Guillermo Díaz Ibáñez (born: May 9), better known online as TheWillyrex, is a Spanish YouTube personality and author.
Biography[]
According to Diaz, he originally started his YouTube channel to share gameplays with his friends.
Diaz has said that he created his YouTube name, Willyrex, as a messenger screen name when he was about 11 years old- years before starting his YouTube channel.
He chose willy, because it is a nickname for the English equivalent of his first name, William. He chose "rex" because it was Latin for the word king.
Diaz began studying a degree in Business Administration but left school a few months after starting in order to focus full time on YouTube.
In 2014 he moved to Los Angeles, then briefly moved to Andorra before moving back to Spain.
On August 21, 2019, he announced he will marry his girlfriend Cristina.
Books[]
Along with fellow YouTuber VEGETTA777, he has published a saga of books titled Wigetta.
Games[]
Willyrex and fellow YouTubers VEGETTA777 and sTaXx created a mobile game for Microsoft, Android and iOS called Karmarun, which has been downloaded over 2 million times.