TANYA BURR: Dating After Divorce, the Brit Crew & Why I Quit YouTube
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Tanya Burr rose to fame as one of the UK’s original YouTubers. As part of the Brit Crew, she quickly became one of the most recognisable faces on the platform alongside Zoella, Alfie Deyes and Marcus Butler.
I’ve always been fascinated by creators like Tanya and their ability to captivate millions of people from their bedrooms, so I was really excited to have her on Great Company.
In our conversation, Tanya explains why she started YouTube and how quickly it turned into a career. She reveals how her self-worth became tied to how she was perceived online and why, after a very public break-up, she stepped away from YouTube in 2019 to rebuild her life away from the spotlight.
In this episode, Tanya shares:
- Her favourite memories of the Brit Crew
- Living with anxiety and how she’s learnt to manage it
- Why she quit YouTube in 2019
- Rebuilding her life after a public break up
- Dating in her thirties and how she knew her boyfriend Dan was the one
Most people would struggle to walk away from something as successful as Tanya’s YouTube career. But she did. She chose herself and her courage stayed with me long after our conversation ended.
Tanya Burr is Great Company.
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| 0:00.0 | You were part of something called the brick crew. |
| 0:01.7 | The brick crew, yeah. |
| 0:02.7 | The OGs. |
| 0:05.2 | You made to be emotional. |
| 0:06.6 | 2015, you were raking in 10 million views a month on YouTube. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm like, what's your question? |
| 0:12.4 | What was the revenue looking like back then? |
| 0:15.2 | I did YouTube for 10 years. |
| 0:18.0 | I was stepping away from something that was successful. |
| 0:22.9 | I found it so hard and just reading the things that were written about me. What were people saying? There was so many comments |
| 0:28.4 | about my weight. I remember just feeling so low about myself. I quit YouTube and I just needed to |
| 0:36.1 | disappear for a while. Hi, I'm Tanya Burr and I'm in great company. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm going to stay with Stangbaw! |
| 0:44.3 | You would have been such a good member of the group. |
| 0:47.3 | I would have loved to be in the brick crew. |
| 0:49.3 | Looking back, I know that I had all these anxious tendencies when I was as young as seven. |
| 0:54.8 | And I remember thinking, if only, I could be worried about normal teenage girl things. |
| 1:00.2 | When you go to the bathroom, why do you have to shut the door 15 times? |
| 1:03.1 | To test it. My brain just goes to, I will be trapped in here forever. |
| 1:06.5 | It's your mind playing tricks on you. |
| 1:08.2 | Quite crippling at times. |
| 1:09.7 | Oh, yeah. When I started YouTube, in the beginning it was fine, and then it came back. |
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