Harrison Brocklehurst

Senior Pop Culture Writer

Harrison Brocklehurst
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Manchester
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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 six 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

Leave Ekin-Su alone: The backlash over her CBB behaviour has been taken too far

She clearly didn’t come across great in the house, but the reaction online has been extreme

A full guide to all the vibey Instagrams of the MAFS Australia 2024 cast

Now you can stalk their old pics to your heart’s content

Inside Ben’s life when he’s not mocking his wife on MAFS Australia

If I hear one more thing about his podcast I’m going to scream

Inside Tristan from MAFS Australia’s life when he isn’t being adorable on the show

I am obsessed with his dog

From Love Island to Celebrity Big Brother: Ranking all of Ekin-Su’s TV appearances

Heartbroken she’s coming across so bad in the house

Meet Alessandra Rampolla: The iconic Puerto Rican sex expert on MAFS Australia

I need her and Charlene Douglas to queen out

We found where the MAFS Australia dinner parties are filmed and it’s quite wild

The glamour of TV magic does a lot of heavy lifting

Rude tattoos and golden showers: Inside Jack from MAFS Australia’s ‘dominant alpha’ life

A lot of gym pictures, a lot of shirts that don’t fit

Revealed: The 10 most LGBTQ+ friendly cities for students in the UK right now

Brighton slaying in the top three of course

OMG, Adam and Arabella have apparently split five weeks after Love Island All Stars

Not another one!

Every scandalous bombshell Sharon Osbourne dropped in her week on Celebrity Big Brother

She slated Simon Cowell, Anna Wintour and James Corden in just seven days

Jedward are calling out Louis Walsh after he called them ‘vile’ on Celebrity Big Brother

‘Louis Walsh is a cold hearted b*stard who didn’t even send us flowers when our mom died’

After a chaotic seven days, ranking the Celebrity Big Brother 2024 cast one week in

Sharon Osbourne is in her redemption arc era

Um, there’s a wild theory yesterday’s car picture of Kate Middleton is not a new image after all

These conspiracy theories keep getting weirder

Dogs and cosplay: Inside Natalie from MAFS Australia’s wholesome gamer girl life

She had it so good before Collins

Erm, Jack from MAFS Australia apparently showed nudes of his ex to the other grooms

He’s not even denying it either

The Oscars were amazing, but ITV’s Jonathan Ross coverage was an utter shambles

Bad guests and jokes that were even worse – we were in the trenches

Debunked! How they got Messi the Anatomy of a Fall dog to clap at the Oscars

Give that good boy an Academy Award immediately

All the best ‘occasionally experiment with editing’ memes after Kate Middleton’s apology

We’re all ‘amateur photographers’ here

Edited photos and international scandal: A full timeline of the weird Kate Middleton picture

The Princess of Wales has now issued an apology confessing she doctored the image

What Emma Stone allegedly whispered after Jimmy Kimmel’s naff Poor Things Oscars joke

She was NOT happy

Ranking all the new Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 Battle Pass skins from worst to best

Medusa has me gagged

Explaining the savage lyrics and meaning behind The Boy Is Mine by Ariana Grande

She’s raising eyebrows with this one

Omg, two Love Island All Stars Islanders were so ill ITV had to send in emergency medics

‘They were bedbound’

Timothy from MAFS Australia has finally revealed what his emotional Tin Man tattoo means

No YOU’RE crying

All 10 films nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, definitively ranked from worst to best

Maestro, what are you even doing here?

From dressing gown TikTok lives to doing drag on film: What the Misfits cast are up to now

Curtis just won big at the British Independent Film Awards

Crazy sex scenes and queer revenge: Why you need to watch Netflix’s new thriller Femme

If you thought Saltburn was hardcore, do NOT watch this with your parents

Just everything the very iconic cast of MAFS UK 2022 have been up to

Obsessed with Chanita giving a speech in parliament

Ranking the Celebrity Big Brother cast from least to most Instagram followers

One of them has a measly total of 380

Erm, you can buy anti-trans, far right books from RuPaul’s new online bookstore

Despite Allstora’s mission statement being to uplift ‘LGBTQ+ people, women and communities of colour’

‘£100k a day’ fee and private bedroom: Inside Sharon Osbourne’s Big Brother contract

She’s only there a week and she’s got the VIP treatment

Ranked: The Love Islanders who’ve appeared on the most TV shows after the villa

Has Ekin-Su even been home since she won?

The only thing more chaos than Celebrity Big Brother last night are these 20 memes about it

The blue shirt guy who got ignored for a fist bump stole the show

Inside the long and messy feud between Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield

Need her to give us more Schofe goss on Celebrity Big Brother

From slip ups to disasters: The launch night return of Celebrity Big Brother was a car crash

It should have been iconic, but it was a mess

A first impressions ranking of all the housemates in Celebrity Big Brother

God-Su back on my screen AGAIN? Blessed

Omg, a Glasgow Wonka actor claiming to have played The Unknown has revealed herself

Is this The Unknown? Or does The Unknown remain unknown!?

A rundown of the other events House of Illuminati put on before the Glasgow Wonka fiasco

They do weddings if anyone fancies it

Meet The Unknown, the made-up Glasgow Wonka experience villain who traumatised kids

Unsurprisingly, an ‘evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls’ is not in the film

Omg, the full cast lineup for Celebrity Big Brother 2024 has apparently leaked

What will Louis Walsh and Ekin-Su talk about!?

Hold on, Leo Woodall from One Day is actually a nepo baby from a long line of actors

It’s always the way, isn’t it?

Inside the disastrously bad Glasgow Willy Wonka ‘experience’ that had kids in tears

Sold as ‘a celebration of chocolate in all its forms’, things soon turned nightmarish

Georgia Steel has quit social media after Love Island All Stars due to trolling

‘She needs to take some time offline’

Where is Kate Middleton? The unhinged tinfoil hat theories from Twitter have arrived

The official word from the palace today is she’s ‘doing well’, but try telling the internet that

All the evidence Adam and Arabella called it off after Love Island All Stars

Truly the most loveless series of Love Island ever

The MAFS UK reunion was garbage: Here’s how they could have made it actually good

Watching a reunion three months after it was filmed is beyond pointless

All the naff films adapted from books that deserve a Netflix One Day style redemption

Films stop trying to condense big books into an hour and a half challenge

Luke got asked why he’s not at the reunion and he’s absolutely blasting MAFS on Instagram

‘I’m not going to hold back and lie for them’

Meet Julie Ragbeer: The girl who’s gone viral after allegedly paying for a promo tweet

She’s accidentally become a new pop icon and Twitter is obsessed

All the evidence Callum and Jess have split already after Love Island All Stars

That’s if they ever even were a couple

The One Day twist is actually even sadder when you learn Ambika Mod’s other major role

Crying all over again

All the mindblowingly stupid plot holes in Madame Web

Does literally anyone know what’s going on?

The full timeline of the disappearance of TV presenter Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

A police officer has now handed himself in and been charged with murder

Aw, the cast of One Day spoke about TikTok’s viral orange peel theory being used in the show

This is too cute

Meet the Love Island All Stars who were on standby but never made it into the villa

We were robbed of Danica

All the celebs who’ve been watching and weeping at One Day on Netflix

Kim K is obsessed

If you want your brain to melt, this viral puzzle asks you to try and spell ‘candy’ with two letters

Never felt more fuming than when I worked out the answer

‘We’re made to look dumb’: Rochelle blasts what it’s actually like to go on The Apprentice

‘What they choose to air can be frustrating – they don’t show much of the good bits’

Everything the One Day film absolutely butchered that the Netflix series fixed

An actually decent Leeds accent was a welcome start

Why saying Harry Styles’ new look means he’s ‘straight again’ is tediously problematic

Let’s all grow up please

Omg, Danica confirms she was flown to South Africa for Love Island All Stars but never used

ITV had our gal waiting in the wings for four days

All the savage things Scott’s said about the Love Island All Stars cast

‘Georgia H and Anton finishing fifth was expected – they can drop the act now’

Inside the viral, wild Pleasure Boys XXL show in Belfast that got completely ‘out of hand’

‘The show isn’t meant to be seedy, but a few excited women had a few to drink and got a bit handsy’

All of Us Strangers wasn’t snubbed at the BAFTAs, it wasn’t good enough to deserve any

Especially when the films winning awards over it were better

19 Madame Web memes so hilarious you don’t need to see the film to laugh at them

Her memes connect them all

Predicting which Love Island All Stars ‘couples’ will split up first

Callum and Jess won’t even last until the airport home

One Day foreshadowed the heartbreaking ending in episode two and we’re all stupid

Got no tears left to cry at this point

Madame Web is one of the worst films ever made – here’s why I loved every second of it

There’s no greater joy than watching an utter disaster destroy itself for two hours

The definitive final ranking of the Love Island All Stars, from worst to best

Hannah Elizabeth you will always be famous

From Margot Robbie to Sophie Ellis-Bextor: The best dressed at the BAFTAs 2024

Millie Mackintosh absolutely slayed

Bullying, boardroom shoving and antisemitism: All of The Apprentice’s biggest scandals

There was once a physical fight in the boardroom

Inside the complicated relationship between Love Island’s Sophie and sister Rochelle Humes

They didn’t speak for years but reconnected through… Kem!?

Erm, Jordan North has just quit Radio 1 and he’s being replaced with Jamie Laing!?

No idea what’s going on but I’m here for it

Asif’s spoken out after The Apprentice cuts him for alleged antisemitism, and he’s not sorry

‘Unlike most candidates, this show is not my personality or the biggest thing I’ve done in my life’

The 10 best ever episodes of Gavin and Stacey, according to their rating on IMDb

Hugely disagree with number three

The Apprentice has cut scenes with Asif from You’re Fired after antisemitism accusations

‘The individual concerned will not feature as a guest on any additional upcoming BBC content relating to The Apprentice’

Let’s face facts: Not a single couple in the All Stars villa deserves to win Love Island

How are we days from the final with 0 strong couples!?

Ranking Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web press tour moments by how unhinged they are

This week she’s said ‘It’s not nice to be a part of something that’s ripped to shreds, but I can’t say that I don’t understand’

The most unforgivably vile lyrics on Kanye West’s new album Vultures 1

Oh boy

The twist’s back, so here’s the Love Island All Stars ranked by who’s most likely to steal £50k

More like Georgia STEAL, am I right?

From the 90s games to now: Ranking every version of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider

She hit the slay button again for the new remastered trilogy

She’s at it again! Everyone’s clocked Georgia Steel massively lying on Love Island

It never ends

There’s more! The latest rumoured cast rundown for Celebrity Big Brother 2024

Erm… PARIS HILTON!?

Everyone thinks they’ve cracked Georgia Steel’s game plan for who she really wants in villa

Um, is it over for Toby?

OH MY CHRIST! Gavin and Stacey is returning this year for a new special

The cast will start filming in summer

From Disney diva to queen of the Grammys: Miley Cyrus’ transformation through the years

She literally raised us

Explained: The really messy drama going down between Sugababes and ex-member Heidi

Keisha’s now responded, saying ‘Shame on YOU for not using the moment to bring us all together’

Ranking the last 13 years of Super Bowl halftime shows, from lame to life-changing

Beyoncé announcing an album and overshadowing Usher’s is savage

The 1975 fans have been camping at the O2 since Friday and Twitter has had enough

‘If a homeless person set up a tent outside the O2 they’d be moved, so why is this any different?’

Here’s what actually happened to all the Von Erich brothers from The Iron Claw

It’s hard to believe such a heartbreaking story is actually true

From High School Musical to The Iron Claw: Ranking Zac Efron’s most iconic roles

T as in Troy? x

The Apprentice just hit a new low with the most stupid episode of all time

The task? Make mini cheesecakes and sell them to Innocent Drinks and The London Dungeon…

Ryan-Mark has spilled The Apprentice secrets the show bans candidates from sharing

‘If Lord Sugar scrutinises the colours we used, we can’t say we were given the colours off camera’

Ranking all the Love Island All Stars by how toxic they truly are

They can’t help themselves

Explained: How Gina Carano ended up suing Disney after getting fired from The Mandalorian

Her lawsuit is financially backed by Elon Musk

From Love Island to the charts! A full history of Wes Nelson bangers

How many Islanders get to return to the villa with Craig David?

Inside wild theory Taylor Swift is purposely turning opinion against her ready for Reputation

Is she trying to be back in her ‘villain era’!?

From popstar to Popular Conservative: Inside Holly Valance’s bizarre right wing descent

At Liz Truss’ PopCon event yesterday she backed Jacob Rees-Mogg for prime minister

Rishi Sunak just made a trans ‘joke’ in PMQs whilst Brianna Ghey’s mum was in parliament

Honestly how much more vile can it get?

Explained: The messy and emotional drama going down between the Charmed cast

‘A livelihood that was taken away from my family because somebody else wanted to be number one’