BRADFORD YouTube sensation Nick Crompton may reportedly be worth $1.6m these days, but the Los-Angeles based star has not forgotten those who helped him follow his dreams.

Mr Crompton’s former IT teacher at Titus Salt School in Baildon, Max Robinson, admitted that the 23-year-old YouTuber had kept in touch.

Speaking to the Telegraph and Argus, Mr Robinson enthused: “He sent me an email a couple of years ago, after he’d become famous, telling me what he’d been up to.

“There was one line that always makes me feel honoured when I read it back. He told me it was the guidance of Mr Aske (his former media teacher) and I that had helped him to where he is today.”

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Despite a hectic schedule, Mr Crompton reunited with his two A-Level teachers in 2017.

Mr Robinson remembered: “The three of us met up for a drink at the Boat House in Saltaire and chatted for ages.

“He gave us a potted history of what he’d been up to since he left the school at 18, and you don’t often get that with a former pupil so it was great.”

Pupil and teacher first crossed paths when the former was studying for his GCSE’s, and Mr Robinson admitted that he encountered a very different boy to the one we see on Youtube today.

He said: “He was quite quiet in Year 10 and 11 but he really came into his own in sixth form.

“He gained confidence and was a perfect pupil. He was obsessed with working hard, but also made everybody laugh and made lessons enjoyable.

“I hope he doesn’t mind me saying this but he was a larger than life character in both personality and build.

“That helped make him a recognisable figure and he was everybody’s friend around school.”

YouTube continues to surge in popularity and Mr Crompton has over 500,000 subscribers.

Unsurprisingly, this has had an effect on the pupils that Mr Robinson teaches at Titus Salt.

He laughed: “10 to 15 years ago, everyone wanted to be a footballer or a movie star. Now they want to be a YouTuber, commenting on Minecraft or Fortnite on their vlogs.”