Earlier this year, we spoke to Yianni about about wrapping cars, his Hollywood cameo and how to avoid disaster as a YouTuber.

Tell us about the show. What can we expect?

The show is pretty much the goings on at [my company] Yiannimize. A car will turn up with a customer, I'll meet the customer [and] find out about what car they have and what they're looking to have done. We'll get the car into the workshop… and then we'll wrap the vehicle. It's not [always] as simple as that because things do go wrong in my workshop. We work to very very tight deadlines. Because my client base is very very high end, people want things done yesterday. [You’ll also see us] do a smaller job or you might get me going out to a big car event where I'll see some fans. Maybe ordering a brand new car from Lambourgini. That is pretty much what happens in the show. We were just lucky to get the [McLaren] P1s in, the Pagani Huayra which are like £1m, £2m cars. 

How did this happen? How did you get into wrapping cars?

I started doing football players' cars. Back in the day footballers or celebrities had a big social media following and I didn’t. Everyone used to tag me: 'Yianni's done my car...', so I started building up my social media quite quickly. I was famous among famous people. [I did] a [football] player called Bacary Sagna – he’s still my best friend today. I wrapped his Range Rover in white. We put a body kit and a sound system in it. Next thing I know [footballer] William Gallas rings me. I do his car. He gives me John Terry. John Terry gives me Didier Drogba. I then do JLS' car. JLS have a Christmas party and One Direction are there. I then do Harry from One Direction's car. It just snowballed. For me, YouTube is massive. It's not as crazy as it was. It was a lot easier to get followers back in the day. People are doing crazy things on YouTube now to get views, and they film absolutely everything.

Your channel has over one million subscribers on YouTube. Why make the move to TV?

[People asked] 'why don’t you have a TV show'. We don't work on the run of the mill [cars] like the Fords or the Peugeots. We wrap Lamborghinis, Ferraris, hypercars! I was approached about 4-5 years ago [about making a TV show]. I went and had a meeting with UKTV but it wasn't right at the time. We stayed in contact. Then 4 years later… it's at Dave. Dave is a car channel. I was really happy. What I really liked about this [was] when they wanted to do my show, [they didn’t] want it scripted. I must have been approached about seven or eight times to do a show, but they all wanted it scripted. I’m not gonna do it scripted. I think it's so fake. I think the audience will see it. They just let me do my thing.