Harry Wallop is a consumer journalist, feature writer, columnist and broadcaster. He writes for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, particularly the Times, where he writes the weekly Harry Wallop column for the business pages, as well as the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Guardian, Financial Times and Country Life. Harry is also an experienced television presenter and reporter, most notably presenting a clutch of Channel 4 Dispatches programmes: Secrets of Sports Direct, Secrets of Poundland, and Secrets of Cadbury, all of which are in the top five most watched Dispatches films of recent years. He is part of Channel 5’s Shop Smart, Save Money team, presenting ‘Wallop of the Week‘, advising viewers on how to get...
Harry Wallop is a consumer journalist, feature writer, columnist and broadcaster.
He writes for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, particularly the Times, where he writes the weekly Harry Wallop column for the business pages, as well as the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Guardian, Financial Times and Country Life.
Harry is also an experienced television presenter and reporter, most notably presenting a clutch of Channel 4 Dispatches programmes: Secrets of Sports Direct, Secrets of Poundland, and Secrets of Cadbury, all of which are in the top five most watched Dispatches films of recent years. He is part of Channel 5’s Shop Smart, Save Money team, presenting ‘Wallop of the Week‘, advising viewers on how to get the best deals, as well as a regular contributor to the Channel 5 Secrets of series of programmes, going behind the scenes at Aldi, Waitrose, Costco and the like.
His most recent Dispatches film, Did Brexit Work for Business?, investigated how British exporters were finding life one year after the UK-EU trade deal came into force. It aired in November 2021.
He also fronted the 8-part Channel 4 series Shop Secrets: Tricks of the Trade and also presented the two-part programme, Something for Nothing, on Channel 4 which looked at how you can live well for free. Harry also co-presented two series of Channel 4’s Superscrimpers.
He is a regular talking head on BBC News, Good Morning Britain, Times Radio and Radio 4 on topics as broad as gadgets, utility bills, parenting controversies to the state of the high street and food prices.
Harry’s book Consumed: how we buy class in modern Britain, was published in paperback in March 2014 by William Collins.
Harry also chairs and hosts large conferences and is a skilled speaker.
