It was in Marbella on the Costa del Sol that Sullivan was eventually arrested in August by local authorities for allegedly attacking a man with a glass, leaving him with, in the words of Malaga\u2019s National Police, \u2018extremely serious injuries to his neck\u2019.<\/p>\n
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Harrison Sullivan – known to his thousands of online fans as HSTikkyTokky – fled the UK after he crashed his car while going well over the speed limit\u00a0on the A30 in Surrey<\/p>\n
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Sullivan’s\u00a0purple McLaren was a heap of scrap metal after the collision, which left\u00a0his passenger in a daze of pain and terror<\/p>\n
Sullivan was extradited to the UK on October 10 and taken into custody. He duly pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving without insurance at Staines Magistrates\u2019 Court and yet, remarkably, walked free last week after the judge issued him with a mere 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.<\/p>\n
Sullivan was also disqualified from driving for two years, issued with a temporary 9pm curfew and ordered to compete 300 hours of unpaid work. The Daily Mail has reached out to him for comment but has not received a reply.<\/p>\n
Brazenly, the influencer filmed himself breaking that curfew this week as he was thrown out of a London restaurant in glitzy Mayfair for making derogatory remarks towards female customers.<\/p>\n
This sort of behaviour is nothing new. Sullivan\u2019s HSTikkyTokky persona gained traction online \u2013 currently 130,000 followers on TikTok alone \u2013 not in spite of but because of his flagrant sexism, racism and homophobia which appears to have struck a chord with disillusioned young men.<\/p>\n
\u2018You know them black tings [girls] that look white?\u2019 he once asked his viewers, in a typically racially pejorative stream. \u2018The ones that aren\u2019t coming like Drogba,\u2019 he laughed, referring to ex-Chelsea footballer Didier, who was born in the Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n
Similarly, in one video filmed in Dubai, Sullivan mocks his friend for kissing a black girl, poking the camera in her face and giggling: \u2018Brad loves the Africans\u2019.<\/p>\n
In addition to referring to women as \u2018tings\u2019, Sullivan also frequently calls them \u2018batty\u2019 (a crude reference to a female posterior), and has said he doesn\u2019t mind being called homophobic.<\/p>\n
He had a sense-of-humour failure last month when faked, viral AI videos of him emerged wearing makeup and nail extensions. \u2018I\u2019m not happy with them, especially the ones that make me out to be zesty [gay], the ones that make me out to be doing makeup,\u2019 he ranted. \u2018It is actually defamation.\u2019<\/p>\n
Alongside his foul-mouthed bigotry, Sullivan also claims to be an \u2018elite trader\u2019 making \u00a320 million per year: \u2018My SVJ [Lamborghini] is in the garage getting a \u00a320,000 Gintani exhaust fitted on it,\u2019 he boasted last year. \u2018I\u2019ve got over $4 million in crypto, here\u2019s my XRP [cryptocurrency] wallet, half a million dollars in there. Here\u2019s my Bitcoin wallet, almost $2 million dollars in there. I\u2019ve got $4 million in crypto at 23 years old. I can do what I want, when I want.\u2019<\/p>\n
Yet it appears all is not as he would have his credulous followers believe. A Daily Mail investigation this year found evidence Sullivan had rented his fleet of sports cars on short-term leases, had four companies dissolved by compulsory strike-off and had allegedly left a string of unpaid debts when he fled the country last year.<\/p>\n
But while Sullivan\u2019s colourful life has been well documented, the Mail can today reveal that the troubled young man\u2019s father is none other than Nigerian-born former England rugby star and notorious bon viveur Victor Ubogu, who won 24 caps between 1992 and 1999, and who once declared his idea of happiness to be \u2018wine, women and song\u2019.<\/p>\n
So just how did a much-loved rugby star who now runs a successful sports hospitality business produce Sullivan, whose sordid sexual high-jinks and stomach-churning homophobia have led to him being branded a \u2018pound-shop Andrew Tate\u2019, after the so-called \u2018king of toxic masculinity\u2019?<\/p>\n
Victor Eriakpo Ubogu was 13 and living in Lagos when his family secured him a place at West Buckland, a private boarding school 3,000 miles away in north Devon. It was here that he first started playing rugby in a bid to impress a female contemporary. Not only did he get the girl, he won the school\u2019s Fortescue Medal for sporting excellence.<\/p>\n
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The Daily Mail can reveal that Sullivan’s father is none other than Nigerian-born former England rugby star and notorious bon viveur, Victor Ubogu. Pictured in 1995<\/p>\n
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In addition to referring to women as \u2018tings\u2019, Sullivan also frequently calls them \u2018batty\u2019 (a crude reference to a female posterior), and has said he doesn\u2019t mind being called homophobic<\/p>\n
In 1987, after completing an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at Birmingham University and gaining a diploma in social studies from Oxford, where he was awarded a rugby blue, Ubogu signed for Bath, before making his England debut in 1992.<\/p>\n
The tighthead prop scored his only try for England in a 1995 clash against Wales. This turned out to be a lucrative achievement as, the previous day, he had backed himself to score at odds of 25-1.<\/p>\n
\u2018I went out that evening and bought expensive champagne for everyone I met, spending all the money I had won,\u2019 he said. \u2018There was champagne everywhere.\u2019<\/p>\n
By the time he retired \u2013 having started for Bath in the victorious 1998 Heineken Cup final against French team Brive \u2013 Ubogu had founded a chain of sports bars, Shoeless Joe\u2019s, in London and cultivated an image as something of a playboy and party animal.<\/p>\n
In a 2001 interview with the Guardian, he claimed to always carry \u2018keys, wallet and a condom\u2019 when out. When quizzed about monogamy, he said: \u2018I prefer Cluedo.\u2019 Intriguingly, he also claimed in that interview: \u2018Children deserve to be loved and respected\u2026 to ensure they reach their potential.\u2019<\/p>\n
On October 6, 2001 \u2013 the year his father was boasting about never leaving the house without a condom \u2013 Elaine Sullivan gave birth, outside of wedlock, to Victor\u2019s first child, Harrison.<\/p>\n
At the time, Elaine was living in the London borough of Redbridge. She later moved with Harrison to Mountnessing in Brentwood, Essex, in 2011 \u2013 at which point she was working as a manager for British Telecom, though she recently claimed to have also worked as a corporate fraud investigator.<\/p>\n
These days, the 59-year-old single mother is understood to live in a rented property in Hutton, Essex, despite the fact Sullivan has claimed to have bought her a million-pound property in Dubai. Just three years after Harrison was born, Ubogu founded hospitality firm VU Ltd and married Australian Anjela Hurren, with whom he had two further children.<\/p>\n
Harrison Sullivan claimed last year that he had met his father just \u2018three or four times\u2019 in his life. While he was being raised by his single mother, Obogu\u2019s VU Ltd went from strength to strength, selling hospitality packages to rugby fans before international fixtures at home and abroad.<\/p>\n
In 2017, however, VU Ltd was slapped with an injunction by the RFU, preventing it from offering match tickets as part of the hospitality offering. VU had, in the eyes of the RFU, been operating as an unofficial ticket reseller.<\/p>\n
When Harrison Sullivan learnt of his father\u2019s impropriety, he responded in a video online with laughter and the words: \u2018Sullivan Junior learned from the best.\u2019<\/p>\n
Ironically, Harrison\u2019s subsequent behaviour has made his absent father look almost saintly. His descent into online infamy began at 16 when he started lifting weights and sharing updates of his physical transformation.<\/p>\n
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Harrison Sullivan claimed last year that he had met his father just \u2018three or four times\u2019 in his life<\/p>\n
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On October 6, 2001 \u2013 the year his father was boasting about never leaving the house without a condom \u2013 Elaine Sullivan gave birth to Harrison<\/p>\n
Before this, he had been a promising young footballer who \u2013 in 2011, at the age of nine \u2013 was invited to join the West Ham youth set-up, scoring three goals in his first two games. The same year, Harrison became one of the youngest people in Britain to secure a black belt in karate.<\/p>\n
\u2018Since he was a two-year-old he was really into Power Rangers,\u2019 mother Elaine would later admit. \u2018He could not walk across the room without recreating them. I thought if I took him to karate, he would get it out of his system and stop kicking the furniture.\u2019<\/p>\n
After his GCSEs, Harrison took a summer job as a sports adviser at Decathlon, according to LinkedIn, and in the sixth form worked as a waiter at Felix, a restaurant in Warley, Essex. His profile on the networking site stated at the time: \u2018I am trustworthy, conscientious and hard-working and take pride in everything I do… I am a committed team player with a \u201ccan do attitude\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n
How quickly things change. For in his late teenage years, Sullivan \u2013 still estranged from his father \u2013 started becoming involved with chauvinistic gym culture.<\/p>\n
Six months after beginning a degree at Birmingham \u2013 his father\u2019s alma mater \u2013 Sullivan dropped out to launch HED Fitness with his business partner, Ed Matthews, in July 2021. The business sold online fitness plans for muscle gain or fat loss at \u00a326.99 a time. There were also associated protein shakes and equipment.<\/p>\n
The company failed to register any accounts with Companies House and was issued with a compulsory strike-off notice two years after incorporation in August 2023.<\/p>\n
By this point, Sullivan was making a name for himself online and had begun charging followers \u00a333 a month for financial advice \u2013 advice he continues to offer today via the secretive Telegram messaging app, despite the Financial Conduct Authority warning potential clients: \u2018You should avoid dealing with this firm and beware of scams.\u2019 In August 2024, Sullivan made his boxing debut with Misfits Boxing, a company that pits celebrity influencers against each other in the ring. In Dublin, Sullivan demolished Love Island contestant George Fensom before picking a fight with an audience member, landing a vicious right hook across his temple, spitting in his face and even hurling a metal chair.<\/p>\n
In a bizarre string of posts on Twitter, Sullivan then accused the audience member of looking \u2018like he\u2019s on benefits\u2019 before offering tips on dental hygiene: \u2018Go sort your teeth out, ya little dork.\u2019<\/p>\n
The posts concluded with: \u2018Wayne Rooney can f***ing get it\u2019 in what appeared to be an invitation to take on the former England footballing ace in the boxing ring. Rooney has yet to take up the offer. It was just a few months later that the now notorious accident involving his McLaren supercar occurred on the A30 in Virginia Water and he fled the country.<\/p>\n
While on the run in Marbella, Sullivan was paid a visit by documentary-maker Louis Theroux, who was there to interview the young man for an upcoming film on toxic masculinity.<\/p>\n
However, in leaked video footage taken by one of Sullivan\u2019s pals, Theroux\u2019s interview backfired terribly on the rattled young man. At one point Theroux cites Sullivan\u2019s own words, \u2018Call me racist, call me a misogynist, call me homophobic, call me a scammer \u2013 I\u2019m all those things\u2019, before asking if that is how he sees himself.<\/p>\n
\u2018That\u2019s my way of saying I don\u2019t care,\u2019 Sullivan responded, clearly agitated. \u2018Say what you want about me, I am that. Cool. I don\u2019t care. And what?\u2019<\/p>\n
Theroux continued quoting Sullivan that if he had a gay son, he would \u2018disown him\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018If I had a son and he turned out to be gay,\u2019 Sullivan said, \u2018he wouldn\u2019t be. I believe being gay is a product of parenting \u2013 OK?\u2019<\/p>\n
Sullivan later accused Theroux of being friends with the late paedophile Jimmy Savile, a reference to the film Theroux made about the notorious broadcaster.<\/p>\n
While Theroux\u2019s production company, Mindhouse, did not respond to a request for comment, the Daily Mail understands the documentary has been shelved following Sullivan\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
Since that distasteful encounter, Sullivan has returned to his usual ways. In recent weeks he has been live-streaming on the platform Kick, either playing fixed-odds online gambling games for his viewers\u2019 amusement or video chatting with women via a website that pairs people at random.<\/p>\n
This week, Sullivan began speaking to a young girl in America who claimed to be 19 but looked much younger \u2013 while over 10,000 viewers watched on \u2013 and then asked her a graphic sexual question. To another woman, he declared: \u2018You look like a right little tart.\u2019<\/p>\n
Such revolting language is a world apart from his father\u2019s relatively jaunty machismo. But one wonders what Victor Ubogu really thinks of his errant son\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n
When the Mail spoke with Victor, 61, he confirmed he knew Sullivan but hung up when pressed on the nature of their relationship. He later told us: \u2018This is a private matter. Enjoy life!\u2019<\/p>\n
However, the answer perhaps lies in a video published to TikTok by Sullivan in July 2024.<\/p>\n
In it, Sullivan meets Victor in a restaurant and asks whether his old man has watched his videos.<\/p>\n
\u2018I did spend some time looking at your stuff,\u2019 Victor replies, \u2018and that\u2019s why I said let\u2019s have a chat. But you went all quiet on me.\u2019<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a steely pause before Sullivan replied: \u2018You go quiet for months, you weren\u2019t there for years. So, I don\u2019t need to reply straight away. Cause you didn\u2019t reply for ten years.\u2019<\/p>\n
Of course it is impossible to blame Victor Ubogu for his son\u2019s behaviour. However, it is a sobering reminder that behind Sullivan\u2019s abhorrent HSTikkyTokky persona is a tale as old as time \u2013 of lost boys and missing fathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time the purple McLaren ground to a halt at the side of the road, \u00a3230,000 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,100,1208,760,6660,588,85],"class_list":["post-300529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dailymail","tag-england","tag-rugby","tag-rugbyunion","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}