different alcoholic beverages, crisps, supermarket-brand items and exotic chocolate bars. He also uploads videos about football, and his team Leicester City, as well as PO box openings. As of 2021, he also now makes vlog style videos of walks and rambles around various locations in Leicestershire.
About[]
Blue Van Man's real name is Dave, but his surname has never been revealed. He currently resides in the village of Barrow-upon-Soar, near Leicester, England, hence the Leicestershire-based chip shops and butchers he reviews. He is a supporter of his local team, Leicester City FC, and can sometimes be seen wearing a Leicester shirt in videos. His wife, June, and his daughter, Imogen, known as Ginge in videos, can sometimes be heard in the background, as well as his two dogs.
Dave has stated in videos that he met June in a pub after she got up to leave, asking her “you’re not going yet are you?” to which June replied “yeah, why?”, to which Dave then asked her out. They now have a daughter together.
After previously working night shifts in a plastics factory, Dave has stated his income from doing YouTube made him able to work days instead of nights. In March 2021, Dave quit his job completely to enter into early retirement and to do Youtube videos full time.
Since becoming famous on YouTube, Dave has become good friends with Robbie Knox, a fellow YouTuber. The two often collaborate on each other’s channels.
Content[]
Although BVM is known for his food and alcohol reviews, he also makes an array of other content. A popular series on his channel is “The Beer Garden”, a series that features Dave and his nextdoor neighbour Cameron, from New Zealand, talking about various subjects over their garden fence while reviewing alcoholic drinks.
Dave and his wife June also do occasional live streams at weekends, usually titled “After the pub”.
Another series on his channel is “For Fox Sake”, in which Dave talks about Leicester City’s latest match and club and football news.
In June 2021, Dave revealed he was being sponsored by a company called Sterling Insurance who had challenged him to convert a Ford Transit van into a campervan. He began his project shortly after in what will be a 10-part series.
True Geordie mention[]
In March 2019, Blue Van Man uploaded a video titled True Geordie mention, where he explains that well-known YouTuber True Geordie had mentioned him in one of his videos, where Geordie and Lawrence McKenna can be seen enjoying and reacting to some of BVM's review videos. On 8 August 2019, Blue Van Man posted a video titled I'M GOING ON THE KICK OFF WITH TRUE GEORDIE. In this video, he explains that Geordie had invited him onto his weekly football show "The Kick Off". 4 days later, BVM appeared on the show, which can be seen in a video on True Geordie's "The Kick Off" channel in a video titled True Geordie meets Blue Van Man. After the show, Blue Van Man stated that "he would love to come on again".
DGSChapter Interview[]
In July 2019, Blue Van Man was invited to an interview with the Editor-in-chief of DGSChapter, Ricky Taing, to talk about his recent stardom on YouTube. You can view their interview here.