DanGheesling
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Dan Gheesling is a reality television personality and Twitch streamer.[1] He won Big Brother 10 in September 2008 by a unanimous 7-0 jury vote and received $500,000.[2][3] He was working as a Catholic school teacher at the time.[3]
He returned for Big Brother 14 in 2012 and finished runner-up to Ian Terry. During that season, he staged his own funeral as part of a strategy to avoid eviction.[2] He later competed in the second season of The Traitors in 2024, where he was the first traitor voted out, in episode six.[2]
Streaming and game challenges
He began streaming on Twitch in 2012 after Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham encouraged him to start a channel.[1] Twitch named him an Ambassador in 2020.[1]
Balatro developer LocalThunk credited Gheesling's June 2023 streams with a surge in Steam wishlists for the game. The following month, Gheesling recommended it to Northernlion, who played it that day.[4]
By March 2025, he had completed Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree without increasing his HP or using Scadutree upgrades. The run took 423 hours and 15,522 deaths in the expansion.[5]
In September 2026, he drew criticism, including from Northernlion, for a U.S. Army-sponsored competition streamed on Twitch.[6] He said he regretted upsetting people in his community.[7]
Personal information
- Real name
- Daniel Robert Gheesling [2]
- Gender
- Male [2]
- Birthday
- [2]
- Age
- 43 years
- Zodiac sign
- Virgo
- Height
- ~ 5 ft 10 in / 178 cm
- Birthplace
- Dearborn, Michigan, United States [2]
- Based in
- West Bloomfield Township [8]
- Nationality
- American [2]
- Education
- Divine Child High School; Michigan State University: bachelor's in human resource management (2005), master's in kinesiology (2006) [2][8]
- Family
- Wife: Chelsea (married 2011) [2]
- Siblings
- Sister: Kelly [9]
General information
- Language
- EN
- On Twitch since
- 30 May 2012
- Twitch followers
- 135,384
- Channel age
- 14y 5m
- Twitch data updated
- Category
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Sources
- "Dan Gheesling – Clean | Positive | Entertainment".
- "Dan Gheesling".
- "DAN GHEESLING WINS "BIG BROTHER 10" AND THE GRAND PRIZE OF $500,000".
- "The Balatro Timeline".
- "After 423 hours and over 15,000 total deaths, Elden Ring player finally beats Shadow of the Erdtree without the upgrades FromSoftware urged everyone to use: "Never give up"".
- "Northernlion Addresses Dan Gheesling’s US Army Twitch Streams".
- "Dan Gheesling’s Twitch Army reality show controversy, explained".
- "Dan Gheesling on French Wikipedia".
- "Michigan Scents Creates Limited Edition Dan Gheesling Candles".
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