Kelsey Kreppel
Former preschool teacher turned YouTuber who makes sarcastic lifestyle vlogs and red carpet fashion reviews, and who hosted the Dear Media podcast Circle Time from 2022 to 2024.
Comedy · YouTube · Updated Nov 13, 2026
Kelsey Kreppel is a YouTuber and podcaster known for sarcastic lifestyle vlogs, red carpet fashion reviews and videos with her husband, Cody Ko. A former preschool teacher from Los Angeles, she has about 936,000 subscribers on YouTube, where her Met Gala reviews are among her most watched videos. From 2022 to July 2024 she hosted Circle Time, a Dear Media podcast built like a preschool class, per People. Both her channel and her podcast went quiet in mid-2024, the same summer her comment sections filled up over allegations against Cody Ko reported by TIME. As of November 2026 she is posting new YouTube videos again.
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Questions people ask
Who is Kelsey Kreppel? What does she do?
Kelsey Kreppel is a YouTuber, podcaster and former preschool teacher from Los Angeles who makes lifestyle vlogs, fashion reviews and comedy videos. Her channel’s About page calls her a “preschool teacher turned YouTuber and entertainer” whose “lifestyle focused” videos are “more sarcastic than anything,” from fighting with a food processor to making fun of people on the red carpet. The channel, opened December 10, 2014, has about 936,000 subscribers and more than 106 million views as of November 2026. She is married to YouTuber Cody Ko, and the two have made couple series such as Couple’s Cringe and Tinder Nightmares, per People (August 2023), which also reported that she founded TRULUVE, a fashion and accessory line dedicated to her late grandparents. From 2022 to 2024 she hosted the podcast Circle Time for Dear Media.
What happened to Kelsey Kreppel? Why did she stop posting, and what is she doing now?
As of November 2026, Kelsey Kreppel is posting on YouTube again after a break of almost two years, and she has not explained the break in any outlet we accept. Her channel shows her Met Gala 2024 fashion review, from May 2024, as her last upload before the gap; her next video, titled “welcome back :)”, went up in early 2026. Her podcast, Circle Time, posted its last episode on July 11, 2024 (next question). That same July, allegations against her husband, Cody Ko, spread widely, and TIME reported on July 29, 2024 that she was receiving a flood of hate comments on her YouTube videos. Since her return she has posted more than a dozen vlogs, the newest, “elaborate date night,” in early November 2026. We have not verified what she says in her return video, so we do not characterize her reasons.
What happened to Kelsey Kreppel’s podcast, Circle Time?
Kelsey Kreppel’s podcast, Circle Time, stopped publishing after its July 11, 2024 episode, and as of November 2026 we found no announcement from her or from its network, Dear Media, explaining why. The show ran 95 episodes starting in 2022, per its Apple Podcasts page, with guests such as Hannah Berner, Brooke Averick and Ria and Fran of Chicks in the Office; the last episode was “Q&A with my best friend Emma!” The format came from her classroom: she told The Harvard Crimson in February 2024 that running Zoom sessions for preschool classes during the pandemic inspired a show where guests talk through a day structured like preschool. Its YouTube channel still has about 95,600 subscribers and 364 videos. We found no new podcast from her since.
What happened to Kelsey Kreppel and Cody Ko? Is Kelsey Kreppel still with Cody Ko?
Yes, as of November 2026 Kelsey Kreppel is still married to Cody Ko, and no accepted outlet has reported a separation. They met in 2017 at a gathering hosted by her roommate and married on February 4, 2023 at the Sands Hotel and Spa in Indian Wells, California, with about 150 guests, per People (August 2023); Famous Birthdays dates their engagement announcement to December 2021. People still described her as his wife in February 2026. The hard stretch came in 2024: YouTuber Tana Mongeau made allegations about Ko on her podcast Cancelled, which NBC News described as involving her when she was underage, and after commentator D’Angelo Wallace’s July 14, 2024 video, Ko stepped back from day-to-day work at TMG Studios, the podcast network he co-founded, per NBC News and TIME. TIME reported on July 19, 2024 that Kreppel faced pressure to say something as people filled her comment sections. We found no public statement from her about the allegations. Ko’s only public words, per Dexerto (December 2024), came in a side-channel video in which he said he understood if viewers’ opinion of him had changed. We found no report of an arrest in a major news outlet. His main YouTube channel has not posted a new video in about two years.
What happened with Kelsey Kreppel and Selena Gomez?
As of November 2026, we found no report in an accepted outlet, and no post from Kelsey Kreppel we could source, describing anything between her and Selena Gomez, so we do not repeat one. If either of them addresses it on the record, this entry will add it.
Is Kelsey Kreppel a teacher? Does she still teach?
As of November 2026, Kelsey Kreppel is a former preschool teacher: she told People in August 2023 that she kept teaching after her social media success and then quit to focus on content, adding, “I miss it.” She told The Harvard Crimson in February 2024 that she studied child development, taught preschool full time in the Los Angeles area until her mid-twenties while nannying on the side, and went back to part-time teaching during the pandemic, running Zoom sessions for preschool classes. Her YouTube About page still introduces her as a preschool teacher turned YouTuber. We found no report that she has returned to a classroom since.
How old is Kelsey Kreppel? When is her birthday, and how tall is she?
Kelsey Kreppel is 33 years old: she was born on September 24, 1993, per Famous Birthdays. She has not published her height, and we do not guess.
What is Kelsey Kreppel’s real name? What is her full name or last name?
Kelsey Kreppel is the name she uses publicly, and we found no other published name for her. As of November 2026 she still goes by Kreppel on her YouTube channel and in press, including People’s February 2026 report, which gave Cody Ko’s full name as Cody Kolodziejzyk.
Where is Kelsey Kreppel from? Is she Canadian or American, and where did she go to college?
Kelsey Kreppel is from Los Angeles, California, per People and Famous Birthdays. She went to California State University, Northridge, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in child and adolescent development, per People (August 2023). We give places, not nationality.
Where can I watch Kelsey Kreppel?
Kelsey Kreppel posts vlogs and fashion reviews on her YouTube channel, which has about 936,000 subscribers as of November 2026; her Met Gala 2024 Fashion Review has about 1.6 million views. Circle Time’s 95 episodes remain on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Her couple videos with Cody Ko, such as Tinder Nightmares, are on his channel. She is on Instagram as @kelseykreppel and on X as @kelseykreppel.
What is Kelsey Kreppel’s net worth?
Kelsey Kreppel does not publish a number and neither do we.
What about Kelsey Kreppel’s family life, and is she Christian or a Zionist?
Not something we cover.
Who represents Kelsey Kreppel?
No agent or manager for Kelsey Kreppel is named publicly that we could find; her podcast, Circle Time, was produced by Dear Media, per Apple Podcasts. Ames Create does not represent her; we cover her because people keep asking what happened to her podcast and her channel, and most of the answer is on the record. If that changes, this entry will say so.
Our read
Ames Create does not work with Kelsey Kreppel. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.
The format. She plays the deadpan friend. Her vlogs are ordinary days, cooking fights with kitchen gadgets and hauls, narrated with sarcasm rather than polish, and her red carpet reviews pick apart celebrity looks the way a friend would from the couch. Circle Time took the same voice into a guest format built around a preschool day.
Why it travels. The red carpet reviews travel furthest: her Met Gala 2019 review passed 2 million views, per Famous Birthdays, and her Met Gala 2024 review sits at about 1.6 million, well above a typical vlog. Her name also travels with Cody Ko’s, and each wave of coverage about him in 2024 sent people to her comments and to searches about her.
Brand fit. Fashion, vintage, home and kitchen brands that want a funny, unpolished read for women in their late twenties and thirties. Her 2026 return means a brand would be buying into a channel that is still rebuilding its rhythm, and brands will weigh the 2024 coverage around her husband, though no outlet reported any allegation against her.
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Sources: Kelsey Kreppel on YouTube and its About page; Circle Time on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify; Instagram; X; Cody Ko on YouTube; People, August 7, 2023 and February 12, 2026; TIME, July 19, 2024 and July 29, 2024; NBC News, July 2024; Rolling Stone, July 31, 2024; Dexerto, December 25, 2024; The Harvard Crimson, February 1, 2024; Famous Birthdays. Subscriber counts read from YouTube, November 2026.
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