The Beta Squad YouTuber managed to sneak into the ring for KSI’s fight – and has stood for election several times…
Celebrity Traitors star Niko Omilana’s appearance left older viewers frantically Googling who he is – but their teenage kids will have spotted him straight away. Niko is part of the British YouTube team Beta Squad and, as his co-stars in the castle wasted no time pointing out, he’s a master of deception through his meticulously-planned stunts.
The 27-year-old, who has more than 8million subscribers on YouTube, has targeted everyone from fellow social star KSI to former prime minister Rishi Sunak. Here we look at some of his most high-profile stunts where the Soccer Aid player’s talents for deception got put to work…
Infiltrating KSI’s fight
Niko had been banned from Matchroom Boxing events after blagging his way into KSI’s two fights with Logan Paul and Jake Paul’s professional debut. However, he managed to neatly side-step the ban – by turning up dressed up as a giant bottle of Prime Energy.
Using a seven-foot Prime bottle costume and leveraging his fellow content creator Kysha’s connection with KSI, YouTube prankster Niko hatched a plan. He tasked Kysha with securing him an O2 Arena wristband which granted him VIP access to the venue and he even went backstage and greeted KSI.
At the time it was time for the Celebrity Traitors star to enter the arena, he donned him Prime Energy drink bottle disguise and led KSI to the ring for his first fight of the night totally unnoticed. But as KSI was introduced to the crowd, he removed the front of his costume and smiled to the millions of people watching.
After his knockout victory over Swarmz, KSI was left gobsmacked when the Traitors star revealed himself, telling him: “Fair play Niko, you absolute d***head. Unbelievable, I thought it was the other guy, the other YouTuber. He didn’t say a word. I just thought he’s acting a bit weird, maybe he’s shy or scared to meet me. As soon as Niko popped out his head, I knew he’d played me.”
Trolling Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak had a punishing Election night, when a landslide Labour triumph swept away many Tory MPs. So he probably didn’t need to be mocked during his speech by Niko, who was standing behind him holding up a printed piece of paper bearing the letter ‘L’. And when the cameras moved to block Niko’s embarrassing prop, the prankster moved too.
Niko stood as an independent candidate in Sunak’s Richmond, Yorkshire seat, which the outgoing PM managed to hold with a reduced majority of 23,059. Niko, on the other hand, won a mere 160 votes – fewer than 308 racked up by Count Binface, who was also standing.
He fared better in the 2010 London mayoral elections, where he got nearly 50,000 votes with his policies of turning branches of McDonald’s with broken McFlurry machines into social housing and removing racists’ teeth. The tally made him the best-performing independent candidate, ahead of the likes of Laurence Fox.
Undercover at Robinson rally
Niko’s latest prank came just last month when he turned up at Unite The Kingdom, the London rally organised by Tommy Robinson, dressed as an old white man called Ron Side – a similar stunt to the one that went viral in 2018 and catapulted him to fame.
Aiming to expose the racist views of attendees, he interviewed members of the public for a video that saw him branded “one of the bravest people alive”.
He said afterwards that not everyone who attended the march was a racist but that “it’s clear a lot of racists feel very comfortable being involved”.
Source: Mirror
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