{"id":15864,"date":"2023-12-17T06:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/henry-rowley-the-british-posh-boy-who-became-one-of-the-years-breakout-tiktok-stars-ents-arts-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T06:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:54:20","slug":"henry-rowley-the-british-posh-boy-who-became-one-of-the-years-breakout-tiktok-stars-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/henry-rowley-the-british-posh-boy-who-became-one-of-the-years-breakout-tiktok-stars-ents-arts-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Rowley: The British ‘posh boy’ who became one of the year’s breakout TikTok stars | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henry Rowley couldn’t be more honest about enjoying the recognition that comes with going viral.<\/p>\n

“I really do love it,” he says. “Partly because I’m a vain ****!”<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old was a standout performer at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe<\/strong>, a prospect which not long ago would probably have made him laugh more than one of his own jokes.<\/p>\n

No longer a mere marketing executive after finding fame on TikTok<\/strong>, the comic’s growing collection of skits and impressions – each personifying parts of pop culture and society we can all relate to or poke fun at – have seen him amass more than 1.3 million followers.<\/p>\n

“It was pretty cool,” he says of the first video that really took off.<\/p>\n

“Each time you hit a milestone of numbers it’s so surreal, the fact so many people have seen your video.<\/p>\n

“But I think also I was keeping in mind that a lot of people probably don’t find it funny or even find it annoying, it’s just the nature of comedy, especially online.”<\/p>\n

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Growing up ‘posh’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since he shared his first video last year, Rowley has developed a cast of his own characters to go along with the countless celebrity impressions and film parodies.<\/p>\n

There’s Minty and Hugo, “the music guy at afters” and “the walking ick”, the husky-voiced posh girl Delicatessen.<\/p>\n

None of his clips are more popular than those sometimes self-deprecating riffs on Britain’s upper class, speaking in tones that would embarrass even Jack Whitehall<\/strong> and Boris Johnson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And at this most wonderful time of year<\/strong>, when Love Actually is as inescapable as mince pies and turkey, he’s certainly not letting his Hugh Grant<\/strong> and Keira Knightley<\/strong> impressions go to waste.<\/p>\n

“I’d grown up in Leicester<\/strong> being the posh one of my friends, and always sort of taken the p*** out of it,” he says.<\/p>\n

“Then suddenly I was in Bristol<\/strong> University surrounded by these posh kids and the minute they heard I was from Leicester they saw me as this little street urchin. I’m really not! So a lot of it is based on friends I made there, and sometimes even myself.”<\/p>\n

Rowley doesn’t take any negative feedback to heart – any comedian who does probably isn’t long for the circuit, although putting all your material online certainly makes you an easy target.<\/p>\n

Those who aren’t keen “normally just hate me from afar”, he says. “Which I’m OK with!”<\/p>\n

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A simple formula<\/strong><\/p>\n

With his videos attracting 69.1 million likes on TikTok, earning him fans all around the world, it’s safe to say he has mostly found himself an enthusiastic audience.<\/p>\n

While few are safe to embed in a family-friendly news article, each clip strives to be relatable in some way.<\/p>\n

As someone who had the misfortune of enduring the entire Twilight saga this year, his recreation of what it’s like to watch them is painfully accurate.<\/p>\n

The unremarkable selfie-style framing and sharp runtimes also suit the platform perfectly.<\/p>\n

When Rowley’s fans see him out and about, he can’t help but enjoy hearing about how much they enjoy his work.<\/p>\n

“It’s such a nice interaction meeting someone, finding out they find you funny or enjoy what you’re doing,” he says.<\/p>\n

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But there’s no real formula to his success, he insists.<\/p>\n

Well, no formula beyond doing something he loves – and he’s now making a living out of it.<\/p>\n

“If you don’t enjoy making the videos or don’t like the end product, what’s the point in doing it?” he says.<\/p>\n

“People always say to me, ‘why do you always laugh at your own jokes?’ And I say ‘because I find them hilarious. If I didn’t then I wouldn’t say them.'”<\/p>\n

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