Sam Pepper

Sam Pepper is a British-born content creator who went from Big Brother UK contestant and YouTube prankster to one of Kick.com’s most controversial casino streamers. He is sponsored exclusively by Stake.com, streams high-volatility slots and live blackjack, and was permanently banned from Kick in October 2025 after a firework stunt during a Diwali livestream in New Delhi left an 8-year-old girl partially blind.

Who Is Sam Pepper? Real Name, Age, and Personal Details

Sam Pepper first entered public life on Big Brother UK Series 11 in 2010, where he was evicted on Day 73 with 14.6% of the public vote. He launched his YouTube channel on September 8, 2010 and grew it to roughly 2.4 million subscribers and 349 million total views through prank and social experiment content.

Note: a birth date of February 26, 1989 circulates on some sites but appears to be incorrect. Wikipedia and the majority of biographical sources consistently use March 26, 1989.

Sam Pepper’s Career Timeline

2010 — Big Brother and YouTube Launch

Pepper appeared on Big Brother UK Series 11 and immediately pivoted to YouTube. His channel grew quickly on the back of street-prank content.

2010–2013 — YouTube Growth Phase

The channel reached millions of subscribers through prank videos, social experiments, and pick-up content. He built his brand as a provocateur willing to cross social boundaries for views.

2014–2016 — YouTube Collapse

Serial controversy (detailed in the scandals section) effectively ended his mainstream YouTube career. The channel has not returned to growth since. He posted a 20-minute public apology titled “I’m sorry” in February 2016 and went largely quiet.

2021 — Crypto Scandal

His involvement in the Save the Kids token with FaZe Clan earned him the lasting nickname “Scam Pepper.”

2023 — Arrival on Kick

Pepper joined Kick.com in 2023 as part of Ice Poseidon’s CX Network, initially streaming IRL travel content across Australia and Asia rather than casino content.

2023 (September) — Brisbane Arrest

His Kick profile was cemented by the September 2023 Brisbane escort incident (see Controversies).

June 15, 2025 — Daily Casino Streaming Begins

His dedicated daily Stake.com casino streaming started on this date, though casino content had appeared sporadically in earlier streams.

October 2025 — Diwali Firework Incident and Kick Ban

The defining event of his casino-streaming era. A child was injured during a New Delhi Diwali livestream. Kick permanently banned him October 21–22, 2025.

December 2025 — Public Admission

He reversed earlier denials on X, admitting the girl suffered corneal damage and vision loss.

February 2026 — Kick Unban

Kick restored his account.

Where to Find Sam Pepper: All Platforms

Full Platform Table

Sam Pepper on Kick.com

His Kick username is simply sam (kick.com/sam). His Stake casino username is 5ampepper. Before the October 2025 ban he ranked as high as #7 on Kick overall in mid-June 2025 and #10 on July 3, 2025, placing him alongside Adin Ross, Roshtein, and xQc in platform rankings. His genuine average concurrent viewership before the ban sat around 1,420 viewers, with peaks around 5,080.

Sam Pepper on Twitch

He was banned from Twitch in April 2018. The reason was never publicly disclosed. He has never returned to the platform and has made no public attempt to appeal the ban. His Twitch page (twitch.tv/sampepper) still exists with roughly 6,400 followers but has been inactive for years.

Sam Pepper on YouTube

His YouTube channel (youtube.com/@sampepper) carries roughly 2.2–2.4 million subscribers but is no longer a growth vehicle. It hosts older prank content and some travel vlogs. YouTube prohibits casino monetization, so all slot content lives on Kick — there is no dedicated gambling YouTube channel.

Sam Pepper on Twitter / X

His X handle is @sampepper (x.com/sampepper) with approximately 615,000 followers. He uses it to promote streams, run the clipping bounty program, and post during controversies. On May 22, 2025 he posted the clip bounty offer (“Get paid to clip my streams — $5,000 up for grabs just this month alone”). On October 14, 2024 he promoted the NextUp.game $50,000 Kick livestream contest.

Sam Pepper’s Discord

The server is discord.gg/Sampepper, named “Sam Pepper — Live Streaming,” with approximately 8,789 members. It is the primary community hub since he has no Telegram.

Does Sam Pepper Have a Telegram?

No. Sam Pepper has no public Telegram channel. This is unusual for a top-10 Kick casino streamer — most peers use Telegram to distribute bonus codes, raffle links, and session alerts. All his community communication runs through Discord and Kick chat.

Sam Pepper’s Gambling Content: Full Breakdown

Casino Sponsor and Platform

Sam Pepper streams exclusively on Stake.com under the username 5ampepper. He has no documented gambling presence on Roobet, Rollbit, Shuffle, BC.Game, or Gamdom. His Stake sponsorship deal is exclusive, and industry sources describe it as increasingly his primary income stream. Deal terms have never been disclosed publicly.

What Games Does Sam Pepper Play?

Sam Pepper focuses on high-volatility slots and favors lesser-known, under-the-radar titles over mainstream ones. He also plays Stake Originals and live blackjack. His regularly played games include:

He has publicly called Plinko “best for beginners.” He plays Stake Originals and live dealer games alongside the slot content.

Sam Pepper Bet Sizes

His typical slot bet is $1 per spin, with a working range of roughly $1–$120. These are exceptionally small stakes for a top-10 Kick gambling streamer. By comparison, streamers like Roshtein and Trainwreck routinely bet hundreds or thousands per spin. Pepper’s modest bet structure is one reason critics question whether his content reflects real financial exposure — and why there are no notable big win or big loss clips on record.

Sam Pepper’s Stream Schedule

There is no fixed weekly schedule. His streams are irregular because he travels constantly, with streams from the Philippines, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Australia, and the US. Sessions typically begin in local evenings wherever he is. He displays a live map on screen showing his current location. Stream lengths range from one hour to full 24-hour subathons.

In his last tracked 30-day window before the October 2025 ban, StreamsCharts recorded approximately 31 hours 55 minutes of total airtime — roughly 6 hours 23 minutes per active streaming day.

Big Wins and Big Losses

His $1-spin format does not generate the headline jackpot moments that define clip culture around streamers like Roshtein or Xposed. The absence of any viral win or tilt moment is unusual for a streamer who ranked in Kick’s top 10, and is itself part of the sponsored-balance suspicion: critics argue the bet structure looks engineered to satisfy wagering requirements rather than entertain with genuine risk.

Sam Pepper’s Stream Stats and Rankings

Sam Pepper Net Worth

Estimates range from $1.1 million to $5 million. Sportskeeda cites $3–5M; casino-industry aggregators cite $1.1–5M. These are unverified celebrity-finance estimates — no audited figure exists.

Income Sources

• TikTok creator fund and brand deals
• YouTube AdSense (travel and lifestyle content)
• Kick.com platform revenue share
• Stake.com exclusive sponsorship (primary income per industry sources)

Assets

He owns a Porsche and a Ferrari. He lives in Los Angeles.

Comparison Point

Fellow Kick gambling streamer Ice Poseidon was rumored to have signed a $25M Stake deal in June 2025, though that figure is unconfirmed. Pepper’s deal is smaller in scale but structured similarly — a revenue-share sponsorship tied to Stake account activity using his username as a referral.

Raffles, Rewards, and Viewer Giveaways

Sam Pepper does not run a structured raffle program comparable to Trainwreck’s weekly lotteries. His engagement model has three components:

Stream Credits System

Subscribers earn 500 stream credits upon subscribing. Viewers spend 100 credits per text-to-speech (TTS) message in chat. This creates a micro-economy where subscribers use credits to get voice-read messages on stream, rather than a cash raffle pool.

Ad-Hoc Cash Giveaways

He regularly deposits approximately $100 of his own money on Stake live on stream, plays it up, and pushes whatever winnings remain to random Kick viewers. This is unscheduled and informal — not a guaranteed lottery with announced draw times.

Clipping Bounty Program

Launched on May 22, 2025 via a post on X: Pepper offers $5,000 in monthly prizes for fan-made clips of his streams. Entries are managed through a dedicated Discord channel. This is primarily a growth-marketing tool — rewarding fans who clip and distribute his content — rather than a gambling-linked giveaway.

Is Sam Pepper Legit or Fake?

This is a widely asked question with no simple answer. Multiple independent sources raise serious concerns.

Third-Party Blacklisting

Multiple casino-industry watchdog sites have placed Pepper on their blacklists, describing his career as built on provocation, manipulation, and financial scandal, and advising viewers to be cautious about engaging with his content or clicking his referral links.

The core accusation that follows him is the sponsored-balance claim. The allegation goes like this: he isn’t gambling with his own money at all. Instead, Stake provides a house balance, and his actual job is to satisfy a wagering requirement — typically 20x the balance — to fulfill the sponsorship contract. Under this model the sessions look completely real on screen, but the streamer faces no meaningful financial downside. Wins are a bonus; losses cost him nothing personally.

A thread on Stake’s own community forum named Pepper specifically when discussing fake-money streamers and the damage they do to the platform’s reputation.

None of this has ever been confirmed — but Pepper has never denied it either. He has never publicly addressed the sponsored-balance accusation in any form.

Viewbotting History

On July 1, 2023, his Kick channel reported a peak of 216,685 concurrent viewers — a figure implausible for his genuine audience size. Kick founder Ed Craven was reportedly involved in maintaining elevated chat activity. Following community pressure, Kick added view-count protections to the platform. His real concurrent average sits around 1,420, making the July 2023 figure roughly 152 times higher than normal — statistically impossible without artificial inflation.

Sam Pepper’s Girlfriend / Fiancée: Hannah Ridgeway

Who Is Hannah Ridgeway?

Hannah Ridgeway is an American TikToker and model. Her details:

Relationship Status With Sam Pepper

Their status is genuinely unclear as of April 2026. The timeline of public information:

• Multiple 2023–2025 casino-industry profiles describe Ridgeway as Sam Pepper’s current girlfriend, with FindCasinoBonus referencing a stream moment where “she gambled away his house.”
• In early 2024, Sportskeeda reported the pair had split, referring to Ridgeway as his “ex-girlfriend.”
• A TikTok clip account documented a livestream in which Hannah accused Pepper of having “groomed her when she was a minor.” Pepper called in during the livestream and they argued on camera in front of viewers.
• 2025 sources continue describing her as his girlfriend, suggesting either a reconciliation or that those sources are outdated.

Whether they are currently together is unresolved. Pepper has not publicly confirmed or denied the current status of the relationship.

Controversies and Scandals: Complete Timeline

September 2014 — “Fake Hand Ass Pinch” Prank

Pepper posted a video appearing to show him groping women on the street. Multiple women subsequently came forward with sexual misconduct allegations. The LAPD opened an investigation. No charges were filed. The video and fallout began the collapse of his mainstream YouTube career.

November 2015 — “Killing Best Friend” Prank

Pepper staged a fake execution-style murder of Sam Golbach, filmed in front of Colby Brock. Metro described it as resembling “an ISIS-style execution.” It caused significant backlash and further accelerated his departure from the YouTube mainstream.

February 2016 — Public Apology Video

Pepper uploaded a 20-minute video titled “I’m sorry,” attempting to address the accumulated controversies. He then went largely quiet on YouTube for several years.

2021 — Save the Kids Crypto Pump-and-Dump

Pepper was part of a group including FaZe Clan members that promoted the Save the Kids cryptocurrency token. Critics accused the group of orchestrating a pump-and-dump scheme, causing financial losses for retail buyers. The incident earned Pepper the lasting nickname “Scam Pepper” — a reputation that followed him into his casino-streaming career and appears in gaming-industry commentary about him to this day.

July 1, 2023 — Viewbotting Peak

His Kick channel recorded 216,685 peak concurrent viewers — a figure widely regarded as inflated. Kick founder Ed Craven was linked to the artificial chat activity. Kick subsequently added view-count protections across the platform.

September 21–22, 2023 — Brisbane Escort Stream

Pepper and Ice Poseidon paid a sex worker $500 to enter a hotel room with a third streamer (a viewer referred to as “Andy”) while Pepper and Ice Poseidon secretly livestreamed the encounter to approximately 20,000 Kick viewers from a hidden position in the adjacent room. Although the sex worker was told about the stream, the broadcast was described as deeply inappropriate. Kick founder Ed Craven was active in the chat during the stream, sending laughing emotes. Both Pepper and Ice Poseidon were briefly arrested by Queensland Police on suspicion of sexual assault. They were released without charges. Adin Ross publicly defended them, making inflammatory comments about critics. Kick updated its content guidelines following the backlash.

September 30, 2025 — Tacloban Earthquake

Pepper was streaming from a hotel rooftop in Tacloban, Philippines, when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Cebu. The footage went viral across social media platforms.

October 20–22, 2025 — Diwali Firework Incident (Most Serious Controversy)

During a Diwali livestream in New Delhi, Pepper joined a street firework battle and fired a Roman-candle-style firework at a group of bystanders across the street, striking a young girl. Indian outlets reported her age as 8; Pepper later described her as “12 or a teenager.”

On stream, as a bystander said “Headshot,” Pepper raised his fist. When confronted by a local saying the girl had lost vision in one eye, Pepper responded on camera: “No, it hasn’t! But they were firing at us as well, I just played with them… It was an accident.” He left India the following day.

His initial public statement described the injury as “a cut above the eyebrow” treated with “a paper stitch” — significantly understating what had occurred.

October 21–22, 2025: Kick permanently banned him. Simultaneously, Pump.fun permanently banned his Solana memecoin “NERVE” — co-founder Alon Cohen personally confirmed the ban. The NERVE token’s market cap fell approximately 16% to ~$148,000 following the news. Indian and Pakistani media, including News18 and The Express Tribune, amplified the story through November 2025.

December 12, 2025: Pepper reversed himself publicly on X. He admitted the girl had suffered “corneal damage and vision loss in one eye” — directly contradicting his “paper stitch” claim from October. He stated he had been working privately to help the girl’s family, that a separate influencer had complicated matters by promoting a fictitious $275,000 fundraiser, and that he had “found a way to borrow $100,000” to help the family but needed Kick to reinstate his channel to demonstrate income and repay the loan.

February 2026: Kick lifted the ban.

Sam Pepper’s Platform Ban History

Sam Pepper and Crypto

Beyond the 2021 Save the Kids scandal, Pepper continued engaging with crypto during his Kick era. He launched a Solana-based memecoin called NERVE on Pump.fun, which was promoted in connection with his streaming content. When Pump.fun permanently banned him following the Diwali firework incident in October 2025, the NERVE token lost approximately 16% of its market cap within hours, falling to around $148,000. This is the only documented cryptocurrency project tied to his Kick-era persona; it is now effectively defunct following the Pump.fun ban.

How Sam Pepper Compares to Other Kick Casino Streamers

Pepper sits at the low end of the bet-size spectrum among top Kick gambling streamers. His distinguishing feature is the IRL travel element embedded in casino sessions — he streams from real-world locations internationally, not from a fixed home setup. This makes his content a hybrid of travel vlogging and casino streaming rather than pure slot content.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sam Pepper’s real name? Samuel Nicholas Pepper.

How old is Sam Pepper? 37 years old as of April 2026. Born March 26, 1989, in Ashford, Kent, England.

What is Sam Pepper’s Kick username? His Kick channel is kick.com/sam. His Stake casino username is 5ampepper.

What is Sam Pepper’s Twitter / X? x.com/sampepper — approximately 615,000 followers.

Is Sam Pepper on Twitch? He was banned from Twitch in April 2018 and has never returned. The account still exists at twitch.tv/sampepper with around 6,400 followers but is permanently inactive.

What is Sam Pepper’s YouTube channel? youtube.com/@sampepper — approximately 2.2–2.4 million subscribers, primarily older prank content and travel vlogs. No casino streaming on YouTube.

What is Sam Pepper’s net worth? Unverified estimates range from $1.1 million to $5 million. No audited figure exists. He owns a Porsche and a Ferrari and lives in Los Angeles.

Who is Sam Pepper’s girlfriend or fiancée? Hannah Ridgeway (@hanridge on TikTok), an American model and content creator born June 28, 1995. Their current relationship status is unclear — a reported 2024 split contradicts 2025 sources still describing her as his partner. She previously accused him on a livestream of grooming her as a minor; he called in and they argued on camera.

Does Sam Pepper have a Discord? Yes. discord.gg/Sampepper — named “Sam Pepper — Live Streaming,” with approximately 8,789 members.

Does Sam Pepper have a Telegram? No. There is no public Sam Pepper Telegram channel. Community access is through Discord and Kick chat only.

Does Sam Pepper do raffles? Not in a structured way. He runs ad-hoc giveaways by playing small Stake deposits on stream and distributing winnings to viewers. He also runs a $5,000/month clipping bounty (launched May 2025) through Discord. There is no weekly lottery or formal raffle program.

What games does Sam Pepper play on Stake? High-volatility slots including Drop ‘Em, Temple Tumble, Sweet Alchemy, Vegas Ball Bonanza, Dream Drop, Fairytale Fortune, Divine Riches Helios, Crank It Up!, Super Mega Monster. Also Plinko, Stake Originals, and live blackjack.

Why was Sam Pepper banned from Kick? He fired a firework at bystanders during a Diwali livestream in New Delhi on October 20, 2025, striking a young girl and causing corneal damage and vision loss in one eye. Kick permanently banned him on October 21–22, 2025. He was reportedly unbanned in February 2026 after publicly admitting the injury in December 2025 and claiming to be assisting the family financially.

Is Sam Pepper legit or fake? Disputed. Many believe he plays on a sponsored house balance rather than his own money. His contractual obligation under this model would be to satisfy a 20x wagering requirement, not to genuinely gamble. Pepper has never publicly addressed the accusation. The viewbotting history (peak of 216,685 concurrent viewers on July 1, 2023 — versus a genuine average of ~1,420) adds to the skepticism.

What is Sam Pepper’s Stake username? 5ampepper.

What happened with Sam Pepper’s NERVE memecoin? He launched a Solana memecoin called NERVE on Pump.fun. After the October 2025 Diwali firework incident, Pump.fun permanently banned both Pepper and the NERVE token. The token’s market cap dropped roughly 16% to approximately $148,000 and is now effectively defunct.

Who is Sam Pepper’s Kick streaming partner / network? He operates within Ice Poseidon’s CX Network on Kick, which he joined in 2023 for IRL travel streams before transitioning to casino content.

Has Sam Pepper ever been arrested? Yes, briefly. He was arrested alongside Ice Poseidon by Queensland Police in Australia in September 2023 on suspicion of sexual assault following the Brisbane escort livestream. Both were released without charges.