Local YouTuber Adam B is to join the world’s longest running children’s TV show, Blue Peter, as a presenter.<br />Adam Beales will become the 40th Blue Peter presenter and will co-host alongside Lindsey Russell, Richie Driss, Mwaka Mudenda and Henry the dog, in his first show this Thursday, September 3.<br />YouTuber Adam, 20, is already familiar with the CBBC audience as he is a regular face on The Dog Ate My Homework. <br />He left St Columb’s College as Head Boy with 11 GSCE’s at A* and was considering attending Oxford or Cambridge before his YouTube channel took off.<br />His channel now has nearly three million subscribers and often features his mum and dad and younger brother, 11-year-old Callum. <br />He’s best known for posting pranks, challenges, DIY crafts and life hacks, so he should slot right in with the ‘here’s one I made earlier’ creations on the show as well as the formidable challenges the presenters have to undertake.<br />Adam follows in the footsteps of fellow Northern Ireland presenters, the late Caron Keating and, more recently, presenter number 30, Zoe Salmon.<br />“I’m super excited to become Blue Peter Presenter number 40,” Adam said. “I am humbled and ecstatic to be part of such a legendary production. It’s kind of weird - in a super exciting way - that the show I once watched when I was younger, is now the show I will be presenting along with the talented Lindsey, Richie, Mwaksy and of course, Henry. <br />“I can’t wait to get stuck in, even with the challenges they throw at me, though I am hoping none of them involve cheese – I hate cheese!”<br />
