A YouTube Star Just Got Her Own Primetime Show On E!

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Grace Helbig is getting her own primetime show on the E! network, The New York Times reports.

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Helbig, who is a comedian and vlogger based in LA, is one of the first YouTube-made celebs making the jump to a major network for her own show.

Tentatively named "The Grace Helbig Project," the series will make its debut sometime in April 2015.

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So you may be wondering...who?

Helbig, 29, first started vlogging on YouTube in 2008, narrating NSFW parodies of fairy tales on an animated web series called "Bedtime Stories" for a YouTube channel called "My Damn Channel."

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From there, she launched her own channel - "Daily Grace" - in October of 2010 after vlogging Daily Grace videos exclusively for "My Damn Channel."

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Fast forward to 2015. Helbig has millions of subscribers and has appeared in "a series of Lowe's television commercials, co-producing and starring in the feature film Camp Takota," according to her Wikipedia page.

To get a sense of Helbig, take a look at the video below, or take a look at her channel. 

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"Congratulations to E! for giving an internet-obsessed introvert a talk show. I'm looking forward to working with humans," Helbig said in a statement regarding her new show.