Harrison Brocklehurst

Pop Culture Editor

Harrison Brocklehurst
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Trash, Gaming, Trends, Opinion, Love Island, MAFS, Guides, Agenda, Pride, News, Do Better Campaign, You Matter Campaign

  • Harrison published a book in 2022, Would You Rather: The Very Adult Edition. It's the best and silliest thing he's ever done.
  • Harrison's passion for pop music has seen him judge on the panel for the Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize consecutively for the last seven years.
  • Harrison describes himself as a 'Sarah Michelle Gellar enthusiast', and in 2023 got to meet his lifelong idol in person. He's never recovered.

Experience

Harrison Brocklehurst joined The Tab in 2021, currently working as the Senior Pop Culture Writer. He's also written for VICE UK, Dazed, MixMag, The Face, Big Issue and Polyester Magazine. Harrison's first book released in 2022.

Education

Harrison graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA Honours in Drama. After he graduated, Harrison started working freelance as a pop culture writer before joining The Tab.

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Posts

The full plot of The Substance explained, if you’re too scared to actually watch the film

Got you covered

This chaotic viral song is dividing TikTok and people are beefing over if it’s great or terrible

It makes me feel overstimulated

A weird video of Liam Payne pretending to FaceTime Harry Styles has resurfaced

‘Harry probably didn’t answer his real calls’

Russell Brand is now selling a £189 ‘magical amulet’ to protect you from ‘dangerous’ Wi-Fi

Someone tell him TikTok adverts need an internet connection in order to be uploaded

The MAFS UK couples who have absolutely no reason to still be writing stay

What on EARTH are this lot playing at!?

Ok, a lip reader has revealed why Nicole Kidman pushed Salma Hayek away in viral video

I can finally sleep at night

Lana Del Rey’s pals apparently worried she’s been too ‘impulsive’ marrying Jeremy Dufrene

They’re ‘concerned she’s jumped into this too quickly’

Blake Lively to Beyoncé: A rundown of random celebs with a drink brand side quest

Not Tom Holland launching a zero alcohol beer and calling it BERO

Apple Music or Spotify? We’ve got info on which drains your phone battery faster

This might actually force me to swap

People think this resurfaced Charli XCX Twitter beef is the reason she made Brat

She was furiously arguing with fans who reacted badly to her last album in 2022

Omg! Camila Cabello responds to Shawn Mendes and Sabrina Carpenter drama for first time

Soooo shady I love it

JoJo Siwa is getting dragged for this comment about Harry Styles wearing a dress

‘Nobody has ever been more 21’

Ranking the MAFS UK cast who came out looking the worst at that chaotic dinner party

Did ANYONE have a nice time?

A release day ranking of all the songs on Charli XCX’s Brat remix album

Brat autumn girlies rise up!

‘In da clurb, we all fam’: Where the viral TikTok sound you can’t escape is actually from

Even Sabrina Carpenter is using it

Laughing stock to legend: How Addison Rae pulled off the coolest rebrand in pop history

‘Music is not important – artistry is’

These wholesome The Substance behind the scenes pics will heal you after the horror

Obsessed with them all

From Liam Payne to Harry Styles: The One Direction solo careers ranked

Massive highs and abysmal lows

Anne Hathaway apologises to journalist after an interview of her being ‘awful’ goes viral

It’s the same journalist who exposed the viral rude Blake Lively interview!?

‘You dropped the house on me’: JLo opens up on Ben Affleck divorce for the first time

‘I should have learned it two or three times ago’

The Substance is a wild film, but the only thing wilder are these memes about it

‘Demi Moore’s coat in The Substance is the best performance of a coat since JLo’s in Hustlers’

‘I’ve heard it’: Charli XCX says she was too late to warn Lorde of the Brat song about her

‘I was ready for her to never speak to me again’

Piers Morgan forced to apologise to Beyoncé and Jay-Z after airing false allegations

Lawyers demanded Jaguar Wright interview was pulled after she claimed Jay-Z and Beyoncé were ‘monsters’

Charli XCX explains why she got Matty Healy on the I Might Say Something Stupid remix

‘I have huge amount of respect for him as a person – but sometimes want to strangle him’

This major plot hole in The Substance kinda ruins the whole film and I’m furious

Urgently need answers and explanations!

Omg, Lady Gaga is ‘in shock’ at Joker: Folie à Deux flopping and is gagging to move on

Apparently she’s eyeing up a role in the next Quentin Tarantino movie

Brett from Love Island is absolutely coming for Molly-Mae and her new brand Maebe

‘Seems like they’re just making fast fashion and changing the price tag’

A critical and commercial flop, how did Joker: Folie à Deux get it so frustratingly wrong?

The most disappointing film of the year

Right, here’s how to use the viral Pika Art AI to crush, squish, inflate and cake your photos

Always wanted to see myself crushed by a hydraulic press tbf

Wait – Liam Payne’s ex is dragging him on TikTok rn and she’s really not holding back

‘When you enable someone, they’re never going to realise what they’ve done is bad’

A video of Liam Payne constantly talking over Harry Styles resurfaced and it’s awful

‘Harry was so f*cking sick of him’

Debunked: Is Joey Essex going to be on Big Brother as a housemate or not?

He was in the house with Chelsea from Selling Sunset during Late & Live last night

So it turns out Tom Grennan’s Gillette advert bop is actually a cover from the 80s!?

Cue the 40 year olds fuming that they already knew this

The experts flopped! A definitive roundup of the most mismatched MAFS UK couples ever

What on EARTH were they thinking!?

Here he goes! I regret to inform you Liam Payne is once again being a menace to society

He got so annoying at Niall Horan’s concert that security had to intervene

Kesha says her boyfriend broke up with her because she didn’t take him to a Taylor Swift party

She purposely didn’t invite him to check if he was with her for the wrong reasons

Ok, Margaret Qualley just spilled on if she wore prosthetic boobs in The Substance

‘Unfortunately, there is no magic boob potion’

Explained: The insane viral TikTok drama of the fake Crumbl Sydney cookie pop-up

The actual founder of Crumbl cookies had to speak out against it

Okay, here’s how to find the actually life-changing new Spotify Offline Backup feature

It literally gives you hundreds of songs to listen to when you’ve got no internet connection!?

Everything Charlie’s said about ‘triggering’ MAFS UK episode that saw her leave the show

‘The truth always comes out in the end’

Lana Del Rey comments on her shock wedding to gator guide Jeremy Dufrene for first time

‘Stop photoshopping my wedding ring – we’re very happy’

Wait, this viral five minute test actually reveals if you’re secretly a psychopath!?

Scared to tell anyone how high my score was…

Paul C Brunson claps back after the MAFS UK experts are told to ‘stop the nonsense’

‘We don’t see any footage – it makes it so challenging for us’

Charlie speaks out for the first time after being called ‘a bully’ in explosive MAFS UK ep

All that drama before the whole cast had even entered the dinner party!?

Shawn Mendes opens up on status with Camila Cabello rn amid Sabrina Carpenter drama

‘Camila and I have done the best job at preserving our private little fire of love for each other’

The wildest moments from horror film The Substance that caused major cinema walk outs

Craziest (and best) film of the year

Charlie was on Lovestruck High before MAFS UK: Here’s what she was actually like

She even said back then that she falls in love fast

Every artist on the Brat remix album, as Charli XCX teases us with new billboards

Bon Iver and Tinashe!?!?! I’m shaking

Pitchfork released its best 100 songs of the 2020s list, and Taylor Swift isn’t on it once

She released four new albums four re-releases and not one song made the cut

Family focused and a thrift shop dress: Inside Lana Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene’s wedding

Her dress apparently cost under $400!

Bowen Yang addresses backlash over his SNL skit ‘mocking’ Chappell Roan and Moo Deng

This drama is so terminally online it’s insane

Ex-fiancée of Lana Del Rey’s husband shocked by wedding after 12 year engagement to him

‘I am in shock because we were engaged for 12 years, and he got married after one month’

Monsters ‘the best thing to happen to Menendez brothers in 30 years’, says Ryan Murphy

‘The family claim lies after lies, but then don’t say what the lies are – they don’t back up anything’

All the MAFS UK couples who should have left the show at THAT commitment ceremony

Why on earth did Caspar choose to stay!?

Jeremy Allen White is kissing The Bear’s Molly Gordon, but what happened to Rosalía!?

Here’s a full and thorough timeline of this chaotic triangle

Costco says it doesn’t even sell baby oil after P Diddy’s lawyer claims he buys in bulk

Not a single US branch of Costco sells baby oil

Um, Lana Del Rey just married the alligator tour guide boyfriend she denied she was even dating

Sigh

Since everyone’s fuming, here’s why Travis Kelce wasn’t in the first two eps of Grotesquerie

‘Ryan Murphy was 100 per cent using Travis to get us to watch the show’

From Monsters to AHS: Every time Ryan Murphy controversially used real killers’ stories

The serial killer dinner party in American Horror Story: Hotel was ridiculous

P Diddy’s lawyer just said he had 1000 bottles of baby oil because he likes buying in bulk

‘I think they have Costcos in every place where he has a home’

The Menendez brothers’ family just gave them their support and blasted Ryan Murphy

‘A phobic, gross nightmare – perhaps, after all, Monsters is about Ryan Murphy’

Katy Perry’s 143 is a disaster: But haven’t her albums always been bad?

She hasn’t released a half-decent album since 2013

Charli XCX Apple dance creator addresses viral Sweat tour stage invasion moment

‘Don’t dox her – we worked it out on the remix!’

Right, what the hell is going on with Phillip Schofield’s desert island comeback TV show?

Everything about this ‘secretly filmed’ project gives me the ick

Everyone’s finding out the original plan for this iconic Buffy character and I am shook

The show would have been so different – the wasted potential is killing me!

All the familiar faces from Ryan Murphy shows you recognise in the Monsters cast

Chloë Sevigny who plays Kitty had an iconic role American Horror Story: Asylum!

Who is Dominick Dunne, the dinner party throwing journalist in Monsters on Netflix?

He’s the main reason the show implies a romantic relationship between Erik and Lyle Menendez

Ryan Murphy just gave his first response to Monsters: Lyle and Erik Menendez Story backlash

‘There were four people involved, two of them are dead – what about the parents?’

Wait, did one of the Lyle and Erik Menendez jurors have a heart attack like in Monsters!?

In the show she had to be replaced

Meet Cooper Koch: The unknown but incredible actor playing Erik Menendez in Monsters

He’s got a twin who worked on Ryan Murphy’s Ratched!

Cooper Koch ‘cares immensely’ about Menendez brothers and ‘stands with them’ amid Monsters backlash

‘He did everything he could to ensure their stories of abuse were seen on screen’

It’s official: Katy Perry’s 143 is the worst reviewed album since 2011

It’s the ninth worst reviewed album of all time and lowest ever by a female artist

Um, Kim Kardashian just visited Erik and Lyle Menendez in prison after Monsters backlash

Cooper Koch who plays Erik went with her!?

Wait, did Erik Menendez actually meet OJ Simpson in prison or was it made up for Monsters?

Such a wild scene

All the songs on Katy Perry’s disaster new album 143, ranked from bad to even worse

A potential career ender I fear

This wild Agatha All Along theory might have just explained who Joe Locke’s character is

Obsessed already

The savage reviews for Katy Perry’s new album are here, and they’re worse than anyone imagined

‘Painfully dated and glaringly out of touch’

This season proves it: MAFS UK is unethical and sets up brides and grooms to fail

It might be good TV, but the hunger for drama and tears is unfair on the cast

Who was in the wrong – Eve or Charlie? Everyone’s torn over the wild MAFS UK honeymoon drama

‘Charlie has an anxious attachment style and Eve is avoidant’

Caspar from MAFS UK is this year’s walking red flag and these warning signs prove it

Run for the hills, Emma!

Lady Gaga on why she never shut down the old viral rumour she was ‘a man’

‘I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie’

They’re still at it! Erica and Jordan from last year’s MAFS UK are having major beef rn

‘I will never let someone bring that side out of me again’

A MAFS UK cast member just told us how the show decides who goes where on the honeymoons

Peak that couples went to Jamaica and The Maldives and others got lumped with the Lake District

The Guardian’s list of 100 Britishcore experiences is getting rinsed, and rightly so

‘This is hands down the worst thing ever printed in the history of newspapers’

RIP The Sims: EA confirming no plans for The Sims 5 just finally destroyed the franchise

Announcing endless The Sims 4 updates and expansions proves the company doesn’t care about the fans

A guy on TikTok has a wild theory about why time feels like it goes so much faster since 2020

Nah I’m shaking

MAFS UK 2024 came back with the most chaotic episode ever and I will never recover

Teeth prank, sister-gate and a song about sh*tting on chests… I need a lie down

Miley Cyrus is getting sued for allegedly ripping off this Bruno Mars song

‘Any Bruno Mars fan knows Flowers did not achieve all that success on its own’

Singing, sketches and tin whistle: Inside MAFS UK Kieran’s bizarre and bonkers Instagram

Of course the teeth make an appearance

A guy got an outfit compliment from Harry Styles in London but had no clue who he was

This is the most wholesome story ever

I rewatched The Inbetweeners: Here’s every episode and both films definitively ranked

Feisty one, you are!

This TikTok exposes how there’s a lost old version of Flushed Away with deleted characters!?

There’s a DVD circulating of the bootleg version and we need to FIND IT

All the evidence that proves Selena Gomez makes an Alex Russo cameo in Agatha All Along

A Wizards of Waverly Place crossover!? A rumour I choose to believe!

‘Your Internet Bedroom’ has gone viral – here’s how to connect Spotify and get your own

Mine giving me Charli XCX, Diet Coke and poppers is an attack

Which new Katy Perry single is the least dreadful? A thorough, ranked investigation

Three singles in – time to get serious

An adorable look at Tate McRae’s old YouTube channel before she was slaying as a pop girl

These are so cute I can’t cope

Peter Dinklage just said ‘no shame’ in people still associating him with Game of Thrones

He also says he actually likes the ending!? I thought Tyrion was meant to be smart

Britney Spears just dragged Sabrina Carpenter’s VMAs performance in a random Insta video

‘Why did she kiss an alien? I didn’t understand that part – that was weird’

Ranked: The best pop girly performances at the VMAs you absolutely *need* to watch

It’s been an uphill battle, but Katy Perry finally managed to slay this era

Ranking the best and worst dressed Love Islanders at the NTAs 2024

This is literally their Met Gala

Um, people think Jack Antonoff put AirPods in during Katy Perry’s VMAs performance?

‘Such loser behaviour’