Tana Mongeau is 28 years old, and a decade after her storytime videos made her one of YouTube’s most talked-about creators, she works as a full-time podcaster. Cancelled, the show she co-hosted with Brooke Schofield for four years, ended in September 2025. She now puts out two weekly podcasts, Not Loveline with Trisha Paytas and her solo show Brand Safe. She got Cali sober in 2024 and has rebuilt her public image around that change.
Quick Facts
| Detail | Fact |
|---|---|
| Full name | Tana Marie Mongeau |
| Born | June 24, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada (age 28) |
| Known for | Storytime YouTube videos; the Cancelled podcast |
| Podcasts | Cancelled (2021 to 2025), Not Loveline (2024 to present), Brand Safe (2026 to present) |
| Partner | Makoa Da Silva (since 2023) |
| YouTube | About 5.5 million subscribers |
| 5,348,177 followers (October 2026) | |
| TikTok | 9,000,000 followers (October 2026) |
| Net worth | Estimated $4 million (Celebrity Net Worth) |
Early Life
Tana Marie Mongeau was born on June 24, 1998, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Rick and Rebecca Mongeau. Her childhood, in her own telling on MTV No Filter and on Cancelled, was strained. She has said her parents lacked parenting skills and has described the home she grew up in with the line, “I spent my whole life feeling like I was raising you guys.”
At 13, she was taken in by her best friend’s family, a move described in coverage of her life as an adoption. She is not close with her biological family. She attended Green Valley High School in Henderson and, by her own account, left traditional schooling as a sophomore.
Rise to Fame: Storytime YouTube
Mongeau started her YouTube channel in 2015. Her first video to pass one million views was titled “KICKED OUT OF WALMART.” What built the channel was the storytime format: long, candid, comedic retellings of things that had happened to her, delivered straight to camera with no script and no filter. The videos pulled in millions of views and made her a fixture of mid-2010s YouTube, alongside vlogs and collaborations with other creators of that era.
The channel still has about 5.52 million subscribers and roughly 968 million views, per channel data reported in June 2026. In December 2019, she won Creator of the Year at the Streamy Awards. She also took acting work along the way, appearing in Joey Graceffa’s Escape the Night and as a guest on Shane and Friends.
Music Singles
Mongeau released her debut single “Hefner” in November 2017, and the video featured Bella Thorne. “Deadahh,” a collaboration with Lil Phag and Dr. Woke, followed in December 2017. Her solo singles “W” and “Fuck Up” came out in March and August 2018. She released “FaceTime” on May 18, 2019, and “Without You” on April 22, 2020. The music stayed a side project, and she has not released a single since 2020.
TanaCon: The Convention That Collapsed in a Day
In May 2018, after VidCon had not made her a featured creator, Mongeau announced her own convention, TanaCon, as a direct rival. She organized it with Good Times Entertainment, run by Michael Weist, and scheduled it against VidCon in Anaheim, California.
The event took place on June 22, 2018, and it fell apart within hours. About 5,000 ticket holders showed up for a venue that held roughly 1,000 people. Fans waited outside in the sun for hours without food or water, and organizers shut the event down the same day on safety grounds. The second day never happened. Attendees and reporters compared it to Fyre Festival, the failed luxury festival from the year before.
Mongeau apologized publicly and promised refunds “even if I write the check out of my own pocket.” Refunds went out through the ticketing company Veeps starting in early July 2018 and totaled about $325,000, with Good Times contractually responsible for the money. Shane Dawson later released a three-part documentary series about the failure. In May 2019, VidCon named Mongeau a featured creator.
MTV No Filter: Tana Turns 21
MTV gave Mongeau a reality docuseries, MTV No Filter: Tana Turns 21, which premiered on July 8, 2019. The first season ran seven episodes through August 19, 2019. The cameras followed her 21st birthday, her relationship with Jake Paul, and the wedding storyline that played out that summer. The show put her home life and her parents on screen as well, and much of what is known about her childhood comes from what she said about it there.
The Cancelled Podcast (2021 to 2025)
Cancelled launched on July 26, 2021, with Mongeau and Brooke Schofield as co-hosts. The two talked through pop culture, their own lives, and a rotating run of guests; Trisha Paytas was the show’s first guest in August 2021. The podcast grew into a live act as well, with a fall 2024 tour that stopped in Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Philadelphia, Oakland, and San Francisco, among other cities.
The show ended on the hosts’ own terms. The finale, episode 130, titled “THE END OF THE CANCELLED PODCAST,” was released on September 28, 2025, and ran about three hours and seventeen minutes. Both hosts described the decision to end it as mutual, and the full archive remains available on the show’s iHeart feed. In total, Cancelled ran 130 episodes between July 2021 and September 2025. Mongeau told Elite Daily afterward that she and Schofield are “in a much better place post-podcast.”
The Podcast Pivot: Not Loveline and Brand Safe
The end of Cancelled was not the end of Mongeau’s podcasting; it was the middle of a longer changeover. Not Loveline, a weekly call-in advice show about love, sex, and dating that she co-hosts with Trisha Paytas, premiered on November 25, 2024, ten months before Cancelled ended. The two shows ran side by side for most of a year. Not Loveline is still weekly in October 2026, with new episodes of Not Loveline landing every week, most recently on October 12, 2026.
Her solo show came next. Brand Safe launched on May 9, 2026, and it is a deliberate break from the Cancelled format. Mongeau hosts alone, brings in friends and chosen guests, and talks about family, relationships, sobriety, and fame. Episodes have run weekly since launch, most recently on October 18, 2026, and on October 21, 2026 the show ranked No. 4 in Apple Podcasts’ Personal Journals chart in the US. Her pitch for it, given to People, was direct: “Brand Safe isn’t the Tana people might expect. It’s still honest, sometimes brutally so, but it’s also about growth, self-awareness and actually sitting with the reality of my life.”
The sobriety came first. Mongeau has said she got Cali sober in 2024 and described the choice in blunt terms to Elite Daily: “It was sober era or die.” In the same interview she joked about how late the lesson arrived: “I, at the ripe age of 27, just learned about boundaries.” Brand Safe is built on that footing, and it is the reason her recent coverage reads so differently from the coverage of her early twenties.
Business Ventures: Dizzy Wine, Tana’s Angels and Brand Deals
Mongeau launched Dizzy Wine, her own wine brand, on January 26, 2022. A year earlier, in April 2021, she had co-founded Tana’s Angels Agency, a management agency for OnlyFans creators, working with Unruly Agency, which also represents her. The agency drew complaints from some creators who accused it of pressure tactics and pay disputes. Mongeau has said the agency is now defunct, that she never recruited anyone who had not already shown interest in the platform, and that she sent former clients to Unruly.
Her brand work has included deals with Fashion Nova, Lounge Underwear, Tarte Cosmetics, and Medicube. A Tarte lip kit collaboration under her name sold out at launch. DraftKings has sponsored her since March 2024. She has also acknowledged publicly that OnlyFans is a large source of her income. Specific earnings figures for the platform circulate online, but each one traces back to a single low-quality source, and none of them is verified.
Personal Life
Mongeau dated Bella Thorne in the late 2010s. In spring 2019 she began dating Jake Paul. They got engaged over her 21st birthday weekend in June 2019, and a wedding ceremony followed in Las Vegas that July. The ceremony was not legally binding, a point both of them later acknowledged publicly. They announced their split in January 2020.
Since late 2023, Mongeau has been with Makoa Da Silva. She confirmed the relationship on Instagram in December 2023. Da Silva is from Hawaii, keeps a private Instagram account, and stays out of her content for the most part. In two May 2026 exclusives with People, she called him “loyal” and “the yin to my yang” and credited him with teaching her to be more careful about what she posts. People described her in that coverage as pansexual. She has no children.
Controversies
Mongeau apologized for her own past posts in a 2020 video, addressing racist tweets and racial slurs from earlier in her career. She said she did not deserve a platform if she kept acting “in such a gas-lighting and irresponsible manner.”
In August 2024, old tweets by her Cancelled co-host Brooke Schofield, containing racist and homophobic posts, resurfaced. People reported that Mongeau hosted the August 11, 2024 episode, “Responding to Brooke’s Tweets,” without Schofield, said the decision to do so was hers, and called the tweets “horrific.” Schofield apologized and later returned to the show.
On Cancelled in 2024, Mongeau said that she and YouTuber Cody Ko had a sexual encounter when she was 17 and he was 25. The claim drew wider attention in July 2024. Ko did not publicly respond at the time, and in late July 2024 he stepped down from day-to-day operations at TMG Studios, his podcast network. Brittany Broski was among the creators who condemned Ko publicly that month.
Distractify has reported that Mongeau has dealt with a stalker for years, including an incident in which he came to her home with a knife, and that she hired security as a result.
Net Worth
Celebrity Net Worth estimates Mongeau’s net worth at $4 million, and most sites that publish a figure repeat that number. It is an estimate, not a documented total. Her income comes from YouTube advertising, her two podcasts, OnlyFans, Dizzy Wine, and brand deals. Some low-quality sites put her at $5 million to $15 million; one of them contradicts itself between two tables on the same page, and none of the higher figures comes with sourcing that holds up.
2024 to 2026: Recent Developments
The last two years reorganized Mongeau’s working life around podcasting. She got Cali sober in 2024, started Not Loveline that November, and closed Cancelled in September 2025 after 130 episodes. After the finale she bought a home in Maui, Hawaii, where Da Silva was born and raised, according to Her Campus, and she splits her time between Hawaii and California. In March 2026, Elite Daily photographed her on the set of the Hannah Montana 20th anniversary reunion at the Miley Stewart house set, a visit she called a career highlight. A live date with Trisha Paytas at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas was listed for June 12, 2026.
Her audience has held through the change of format. As of October 2026, her TikTok account has 9,000,000 followers and her Instagram has 5,348,177. Her X account has about 2.4 million followers, and Elite Daily put her total audience across platforms at about 20 million in March 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Tana Mongeau?
Tana Mongeau was born on June 24, 1998, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is 28 years old and turns 29 in June 2027.
Where is Tana Mongeau from?
She was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, and attended Green Valley High School in nearby Henderson. She now splits her time between California and Maui, Hawaii.
What happened to the Cancelled podcast?
Cancelled ended by mutual decision between Mongeau and co-host Brooke Schofield. The finale, episode 130, was released on September 28, 2025, after a run that began on July 26, 2021. The archive of all 130 episodes remains available.
What podcasts does Tana Mongeau host in 2026?
She hosts two weekly shows. Not Loveline, a call-in advice show with Trisha Paytas, has run since November 25, 2024. Brand Safe, her solo podcast, launched on May 9, 2026.
Was Tana Mongeau really married to Jake Paul?
No. Mongeau and Jake Paul held a wedding ceremony in Las Vegas in July 2019, after getting engaged that June, but the ceremony was not legally binding. Both later acknowledged this publicly, and they announced their split in January 2020.
Who is Tana Mongeau dating now?
She is dating Makoa Da Silva, a relationship she confirmed on Instagram in December 2023. He is from Hawaii and keeps his own accounts private.
What happened at TanaCon?
TanaCon was Mongeau’s own convention, held on June 22, 2018, in Anaheim, California, as a rival to VidCon. About 5,000 ticket holders arrived at a venue that held roughly 1,000 people. The event was shut down within hours on safety grounds, the second day was canceled, and refunds of about $325,000 went out through the ticketing company Veeps.
What is Tana Mongeau’s net worth?
Celebrity Net Worth estimates her net worth at $4 million. The figure is an estimate based on her YouTube, podcast, OnlyFans, and brand income. Higher figures published elsewhere have no solid sourcing behind them.
What is Tana Mongeau doing in 2026?
She hosts two weekly podcasts, Not Loveline with Trisha Paytas and the solo show Brand Safe, which launched in May 2026 and charted at No. 4 in Apple Podcasts’ Personal Journals chart in October 2026. She has been Cali sober since 2024 and splits her time between California and Maui.
