KSI reveals he quit school after making £1,500 a month on YouTube – leaving his parents horrified

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KSI has revealed he quit school after making £1,500 a month on YouTube - but his parents were horrified. The boxer, singer and online personality began making videos as a teenager and has now become one of the highest-paid YouTubers in the world.

Speaking about the moment his career started to take off, he told Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning today: “It got to the point where I spoke to my teacher and you know like, ‘I’m making this amount’ and he was like ‘how much is it?’ and I was like ‘one thousand five hundred a month’. "He was like ‘that’s more than me’.

I was like ‘rah’ and at that point, I was like I’m out! I don’t need to be (at school) anymore.”  One video alone can now earn him a reported £250,000 in advertising revenue, and to date he has posted well over 1,000 of them.

His merchandise including Prime drinks sell all around the planet. READ MORE ON KSISTEEP YOUR MOTOR RUNNING Inside KSI's mega car garage including £280k Lambo & £65k PorschePRIME TARGET Wayne Rooney begged KSI for Prime bottles for his son Kit’s 7th birthday bash On his parents' reaction to telling them he wanted to be a YouTuber, KSI said: “They wanted me to be a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, all of that and I had no interest in that. "First of all, I just wasn’t smart enough - that was just a lot for me to do.