HSTikkyTokky’s secret family EXPOSED: Privately-educated. High-achieving and charitable. And with brilliant futures ahead. As we expose lies and humiliation, the savage truth that explains SO much. Read special investigation only here

Long before he forged a dubious career as a woman-hating online male influencer, Harrison Sullivan was a sweet, chubby-cheeked schoolboy living in Brentwood, Essex.

Raised singlehandedly by his hard-working mother Elaine, who sold their home and rented so she could send him to a private school, the well-mannered youngster used to wave to neighbours on his way out each morning.

He was, as one of them recalled this week, ‘a really lovely young lad’.

That was before Sullivan transformed himself into HSTikkyTokky, an online ‘alpha male’ influencer who spouts extreme views about women, sex, race, relationships and power, while claiming to be an elite trader, earning £20million a year, and flogging get-rich-quick schemes to his gullible followers (and also having a few run-ins with the police).

For the past week or so, the 24-year-old’s online sobriquet has been the talk of the town thanks to his disturbing appearance on the hit Netflix documentary Inside The Manosphere.

Presented by Louis Theroux, the programme offers an alarming insight into the digital world of self-styled ‘masculinity’ influencers who spout their toxic beliefs online. These men are paid for video views and subscriptions on social media, incentivising them to attract audiences with extreme material which brings them ‘clout’.

It has also sparked a furious debate about how, almost without exception, these unhinged men have been raised by single mothers without the guidance of fathers.

The absent parent in ­Sullivan’s case was none other than former England rugby union player and sports hospitality businessman Victor Ubogu – a man who once quipped in an interview that he never left the house without a condom.

In the TV show, Sullivan reveals he didn’t set eyes on his father for the first ten years of his life, and has variously claimed to have met him between three and eight times since.

He told Theroux: ‘If there is any trauma there, what I will say is that it is subconscious. It’s not something that I’m aware of.’

Even so, he could be forgiven for wondering what life might have been like if he’d had the privileged childhood enjoyed by the other children his father went on to have. For, as the Daily Mail discovered this week, while Sullivan’s mother struggled to raise her young son alone, three years after his birth Victor married and started a family in the West Country.

His 20-year-old son is now a brilliant medical student and aspiring surgeon. His 18-year-old daughter is also at university. As well as being academically gifted, these privately educated, high-achieving young adults have won numerous sporting awards and, with their parents, raised thousands for charity.

Their lives could not be more different to the vile world inhabited by HSTikkyTokky.

More, in a moment, of what Sullivan thinks of his younger half-siblings – and how he tried to lure his half-brother into the ‘manosphere’ with the promise of making easy cash.

For this tale of two families stretches all the way back to early 2001 when former BT manager Elaine Sullivan discovered she was pregnant. Her baby’s Nigerian-born father was already a sporting celebrity and that year’s winner of the UK Menswear Council’s ‘Best Dressed Businessman’ award.

Victor was 13 when he was brought to the UK from Lagos by his father, who was already working here. Privately educated at West Buckland School in Devon, he studied chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham. He then read politics and economics at Oxford University, where he achieved a rugby Blue.

He later played for Bath and England; founded a trendy sports bar, Shoeless Joe’s, on the King’s Road in London; and made regular appearances on TV shows including A Question Of Sport, Blankety Blank and Celebrity Come Dine With Me.

In a Q&A interview in 2001 – the same year that Sullivan was born – the then 36-year-old said his idea of happiness was ‘wine, women and song’, and that his most overused phrase was ‘Get your coat, you’ve pulled’.

Asked how often he had sex, he replied: ‘As and when I can get it’. Ironically, given what was going on in his private life at the time, he said the most important lesson that life had taught him was that ‘children deserve to be loved and respected and it’s our responsibility to ensure they reach their potential.’

At her home in Hutton, a leafy suburb of Brentwood, Elaine Sullivan threw herself into raising her son with the help of her parents, working six days a week to make ends meet.

She told Theroux that she maintained contact with Victor ‘for a while’ after Harrison’s birth in October 2001, but that ‘he didn’t come into [their son’s] life until the last year of junior school’.

At times throughout his childhood, she admitted, Harrison asked about his father.

Turning to him on the documentary, she recalled: ‘You did say a few times, “Where’s my dad?”’

But, as the Daily Mail discovered this week, if life was tough, then doting Elaine made certain her precious boy didn’t go without.

Childhood photos show him in designer clothes or dressed up as a pirate; riding a motorbike, a go-cart and a horse; wearing face paint and playing with his grandparents.

He was privately educated at St Mary’s Hare Park School in Romford, and then attended Becket Keys Church of England School in Brentwood.

For a while it appeared he might follow in his father’s sporting footsteps. For his ninth birthday his mother booked him into a football trial day at West Ham Academy. She told the Brentwood Gazette in 2011 that he was snapped up and that she was the ‘proudest mum in the world’.

Sullivan, meanwhile, told the paper that he wanted to play for England. ‘I think I have a good shot,’ he said. ’There is no such thing as can’t.’

Later that year, another local paper, the Romford Recorder, reported that he’d become one of the youngest people in Britain ever to secure a black belt in karate.

After his GCSEs, he took a summer job as a sports adviser at retail chain Decathlon. Throughout sixth form he worked as a waiter at a local restaurant.

His LinkedIn profile at the time stated that he was ‘trustworthy, ambitious and hard-working’. He added: ‘I am a committed team player with a “can-do attitude”.’ Elaine later admitted that she filled out the application forms for every job her son got, before telling him: ‘Right, you’ve got an interview. Don’t f*** this up!’.

On the surface, it seemed as if everything was going well for Elaine’s pampered son.

After A-levels, he embarked on a degree at his father’s alma mater, the University of Birmingham, but dropped out a few weeks into his course, later claiming he knew he could do better for himself financially than the ‘d***heads’ he’d been at school with.

That decision coincided, say those who know the family, with a change in Sullivan’s character. He became obsessed with the gym and started posting raunchy photographs of himself and his then girlfriend online. He sold his own diet and work-out plans via social media for £19.99 a pop.

‘I’ve known him from about the age of ten until now,’ says one family friend. ‘He was a perfectly nice lad. He was polite. It’s very disappointing what’s happened. I don’t recognise him any more. He’s like a different person.’

Neighbours recall that luxury cars, including a Lamborghini, started appearing outside the house. Sullivan would pose for photos and videos with the vehicles which would then disappear.

‘The cars weren’t his. It all seemed fake and for show,’ says one. ‘Nothing seemed real with him. It was weird.’

Another of Sullivan’s attempts to give his followers the impression that he is rich and successful involved him hiring a £3.5million gated mansion in Romford on Airbnb, while claiming online that he’d bought it for cash.

When the Daily Mail visited this week, the current occupants had no idea who he was.

But the neighbours did. ‘We’ve had constant parties, fast cars making noise at all hours, random strangers and God knows what else from that place because of him,’ said one. ‘It’s been hell. He’s said he has to pretend to live there and do it all for social media.’

His social media presence on platforms such as TikTok has become increasingly inflammatory as his quest for yet more followers continues. Espousing the idea that society has become biased against men and that women are to blame, he says that by following his example, his fans can reclaim their status as ‘alpha males’ and get rich at the same time.

Not surprisingly, he’s been dubbed a ‘pound-shop Andrew Tate’ in reference to the self-proclaimed misogynist British-American kickboxer who has since been accused of human trafficking and rape – charges he denies – and spent five months living under house arrest in Romania.

Like Tate, Sullivan also tells his followers that they can get rich by following his advice. The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a warning about his ‘tips’ on trading foreign and crypto currency. At times he demands a minimum £300 deposit to invest.

Content creators are paid by social media platforms for video views or subscriptions, creating constant pressure to keep audiences engaged. Sullivan has multiple accounts but is most active on Kick, a livestreaming platform where his 247,000 followers earn him an estimated £870,000 a year.

He also makes money as a ‘teaser’ for women on OnlyFans – the online subscription service known for its explicit content – by promoting them to his followers and taking a cut of the revenue they earn.

But he describes the women he promotes as ‘disgusting’ and says he’d disown any daughter of his who ‘did OnlyFans’. The same fate, he declared to a deadpan Louis Theroux, awaits any future son who turns out to be gay.

Depressingly, he is just one of a growing brotherhood of misogynistic influencers. There is huge concern about the rise of these warped social media personalities and the way they degrade women to create content viewed by a whole generation of impressionable young men.

Even his super-bright half-brother has watched some of his videos. According to Sullivan, when his father Victor realised what his younger son was viewing back in 2023, he decided to drop the bombshell news about his older son’s existence.

In a TikTok video posted last year, Sullivan showed various messages he claimed he and his half-brother then exchanged.

‘I said: “Look, if you want to come make some proper money I can give you some work.” He just wanted to do his studies.’ He later accused his father of blocking him from seeing his siblings.

Contacted by the Daily Mail this week, Victor declined to speak about Sullivan. But if he fears, as his older son suggests, that ­Sullivan would be a ‘bad influence’ on his younger children, he has good reason.

Aside from the foul-mouthed nonsense he spouts online, Sullivan has also fallen foul of the law, both here and abroad.

Back in 2024, he fled the UK after crashing a £230,000 McLaren supercar in Virginia Water in Surrey and fleeing the scene. He goaded police while on the run in Thailand, Dubai and Spain.

Last August, however, he was detained by Spanish police for allegedly attacking a man with a glass in a bar and leaving him ‘seriously injured’.

While that case is still outstanding, Surrey Police arrested him in October regarding the crash, after chartering a private jet to bring him back to the UK. In November he was handed a one-year suspended sentence at Staines Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and driving without insurance.

Sullivan complained Victor did not reach out to him when he was in jail on remand and said he wouldn’t bother going to his father’s funeral ‘if he died tomorrow’.

But he appears to blow hot and cold when it comes to Victor.

In 2023 he praised him as a ‘good guy’ adding: ‘I understand what his life is. No hate at all to my dad. If you’re watching this then big love’. Another time, he mocked his posh accent, claiming it was ‘zesty’ – a slang term for gay or effeminate men.

He posted another video in 2024 of the pair meeting in a restaurant. When asked if he watched his son’s videos, Victor replied: ‘I did spend some time looking at your stuff and that’s why I said “Let’s have a chat”. But you went all quiet on me.’

Sullivan’s response? ‘You go quiet for months. You weren’t there for years, so I don’t need to reply straight away.’

His relationship with his mother Elaine is another matter entirely.

During one moment in the ­Theroux documentary, she tells him off when he’s going into one of his rants, saying: ‘Don’t embarrass me. Don’t be rude. That’s not the way I’ve brought you up.’

Sullivan simpers: ‘Alright, I won’t be.’ He readily admits to being a ‘mummy’s boy’. This, of course, may well be the whole problem – that he grew up with a doting parent who let him believe he could do no wrong.

The pair now share a home in Dubai and hung out together at Kyma Beach last week.

Sullivan livestreamed while standing in front of rows of empty sun loungers and insisting, despite all the drone attacks resulting from the Iran war, that everything was ‘running as normal’.

It is one of the bizarre contradictions of the twisted world he inhabits that while most women are dismissed as ‘tarts’ or ‘dumb blondes’ or ‘sl**s’, the one who single-handedly raised him – and who he still calls ‘Mummy’ – is always there at his side.