He’s the toxic TikTok influencer who refers to women as ‘things’, while posing as a financier with a ‘£20million’ annual income and a home in Bali.
But now Harrison Sullivan, 23, or HSTikkyTokky as he is better known to his 175,000 followers, is facing public exposure as a fake.
Because the man who has been branded by critics a ‘pound shop Andrew Tate’ is set to feature prominently in an exposé of the culture of toxic masculinity by acclaimed documentary maker Louis Theroux.
Theroux, who has previously investigated a range of targets from Scientology to the disgraced publicist Max Clifford, has now persuaded fame-hungry Sullivan to be interviewed for the documentary – alongside his mother.
And Sullivan does not come out of the experience with his reputation enhanced.
The Daily Mail has also discovered that Sullivan is a fugitive from justice, having failed to appear in court for dangerous driving.
He was due to appear at Guildford Magistrates’ Court last November but didn’t turn up, and an arrest warrant was issued. Surrey Police confirmed this week he is still wanted over the incident.
And after fleeing home he also left a long line of debt collectors in his wake.
The issue of his arrest and the truth about his money, both feature prominently in his stormy conversation with Theroux, which spread like wildfire on social media this week.
Influencer HSTikkyTokky has been branded by critics a ‘pound shop Andrew Tate’ is set to feature prominently in an exposé of the culture of toxic masculinity by acclaimed documentary maker Louis Theroux
Harrison Sullivan, also known as HSTikkyTokky, claims on social media to be an elite trader, funding his lavish lifestyle with his £20-million-a-year income and living in Dubai
The influencer’s mother Elaine Sullivan, 59, (pictured) is seen catching helicopter rides, dining at five star restaurants and owning an array of designer handbags
Sullivan and his mother have moved to Dubai where they are seemingly living the high life
One clip from their exchanges shows Sullivan being asked by Theroux about his controversial and often offensive views while his mother, Elaine, 59, watches on.
Theroux asks Sullivan about a remark he had previously made, reading a quote out to him: ‘Call me racist, call me a misogynist, call me homophobic, call me a scammer – I’m all those things.’
Sullivan answers: ‘That’s my way of saying I don’t care. Say what you want about me, I am that. Cool. I don’t care. And what?’
When Theroux asks if he genuinely sees himself as those things, Sullivan insists he doesn’t.
When Theroux drills down into the particular charge of homophobia, Sullivan’s mother then steps in to defend her son, insisting: ‘You’re not homophobic.’
Sullivan tries to defend himself against the charge by saying that he has ‘a gay mate I have partied with in Ibiza before…’. But he is then briefly silenced when Theroux reminds him that he also once said that if he had a gay son he would ‘disown him’.
After thinking for a beat, Sullivan replies: ‘That’s not homophobic. I’m not homophobic. I just don’t want my family… It’s your definition of homophobic versus mine. If I had a son and he turned out to be gay… he wouldn’t be. I believe being gay is a product of parenting – okay?’
Seeing her son digging himself into a hole, Elaine tries to step in to rescue him.
‘It’s the way someone’s born,’ she says. ‘If you haven’t had children, it’s very easy to say what you want. Everyone wants a beautiful child.’
The unedifying exchange is just an example of the sparring between the two men which also sees Sullivan live streaming while Theroux in turn films him for his own documentary on ‘toxic masculinity’ vloggers understood to be for Netflix.
In characteristic confrontational style, Sullivan later posted a ranting video in which he accuses Mr Theroux of ‘being friends’ with notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile – who Theroux famously featured in a 2000 BBC documentary.
(In fairness, in 2019, Theroux admitted to the Irish Times that he had ‘strange feelings of guilt and responsibility’, in retrospect because in the year or two after filming he had begun to think of Savile in ‘a more friendly way’.)
Sullivan also goes on to make the false claim that Mr Theroux was ‘on the Epstein files’ before asking him to play with him in a boxing game in an arcade.
When asked about the content he produces as a video influencer, Sullivan says: ‘I am just talking to girls really. Walking around talking to girls, taking pictures with people who watch me.’
He is then asked if he is surprised how young some of his fans are – some are said to be just 11 or 12 – and Sullivan acknowledges: ‘They’re too young to be watching my s***.’
Although there is no known release date for the Theroux film, it indicates that the truth may finally be about to catch up with the man who claims to be an elite trader who uses his £20-million-a-year income to fund a lavish lifestyle of McLaren and Lamborghini supercars while partying with beautiful people in some of the world’s most exotic luxury destinations.
Because the reality is rather less glamorous, as the Daily Mail has discovered.
For one thing, he is a fugitive from justice – far from living a carefree lifestyle in Bali, Harrison, from Hutton, Essex, faces immediate arrest if he ever returns to the UK.
And this aspect of Sullivan’s story prompts an even more awkward scene in the interview with Theroux which is thought to have been filmed in a villa rented by Sullivan in Marbella.
This happens when Theroux confronts Sullivan about these unresolved criminal charges – prompting an angry reaction and his mother even threatening to pull the plug on the whole documentary.
Theroux asks: ‘Do you believe in doing the right thing for its own sake? Obviously you have got a couple of criminal cases right?…’
Sullivan groans: ‘Oh, this is the tw*t sh*t… This is what p***es me off. Why do you need to talk about any of that? ‘
Theroux: ‘Because it’s been reported – you don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want…’
Sullivan: ‘Such a little tw*t, mate..’
Elaine then chips in: ‘He can’t speak about that, then don’t mention it. I don’t give a sh*t what’s reported, don’t talk about it, because if there is something, he wouldn’t be able to speak about it anyway.
‘You know that, so you’ve done it just to get a reaction, so please don’t – or else it will end. ‘
Sullivan adds: ‘This is the game of chess you’re playing mate, it’s exactly what I was saying to you earlier – it’s what you did in the gym as well [aping Theroux] “let me go back and remember it, then let me spring it on him”.
‘What do you want out of this situation? Do you want to come and see how I was raised? Or you want to just come in and bring up things that, you know, I’m not going to speak about?’
Confronted by Theroux’s trademark silent, passive stare, Sullivan adds: ‘Now you want to pause for dramatic effect. You want it to drag on… just say something.’
Theroux laughs and even Sullivan can’t resist a smile, saying: ‘I know what you’re doing, bro.’
The case that Sullivan refuses to discuss relates to allegations around a £230k McLaren sports car which crashed in Virginia Water, Surrey, last year.
Sullivan was charged with dangerous driving, failure to stop after an accident, failure to report an accident, use of a handheld mobile phone whilst driving and use of a motor vehicle without insurance.
He was due to appear at Guildford Magistrates’ Court last November but didn’t turn up, and an arrest warrant was issued.
Surrey Police told the Daily Mail this week: ‘Our investigation into the collision in Virginia Water on Sunday, 24 March 2024 is still active. Harrison Sullivan is still wanted in connection with this incident. We encourage him to hand himself in to UK police.’
Sullivan made headlines last year after he missed a court appearance over the crash to attend a boxing match in Qatar and Surrey Police issued this picture of him in November
This was the wreckage from the McLaren supercar crash in Surrey in March 2024 – after which Sullivan failed to stop and report the accident
Sullivan, 23, abruptly left the UK last year after he apparently crashed a £230,000 McLaren in Virginia Water, Surrey, leaving a fellow influencer injured
And after fleeing home he also left a long line of debt collectors in his wake.
It’s thought unresolved debts may relate to vehicles he hired to create the illusion that he’s rolling in cash.
Because rather than earning £56,000 every day as he claims – insiders say his MO was to secure short term access to sports cars and other status symbols that he supposedly owns for enough time to film another video featuring them – before they are repossessed by their actual owners.
The various scrapes he reports getting into in places like Ibiza, Marbella and Zante are frequently contrived to sustain the attention of existing followers – currently 178,000 on the video platform he took his handle from – and add new ones.
Meanwhile, all of this attention seeking collectively provides the marketing that helps him achieve his true objective: persuading enough deluded but captivated young men who aspire to replicate his lifestyle enough to rashly invest in one of his dodgy investment schemes.
Having grown up in modest circumstances in decidedly unglamorous Brentwood, Essex, he began to grow an online audience in his late teens by posting fitness videos while still a student.
Yet now he offers unregulated trading advice to impressionable young men who are desperately chasing the ‘dream’ life he portrays.
But any claims that he has business acumen that others may wish to learn from do not appear to be sustained by the facts: he has four businesses listed on Companies House, but all of them have been dissolved within the last two years.
His latest company – HS Solutions Ltd – was dissolved on July 8 having only been incorporated on October 10, 2024.
Last year, he set up a trading channel called FINE$E, encouraging young men like him to join his Signal channel for ‘tips’ on how to get rich quick.
He has absurdly claimed on his TikTok channel that his online trading nets him £20million annually and allowed him to buy not one, but two private jets.
He claims to have built up a property empire in Dubai with apartments not just for himself but members of his wider family – with enough left over to regularly hire multi-million-pound properties in places like Ibiza and Marbella.
He uses all this bragged wealth in the same way a fisherman uses bait.
For instance, alongside a recent video in which he boasts about how he ‘retired my mum, bought her a place and moved my grandparents permanently to Dubai’, Sullivan also posted a link to ‘how he did it’.
Sullivan tells his followers: ‘I am sat here in my brand new Urus Performante, 1,000km on the dash.
‘My SVJ is in the garage getting a £20,000 Gintani exhaust fitted on it. I’ve got over $4million in crypto, here’s my XRP wallet, half a million dollars in there. Here’s my Bitcoin wallet, almost $2million dollars in there.
‘I’ve got $4million in Crypto at 23-years-old. I can do what I want, when I want but that’s not my biggest flex.
‘My biggest flex is retiring my mother, buying her a £1million apartment in the centre of Dubai marina. My nan and grandad’s mortgage paid off. They come out here for a month, then they go back to the UK for a month.
‘It’s being able to spend time and give back to my loved ones who have sacrificed everything for me.’
He goes on to say that ‘in the modern day, life as an average man has never been harder’, with the cost of living crisis and ‘expectations’ for men to provide for their families rising.
‘Social media, all you see if people like myself are doing well, but a lot of these people aren’t actually doing well. They can’t show you cars, they can’t show real money because they are trying to sell you a dream.
‘This is not what I am trying to do – I am trying to give back to my community and help them because a lot of people want to make a difference and change their lives.’
He then posts a link which if clicked leads to a video of the influencer sitting in a Lamborghini encouraging people to pay to join a WhatsApp group where he will reveal his trading ‘moves’ each day.
Sullivan later promises his followers that if they follow his advice on investing they can make ‘at least £10,000 online’.
Yet his scheme – which as well as WhatsApp is disseminated on other channels including Telegram and Signal – has been denounced as a scam by financial regulators.
The Financial Conduct Authority released a warning as recently as March against Sullivan and his ‘trading company’.
The warning reads: ‘This firm may be providing or promoting financial services or products without our permission.
‘You should avoid dealing with this firm and beware of scams.’
‘HSTikkyTokky’ provides unregulated trading advice to impressionable young men who are desperately chasing the ‘dream’ life he portrays
Sullivan, a social media influencer – or ‘finfluencer’ as some financial influencers are known – claims to have an enviable lifestyle that his followers could have too but the reality is murky
Threads on Reddit about Sullivan’s trading group are also plastered with ‘scam’ warnings but this hasn’t stopped him from encouraging his ‘loyals’ from taking his advice so they too can provide for his family.
It’s unclear quite how many young men – and it is almost always young men – have fallen for this pitch but it’s clearly enough to keep Sullivan in enough money to sustain the illusion that he is super wealthy.
And he has a cast of supporting characters: pictures and videos on his mother Elaine’s Instagram show her apparently enjoying herself in Dubai, where Sullivan claims he has bought her a £1million flat overlooking Dubai’s marina.
Ms Sullivan, 59, is seen catching helicopter rides, dining at five star restaurants and owning an array of designer handbags.
This is certainly a far cry from the mother and son’s previous life in Brentwood, Essex living in a humble semi now rented to new tenants.
It is unclear who Sullivan’s father is, but he has boasted on social media that he has ‘retired’ his mother, by moving her and her parents out to Dubai where he has allegedly bought a flat
Meanwhile Ms Sullivan’s Instagram page shows she is hanging out at venues such as the Bla Bla Beach club in Dubai – despite debt collectors calling at her former home in Essex
Ms Sullivan has posted on social media about the finest shopping experience with shots of these expensive handbags
Questions about Sullivan to locals elicit sceptical looks.
As one put it: ‘If that boy is worth twenty million quid, why did we see bailiffs turning up at that house?’
In the past he has been seen with multiple Lamborghinis, chilling out in a £240,000 Mercedes Maybach and of course in his fateful McLaren 720S.
Another neighbour said: ‘He was always brash and flash. You’d see him with some flash sports car but it would only be around for two or three days and then it was gone again.’
One told the Daily Mail: ‘Harrison lived there with his mum for about ten years…he was there until a couple of years back and she disappeared earlier this year – supposedly to Dubai.
‘Since Elaine’s been gone, though, there’s been debt collectors knocking at the door repeatedly.’
Another former neighbour added: ‘Harrison did bring home a couple of Lamborghinis just before he moved out. He’d park them in the street across the driveway.
‘But he’d only have the cars for maybe a day or two and then they’d be taken back.
‘He loved to film himself on his phone posing next to the car, it was all for his social media.’
Previously, Sullivan lived in this humble rented property in Brentwood, Essex. A source confirmed that since they left bailiffs have visited the home on a number of occasions
One former neighbour expressed surprise at Sullivan’s millionaire status claims, saying: As one put it: ‘If that boy is worth twenty million quid, why did we see bailiffs turning up at that house?’
Sullivan’s mother also lived at the property for a decade paying rent to the owners – until she left about a year ago when the influencer announced that they were moving to Dubai
In March 2023, Sullivan took to social media to announce he was ‘broke’ and his luxury life had been a ‘lie’.
But even this rare outbreak of honesty was in fact yet another act of brash opportunism: he was actually using it as a means to get attention for an even bleaker newer enterprise: a new attempt at a career by going on sleazy platform OnlyFans.
He wrote: ‘I’ve been thinking, how do I make dough? I’ve been going to the gym, I’ve been banging it out but listen. I never thought I’d be doing this, ever, ever, ever in my life but I have seen how much dough these girls are making, and even guys, on you know what.
‘I have always been told, do you know what, if you did that, you’d make peas and f*** it I am going to do it. I basically do it on my Telegram anyways.’
He then pans to a young blonde woman in a bikini and adds: ‘The first bird that is going to be on there tonight is her. And each night I am going to have a different ting and you know what’s going to happen.’
After making some money on the account, he claimed he had been ‘trolling’ his fans all along and had made the account to prove a point that people wanted to see him ‘go broke’.
He later said: ‘A lot of people were saying you’re renting your cars, you’re renting your watches, you make no money, a TikToker can’t be making this kind of money all this b******s.
‘So I went online and said okay guys I am being honest, I am broke, my life has been a lie. Surprisingly that got five million views because people love to see you win more than lose…
‘So I ran with that story for a few days, I said my rents up on my apartment and in a few days I am going back to the UK. Then everyone went from hating on when I was flexing a watch or a Lambo or whatever to then being supportive, oh it’s so good he’s come out, he’s such a good person I’ve changed my opinion on him.’
It seems that the one commodity Sullivan is really ‘flexing’ is the credulity of those who follow him for any reason other than lurid fascination for a desperate attention seeker.
And it’s not certain that anyone will be taken in by him once the Theroux film airs.
