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Stuart Ashen
Stuart Clive Ashen (born 16 December 1976), better known online as Ashens (/ˈæʃənz/ ASH-ənz), is a British comedian, filmmaker, critic and YouTuber best known for reviewing counterfeit consumer goods. Since 2006, his YouTube videos have centred on examinations and reviews of various, often low-quality, products including toys, video games and food. His main YouTube channel has more than 1.6 million subscribers.
Stuart Clive Ashen was born on 16 December 1976 and grew up on the Heartsease Estate, Norwich, and attended Heartsease High School. He previously worked for PC World and Norwich Union. His mother, Pauline, died of cancer when he was eight years old.
Ashen has been reviewing food and various products in a distinctive style on YouTube since 2006. The items he reviews are often low quality and procured from various variety stores (notably Poundland), or are poor knockoffs of well-received or well-known products, which he refers to as "tat". Featured products are typically personally sourced by Ashen in the UK or during holidays abroad or submitted by viewers. Almost all of Ashen's videos are filmed in his home, showing only his living room couch and his hands, that are holding and pointing to the products he is reviewing, while his face is rarely seen by the viewer.
He frequently collaborated with his friend and fellow YouTube vlogger Barry Lewis, and in the mid-2010s, had a podcast and YouTube channel with him, both called Barshens.[citation needed]
As of 16 December 2025[update], Ashen has produced 960 videos on his primary YouTube channel, which has 1.65 million subscribers and more than 571 million video views. His secondary channel, used mainly for DVD extra style clips, along with an annual look with Daniel Hardcastle at a series of Advent calendars throughout December, has more than 319,000 subscribers and more than 63 million video views. In addition to his own channels he has also produced videos for other YouTube channels, which included "The Multiverse", a geek-themed channel controlled by ChannelFlip.
In 2013 Ashen, along with Emma Blackery, Daniel Howell (danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil), starred as a contestant in a remake of the 1980s television programme Knightmare during the YouTube Geek Week event.
Ashen made his first television appearance on a 2008 episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, where he played a cameo role as Mr. Noseybonk, a character from the 80s BBC children's show Jigsaw.
Ashen guest starred on The Armstrong & Miller Show for their "The Node" segment in October 2009. In early 2009, Ashen also released a very limited edition DVD anthology dubbed Ashenthology, containing a selection of his early videos as well as some unseen videos and animations; some of these videos were later released on his second YouTube Account: extraashens.
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Stuart Ashen
Stuart Clive Ashen (born 16 December 1976), better known online as Ashens (/ˈæʃənz/ ASH-ənz), is a British comedian, filmmaker, critic and YouTuber best known for reviewing counterfeit consumer goods. Since 2006, his YouTube videos have centred on examinations and reviews of various, often low-quality, products including toys, video games and food. His main YouTube channel has more than 1.6 million subscribers.
Stuart Clive Ashen was born on 16 December 1976 and grew up on the Heartsease Estate, Norwich, and attended Heartsease High School. He previously worked for PC World and Norwich Union. His mother, Pauline, died of cancer when he was eight years old.
Ashen has been reviewing food and various products in a distinctive style on YouTube since 2006. The items he reviews are often low quality and procured from various variety stores (notably Poundland), or are poor knockoffs of well-received or well-known products, which he refers to as "tat". Featured products are typically personally sourced by Ashen in the UK or during holidays abroad or submitted by viewers. Almost all of Ashen's videos are filmed in his home, showing only his living room couch and his hands, that are holding and pointing to the products he is reviewing, while his face is rarely seen by the viewer.
He frequently collaborated with his friend and fellow YouTube vlogger Barry Lewis, and in the mid-2010s, had a podcast and YouTube channel with him, both called Barshens.[citation needed]
As of 16 December 2025[update], Ashen has produced 960 videos on his primary YouTube channel, which has 1.65 million subscribers and more than 571 million video views. His secondary channel, used mainly for DVD extra style clips, along with an annual look with Daniel Hardcastle at a series of Advent calendars throughout December, has more than 319,000 subscribers and more than 63 million video views. In addition to his own channels he has also produced videos for other YouTube channels, which included "The Multiverse", a geek-themed channel controlled by ChannelFlip.
In 2013 Ashen, along with Emma Blackery, Daniel Howell (danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil), starred as a contestant in a remake of the 1980s television programme Knightmare during the YouTube Geek Week event.
Ashen made his first television appearance on a 2008 episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, where he played a cameo role as Mr. Noseybonk, a character from the 80s BBC children's show Jigsaw.
Ashen guest starred on The Armstrong & Miller Show for their "The Node" segment in October 2009. In early 2009, Ashen also released a very limited edition DVD anthology dubbed Ashenthology, containing a selection of his early videos as well as some unseen videos and animations; some of these videos were later released on his second YouTube Account: extraashens.