Spencer Matthews

He is the third son of landowner and entrepreneur David Matthews from his second marriage to Rhodesian-born Jane Spencer Parker, an artist.[2] His mother was educated at the Slade School of Art.[2] He is named after his maternal grandfather, Robert Spencer Parker, an architect.[2] He has an older half-sister, Nina,[2] and two older brothers James and Michael, the latter of whom died at age 22 scaling Mount Everest in 1999.[2]

The family owned Caunton Manor, a 30-acre estate in Nottinghamshire, and Eden Rock in Saint Barthélemy, one of the top 100 resorts in the world. Matthews split his childhood between the two residences.[2][5]

He was educated at Eton College.[2] In 1999, when Matthews was ten years old, his brother Michael was killed in a mountaineering accident on Everest, hours after becoming the youngest Briton to conquer the peak.[2]

He attended the University of Southern California where he studied Cinema and Television with the aim of becoming an artist, but dropped out after nine months.[6][2]

In 2007, upon purchasing a 10,000-acre estate with hunting lodge in Scotland, his parents acquired the Scottish courtesy titles of Laird and Lady of Glen Affric.[7][8]

He came into the public eye through the E4 constructed reality show Made in Chelsea.[9]

In 2017, he won the fourth series of Channel 4’s competition show, The Jump.[10] In 2018, he participated in and reached the final of Celebrity Masterchef.[11] The same year, he became the face of Cartoon Network's Ben 10 Deluxe Omnitrix Watch.[12]

2019 saw Matthews work alongside his wife on their own E4 show Spencer, Vogue and Baby Too. The show was renewed for a second series.[13] He also co-founded a bespoke diamond retailer, Eden Rocks, and Clean Liquor Company which sells low alcohol drink.[14]

Matthews has presented for the BBC's Watchdog, appeared in a CBeebies 2019 marketing campaign and worked with the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board.

Matthews married Irish model Vogue Williams on 9 June 2018 at his family's Glen Affric Estate.[15] They have a son born on 5 September 2018[16] and a daughter born on 22 July 2020.[17]

In 2019 Matthews and Williams purchased an apartment together in St.Lawrence's in Howth, Dublin.

Matthews achieved his blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in 2020 after training for 15 months.[18]

Matthews, Spencer (27 April 2014). Confessions of a Chelsea Boy: The Autobiography. Sidgwick and Jackson. pp 272 ISBN 9781447242703.

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