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, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, Financial Times and Country Life. In June 2026, Harry was awarded Commentator of the Year for his Times column at the Headlinemoney Awards. 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. His...
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, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, Financial Times and Country Life. In June 2026, Harry was awarded Commentator of the Year for his Times column at the Headlinemoney Awards.
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. His most recent Dispatches films have been Did Brexit Work for Business? (2021) and The Truth About Food Prices (2023).
On Channel 5, Harry presented the programme Supermarket Prices: Are We Being Ripped off? (2024). He frequently contributes to the Channel 5 Secrets of… series, going behind the scenes at Aldi, Waitrose, Costco and the like. He also presented the segment ‘Wallop of the Week’ on the Shop Smart, Save Money series (previously The Gadget Show), advising viewers on how to get the best deals.
He fronted the 8-part series Shop Secrets: Tricks of the Trade and the two-part programme, Something for Nothing, which looked at how you can live well for free. He also co-presented two series of Superscrimpers – all for Channel 4.
Harry’s most recent TV project is Battle of the Brands, a limited series for Channel 4 which looks at marketing battles between competing consumer brands.
He makes regular appearances on BBC News, Good Morning Britain, GB News, Newstalk, LBC, Times Radio and Radio 4, to discuss a variety of topics including gadgets, utility bills, parenting controversies and 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 panels.
