Who is Andrew Tate?
Tate – whose full name is Emory Andrew Tate – was born in December 1986, and his website says he is from Chicago, Illinois.
Who is Andrew Tate? The self-proclaimed misogynist influencer
Andrew Tate was removed from Big Brother over a video that appeared to show him assault a woman
The controversial British-American influencer Andrew Tate is facing trial in Romania charged with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.
After more than seven months under house arrest, he was released in August but still faces restrictions on his movements.
His brother Tristan and two associates also face charges. All have denied the allegations.
Separately, they are wanted in the UK to face allegations of sexual assault which they also deny.
A Romanian court has ruled that the pair, who are both dual UK-US nationals, can be extradited to Britain on a European arrest warrant once legal proceedings against them in Romania are complete.
Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed “misogynist”, rose to fame after he was removed from the British version of reality TV show Big Brother in 2016, following the release of a video that appeared to show him attacking a woman.
He said at the time that the footage had been edited and was “a total lie trying to make me look bad”.
Now, the 36-year-old former kickboxer boasts more than 6.9 million followers on Twitter – and a worldwide profile.
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Who is Andrew Tate?
Tate – whose full name is Emory Andrew Tate – was born in December 1986, and his website says he is from Chicago, Illinois.
He is named after his father, an American who worked for the US Air Force in Britain, and who was also a chess master. His mother and father met in the UK before moving to America where Tate was raised until his parents divorced.
Following the divorce, Tate moved to Luton, England, with his mother.
Both Tate and his younger brother Tristan said they experienced poverty in England. In interviews, they recalled going to KFC to save other people’s leftover chicken and freezing it for future meals.
Tate was a kickboxing world champion four times – but it was online where he found worldwide fame.
Tate has appeared in countless videos, flaunting an ultra-luxurious lifestyle of fast cars, private jets, and yachts.
Shortly before his arrest in December 2022, he engaged in a row with environmental activist Greta Thunberg on Twitter.
He claimed to have 33 cars and said he would send her a list of their “respective enormous emissions”.
On TikTok, videos with the #AndrewTate hashtag have been viewed billions of times. That figure also includes videos made by people criticising the influencer.
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