REVEALED: Humiliated HSTikkyTokky’s father is an English rugby legend: Daily Mail investigation exposes astonishing truth about sordid sexual behaviour, money and mum’s house …
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Published: 01:12, 22 November 2025 | Updated: 01:12, 22 November 2025
By the time the purple McLaren ground to a halt at the side of the road, GBP230,000 of British-made supercar was little more than scrap metal.
Harrison Sullivan - known to his thousands of online fans as HSTikkyTokky - had been driving at over 70mph, almost twice the speed limit on the A30 in Surrey, when he collided with another vehicle and spun out of control.
One witness claimed Sullivan was travelling 'at least 100mph or more' in the moments preceding the crash.
Shockingly, the 24-year-old social media personality then fled the scene, leaving his passenger and friend, George Elliot - who has autism - alone in a daze of pain and terror.
But Sullivan didn't just flee the scene. He fled the country.
Eight months later, in November 2024, Sullivan was due to attend court on charges related to the crash. He never showed up and, in the months that followed, videos released online revealed he was living the high life in countries such as Qatar[1], Dubai[2] and Thailand[3].
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's National Police, 'extremely serious injuries to his neck'.
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 on the A30 in Surrey
Sullivan's purple McLaren was a heap of scrap metal after the collision, which left his passenger in a daze of pain and terror
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' Court and yet, remarkably, walked free last week after the judge issued him with a mere 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
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.
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.
This sort of behaviour is nothing new. Sullivan's HSTikkyTokky persona gained traction online - currently 130,000 followers on TikTok alone - not in spite of but because of his flagrant sexism, racism and homophobia which appears to have struck a chord with disillusioned young men.
'You know them black tings [girls] that look white?' he once asked his viewers, in a typically racially pejorative stream. 'The ones that aren't coming like Drogba,' he laughed, referring to ex-Chelsea footballer Didier, who was born in the Ivory Coast.
Similarly, in one video filmed in Dubai, Sullivan mocks his friend for kissing a black girl, poking the camera in her face and giggling: 'Brad loves the Africans'.
In addition to referring to women as 'tings', Sullivan also frequently calls them 'batty' (a crude reference to a female posterior), and has said he doesn't mind being called homophobic.
He had a sense-of-humour failure last month when faked, viral AI videos of him emerged wearing makeup and nail extensions. 'I'm 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,' he ranted. 'It is actually defamation.'
Alongside his foul-mouthed bigotry, Sullivan also claims to be an 'elite trader' making GBP20 million per year: 'My SVJ [Lamborghini] is in the garage getting a GBP20,000 Gintani exhaust fitted on it,' he boasted last year. 'I've got over £4 million in crypto, here's my XRP [cryptocurrency] wallet, half a million dollars in there.
Here's my Bitcoin wallet, almost £2 million dollars in there. I've got £4 million in crypto at 23 years old. I can do what I want, when I want.'
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.
But while Sullivan's colourful life has been well documented, the Mail can today reveal that the troubled young man's 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 'wine, women and song'.
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 'pound-shop Andrew Tate', after the so-called 'king of toxic masculinity'?
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's Fortescue Medal for sporting excellence.
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
In addition to referring to women as 'tings', Sullivan also frequently calls them 'batty' (a crude reference to a female posterior), and has said he doesn't mind being called homophobic
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.
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.
'I went out that evening and bought expensive champagne for everyone I met, spending all the money I had won,' he said. 'There was champagne everywhere.'
By the time he retired - having started for Bath in the victorious 1998 Heineken Cup final against French team Brive - Ubogu had founded a chain of sports bars, Shoeless Joe's, in London and cultivated an image as something of a playboy and party animal.
In a 2001 interview with the Guardian, he claimed to always carry 'keys, wallet and a condom' when out.
When quizzed about monogamy, he said: 'I prefer Cluedo.' Intriguingly, he also claimed in that interview: 'Children deserve to be loved and respected... to ensure they reach their potential.'
On October 6, 2001 - the year his father was boasting about never leaving the house without a condom - Elaine Sullivan gave birth, outside of wedlock, to Victor's first child, Harrison.
At the time, Elaine was living in the London borough of Redbridge. She later moved with Harrison to Mountnessing in Brentwood, Essex, in 2011 - 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.
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.
Harrison Sullivan claimed last year that he had met his father just 'three or four times' in his life.
While he was being raised by his single mother, Obogu's VU Ltd went from strength to strength, selling hospitality packages to rugby fans before international fixtures at home and abroad.
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.
When Harrison Sullivan learnt of his father's impropriety, he responded in a video online with laughter and the words: 'Sullivan Junior learned from the best.'
Ironically, Harrison's 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.
Harrison Sullivan claimed last year that he had met his father just 'three or four times' in his life
On October 6, 2001 - the year his father was boasting about never leaving the house without a condom - Elaine Sullivan gave birth to Harrison
Before this, he had been a promising young footballer who - in 2011, at the age of nine - 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.
'Since he was a two-year-old he was really into Power Rangers,' mother Elaine would later admit. 'He 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.'
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: 'I am trustworthy, conscientious and hard-working and take pride in everything I do...
I am a committed team player with a "can do attitude".'
How quickly things change. For in his late teenage years, Sullivan - still estranged from his father - started becoming involved with chauvinistic gym culture.
Six months after beginning a degree at Birmingham - his father's alma mater - 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 GBP26.99 a time.
There were also associated protein shakes and equipment.
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.
By this point, Sullivan was making a name for himself online and had begun charging followers GBP33 a month for financial advice - advice he continues to offer today via the secretive Telegram messaging app, despite the Financial Conduct Authority warning potential clients: 'You should avoid dealing with this firm and beware of scams.' 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.
In a bizarre string of posts on Twitter, Sullivan then accused the audience member of looking 'like he's on benefits' before offering tips on dental hygiene: 'Go sort your teeth out, ya little dork.'
The posts concluded with: 'Wayne Rooney can f***ing get it' 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.
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.
However, in leaked video footage taken by one of Sullivan's pals, Theroux's interview backfired terribly on the rattled young man. At one point Theroux cites Sullivan's own words, 'Call me racist, call me a misogynist, call me homophobic, call me a scammer - I'm all those things', before asking if that is how he sees himself.
'That's my way of saying I don't care,' Sullivan responded, clearly agitated. 'Say what you want about me, I am that. Cool.
I don't care. And what?'
Theroux continued quoting Sullivan that if he had a gay son, he would 'disown him'.
'If I had a son and he turned out to be gay,' Sullivan said, 'he wouldn't be. I believe being gay is a product of parenting - OK?'
Sullivan later accused Theroux of being friends with the late paedophile Jimmy Savile, a reference to the film Theroux made about the notorious broadcaster.
While Theroux's production company, Mindhouse, did not respond to a request for comment, the Daily Mail understands the documentary has been shelved following Sullivan's arrest.
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' amusement or video chatting with women via a website that pairs people at random.
This week, Sullivan began speaking to a young girl in America who claimed to be 19 but looked much younger - while over 10,000 viewers watched on - and then asked her a graphic sexual question. To another woman, he declared: 'You look like a right little tart.'
Such revolting language is a world apart from his father's relatively jaunty machismo. But one wonders what Victor Ubogu really thinks of his errant son's behaviour.
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: 'This is a private matter. Enjoy life!'
However, the answer perhaps lies in a video published to TikTok by Sullivan in July 2024.
In it, Sullivan meets Victor in a restaurant and asks whether his old man has watched his videos.
'I did spend some time looking at your stuff,' Victor replies, 'and that's why I said let's have a chat. But you went all quiet on me.'
There's a steely pause before Sullivan replied: 'You go quiet for months, you weren't there for years.
So, I don't need to reply straight away.
Cause you didn't reply for ten years.'
Of course it is impossible to blame Victor Ubogu for his son's behaviour.
However, it is a sobering reminder that behind Sullivan's abhorrent HSTikkyTokky persona is a tale as old as time - of lost boys and missing fathers.