Ollie likes to make a big deal out of being a Geordie, but as he really undersells the "suburbia" he grew up in. His parental home is in
Darras Hall, which is a garden city built in the early 20th century -
It's now one of the most exclusive places to live in the North East, and even has its own HOA (which is very unusual in the UK). People in Newcastle do not consider people from Darras Hall to be Geordies. There's celebrities living on his parent's road, but they're in good company. Ollie's parents are an award winning professor and surgeon who's head of the Newcastle surgical unit, and an award winning haematology consultant (this is part of the reason he hates the NHS). His father's from a (very minor) branch of the
Barrett-Leonard baronets and his grandfather worked as a Colonial administrator in Tanganyika. Ollie went to the all-boys Royal Grammar School which costs about £15k ($20k) a year. Usually when he references any of this, he's talking about how the "subjectivity" he was groomed for was being a "future leader of the world" and only his superior Marxist mind helped him overcome that programming
so it's interesting to see him claim that "be nice to the less fortunate" was something drummed into him. We're playing guess-the-location on Ollie right now in the choob thread, but he appears to be living alone in a very expensive
mansion block somewhere in inner London - I guess he's not gentrifying if it was always expensive, but his old place was in Dalston/Canonbury and so he
absolutely was gentrifying by living there. The concern about the environment is ironic because as you may have picked up from the video if you watched it, he takes very frequent intercontinental flights.
And that's why he bangs on so much about America, he's obsessed with the place. Most of his videos are addressed to an American audience - he usually talks about the UK in the context of explaining it to Americans and typically refers to American examples most of the time. He has a thing for "blonde Americans" (because he's still obsessed with his ex, Contrapoints, who he skinwalks). He's filming his latest project in Hollywood so he can say he's "going to Hollywood" despite the production company being based in New York and the film being set in a restaurant. He's the sort of Brit that puts a lot of Brits teeth on edge, because he performs Britishness to Americans in the hopes that he can trade on novelty value (kinda like John Oliver, who was an entirely forgettable panel comedian over here but made it big in the US) and also has modified his personality to make it more American (he makes a lot of culturally specific faux-pas that are kinda hard to explain... for Americans, try reading this as "Californian"). He also enjoys performing a really bad American accent.
Ollie's patreon figures indicate an annual income of around £280k/$350k per annum, so he absolutely could afford a flat in the former-orphanage-turned-into-former-hospital-turned-into-luxury-flats if he asked mummy and daddy for help with a deposit.
