The police have issued a warning to a YouTuber following an incident involving former Apprentice contestant Luisa Zissman. This YouTuber is engaging in a concerning new activity called ‘auditing,’ where creators provoke innocent landowners and security personnel to produce controversial videos.
Harry Holton is involved in the ‘auditing’ trend that has gained popularity in the UK. He has previously tried to use his drone to capture footage over the training ground of Premier League club Aston Villa.
On his social media platforms, under the name H Audit, the vlogger shares numerous aggressive videos showing his unsuccessful attempts to take photos while being on private property.
They are designed to attract hundreds of thousands of clicks and can bring in hefty advertising revenue when viewed on YouTube and TikTok.
Holton’s recent offering where he targeted mother-of-three Luisa, 37, on her sprawling Grade II-listed country estate has already clocked more than four million views on TikTok alone.
But the Apprentice star has fought back and last night is thought to have travelled nearly two hours to track down his home address.
The ‘auditing’ trend took off in the US and started to make waves in Britain last year and has self-proclaimed auditors attracting subscriber lists in the hundreds of thousands.
Holton’s YouTube account has 13,000 subscribers which is significantly fewer than one of the most popular ‘auditors’, called Auditing Britain, which has 256,000 subscribers.
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Harry Holton pictured on his bike on Luisa Zissman’s private property where he was involved in a heated confrontation with the Apprentice star
Apprentice star Luisa Zissman was involved in an extraordinary bust-up with the YouTuber after he tried to fly a drone over her country estate
Holton is part of the ‘auditors’ craze that has swept across Britain and has previously attempted to fly his drone over Premier League side Aston Villa’s training ground (pictured)
The vlogger’s social media channels are littered with angry confrontational videos of failed attempts to take pictures while he is on private property
His most ‘popular’ video titled ‘Drone DESTRUCTION – Above the law’ saw him target gated Grade-I stately home Apethorpe Palace in Northamptonshire. It has racked up 120,000 views on YouTube.
The Jacobean English Heritage manor was bought in 2015 for £2.5million by French professor, diplomat and academic, Jean Christophe Iseux, Baron von Pfetten.
Holton uses the same playbook as he did against Zissman where he insists flying his drone over the ‘gorgeous place’ to take pictures before sparking an ugly row.
At one point a woman who identifies herself as ‘the Baroness’ stands behind the locked gates and asks him to ‘go away, please’ to which he rudely snaps: ‘Why don’t you go away? I don’t want to look at you anymore.’
An argument ensues where he taunts ‘oh well, let’s get this drone in the sky then’ provoking the angry Baroness to grab hold of the aircraft and causing it to break.
Worried police chiefs last year issued officers with official guidance on how to handle members of the public who have taken to relentlessly filming outside police stations as well as other public and private sector buildings.
The video-makers say they are checking up on organisations’ performance including health and safety compliance while also asserting the right to film and take photographs on public land – and their clips can bring in hefty advertising revenue when watched on sites such as YouTube or TikTok.
But the incidents can escalate into angry confrontations, most recently when a furious chemical company boss tried to smash a drone controller after catching a ‘hobbyist auditor’ snooping on his PPE use.
A man (pictured) tried to hit the drone controller out of auditor DJ Audits’ hand when filming at Libra Speciality Chemicals Ltd in Manchester last year
More staff were seen rushing out to confront the YouTuber and asking him to leave, in one of a soaring number of online videos posted by self-styled ‘auditors’ filming outside buildings
The drone and controller are pictured on the pavement after the clash which was posted online
Some of the most popular auditing YouTube accounts feature footage outside police stations across the UK, embassies, shopping centres and City of London institutions.
Auditing Britain has videos including footage of Kensington police station in west London as well as officers in Walworth, south London, Hertfordshire and Essex.
DJ Audits, one of Britain’s leading YouTube auditors, went to Libra Speciality Chemicals Ltd in Manchester last year to ‘check their compliance’ with health and safety.
But after he began to film the chemical site using his GoPro and drone, company staff swiftly came out of the workplace to confront him and question his right to record their business.
DJ Audits, who refused to reveal his identity, informed staff that he did not need their permission as he was filming on ‘public property’.
An argument ensued and a man who staffers identified as their ‘boss’ tried to hit the drone controller out of the auditor’s hand as he told him to ‘f**k off now’.
Zissman and Holton’s extraordinary bust-up went viral over the weekend after he travelled to her private property to fly his drone because he ‘found it online’ and liked ‘the beauty of it’.
It saw Luisa threaten to ‘shoot down’ his drone before both made common assault allegations to police.
She last night took to her Instagram page to publicly name Holton before making a £500 offer to the person who could tell her his address as it’s ‘cheaper me doing this than paying lawyers to do it’.
Luisa later told her 688,000 followers she had ‘just been to Harry’s house’ as she warned: ‘Oh this petty Polly will not let sleeping dogs lie.’
The journey is thought to have taken her nearly two hours.
The retail entreprenuer then posted a selfie alongside a picture of what appeared to be his front door with a strongly worded warning to the YouTuber.
Luisa warned: ‘Just in case Harry thinks I’m calling his bluff, here is me outside your house. I won’t post your address online, nor will I knock on your door, harass you, film you without consent on your property.
A row between Luisa Zissman and a YouTuber has taken a bizarre twist after The Apprentice star claimed to have tracked down his house
Luisa later told her 688,000 followers she had ‘just been to Harry’s house’ as she warned: ‘Oh this petty Polly will not let sleeping dogs lie’
‘In fact I stayed on the public areas and didn’t even step foot onto your property. But hunny let me tell you. This bit*h is crazy and the most annoying tenacious crazy you’re ever going to have had the pleasure of meeting.’
MailOnline has contacted Holton through his H Audit YouTube account for comment.
Holton on Saturday posted a jawdropping video on his social media channels in which he sits on his bike on a gravel path as a clearly upset and agitated Luisa pleads that her ‘life is very private’.
But he insists ‘I’m not going to fly it from here, I’m just going to go down the track’ before she says he is on her private property.
Luisa then threatens to ‘get the gun and shoot your drone down’ if he goes ahead.
‘I will shoot your drone,’ she says.
‘We have a gun, we have a gun licence. We shoot deers, we shoot foxes, we shoot rabbits. And drones. Because you are flying your drone over my private property.’
Asked by the YouTuber if she has done it before, Luisa says: ‘No one has been stupid enough to come fly a drone… but yeah Ian [the estate manager] has actually shot a drone before.
The mother-of-three, 37, confronted the content creator known as ‘H Audit’ after he travelled to her sprawling Grade II-listed property because he ‘found it online’ and liked ‘the beauty of it’
The Apprentice runner-up took to Instagram yesterday following the expletive bust-up where she posted a picture of herself taking part in clay shooting with the caption ‘come to mumma’
‘He is not in, Ian’s our estate manager who is probably getting the gun now. So if you want your expensive drone shot down, go ahead and fly it and we will shoot it.’
Luisa threatens to carry out a citizens arrest and detain him as things become more heated saying: ‘I’m about to kick you off your bike.’
She then moves into his path as he tries to edge further up the track and grabs hold of his handlebars.
An angry Luisa yells: ‘Yeah, I’m restricting your movement. I’ll f***ing take your bike.’
Holton says he will call the police as he points and shouts for everyone to ‘get off me now’.
The Apprentice runner-up took to Instagram on Sunday following the expletive bust-up in which she made a series of allegations.
She claimed Holton did not post the full footage in which she alleged he shoved her with his bike on her estate that ‘clearly’ has two signposts stating it is private property.
‘How someone can trespass onto MY property and then be upset when I stand up for my property and privacy blows my mind,’ she wrote.
‘And how anyone can defend his antagonistic actions, trespass and blatant disregard of the law needs to get in the bin.’
Luisa took part in the ninth series of The Apprentice where she finished runner-up to Leah Totton in the final
Luisa Zissman attends the 26th National Television Awards at The O2 in London — September 9 2021
In a defiant defence of her actions, she said she was always on ‘high alert’ having previously having to deal with death, acid attack, and kidnapping threats.
‘For some jumped up little p**** to come and try and gain entry to film my property is horrific,’ she said.
Luisa later posted a picture of herself taking part in clay shooting with the caption ‘come to mumma’.
A police patrol car with blue flashing lights and a siren blaring is seen in another video pulling up outside the home.
A police officer talks to Holton at the roadside and warns him Luisa has alleged he assaulted before he makes a counter allegation.
He then warns the YouTuber he is ‘under suspicion of an allegation’ and will be ‘coming to the police station’ after he refused to provide the cop with his details.
It is unclear when the fracas took place but the videos were posted onto social media yesterday.
Holton has more than 50,000 followers across his YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram accounts.
MailOnline has contacted Essex Police for comment.
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