Britain’s Got Talent winner Viggo Venn’s glamorous comedian girlfriend
Britain’s Got Talent winner Viggo Venn is in love with an award-winning Estonian comedian, MailOnline can reveal.
The silly Norwegian comic has been dating his stunning partner Julia Masli for at least six years as the couple has posted sweetheart photos of them traveling the world together.
Julia has posted pictures of them in Paris, Greece, Italy and even Australia, but now they live together in England.
And last night, when he controversially won over Simon Cowell and the BGT judges and collected £250,000 in prize money, Julia was in the audience cheering him on.
In a sweet social media post last night, she wrote, “He won! But he’s been our winner from the start, so I’m not surprised at all. Glad everyone realized it.’
Britain’s Got Talent winner Viggo Venn (pictured left) has been dating Julia Masli for at least six years
Julia Masli wrote: “He won! But he’s been our winner from the start, so I’m not surprised at all. Glad everyone realized it.
Venn, 34, is from Kongsberg, a mountain mining town and ski resort about an hour west of Oslo, but has lived in London for several years
Venn won the show to boos
Julia Masli & Viggo Venn during the pandemic
Julia and Viggo have worked together for years before and have featured their collaborations on their YouTube channel.
The pair were seen in a 2021 housing estate for the benefit of incarcerated Londoners, with Venn pretending to conduct an impromptu pots-and-pans symphony of the audience standing on their balconies.
At the end of the show, Venn signs off with “Until the next pandemic!”
In another short film called Outsiders, produced with help from the Arts Council, the pair are transported from their living room to a snowy landscape where they run around throwing snowballs at each other and Masli turns into a giant fish – and Venn grows a snowman’s head.
Salmon King continues the fishing theme with the pair in fish scale leggings, playing ‘Norwegian salmon’ as they explore London, including a trip to a laundromat.
In Masters of Squat, the pair “celebrate” squatting as if it were a new dance craze and practice it to music.
Venn, 34, is from Kongsberg, a mountain mining town and ski resort about an hour west of Oslo, but has lived in London for several years.
After dropping out of his university studies in economics, he cut his comic teeth with the Oslo-based improv group Lausungene, then studied at the prestigious Ecole Philippe Gaulier theater school in Paris, alma mater of Sacha Baron Cohen and double Oscar winner Emma Thompson.
Since 2016, Venn has been touring Europe, the US and Australia. Something that has made him an established name in the world of comedians.
The year 2022 was just a taste of his success, as he won the prestigious Top of the Bill award at NATYS (New Act of the Year), and this year made it to the finals of the Beat the Frog World Series, hosted by the Manchester Frog and Bucket comedy club.
In 2017, while on tour with American Zach Zucker as Zach and Viggo’s clown, he said in an interview with Melbourne’s Herald Sun, ‘I do comedy because I didn’t want to do economics anymore.
‘I studied economics in Norway and then I saw a show in Edinburgh and I was like ‘THIS is what I’m going to do’.
The pair have worked together for years before and have showcased their collaborations on their YouTube channel
“Yeah, it’s paying off — we’ve been doing it for almost a year now, touring all over the world, 15 countries, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Prague Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, we sold out everywhere.
“I wasn’t the class clown; I was the class economist. The best thing about being a comedian is you can get up at 2 and do a show that really makes me happy, and then go out for a beer.
“The worst thing about being a comedian is wearing lycra on the street every day [showing a flyer] because my ass gets spanked every day! I secretly enjoy getting my ass spanked, yes.
“We’re going to do this until we’re 75 years old and then we’ll die very happy – happy clowns.”
Julie’s performance was praised as ‘Chaplinesque brilliance’ by the Daily Telegraph and she won the 2019 Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the Edinburgh Fringe for her hit show Legs with The Duncan Brothers.