HSTikkyTokky has opened up on the bitter family rift with his famous father, accusing the rugby legend of blocking him from contacting his half-brother.
The notorious influencer, real name Harrison Sullivan, says he spent the first 11 years of his life not knowing his dad, former England rugby international Victor Ubogu.
Sullivan was the product of Ubogu’s brief relationship with his mother Elaine – and Sullivan only saw his father a handful of times when he was growing up.
Now the ‘manosphere’ influencer has accused Ubogu of standing in the way of him seeing his half-brother, 20, a brilliant medical student.
Opening up about his relationship with his estranged paternal family, Sullivan told his followers: ‘You know I’ve got a half-brother. His dad [sic] is blocking us from seeing each other a bit.’
The brother is at university and hopes, according to the influencer, to become a ‘heart surgeon or brain surgeon’.
On top of that, he is the captain of his university’s first team volleyball as well as its boxing team and spends his summers helping A-level students with their applications to medical school.
Sullivan also has a sister, 18, who’s at university.
The notorious influencer, real name Harrison Sullivan, says he spent the first 11 years of his life not knowing his dad
His father is former rugby international Victor Ubogu, who won 24 caps for England between 1992 and 1999
As well as being academically gifted, these privately educated, high-achieving young adults have raised thousands for charity.
The Ubogo children were born after the rugby star broke up with Sullivan’s mother and moved to Somerset where he played for Bath and married his now-wife of 23 years, Anjela.
Meanwhile Sullivan was raised in Brentwood, Essex, by his single mother Elaine – who also features in the Louis Theroux Netflix documentary that has brought Sullivan global attention.
Now he has discussed this family background with his tens of thousands of followers – and claimed that his half-brother and sister learned of his existence only two years ago after he found fame.
Yet perhaps fearful of the influence of Sullivan, who has been dubbed a ‘pound-shop Andrew Tate’, his father is said to have prevented the siblings from ever meeting.
Sullivan’s chosen career path probably isn’t the life his mother envisaged for him when she sold her home and rented to pay for his private education.
The toxic content creator has long claimed to be an elite trader on a £20million-a-year income – a claim which has repeatedly been proved to be a sham.
Speaking of persuading his brother to join his circle of impressionable young men, he said: ‘He wants to be a doctor and I said why would you want to be a doctor?
Harrison with his mother Elaine Sullivan, who raised him as a single mother in Brentwood
Sullivan claims that Ubogu, pictured with wife Anjela, has blocked him from contacting his half-siblings
‘You need to go to school for seven years to make 40 bags [£40,000] a year. On top of that the top, top, top plastic surgeon in the UK and probably makes like 500 bags a year. I said bro, come work for me and make like 50 bags a month at 18.’
In another video speaking of his siblings he said: ‘I’ve got a half-brother and a half-sister. The half-brother is at uni studying to be a heart surgeon and the sister is doing some other ultra-intelligent course.
‘I chat to my half-brother a little bit. I did chat to him a year or two years ago and said, look, if you want to come make some proper money, I can give you some work.
‘But he wanted to just do his studies. And I’ve never chatted to her [his sister]. I don’t even know what she looks like.’
‘I have reached out to him. I spoke with him in 2023. And I said listen bro, you are still blood, if you want to start making some proper p’s get in the gym. But he wanted to be a brain surgeon or a heart surgeon, something like that.’
When Sullivan was born in 2001, his father was already a well-known sports celebrity and had just won the UK Menswear Council’s ‘Best Dressed Businessman’ award.
Victor, who won 24 caps between 1992 and 1999 playing for England, was seemingly not involved in his son’s early years and according to Sullivan they did not meet until he was 11 years old.
It meant Elaine was raising her young son with the help of her parents in Hutton, a leafy suburb of Brentwood, working six days a week.
Sullivan is now living in Dubai with his mother, who featured alongside him in the Louis Theroux Netflix documentary
‘I have literally seen my dad three times,’ Sullivan recalled in a video last year. ‘I went on holiday with him to Rome, saw him for the first time ever with my mum.’
Sullivan was educated at the private St Mary’s Hare Park School in Romford, and then attended Becket Keys Church of England School in Brentwood.
And, like his siblings, he seemed set to follow in his father’s sporting footsteps early on and was booked on to a trial day at West Ham Academy on his ninth birthday.
Elaine told the Brentwood Gazette in 2011 that he was snapped up and that she was the ‘proudest mum in the world’.
Little Harrison told the paper that he wanted to play football 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!’
After his A-levels he gained a place at his father’s alma mater, the University of Birmingham, a Russell Group university.
