Milo Yiannopoulos

He is a gay and is quite open about his sexual orientation. At present he has a black boyfriend.

A Roman Catholic by practice, he mentioned that his Jewish ancestry from his maternal grandmother’s side has brought him in an awkward position with those alt-right elements with neo-Nazism ideology.

He was born Milo Hanrahan on October 18, 1984, in Chatham, Kent, England where he grew up. His is of mixed ancestry with a mix of Irish and Greek descent from his father’s side and a British descent from his mother.

His parents parted ways when he was around six years old. He used the word “terrifying” while describing his father.

After his mother remarried, he stayed with her and his stepfather, but did not share a cordial relation with the latter. He adopted the surname of Yiannopoulos from his paternal grandmother with whom he spent his teenage. He would often accompany her for high tea at the famous five star hotel ‘Claridge's’ in London,.

He attended ‘Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys’ in Kent, but he was expelled from the school. He dropped out from the ‘University of Manchester’ before completing his graduation.

He then started attending ‘Wolfson College’, Cambridge, where he studied English. However, here also he faced expulsion in 2010 before earning a degree.

Although initially he had an interest in the field of theatre criticism, in 2009 he had an opportunity to examine the subject ‘women in computing’ for ‘The Daily Telegraph’ following which he developed an interest in technology journalism.

In 2011, he organised ‘The Telegraph Tech Start-Up 100’ that would rank prospective start-ups in Europe in the field of technology. ‘Wrong Agency’, his events company, co-founded with friend, David Rosenberg, ran the event, the fallout of which left ‘The Telegraph’ with huge loss. ‘Wrong Agency’ dissolved in May 2011.

In November 2011, he launched the online magazine ‘The Kernel’ along with Adrian McShane, ex-employee of ‘The Telegraph’; journalist Stephen Pritchard; and friends, David Haywood Smith, and David Rosenberg in order to "fix European technology journalism”, with its parent company being ‘Sentinel Media’.

‘The Kernel’ got into trouble in 2012 including being sued by two of its contributors for failing to pay thousands of pounds owed to them. It was also alleged that Yiannopoulos "screwed over" many other contributors both financially and personally and sent emails to a contributor threatening to leak embarrassing pictures and details of the latter.

In March 2013, ‘The Kernel’ closed, and its assets were acquired by ‘BERLIN42’ which launched it afresh making Yiannopoulos the editor-in-chief. It was acquired by ‘Daily Dot Media’ in 2014 with Yiannopoulos serving as an advisor.