Nick DiGiovanni - Chef, Social Media Personality, Youtuber
Age: 29
Country: United States Occupations:
Chef, Social Media Personality, Youtuber
Nicholas Channing "Nick" DiGiovanni, born on May 19, 1996, in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American celebrity chef, YouTuber, social media influencer, and entrepreneur. Of Italian, German, English, and Iranian descent, he grew up with three younger brothers and developed an early passion for cooking. DiGiovanni studied management, science, and engineering at Harvard University but paused his senior year to compete on season 10 of MasterChef, where he finished third.
After the show, he launched his YouTube channel in 2018, amassing over 50 million followers across platforms like TikTok and Instagram through creative, accessible cooking videos that have garnered billions of views. He has collaborated with celebrities including Gordon Ramsay, David Dobrik, and Neil Patrick Harris. DiGiovanni serves as the lead ambassador for the FarmLink Project, a nonprofit connecting farmers with food banks.
His achievements include setting 11 Guinness World Records for feats like the largest cake pop (97 pounds) and largest chicken nugget (46 pounds), winning the 2021 Streamy Award for Food, being named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 and Top Creators lists (2023–2025), and featuring in Time magazine's inaugural TIME100 Creators list in 2025. In 2023, he released his debut cookbook, Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook, which became a six-time New York Times bestseller.