Andrew Tate BBC interview: Influencer challenged on misogyny and rape allegations

Andrew Tate has denied fuelling a civilization of misogyny and defended his estimation successful a combative interrogation with the BBC.

When the BBC enactment a scope of allegations to him - including circumstantial accusations of rape, quality trafficking and exploiting women, for which helium is being investigated by Romanian prosecutors - helium dismissed them.

When pushed connected whether his arguable views connected women harmed young people, the influencer claimed helium was a "force for good" and that helium was "acting nether the acquisition of God to bash bully things".

Mr Tate, who has repeatedly expressed his mistrust of accepted media, has a immense pursuing online but his views person until present gone unchallenged successful a nonstop interrogation similar this.

He agreed to our interrogation with nary acceptable conditions.

He dismissed the testimonies of idiosyncratic women progressive successful the existent probe who person accused him of rape and exploitation.

And helium described different woman, interviewed anonymously by the BBC earlier this year, arsenic "imaginary", saying she had been invented by the BBC.

The pistillate successful question, fixed the pseudonym Sophie to support her identity, told BBC Radio 4's File connected Four that she followed Tate to Romania believing helium was successful emotion with her. There, she was pressured into webcam enactment and into having Tate's sanction tattooed connected her body, she said.

When questioned astir Sophie's testimony, Mr Tate told the BBC: "I'm doing you the favour arsenic bequest media, giving you relevance, by speaking to you. And I'm telling you now, this Sophie, which the BBC has invented, who has nary face. Nobody knows who she is. I know."

Sophie is present helping Romanian prosecutors with the investigation.

I besides enactment to him the concerns of schoolteachers, elder constabulary figures and rights campaigners astir the power of his views.

These concerns see comments by the main enforcement of Rape Crisis successful England and Wales, who said she was "deeply acrophobic by the unsafe ideology of misogynistic rape civilization that Mr Tate spreads".

Sitting crossed from maine successful a tiny armchair, Mr Tate said those accusations were "absolute garbage".

Later successful the interview, helium said it was "completely disingenuous" to "pretend" that helium was damaging young people.

When asked astir organisations that blamed him for accrued incidents of girls being attacked, and pistillate teachers being harassed, helium said: "I person never, ever encouraged a pupil to onslaught a teacher, antheral oregon female, ever.

"I preach hard work, discipline. I'm an athlete, I preach anti-drugs, I preach religion, I preach nary alcohol, I preach nary weapon crime. Every azygous occupation with modern nine I'm against."

Mr Tate suggested that immoderate of his comments had been taken retired of discourse oregon intended arsenic "jokes" - including a video treatment successful which helium said that a woman's intimate parts belonged to her antheral partner.

"I don't cognize if you recognize what sarcasm is. I don't cognize if you recognize what discourse is. I don't cognize if you recognize what's satirical content," helium told maine erstwhile challenged implicit the comment.

His statement does not lucifer the code successful an online video seen by the BBC.

He besides denied admitting to affectional manipulation of women, contempt comments made connected a erstwhile mentation of his online coaching course, Hustlers University.

An instauration connected that tract began: "My sanction is Andrew Tate… and I'm the astir competent idiosyncratic connected the full satellite to thatch you astir male-female interactions."

It goes connected to accidental that Mr Tate's occupation was to "meet a girl, spell connected a fewer dates, slumber with her, get her to autumn successful emotion with maine to wherever she'd bash thing I say, and past get her connected a webcam truthful we could go affluent together".

The leafage has since been taken down.

When asked astir it successful our interview, Mr Tate replied, "I've ne'er said that."

I suggested that making arguable statements had brought him a batch of wealth by attracting followers who past signed up for a paid people connected however to go a palmy man.

Mr Tate replied: "I genuinely americium a unit for bully successful the world. You whitethorn not recognize that yet, but you volition eventually. And I genuinely judge I americium acting nether the acquisition of God to bash bully things, and I privation to marque the satellite a amended place."

During our conversation, which lasted astir forty minutes, Mr Tate pointed respective times to what helium called the "little pieces of paper" I had brought with me, telling maine I was "saying silly things" and should "do immoderate research".

In a motion of his mistrust of accepted media, our sojourn and interrogation were filmed by his squad for their ain usage - and aft we near helium claimed that the BBC had promised lone to inquire "sanitised questions".

While the BBC did supply topics of treatment earlier the interrogation arsenic a substance of courtesy, arsenic per our editorial guidelines, we did not hold the questions we would inquire successful beforehand and were wide that our interrogation would beryllium a wide-ranging, dynamic treatment with challenging questions.

Before we had adjacent near the building, Mr Tate posted a connection connected societal media promising to people his ain mentation of the interview, which helium did soon after.

The BBC has followed his lawsuit intimately since the extremity of past year, erstwhile the Tate brothers were taken into custody, and has spoken to witnesses, erstwhile employees, neighbours and associates, and those progressive successful the investigation, to portion unneurotic an close representation of the Tate brothers' clip successful Romania.

The brothers are present successful their sixth - and past - period nether judicial power successful this investigation, and immoderate indictment is expected wrong the adjacent fewer weeks.