Spencer Matthews
Spencer George Matthews (born 6 August 1988) is a British entrepreneur and television personality, known for his appearances on "Made in Chelsea". He has also appeared on other television shows such as "Celebrity MasterChef" and "The Jump". He is the founder and CEO of CleanCo, a low- and no-alcohol drinks company. Early life. Matthews is the third son of landowner and entrepreneur David Matthews, from his second marriage, to Rhodesian-born artist Jane Spencer Parker. His mother was educated at the Slade School of Art. He is named after his maternal grandfather, Robert Spencer Parker, an architect . He has an older half-sister, Nina, and two older brothers James and Michael, the latter of whom died at age 22 in 1999 while scaling Mount Everest. The family owned Caunton Manor, a 30-acre 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. He was educated at Eton College. 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 . 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. 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. Career. Matthews came into the public eye through the E4 "constructed reality" show "Made in Chelsea". In 2017, he won the fourth series of Channel 4's competition show, "The Jump". In 2018, he participated in and reached the final of "Celebrity Masterchef". The same year, he  became the face of Cartoon Network's Ben 10 Deluxe Omnitrix Watch. 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. He also co-founded a bespoke diamond retailer, Eden Rocks, and the Clean Liquor Company, which sells low-alcohol drinks. Matthews has presented for the BBC's "Watchdog", appeared in a CBeebies 2019 marketing campaign and worked with the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board. Personal life. Matthews married Irish model Vogue Williams on 9 June 2018 at his family's Glen Affric estate . They have a son born in September 2018 and a daughter born in July 2020. Vogue gave birth to Spencer’s second son, Otto James, on April 18th 2022. Matthews achieved a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2020 after training for 15 months. 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. Publications. Matthews, Spencer (27 April 2014). "Confessions  of a Chelsea Boy: The Autobiography". Sidgwick and Jackson. pp 272 .