This is where it gets delightfully confusing. Diversity’s crew ranges from the ancient (by internet standards) to the barely-legal-to-drink. Perri is one of the younger founders, but he’s been there since the group’s 2007 birth on Britain’s Got Talent. That means he was 12 years old when he first started popping and locking his way into our hearts. Let that sink in: while you were stressing about middle school geometry, Perri was on live TV, winning a Golden Buzzer and making Simon Cowell almost smile.
Ironically, Perri is now older than his character in the group’s early videos would suggest. In 2026, he still does backflips like a caffeinated kangaroo, but his knees now go, “Hey, remember when we were 12? Yeah, those were the days.” He’s basically the Benjamin Button of street dance, aging backward in spirit but forward in joint complaints.
The “Old Man” Joke That Backfired
Here’s a hilarious twist: in Diversity’s skits, Perri is often cast as the “old man”—the grumpy, weary dad who can’t keep up with the kids. In reality, he was younger than most of the cast when those bits were filmed. So while he was playing a 50-year-old, he was actually a teenager who still needed his mom’s permission to stay out past 10 PM. That’s like casting a toddler to play Gandalf—absurd, but we bought it because his impression of “tired adult” was suspiciously good. Maybe he was just exhausted from all the backflips.
The joke has now come full circle. At 29, Perri is actually entering “old man” territory by YouTube standards. He recently admitted his lower back hurts when he dances for more than thirty seconds. That’s not a cry for help; it’s a cry for Icy Hot and a nap. The man is literally aging into his own parody, and the internet is here for it.
Diversity's little Perri Kiely is all grown up now and rocking a very
