Hayley Soen

Head of Entertainment

Hayley Soen
Location
London
Education
Bournemouth University
Expertise

Reality TV shows such as Love Island, Made in Chelsea and MAFS, Netflix, true crime, celebrity and pop culture and TikTok trends.

  • Hayley created cult The Holy Church of Netflix Facebook page, which now has over 500k followers.
  • She hosted a guest lecture at her university which was all about finding news on TikTok.
  • Hayley has interviewed a number of celebrities and TV stars, with exclusives picked up by multiple other titles.

Experience

Hayley has been at The Tab HQ for over five years, and has gone from being a staff writer to managing the UK HQ team and heading up The Tab's expansion into the global entertainment world.

Education

Hayley graduated in 2018 from Bournemouth University with a BA Hons degree in Multimedia Journalism. Whilst at uni, she was Editor-in-chief of The Bournemouth Tab.

THE TAB'S EDITORIAL POLICIES

The Tab's journalism is brought to you by young reporters who like being first. On university campuses, our writers deliver local news you care about. At The Tab HQ, our experienced journalists write about everything from breaking news to politics to pop culture to TikTok trends to the latest entertainment and celeb gossip. Our aim is to deliver sharp, original, and agenda-setting journalism to young people. All our stories are fact checked and sources verified. Further information on our editorial policies and processes can be found here.

Posts

Emergency services have been called to a huge house fire in Winton

It’s been confirmed everyone was evacuated safely

Bournemouth Uni investigating student for racist and homophobic TikToks

One of them suggests the LGBT community has ‘a mental illness’

Say hello to Angus Findlay, the Bournemouth student joining Made In Chelsea

He’s already dated Toff

Who is Eliza Batten? Durham student, and Made in Chelsea it girl

She models too, obviously

A couple have been caught having sex outside Bournemouth university campuses

They downed a bottle of pink gin first

There is a new Wednesday night for Oxford Uni coming to Atik

The organisers already bring legendary nights

A 120 metre GIANT slip and slide is going to be in Bournemouth town centre

It’s about to get wet

Love Island winner Jack Fincham is coming to Cameo Bournemouth

It’s when we’re back at uni!!

Meet Eyal Booker: The ex-Bournemouth student who’s going on Love Island 2018

He’s arguably the fittest male in there by an absolute mile

Everything you need to know ahead of Summer Ball 2018

It’s a sell out

Summer Ball tickets are 75 per cent sold out

They’re selling quicker than last year

This is how you could be off to Bestival, just by getting your Summer Ball ticket

Welcome to the world of 2-4-1 festivals

If you relate to any of these 29 things, congratulations! You have a uni wife

She’s a balance of supportive yet brutal, like good uni wives should be

Breaking: A fire has broken out in Bournemouth Triangle

It started at around 7.15pm

Exclusive: Antisemitic posters linking Israel to 9/11 have been put up on Bournemouth Uni campus

The SUBU President has said investigations are commencing

Why do Bournemouth students insist on doing all these things the second the sun comes out?

We’re by the beach, we will use it

BREAKING: The Summer Ball 2018 line-up is here

I feel like I’ve waited all year for this

Start your engines, this queen wrote her dissertation on RuPaul’s Drag Race

All other topics can sashay away tbh

Bournemouth and The Arts University both have gender pay gaps they are ‘tackling’

They blame uneven distribution of jobs

Here are all the signs you might be living in a ‘sad girl house’

The inhabitants will usually be found in their living room wearing dressing gowns and waiting for their hair to dry

Bournemouth fresher died in halls because she couldn’t afford her prescription

Victoria Hills was found dead in Cranborne in February

Murdered by a ‘man in a mask’: The mystery of the Bournemouth student killed walking home from a night out

Jong-Ok Shin was stabbed to death in 2002

One SUBU election candidate’s campaign page is literally just a whole bunch of memes

This is democracy 2018 style

Nottingham Trent students arrested over racist halls chant released, but banned from campus

As it stands, the pair aren’t allowed back in halls

It took me 11 hours to drive from Bournemouth to Guildford and all I had to eat was two biscuits

Storm Emma is causing chaos

I lost my leg and suffered internal burning after being electrocuted

It’s a miracle that she’s alive

Breaking: A woman was reportedly raped near Turtle Bay last night

Police were called in the early hours of this morning

Remembering Luna in Solihull: The most tragic, but best hometown club in the UK

Who knew listening to ‘Low’ seven times is so much fun?

PICTURED: An exclusive look inside the all-new, refurbished Cameo main room

The relaunch party is on Friday

A Go Fund Me page has been set up for the family of the girl who passed away in Cranborne

Vicky’s best friend said ‘what has happened is beyond comprehension and we are still in shock’

Breaking: A female student has died in Cranborne halls

Her death is not being treated as suspicious

Cameo are relaunching with an all-new, revamped main room

Our Wednesdays are about to get even better

Professor Green was in Bournemouth today and called the council ‘arseholes’

The council have adjusted benches to deter the homeless

This Bournemouth final year wrote his entire dissertation on Kurupt FM

Throw your Ks up

A student skier has gone viral after being filmed chundering on the slopes

Everybody loves après, but some love it more than others

Which classic Christmas song is your Bournemouth uni halls of residence?

Sorry Purbeck

The BU rugby boys have raised over £3000 for Movember

Guess they aren’t so bad after all

LGBT+ couple harassed in Wetherspoons while staff allegedly ‘couldn’t do anything’

‘I just don’t want my £5 pitchers to be ruined by gross guys’

Situationships: When you’re not quite together but something’s going on

It’s never going to end well

We swabbed campus for cocaine and every result came back positive

BU are in love with the coco

QUIZ: Plan the perfect Bournemouth night out and we’ll tell you what grade you’ll end uni with

VKs over essays tbh

Everywhere else you could have gone for the same price as your train ticket out of Bournemouth

It’s cheaper to get to Poland than Birmingham

BU sports teams have raised nearly £1000 for fellow player who was paralysed at summer ball

They called the fundraiser ‘fruit festival’ as a cover up

Stay calm, but here’s how students can get free Nando’s in Bournemouth

A Nando’s is so much cheekier when it’s free

A VK club night is actually coming to Bournemouth and no, this time I’m not lying

There won’t be exclusive flavours, that’s still a lie

Revolution are swapping old pound coins for vodka shots

I am now a customer with the bank of Revs

Exclusive: Buffalo bar in Winton is closing down

But don’t worry – it’s moving locations

These are the top places in Bournemouth you should be drinking if you want to see a doggo

Such good boys everywhere

AUB is the top modern university in the south west, according to the Good University Guide 2018

It ranked three places above BU

There’s a new club event coming to Bournemouth where the drinks get cheaper and cheaper throughout the night

It’s launching for Freshers’ Week

If you go to Bournemouth uni you will officially have a higher salary after graduation

There is a god and he loves BU

The UK’s biggest indie club night is coming to Bournemouth

Two pound VKs? Yes please

SUBU candidates were disqualified for budget overspend and forcing people to vote in elections

One candidate stood over people until they voted for them

An email detailing someone’s dissertation mark breakdown has accidentally been sent to over 1,000 students

They got a first though congrats

Vote for Summer Ball 2017’s best dressed: THE FINAL

The time has come

Vote for Summer Ball 2017’s best dressed: Round One

Wavey garms

Do you think that you know someone who was Summer Ball 2017’s best dressed?

Get nominating now

Summerball is going to be the biggest in history as 500 extra tickets are going on sale today

You thought they’d sold out, didn’t you?

The guy that went viral DJing in Dorchester actually played Cameo main room last night

He took his iron and everything

The rugby team were banned from Sports Ball so they threw their own formal at a luxury hotel

‘Previous incidents’ meant they weren’t allowed in

Everything you need to know ahead of Summerball this year

Tickets are 75 per cent sold out

Bournemouth uni has gone up 18 places in The Guardian university league tables

Oxbridge we’re coming for you

The New Forest is one the most Instagrammed locations in the entire world

And the fifth in the UK

Bournemouth has dropped one place in the Complete University Guide rankings

We’ve still got a really nice beach tho

‘Incredibly offensive, hurtful and upsetting’: Racist and antisemitic graffiti has gone up in Winton

Pictures have been posted in anti racism Facebook groups

Save the Winchester: Petition reaches nearly one thousand signatures in just a few hours

The venue faces closure

This Bournemouth bar is selling GIANT pornstar martinis with entire bottles of prosecco

Bloody cheers

So, Block Party are throwing a rave in a pizza shop tonight and we are here for it

Hold my goujons

Lost Mondays was forced to shut down after a ‘mass brawl’ broke out

Everyone was kicked out

Your full Summerball 2017 line-up has been revealed

Oh it’s good

EXCLUSIVE: A VK-only club is opening in Bournemouth that will feature completely new flavours

It’s set to be open for next year’s Freshers’ Week

This is what YouGov thinks you’ll be like when you graduate from Bournemouth University

You’ll love Strictly and Donald Trump

BU are deducting marks on some courses for missing lectures and seminars

Students are fighting back with a petition

There’s a wall, an artist and a whole lot of spray paint: What is going on outside SUBU?

This is the day we’ve been waiting for

Finally the SUBU Elects 2017 results have been announced

They had been delayed after rumoured foul play

BU student involved in ‘chemical incident’ died of carbon monoxide poisoning

Jennifer left notes around her room warning of poisonous gas

People are tattooing freckles on their faces and quite frankly, I’ve had enough

£200 to draw a few dots on your face

‘I thought I was going to die’: There was a power cut in Winton last night and everyone freaked out

It apparently affected 3,000 people

We’re looking for Bournemouth’s wildest fresher

IF YOU’RE A FRESHER SAY YEAH

The BU Vice-Chancellor has taken a 20 per cent pay rise to £305,000

Treat yo self

Introducing The Tab Bournemouth Power List 2017

The most extravagant BNOC competition you’ve ever seen

Vote for Bournemouth’s most eligible bachelor: THE FINAL

Hotty levels 100

Stormzy is coming to Bournemouth

Shut up

A Bournemouth student was asked to resit his exam whilst on holiday in Cape Verde

It was the one they cancelled because they’d ran out of paper

Why are so many people against going out in Bournemouth on a Saturday?

It’s wild

BU hopeful caught with thousands of pounds worth of cannabis

He is an aspiring footballer who wants to study in Bournemouth

‘After two hours of waiting, they cancelled the exam’: BU failed to print out exam and then ran out of paper

We spoke to Shuan Maroof, whose Twitter rant about his exam went viral

We’re looking for Bournemouth’s most eligible bachelor and bachelorette

Get nominating now

We spoke to students who saw last week’s ‘chemical incident’ from their windows

The investigation still continues

A female student has died in Bournemouth halls following a ‘chemical incident’

‘Our house was cordoned in, we had no idea what was going on’

Every picture you’ll see on a Bournemouth Uni student’s Instagram

We’re proud of our adopted home, ok?

Bournemouth I’m sorry: People don’t like us shopping in our PJs

I’m two seconds from Lidl and I just need milk. What’s the big deal?

Bournemouth is the sixth least affordable place for graduates in the UK

London topped the charts in new findings

How to survive a year in Lyme Regis House

The dos and don’ts of Bournemouth Uni’s most underrated accommodation