KSI has been busted by fellow YouTuber JaackMaate for being a nice guy after discovering he had saved someone from becoming homeless.

The controversial online star has had his fair-share of run-ins over the years and courted controversy, but it turns out away from the Logan Paul boxing matches and public head-to-heads with his brother Deji, he’s actually a bit of a softie.

Appearing on Jaack’s podcast Happy Hour, KSI was confronted about a particularly nice thing he did and had never publicly spoken about.


It was only pure chance that led Jaack to finding out that KSI, known as JJ, had secretly paid to house one of his neighbours after a bad break-up left him crashing on couches.

KSI, aka JJ, helped his mate out in his hour of need (Picture: YouTube)

JJ and the friend, JT, had become buds thanks to playing Xbox together, and when JJ noticed that his friend hadn’t been online, he reached out to check he was ok.



When the penny dropped, JJ sat in shock as he had no idea JT and Jaack knew each other.

Reading out the message from JP about what happened, Jaack said: ‘JJ asked why I hadn’t been online on the Xbox for a while which was a bit surreal to me, and I explained to him me and my ex had split up and that I was pretty much just sofa surfing and I told him that I couldn’t afford anything.

‘He replied: “find a place fam”.’

‘I found a nice little house share, nothing too over the top but I could live,’ JT’s letter continued. ‘Sure enough he asked me for my details and he hit me up with the deposit, the cheques and about an extra month of rent.’

’I will never forget it. It saved me from a desperate situation where I was down for the count and ready to give in,’ he added.

JT added that they did eventually meet each other IRL, after JJ set him up with a hotel room to watch his boxing match against Joe Weller.

Jaack, who has previously made no secret of questioning KSI and his behaviour, admitted that he was shocked at the whole story, which stayed away from everyone until Jaack found out.

‘The fact that no one knows about that…I don’t want this to be the Kiss Arse Hour,’ Jaack told JJ. ‘But fair play man.’

As JJ blushed about the situation, he admitted that he had bonded with JT playing Overwatch.

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Speaking after the interview, Jaack told his YouTube followers: ‘The reason that struck with me so much is that nobody knows this apart from the two involved, and nobody would know this, if it wasn’t for the sheer coincidence of this guy just happening to live three doors down from me.

‘I think it shows a lot about the character about JJ, not KSI, JJ, that he never tweeted about this, he never posted about this, made a video about this, vlogged about this, or even got JT to tweet about this. He’d never done this for any PR move.’

He added that while the gesture didn’t undo his past behaviour, that JJ’s selfless act had won him over.



JaackMaate’s Happy Hour is available now on iTunes.

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