• Mark Thomas (aka Duhitzmark) rose to prominence after accumulating followers on his TikTok account
• He has gained over 5 million followers and 400 million hearts on his TikTok account
• He has over 750,000 YouTube subscribers and 24 million views
• He has released two original songs and an EP
• Mark has a net worth of around $1 million
Known for movies
Oliver! (1968)
as Oliver
Melody (1971)
as Daniel
Black Beauty (1971)
as Joe
What the Peeper Saw (1972)
as Marcus
Short Info
| Fact | He was a close, long-time friend of American rock singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, and they were godfathers to each other's children. Lester spent Christmas 2003 at the Neverland Ranch, and vocally defended Jackson throughout his trial on child molestation charges in 2005. |
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Who is Duhitzmark?
Mark Thomas was born in Stewart’s Town, Pennsylvania USA, on 29 March 2001, so under the zodiac sign of Aries, and holding American nationality – Mark rose to prominence after he amassed quite a number of followers on his TikTok account, profiled Duhitzmark.
Early years and education
Mark spent his entire childhood in Pennsylvania with his parents and his older sister Mullaney Christine Thomas, however, he rarely talks about them as he appreciates their privacy – he is said to have a good bond with his parents, and that they are supportive of his career on the internet.
Mark is said not to be a big fan of school, just as his parents, and he is therefore studying at home – it is unknown whether or not he is planning to pursue a college degree.
Mark’s Internet career
Mark became somewhat popular when he started using the Musical.ly platform – it is said that he had around 10 million followers before the platform got shut down – and when that happened, Mark created an account on TikTok platform, which works in a rather similar way, and started gathering fans on it too. He quickly gained recognition after uploading his lip sync videos, and now has over five million followers and 400 million hearts – similar to ‘likes’ on Facebook.
Mark is very active on YouTube – his channel is called ‘Mark Thomas’ and it is his second main money generating account, while his major one is TikTok. He launched it on 24 August 2014, and has so far gathered over 750,000 subscribers and more than 24 million views of his 14 videos combined – his most viewed video is “Justin Bieber Mistletoe – Mark Thomas (Official Music Video Cover)” as it has be seen over 7.2 million times.
Twitter is one of the accounts which he first created – he launched it in January 2012 and has so far gathered nearly 600,000 followers and tweeted around 3,300 times. He is a lot more popular on his Instagram account, on which he’s followed by over 3.1 million people while he’s uploaded more than 300 pictures. Because he was doing so well on the Internet, Mark decided to launch his own clothing brand, and is selling the merchandise on his website – the business seems to be going well, and is his third main source of income.
He also released two of his original songs entitled “Selfie” and “Mistletoe” in 2016 – these quickly became popular and helped Mark gain an even wider audience. He also released his first EP – “Down For a While” – in 2017 which was also loved by his fans.
What is TikTok?
TikTok is an iOS and Android application, which is most popular in China where it’s called “Douyin” which means ‘vibrating sound’ – the application lets you create and share videos of not longer than 15 seconds. The platform is owned by ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd., which is a Chinese Internet Technology Company which operates several apps – it was launched in China in September 2016, and then in Europe and the US during the following year. It didn’t become popular until 2018 when it was downloaded more than any other app in the US – it is currently available in more than 150 countries and over 70 languages, and it is said that over 500 million people are using it.
The most popular accounts on the platform are “Lisa and Lena” from Germany who have over 32.7 million followers, “Loren Gray” from the US who has more than 30.5 million followers, and “Baby Ariel” from the US as well who is followed by over 29.3 million people.
Personal life and relationships
Mark is still very young, but enjoys sharing details about his girlfriends as they come and go – he is said to have dated numerous girls during the past couple of years – he has no trouble finding them as he is quite popular on social media platforms. He is said to have dated Loren Gray, a popular social media celebrity who is one year younger than himself – she was also seen with numerous boys, but it is not known whether or not she was dating them.
Sometime in 2016 Mark was talking to Merisella Monte, who was one of his fans and he told her how she was everything he wanted – she seemed to be happy to hear that and shortly afterwards the two uploaded a picture of themselves together on their Instagram accounts. It is not known whether or not the two dated, but it was rumored that they had been going out for a while.
In 2018 Mark went to a prom with Madison Lewis, another Instagram star, and it was rumored that the two were dating but that wasn’t confirmed by either of them. In 2019, he began dating Bridget Paddock, another Instagram star who is two years younger than him, and the two seem to be happy with each other.
Likes and hobbies
Mark loves to take selfies, while his favorite place for doing that is in the changing rooms. He lived on a farm in nature, and enjoyed it but still prefers to live in the city – he is interested in philanthropy and participates in charity events when he is able to. He is into fashion and loves to wear white jeans the most, his favorite color is blue, and his favorite animal is a turtle. You will find ketchup on his list of things he hates the most, while his two favorite foods are Alfredo noodle and Ceaser salad.
Mark is interested in sports, especially soccer.
Appearance and net worth
The Instagram star is currently 18 years old. He has short black hair which he regularly dyes blonde, blue eyes, is 5ft 5in (1.65m) tall and weighs around 121lb (55kg).
According to authoritative sources, Mark’s current net worth is estimated to be around $1 million and will likely rise as long as Mark stays active on his social media accounts.
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— Mark Thomas (: (@duhitzmark) March 29, 2019
Fun Fact
His Instagram account once got hacked, but it is not known whether the hacker published any photos of him or if he messaged anyone.
Social profile links
Quotes
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | I tried everything that was going - drink, dope, acid, whatever was on offer. Coke was selling at £60 a gram and I was buying it for myself and my house guests at the rate of four grams a day. I abused it mercilessly. |
| 2 | I've no regrets, you live and learn from your mistakes and I've had opportunities to travel and meet people that I might not otherwise have had. Obviously it was more glamorous then, but I certainly prefer what I do now. |
| 3 | Michael was absolutely sharp as a razor, really focused. It's the best I've known him in a long time. He said he couldn't wait to get back on stage and that his kids were going to see him perform - it was one of the main reasons for him doing the shows. That's why the whole thing is such a shock. I've never seen him taking anything or any evidence that he was on something. I'm an acupuncturist. One time he got a bad spider bite that wasn't healing. I offered to treat it but he said, 'No, I hate needles, hate them.' That's why I find it so bizarre that he was supposed to be having these injections. We were on the phone for about an hour and all of the kids spoke to him. We were talking about the show. He said he'd been rehearsing and he'd just done a Pop Idol-type competition with the dancers. We wanted to sit at the front and he said we could have the whole front row. He was supposed to be coming over next week for rehearsals. People have said he was suffering from stage fright but I don't think Michael ever had stage fright. Performing was what charged him. He told Harriet he wanted her to come on stage with him when he sang his song Dirty Diana. He was really fired up. I asked him what was in the show but he didn't want to tell us too much. He said, 'I want it to be a surprise. You're going to be amazed by it.' He was so excited. His children had never seen him perform and he wanted them to see Daddy at what Daddy did best. That's what Michael does. He loved the attention. He loved being 'Michael Jackson'. He was driven by it. I was with him in the car on the way and he was really relaxed. Afterwards the whole family went to stay with him at The Lanesborough hotel. We went out to see Oliver! at the Theatre Royal and spent the whole weekend with him. He did not look like a person who would drop dead a couple of months later. He wasn't unfit. He showed no signs of being unwell. |
| 4 | On meeting Michael Jackson in 1982: I was with my sister at the time and she nearly fell off the chair. A few days later we went to see him at the Montcalm Hotel in Park Lane. He came over, gave me a hug and said, 'Mark, it's so nice to meet you.' I was very nervous but we had tea and then ordered up burgers and chatted. We shared a common baseline. He was much more famous than me but we had both been child stars and we were the same age. He said that in the teeny mags in America it would be him on one page, me on another and David Cassidy on another. He always used to say we were like the positive and negative, the black and white. |
| 5 | Michael loved junk food. In March 2007 he came back to Cheltenham with us. It was the first time he'd been here. We watched DVDs and the kids played computer games. I think we had pizza from Pizza Hut for lunch and in the evening we had fish and chips from the local shop. Michael loved fish, chips and mushy peas with lots of ketchup. It was his favourite thing. Wherever we were, whatever restaurant, he'd have to have fish and chips. Everyone imagines he'd have some kind of weird macrobiotic diet, but he wasn't like that. The thing people never understood about Michael was that he was very clever at illusions. The thing with the veils was just an act. He used to say to me, 'I do it to create an illusion. I'm an illusionist.' We saw Billy Elliot and he was quite shocked at the language. He said he wouldn't have taken the children if he had known. He was very firm with his own children. They weren't spoilt. He was much more normal than people realised. We'd go out for dinner or a coffee and he would notice women walking past and say, 'She's so cute, she's got a nice tush,' but then he would be very apologetic. In many ways Michael was asexual, but he had an eye for beauty. |
| 6 | We were together in Miami when he saw it. Michael was just dumbstruck. He didn't shout. I never heard him once raise his voice his whole life but he was very upset. Most of all he just seemed confused by it all. That was Michael. He didn't see a problem with it. He just loved children. He saw himself as the Pied Piper. At Neverland he had an enormous oil painting covering one wall and it was Michael as the Pied Piper leading hundreds of children of all colours, races, sizes. Some were in wheelchairs. Michael was dancing and these kids were in a huge crocodile line behind him. He always told me he wrote his songs for the age group of ten to fourteen. He would never do anything to hurt anyone and I don't believe that anything ever happened with Gavin Arvizo. When I thought about what Michael did for that family, it made me sick to think that they could do that to him. The experience did make him more withdrawn. He took himself away and hid from everyone. |
| 7 | Jack was like a brother to me during the making of the film and was always very protective. I gained a lot. The chemistry between us was just something very, very special, which lasted throughout our lives. [Remarks following the death of Jack Wild] |
Facts
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mark is an osteopath (one who treats patients with joint or muscle pain) in Cheltenham, England. He and his ex-wife, Jane, lived in a three-story Georgian house with their four children until their 2005 divorce. [2004] |
| 2 | Gave up acting in the early Eighties, but was coaxed back to acting, for the first time in over 30 years, in 2012 as King Harold in a historical drama, 1066, about the Norman conquest of England in the year 1066. |
| 3 | In an interview with the British newspaper News of the World in August 2009 he confirmed that he had donated sperm to his longtime friend Michael Jackson as a gift. He claims that Michael's daughter Paris-Michael K. Jackson could be his own child and expressed a willingness to take a paternity test to prove either way. |
| 4 | He is of Russian Jewish and English descent. |
| 5 | Remained close friends with his Oliver! (1968) co-star Ron Moody. |
| 6 | Made several films in Italy when he was not receiving film offers in Britain. |
| 7 | By the age of fourteen, was earning £100,000 a year as he starred in an average of two films a year. |
| 8 | His singing voice in Oliver! (1968) was dubbed by Kathe Green, although this was not made public until 1988. |
| 9 | He was a close, long-time friend of American rock singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, and they were godfathers to each other's children. Lester spent Christmas 2003 at the Neverland Ranch, and vocally defended Jackson throughout his trial on child molestation charges in 2005. |
| 10 | He is a black belt in karate. |
Pictures
Movies
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1066 | pre-production | King Harold II | |
| Finding Driscoll | filming | Dominic Driscoll | |
| Metered | 2011 | Short | |
| Crossed Swords | 1977 | Edward / Tom | |
| Closed Up-Tight | 1975 | ||
| Love Under the Elms | 1975 | Franz | |
| Scalawag | 1973 | Jamie | |
| Sotsugyô ryokô | 1973 | Mike Richard | |
| Senza ragione | 1973 | Lennox Duncan | |
| What the Peeper Saw | 1972 | Marcus | |
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | 1972 | Christopher Coombs | |
| Black Beauty | 1971 | Joe | |
| Melody | 1971 | Daniel | |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1970 | TV Series | Davey |
| The Boy Who Stole the Elephant | 1970 | TV Movie | Davey |
| Sudden Terror | 1970 | Ziggy | |
| The Ghost & Mrs. Muir | 1969 | TV Series | Mark Helmore |
| Then Came Bronson | 1969 | TV Series | John Beaman |
| Run Wild, Run Free | 1969 | Philip / Philip Ransome | |
| Oliver! | 1968 | Oliver | |
| Our Mother's House | 1967 | Jiminee | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | Second Schoolboy (uncredited) | |
| Secret Agent | 1966 | TV Series | Boy |
| Court Martial | 1965 | TV Series | Paolo Stevens |
| Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space | 1965 | Don Saunders | |
| The Human Jungle | 1964 | TV Series | Small boy |
| The Counterfeit Constable | 1964 | Gérald |
Assistant Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metered | 2011 | Short assistant director |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 10 Faces of Michael Jackson | 2015 | TV Movie documentary archive |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metered | 2011 | Short special thanks | |
| A Sense of Carol Reed | 2006 | Video documentary short special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who's Doing the Dishes? | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Loose Women | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| The One Show | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Pointless Celebrities | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Contestant |
| The 10 Faces of Michael Jackson | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Longtime Friend & Godfather to Michael's Children |
| Secret Voices of Hollywood | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Actor, Oliver! |
| The Unforgettable Harry Secombe | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Gone Too Soon | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Michael Jackson and Bubbles: The Untold Story | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop? | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Celebrity Shock List 2009 | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| 5 News | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Morning | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Podge and Rodge Show | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| I'd Do Anything | 2008 | TV Series | Himself - on screen contributor (uncredited) |
| The Alan Titchmarsh Show | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| British Film Forever | 2007 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Celebrate 'Oliver!' | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The 100 Greatest Family Films | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| After They Were Famous | 1999-2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 100 Greatest Musicals | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Salon | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| GMTV | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Louis, Martin & Michael | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Child Stars | 2002 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Wogan | 1987 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Film Night | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 41st Annual Academy Awards | 1969 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Onna White |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edición Especial Coleccionista | 2011 | TV Series | Oliver Twist |
| A Sense of Carol Reed | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1973 | TV Series | Jamie from film SCALAWAG |
| Lionpower from MGM | 1967 | Short | Jiminee (uncredited) |
Awards
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Male New Face | Oliver! (1968) |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia
