Andrew Tate

Some Lesser Known Facts About Andrew Tate

• He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and Goshen, Indiana.

  

• His father was African American, and his mother was White and English.

• Andrew Tate was named after his father, who was an American chess master and worked for the US Air Force in Britain.

• His parents met in the UK, then moved to the US, where he  grew up until they got divorced.

• In 1997, after his parents divorced, his mother moved to Luton, Bedfordshire, England, with him and his brother.

• Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, once said in a media conversation that they were poor while living in England. They claimed they used to go to KFC, collect leftover chicken from other people, and freeze it to eat later.

• He started training in boxing and martial arts in 2005, and to earn money, he worked in television advertising.

• In 2011, Andrew Tate won his first ISKA world title by knocking out Jean-Luc Benoît in a rematch.

• In 2012, he lost to Sahak Parparyan while trying to win the It’s Showtime 85MAX Championship.

• In the same year, Andrew Tate lost the Enfusion tournament to his opponent Franci Grajš.

• In 2013, he won his second ISKA world title after a 12-round fight against Vincent Petitjean. He then became a champion in two weight classes.

• In 2014, Andrew Tate defended his ISKA belt and won the Enfusion belt and became a four-time world champion.

• He retired after playing 31 recorded kickboxing matches.

  

• In 2016, Andrew Tate participated as a contestant in the British reality show Big Brother Season 17. He was placed in a secret second house as part of a group called ‘The Others.’

• While on the show, his old tweets with racist and homophobic comments went viral. He was removed from the show after six days.

• Andrew Tate claimed that he was removed because of a video, which showed him hitting a woman with a belt.

• Reportedly, he was removed because of a police investigation for rape (where no charges were filed, and the case closed in 2019).

  

• His website sells courses about getting rich and dealing with women.

• He also operates a webcam studio with his girlfriends as workers.

• He and his brother, Tristan, hired up to 75 women to tell fake sad stories to men online.

• He once admitted the business was a scam.

• In 2017, Andrew Tate and his brother moved to Romania. He liked Romania because he believed it was easier to avoid rape charges there. He claimed that Romania required stronger evidence for rape cases.

• He has several children in Romania whom he sees sometimes.

• In 2017, during the Harvey Weinstein scandal, he tweeted that victims share responsibility for sexual assault.

• Andrew Tate attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2019.

• He was raised Christian, became an atheist, and then converted to Islam in 2022.

• In 2022, he encouraged users to post videos of him on social media to increase his fame. Reportedly, many similar accounts on TikTok were spreading his videos to make them go viral.

• Andrew Tate ran Hustler’s University, a paid online platform where users paid $49.99 per month to learn how to make money outside regular jobs, such as crypto, copywriting, and online selling.

• These lessons were mostly in video format and shared through Discord.

• The site had an affiliate program where users earned money by signing up as new members.

• Hustler’s University was later renamed to 2.0 and then 3.0.

• Later, Stripe stopped handling payments for the platform, and the affiliate program was shut down.

• A marketing expert claimed that the setup looked like a social media pyramid scheme, but Andrew Tate denied this.

• In 2022 and 2023, he became one of the most searched people online.

• In 2022, he mocked climate activist Greta Thunberg online, and she responded with a viral answer.

  

• Andrew Tate became famous for showing off a tough, rich, macho lifestyle.

• Teachers and parents claimed that boys copy their ideas and phrases, which increases bad behaviour.

• He and his brother used social media to approach young women for their webcam business.

• Andrew Tate was banned from Twitter multiple times, as well as from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch for breaking rules about hate speech and misinformation.

• After Elon Musk took over Twitter, his account was activated.

• Jake Paul criticised his sexism but claimed that banning him was censorship.

• He moved to platforms like Gettr and Rumble after bans.

• Since 2022, Andrew Tate’s ideas have worried parents, teachers, and mental health experts in the UK, the US, Australia, and New Zealand.

• The New York Times once claimed that he was brainwashing young boys in schools.

• The Anti-Defamation League said that Andrew Tate taught that women were less than men and deserved abuse.

• The White Ribbon Campaign called his messages extremely sexist and dangerous for young boys.

• Hope Not Hate warned that his followers could be pushed toward far-right beliefs.

• Rape Crisis England and Wales said that giving him a platform was unacceptable.

• The Centre for Countering Digital Hate said that his videos show extreme misogyny and harm to young women.

• Andrew Tate responded that he made videos praising women and tried to keep people away from toxic people.

• He claimed that he was playing a comedic character, but people misunderstood him.

• Experts warned that he could turn young men toward sexist and extreme views.

• In Australia and the UK, teachers said that his influence increased sexism and sexual harassment in schools.

• In October 2022, Andrew Tate launched a new version of his website called The Real World, which mainly targeted teenage boys.

  

• Former members called it ‘cult-like.’ A lawyer described it as a male version of digital grooming. The users called each other ‘G’ and Tate the ‘Top G.’

• It promoted Tate’s ’41 Tenets for men’ and covered topics like crypto and drop shipping.

• In February 2023, Dutch far-right politician Thierry Baudet supported him in the Dutch parliament, calling Andrew Tate a brave critic.

• A website, The Conversation, said that he was not openly far-right, but he spread far-right ideas, such as the ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory (the idea that white people are being replaced by immigrants).

• In June 2023, during a media interview, he said that he believed God told him to do good things. He promoted hard work, discipline, sports, and stayed away from drugs, alcohol, and crime.

• Andrew Tate claimed that depression was not real and called conspiracy theorist Alex Jones a hero.

• By August 2023, his programs, The Real World and The War Room, earned $5 million a month through subscriptions.

• Google and Apple later removed the Real World application from their stores.

• In 2023, a BBC investigation found that members of the War Room group were teaching methods to train women into doing webcam sex work.

• This group operated like a secret all-male society.

• The leaked chat messages (12,000 pages) showed that they offered a course called ‘Pimpin’ Hoes Degree’ or ‘PhD.’

• The course taught how to seduce women, emotionally control them, and isolate them from others to get them to work on webcams.

• A human trafficking expert said that these techniques matched the ‘Lover Boy’ method, a known strategy used to exploit women.

• An old course description used in court said that the job was to make women fall in love, then get them to do webcam work for money.

• There were also signs that violence against women was encouraged or discussed. Many victims said that sex was used to control them emotionally.

• Many members claimed that they were doing ‘Pavlovian conditioning,’ including making women get tattoos of their initials as a test of loyalty.

• A former sales and marketing head for the group called it a cult and said that he had been brainwashed.

• Tate’s team said in the media that the BBC report was false and insulted his supporters.

• In a 2023 interview, actor James McAvoy said that one of his film characters was inspired by Tate.

• In 2023, 28% of teenage boys in Australia followed Andrew Tate.

• In the UK, 80% of 16 to 17-year-old boys had seen his content, and 45% of men aged between 16 to 24 liked him. Reportedly, only 1% of teenage girls did the same.

• A 2023 study found that children who watch Tate’s content were more likely to think that hurting people was okay.

• Andrew Tate and his brother once started a YouTube channel called ‘The Hateful Tates.’

• In 2023, while in jail, there were rumours that he had cancer. However, he denied it.

• In January 2024, a report showed The Real World’s YouTube content received hundreds of millions of views.

• In March 2024, after a bridge collapse in Maryland, Andrew Tate falsely claimed that a cyber attack caused the ship crash.

• After that, he was accused of spreading online hate after sharing misinformation about a stabbing in Southport, which led to far-right riots in the UK.

• In May 2024, the site leaked data from nearly 1 million users due to a technical error. This included emails, passwords, and private messages.

• Andrew Tate promoted The War Room, a private group that cost $8,000 to join.

• It is described as a global men’s network, which focused on helping men grow in all areas of life such as physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial.

• A renowned person in the group was Miles Sonkin, also known as Iggy Semmelweiss, who worked as a leader. He met Andrew Tate in 2018, and the group started in 2019.

• In 2024, he launched a meme coin called DADDY, which grew quickly and reached a $217 million market value.

  

• The name was a response to Iggy Azalea’s coin called $MOTHER. Andrew Tate said that the coin supported ‘the patriarchy.’

• He told people who bought DADDY coin to also join his group, The Real World, and promoted it on his social media.

• In October 2024, the YouTube channel Coffeezilla asked Andrew Tate questions about the DADDY coin. He responded by doxxing Coffeezilla (sharing private info) and told his fans to send abusive emails, calling him ‘gay.’

• He is a popular person in the manosphere and the alpha male community.

• Andrew Tate has been described as right-wing or far-right and supports traditional views on gender roles.

• He calls himself a libertarian, and others have called him the king of toxic masculinity.

• Right-wing media figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have supported him.

• Andrew Tate has said many controversial things about women, such as women belong at home, women can’t drive, women are property of men, men should date young women so they can make an imprint on them, and women who do not stay home are hoes.

• He claimed that some of his comments were jokes and taken out of context.

• He is often linked to far-right ideas and people, including British activist Tommy Robinson and far-right figures like Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Paul Joseph Watson. He has appeared on the far-right platform InfoWars.

• The UK group Hope Not Hate once said that Andrew Tate had a long history of racist comments, homophobic statements, and connections to organised far-right groups

• During the Gaza conflict, he blamed Israel for committing genocide and said that the Hamas attack on 7 October 2024 was ‘an eye for an eye.’ He praised Yahya Sinwar’s death as heroic and said that he wanted a similar death.

• According to Mother Jones, a nonprofit American left-wing magazine, Andrew Tate promoted an antisemitic conspiracy. It claimed that the idea of ‘The Matrix’ meant the Jewish mafia.

• He then made controversial comments about Hitler. He said that stop crying over the Hitler stuff and questioned whether people were lied to about World War II, like how he believed they were about Gaza and Israel.

• In January 2025, after Elon Musk made a Nazi salute, Andrew Tate supported it and said that ‘we’re so back.’

• In April 2025, he supported Russell Brand after several women accused Brand of sexual assault.

• In 2025, Andrew Tate started a new political party called the BRUV Party in the UK, which promoted strict views on crime and immigration.

• Many people mocked it online and called it a joke, but he claimed that he was serious.

  

• After that, the party’s Twitter account was briefly suspended, but Elon Musk helped restore it.

• Andrew Tate has published many books on business, such as Tateism: The 41 Tenets: The Philosophy of Andrew Tate (2022), Andrew Tate’s Financial Mastery: A Path to Wealth and Legacy for Entrepreneurs (2023), and Crypto Currency: Earning Your First Million (2025).

  

• He is an animal lover and has a pet dog. He often shares pictures of his pet on social media.

  

• Andrew Tate is often spotted enjoying alcoholic beverages on various occasions.

  

• He enjoys smoking cigarettes occasionally.

  

• Andrew Tate has appeared in many videos showing off a very rich lifestyle, including fast cars, private jets, and yachts.