"Bottom" by Roma Acorn. Who is Roma Acorn? Blogger biography. What is he famous for? What is he doing now? What is Roma Acorn famous for?

Roma Zhelud is a popular Russian video blogger, singer, author of the music tracks “Not a Toy for You” and Like. The young man gained popularity as the first guy blogger in the Russian segment of YouTube. From the first videos, Roma got the nickname “Russian Justin Bieber”.

Video blogger and singer Roma Zhelud

The videos of the charming and daring young man collected millions of views. Acorn also appeared on television as a TV presenter.

Childhood and youth

Roma Zhelud, whose real name is Ignat Rustamovich Kerimov, was born on February 1, 1996. A boy was born in Moscow, into the family of Oksana and Rustam Kerimov. His father works as an architect, his mother at one time combined her own business and raising a child.

Roma spent her childhood in the Russian capital, in the Shabolovka area. There he went to kindergarten, talked with friends in the yard, then went to school. From an early age the guy was a sociable and not capricious child.


Roma Acorn in childhood

Roma Zhelud had a wide range of interests, was fond of modeling, drawing, and went to tennis and judo. While in 2nd grade, the boy even signed up for cooking classes, which came as a complete surprise to his mother. In addition, Roma was interested in music at an amateur level.

The elder Kerimovs planned that in the future the boy would enter an architectural institute, but his son’s biography developed according to a scenario unplanned by his parents. His hobby did not prevent him from enrolling at Synergy University, the Faculty of Management.

Blog

Roma Acorn has become a phenomenon in Russia; to this day no one can explain the secret of the guy’s wild popularity. His career began with a video that Roma posted on YouTube at the age of 14.

The video immediately gained a huge number of views, and Internet users also left comments, the number of which exceeded six figures. The teenager instantly realized that his work would be in demand, because there were no one indifferent to the video - people either admired it or expressed anger.

Video of Roma Acorn

The young man himself believes that before becoming Roma Acorn, he almost did not live; he was “pressured by numerous generally accepted prohibitions, forcing him to vegetate.”

By the age of 15, Roma Zhelud was on the VKontakte page of almost every schoolchild. The blogger himself called himself a “star” in one video "VKontakte", and journalists immediately dubbed the guy Russian. However, Acorn himself does not agree with the last statement. Numerous “squirrels” (as the guy calls his fans, and sometimes admirers) share the same opinion.


Acorn shoots all videos in web show format. The blogger specially selects spicy topics flavored with a good portion of piquancy in order to attract a larger number of viewers and, accordingly, receive a high fee, which, by the way, is about several thousand dollars a month.

Roma Zheludya also has his own online store, where his fans can purchase souvenirs with the image of their favorite artist. The video blogger worked for some time as the host of the Neformat Chat program on MUZ-TV.


Roma Zhelud on the set of the “Neformat Chat” program on Muz-TV

In 2013, fans of Acorn were shocked by the information that he had been severely beaten. Information about the incident was published by Oksana Kerimova, the blogger’s mother. It was reported that the guy was attacked near a shopping center in Moscow, but then the metropolitan police did not rule out that the beating could be a well-planned PR campaign.

Gradually, everything gets better for the guy, and already in 2014 a new video featuring Acorn is released. He is accompanied in the video by an equally popular internet blogger in Russia.

Roma Zhelud and Katya Klap

In 2015, it became known that the popular YouTuber’s channel was blocked. By this time, the total number of views on his 2 channels exceeded 108 million. Soon the blogger managed to resolve the misunderstanding, but he could no longer achieve his former popularity.

Roma’s parents also appeared in some videos. His mother could be seen more than once in funny and amusing videos. Judging by the number of additions on social networks, many users liked such video clips.

Roma Acorn in the show “Improvisation” on TNT

In 2016, the popular video blogger appeared in the show “Improvisation” on the TNT channel. To participate in the television project, he arrived from Los Angeles, where he currently lives.

Roman himself later commented on his participation in the program, saying that what he liked most was the actors’ humor and the joke about “Daddy’s Daughters,” as well as the “Prompter” improvisation, in which it was necessary to promptly prompt the words.


Roma stopped publishing videos on his YouTube channel in 2017. The ratings of the categories “Jokes”, “Truth or Dare”, “Clips”, Art began to fall, so the young man decided to end his career on video hosting.

Music

Over time, Roma Acorn’s interviews are published by popular publications OK, Hello, Bravo, Tatler and StarHit. And in 2012, the young man fulfilled his old dream and became a singer. He chose the pop-rock style for his creativity. The songs “Like” and “I’m not a toy for you” became the debut in Roman’s musical career.

Roma Zhelud - “I’m not a toy for you”

Soon the blogger releases videos for these compositions, as well as for the song “Internet Hero,” which, however, can hardly be called successful. Users of social networks criticized the new videos, saying that they consider such creations to be outright failures. However, the duet with the young singer Melissa turned out to be successful, and the track “Thank You” soon won the sympathy of fans. The following year, 3 singles by Roma Zheludya were released - “In a Dream”, “Louder” and “On the Wire”.

Roma Acorn - “Louder”

2012 is a very successful year for the video blogger, because he becomes the host of the 11th MUZ-TV awards ceremony. By invitation, he led the special project “Let them talk.” The author is burning." At the age of 16, the guy took part in the show “State Department 3” with. Another area that the popular blogger could not help but touch on was the creation of branded clothing. The show of the first collection of the young celebrity took place in 2013 at Moscow Fashion Week.


Roma Zhelud and Andrey Malakhov

In 2014, Roma Acorn received the prestigious American Kids`Choice Awards. The artist even beat out well-known representatives of the Russian stage in the category “Favorite Russian Performer”. Such attention to the artist’s work was not accidental: Roma’s first studio album, “Free Fall Zone,” which was released in 2014, received the highest sales ratings in the Russian segment of the iTunes online store.

Personal life

The personal life of Roma Acorn is constantly shrouded in a mass of rumors. In November 2012, the young man began dating, who at the age of 14 managed to star in a number of films and videos with the participation of famous artists. Viewers know the young actress from her role in the series “Nannies.”


Roma Zhelud and his ex-girlfriend Lina Dobrorodnova

Joint photographs of Roma Zheludya with a girl named Nastya Shmakova were repeatedly published on the Internet. There are many photographs of Nastya and Roma in the public domain, where they are depicted together. Then fans of the blogger’s work repeatedly noted that teenagers are an ideal couple.

In January 2015, on the VKontakte page, Roman announced in his status his love for web presenter Katya Es, noting that this was not PR. Users have repeatedly wondered whether Katya Es officially became his girlfriend, but how the relationship between the young people developed further, and whether they existed at all, remained a mystery.


Roma Zhelud and Nastya Shmakova

In October 2016, it became known that the popular American model and blogger abandoned her fan public on the social network VKontakte, which had more than 80 thousand subscribers. Some Russian media reported that the girl decided to take such a step for the sake of Roman, but no one knows for sure about this.

The young man was often called a gay man by his enemies. Acorn does not comment on or confirm such rumors. Users made the assumption after the blogger appeared in a Moscow studio where a gay party was taking place.


Rumors also appeared on the Internet about the video blogger’s affair with a Russian model. The girl met Acorn at a joint photo shoot. Soon, young people began to spend time together more and more often, and in 2018, the blogger published a number of videos that he shot with his friend. The couple travels a lot, visited Ibiza, Amsterdam, and Barcelona at the Sonar music festival.


Diana Melison and Roma Zhelud

In mid-summer, the blogger decided to tease his haters by appearing at the annual Christopher Street Day gay pride parade in Berlin, where Russian LGBT activists Valeria Lyubarskaya, Zhenya Svetsky, and German Safin came. Acorn made a statement to reporters that he had come to the event to support his friends.

Over time, Acorn turned into an athletic young man (Roma’s height is 180 cm, weight is 67 kg), whose body is decorated with stylish tattoos. Images began to appear on his body as soon as the guy turned 16 years old. Fans have already appreciated the quality of his tattoos on his chest, arms, and neck from the photo.


Roma Acorn Tattoo

The most striking are the whale on the shoulder, the dinosaur skeleton, and the wings on the chest. In 2014, Roma had an image of a palm tree, the letters “LA” and a lightning bolt, and a floral pattern on his hand.

Roma Acorn now

Now Roma is completely devoted to his musical career. The release of his second album is scheduled for February 2019. Acorn announced the premiere of the disc in a personal "Instagram". According to him, the tracks turned out to be different in sound: some have lyrics, others introduce the listener into a cosmic trance.


In 2019, Roma Zhelud announced the release of his second album

The blogger wrote the words to all the songs himself. The album is supposed to be posted on the Internet.

Roma Acorn

Roma Zhelud (23) is a blogger and singer and once the dream of all schoolgirls in the country. He became famous in 2010 thanks to the videos he recorded and posted on his YouTube channel. In two years, Acorn (or simply Ignat) became so popular that in 2012 he became the host of the MuzTV award, and then was even invited to Let Them Talk as a presenter for one of the issues.

In 2014, Roma released the studio album “Free Fall Zone”. By the way, at the beginning of his career, the blogger was often compared to Justin Bieber, and he himself once performed as his opening act at a concert in Moscow.

But lately, almost nothing has been heard about Acorn. And he, it seems, decided to fix this and gave an interview to the Gentle Editor, in which he talked about what he is doing now.

Roma Acorn

About your day

@romaacorn

I work all weekdays. This work does not relate to my blog and my type of activity, because over 10 years I really wanted change: I wanted to try myself in something that I had not tried myself in and achieve success in it. All because the camera, creating videos, TV and interviews for 10 years got boring from a work point of view. I want to get money, develop in a field other than that where I need to be in touch with the audience, sell some product next to my face. I work as a producer in the brand communications department with the biggest brands. I work at the digital agency I Love, so all artists and bloggers better be friends with me.

About why he lives in Russia (and wanted to live in America)

@romaacorn

I was not deported from there; I had a serious accident there and left on my own. I crashed my car without insurance, it was a very expensive car, I also had an apartment there. My passport simply burned in this car. I couldn't do anything further, like get paid for all the work I did there - I had a big balance with the modeling agency. I couldn’t even return to Russia for a very long time, because I had to get permission to leave. Well, this story doesn’t bother me anymore.

About popularity

@romaacorn

It's cool that it happened. I think everyone who is at the top now has such a moment. I am very glad that this was in my life. Every person goes through something, changes, becomes better, something happens to them, and in my case it all happened in front of people. Of course, I have changed during this time, a lot has happened to me.

About the story of the beating (which he staged)

This is a situation with a story that happened in my life. I had a lot of this, so I don’t even remember everything anymore. I was fucked a lot, almost every day, well, if not every day, then once a month for sure. The beating really happened, and everything else is probably my desire to draw attention to this situation. My only mistake was that I started sharing it. I admit that this may be an exaggeration.

Five years ago, the “discoverer” of Russian YouTube - the 15-year-old son of wealthy parents involved in the architectural business, Roma Zhelud - embarrassedly answered Ksenia Sobchak’s question about his income: “A little more than 20 thousand dollars a month.” Not only millions of views, but also hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed to Roma like a river. In the same year, the cute youth idol released his first single and took away the right to host the main musical event of the year - the Muz-TV Award at the Olimpiysky from Ivan Urgant himself. After another six months, Acorn again appeared on the stage of the sports complex - this time with an army of his fans.

However, in less than five years, the jam-packed Olympic Stadium was replaced by a regional House of Culture in the godforsaken Russian outback. Now posters with the name of Roma Acorn decorate bus stops in the town of Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky, in the Irkutsk region. February 28 Acornwill perform at the Gornyak cultural center with a capacity of 450 people.It is noteworthy that Acorn is not even going to the outback with a solo concert - he is just singing as an opening act for the singer MakSim, who has long lost her former popularity. MakSim and Roman will perform a similar program in several Russian provinces."Where did Acorn go?" - the question was asked all last year on the sidelines of the domestic show business. Just as quickly as the Internet star became a welcome guest of all prime time, producers also quickly included him in the so-called showbiz stop lists. Already at the end of 2013, a TV channel that was once loyal to Roma with him removed him from the position of presenter of Neformat Chart after. Then Acorn lost not only his job, but also the respect of the channel’s general director, Arman Davletyarov. Roma no longer appeared on the red carpet of the Muz-TV Awards.

Creative director of the Players agency Vasily Yashchuk, who collaborates with the main YouTubers of Russia, told Life about a number of fatal mistakes in the development of Acorn’s career, made by him and his PR people.

“Roma did not have a clear positioning: at first he was an Internet star, then he decided to take up music,” Yashchuk explained. - He abandoned YouTube, where he was the main Russian star, designating it as a lower priority area compared to standard media - TV, glossy, radio. If in due time he focused specifically on the Internet, then he would have turned out to be Ivan Guy. Acorn had a good, loyal audience that followed him and believed him, but he stopped developing it because he believed that fame would not leave him.

According to showbiz experts, having many useful connections that fell on him along with millions of likes, Roma could not save even a small part of them. In 2014, Roman’s friendship with producer Yana Rudkovskaya ended in scandal when Acorn refused to perform at her Kinder Choice Awards a few minutes before going on stage, effectively disrupting the live broadcast. Rudkovskaya later admitted that with this prank Acorn completely undermined his business reputation. Dima Bilan’s producer had no further dealings with the young man.

But Acorn’s biggest failure, according to his showbiz colleagues, was his anti-patriotic statements several years ago. On his Twitter page, Acorn called Russia “the bottom,” explaining that he considers the United States the best place to live. If Change.org had been relevant at that time, the petition asking to expel the video blogger from the country would have received hundreds of thousands of views.

It was no secret to Roma’s inner circle that the blogger dreams of moving to the States for permanent residence. In 2015, Acorn makes an attempt to settle in Los Angeles. Now his fans see him on Instagram already driving around California in a luxury sports car. Acorn in these shots looks like a half-naked gangster, covered from head to toe with tattoos. Appeals to Russian fans on social networks were replaced by meaningful phrases in English, which are very difficult to understand even with Google translator, and the theory about the new “mysterious” image was smashed to smithereens by Roma’s vlogs from the City of Angels, in which the youth idol rolls his eyes, filling his lungs with smoke from a homemade bong. After this, the most devoted and young fans abandoned the idol, and in showbiz they started talking about the “bad company” into which the young man found himself too early.

Now the main brainchild of Acorn - the channel on YouTube, once considered one of the most popular - has only 715 thousand subscribers and is in 171st place in the Russian rating. Now random people are promoting Roma, little is known about their activities.

To the question “Why wasn’t there an experienced producer nearby who would come to the aid of a youth idol who had lost track of reality?” People who know Roma sigh heavily, citing his “complex character” and desire for independence.

Alas, there are no people willing to save the drowning Roma Acorn now. But the blogger has a chance to regain some of his former popularity, says the director of the Players agency Vasily Yashchuk, who promotes Internet stars.

It can become successful again if it refocuses on a new format and audience,” Yashchuk explained. “He needs to win over 15-year-old girls again to be his core.” All this can be achieved through collaborations and new formats - not standard vlogs, but new shows. YouTube, like any media activity, at some point becomes a professional activity, and it implies regular and systematic work, which, unfortunately, Roma has not yet managed.

The 23-year-old Russian video blogger, teen-pop singer, author of the music tracks “Not a Toy for You” and Like has always been liked by girls. But it seems they don’t have a chance to seize such a handsome guy anymore.

The cute blogger, who once drove girls crazy and disappeared from the Internet, has again made people talk about himself. Roma Acorn was caught at Sheremetyevo airport with a charming stranger.

ON THE TOPIC

The couple were returning together from somewhere abroad and were waiting for their luggage. Apparently, the man was not lying when he admitted in an interview in winter that he was ready to start a serious relationship. Can this be considered proof of his words, but he had a ring on his right ring finger. Apparently, the blogger’s single and free life has come to an end.

Let us remember that several years ago they said that Roma Zheludya allegedly had an affair with ex-“tattoo” Yulia Volkova. Then he made a splash and appeared at the birthday party of the famous Moscow gay Alexander Abramov in one of the capital’s studios. They also talked about his relationship with the Russian model Diana Melison. But he himself did not comment on any gossip.

Now it will be difficult for Roma to get away and will have to explain what connects him with the new charming woman, and whether it is worth waiting for the wedding.

Roma Acorn(Ignat Rustamovich Kerimov) - Russian singer, blogger. Born on February 1, 1996 in Moscow, in the family of businessman Rustam Kerimov.

He became famous thanks to his channels “RomaAcorn” and “RomaAcornLive” on Youtube, where he hosts his own mini-show. Thanks to his clear resemblance to the famous singer, he gained enormous popularity among Russian youth. Afterwards, he was noticed by producers and invited as the host of the “Neformat Chart” program on the Muz-TV channel.

In 2012, he became a co-host on one of the programs of the Let Them Talk program on Channel One, and in 2013 he became the host of the MUZ-TV Prize.

First high-profile appearance on TV - co-host of Andrei Malakhov

In 2013, at Moscow Fashion Week, Roma presented his own collection of children's and youth clothing called “Roma Acorn and Stars”.

In 2014, Roman released his debut album, “Free Fall Zone,” which included all the singer’s previously written compositions, as well as several new singles.

In the fall of 2015, he and the singer became the hosts of the OOPS Pink Carpet! Choice Awards at the OOPS!

The first serious romance with Anastasia Shmakova

In the singer’s personal life, everything is simple; he does not hide his relationships. He dated for a long time; fans adored this couple and attributed a long romance to them. But no! Soon, it became known about their separation and about Roman’s new girlfriend, who became the former lead singer of the Tatu group. Then, pictures of Acorn with a beauty blogger appeared online, but the guys denied their relationship.

 

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