Spencer Matthews | |
Birth Name: | Spencer George Matthews |
Birth Date: | 6 August 1988 |
Birth Place: | Grantham, Lincolnshire, England |
Children: | 3 |
Relatives: | James Matthews (brother) |
Occupation: | Television personality, entrepreneur |
Spencer George Matthews (born 6 August 1988)[1] is a British television personality and entrepreneur, known for his appearances on Made in Chelsea.[2] [3] He has also appeared on other television shows such as Celebrity MasterChef and The Jump. He is the founder and CBO of CleanCo non-alcoholic spirits.
Matthews is the third son of landowner and entrepreneur David Matthews, from his second marriage, to Rhodesian-born artist Jane Spencer Parker.[1] His mother was educated at the Slade School of Art.[1] He is named after his maternal grandfather, Robert Spencer Parker, an architect.[1] He has an older half-sister, Nina,[1] and two older brothers, James and Michael, the latter of whom died at age 22 in 1999 while scaling Mount Everest.[1]
The family owned Caunton Manor, a 30acres estate in Nottinghamshire, and Eden Rock in Saint Barthélemy, sometimes described as one of the "top 100 resorts in the world". Matthews split his childhood between the two residences.[1] [4]
He was educated at Eton College.[1]
Matthews attended the University of Southern California, where he studied Cinema and Television with the aim of becoming an artist; he dropped out after nine months.[5] [1]
In 2007, upon purchasing a 10000acres estate with hunting lodge in Scotland, his parents acquired the Scottish courtesy titles of Laird and Lady of Glen Affric.[6] [7]
Matthews came into the public eye through the E4 ‘constructed reality’ show Made in Chelsea.[8] In 2017, he won the fourth series of Channel 4's competition show, The Jump.[9] In 2018, he participated in and reached the final of Celebrity Masterchef.[10] The same year, he became the face of Cartoon Network's Ben 10 Deluxe Omnitrix Watch.[11]
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.[12]
Matthews is the founder of CleanCo, which sells non-alcohol spirit alternatives and focuses around the concept of living a 'Life Less Wasted'. He started CleanCo following his own journey into sobriety following the birth of his first child and becoming aware of a lack of sophisticated options for those choosing not to drink alcohol. [13]
Matthews has presented for the BBC's Watchdog, appeared in a CBeebies 2019 marketing campaign and worked with the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board. With his family's agreement, Matthews embarked on a journey to Mount Everest in an attempt to recover the body of his brother Michael. The journey was recorded in the form of a documentary titled Finding Michael, which premiered on Disney+ in 2023.[14]
Matthews married Irish model and media personality Vogue Williams on 9 June 2018 at his family's Glen Affric estate.[15] They have a son born in September 2018;[16] a daughter born in July 2020;[17] and a son born in April 2022.[18]
Matthews achieved a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2020 after training for 15 months.[19]
In 2016, Matthews admitted that he had previously used anabolic steroids. The previous year, he had been asked to leave the fifteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! due to his consumption of steroid pills while participating as a contestant in the series.[20]
Matthews, Spencer (27 April 2014). Confessions of a Chelsea Boy: The Autobiography. Sidgwick and Jackson. pp 272 .