
Andrew Tate (14 December 1986-), also known as Abu Andrew, was an American-British professional kickboxer and far-right internet personality who was infamously controversial for his misogynistic commentary, resulting in several social media bans in 2022.
Biography
Andrew Tate was born in Washington DC in 1986, the son of an African-American chess master and a white catering assistant. He was raised in Goshen, Indiana and Luton, England, and he played chess before taking up martial arts in 2006 and winning his first ISKA world title in 2011. He retired after his second ISKA world title in 2013, and, in 2016, he was removed from the reality show Big Brother due to the rediscovery of homophobic and racist comments he had made on Twitter. Tate also ran a webcam studio which sold "fake sob stories" to male callers and made millions of dollars in a self-described "total scam", ran "Hustler's University" to educate members on drop-shipping and cryptocurrency, and had a social media presence which he used to claim that depression wasn't real, that sexual assault victims shared responsibility for their assaults, said that women belonged in the home and couldn't drive, advertised dating 18 and 19-year-olds due to their relative sexual inexperience, and identified as a "misogynist" and "sexist". By the summer of 2022, Tate had become famous among far-right circles, acquainting himself with Paul Joseph Watson, Jack Posobiec, and Mike Cernovich. In August 2022, Tate was banned from Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube four months after he reportedly trafficked an American woman at his home in Romania, and, in October 2022, he announced his conversion to Islam because of his belief that the West was doomed. On 29 December 2022, he and his brother Tristan were arrested for sexually exploiting six women in Bucharest and coercing them into filming pornography. On 7 January 2025, Tate founded the BRUV Party with the intention of being elected to Parliament.