Vogue Williams
| Vogue Williams | |
|---|---|
 Williams in May 2014 | |
| Born |
2 October 1985 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Model, television and radio personality |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Television |
Fade Street Stepping Out Bear Grylls: Mission Survive |
| Spouse(s) |
|
| Children | 1 |
| Website | Official website |
Vogue Williams (now Matthews, born 2 October 1985[1]) is an Irish model, television and radio personality, best known for, participating in Dancing with the Stars and Stepping Out and for winning the 2015 series of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.[2]
Early life and education
Born 2 October 1985 in Portmarnock, near Dublin, Williams's parents, Sandra and Freddie, separated when she was seven. Williams attended the all-girls Santa Sabina Dominican College in Dublin and then, at the insistence of her property-developer step-father Neil, enrolled and subsequently completed a degree in construction design and management at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. As part of her degree, Williams worked for six months in London on building sites. She returned to Dublin to undertake further studies in quantity surveying at the Dublin Institute of Technology.[3]
Career
Her career began on 11 November 2010 in an Irish TV series Fade Street, a version of The Hills which follows the lives of 4 Irish girls in Dublin. The episodes focused on Vogue's work at Stellar Magazine, learning to act and her passion for DJ'ing.
On 15 April 2012 Williams participated in the twelfth series of Dancing with the Stars in Australia partnered with Christopher Page. They were the third couple to be eliminated from the competition on 6 May 2012.
In 2013, Williams and Brian McFadden took part in the ITV celebrity dancing competition Stepping Out.[4] The couple finished in second place.
On 4 February 2015, Williams was confirmed to be participating in the ITV reality series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive which started airing on 20 February 2015, she won the show on 3 April 2015, beating Kelly Holmes and Mike Tindall.[5][6][7][8]
In December 2015, Williams appeared alongside Brian McFadden in a celebrity episode of Catchphrase. On 21 June 2016, she was a guest panellist on an episode of Loose Women. On October 30–31, 2016 she was a guest on Celebrity Haunted Hotel on W.[9]
Williams presented her own four-part series called Vogue Williams – On the Edge, in which she investigated issues affecting the lives of fellow Millennials for example drugs, social anxiety, gender dysmorphia and the obsessiveness for 'the body beautiful'. [10]
She was to take part in the fourth series of The Jump on Channel 4 in February 2017, but pulled out due to injury sustained whilst training. She was replaced by Amy Willerton.
On 4 June 2017, in the wake of terrorist attacks in Manchester and London, Williams wrote an opinion piece for Sunday World entitled "Internment camps are grim necessity", which called for the establishment of internment camps for the detention without trial of "3,000 [Muslim] extremists living in the UK". [11][12] She acknowledged that internment in Northern Ireland didn't work but that terrorists today could not be negotiated with.[11][12]
Donald Clarke of the Irish Times criticised her views as "illogical, totalitarian and profoundly sinister" and compared them to Breitbart and UKIP.[12] He pointed out that internment in Northern Ireland drove Irish Republicans away from negotiation.[12] He also criticised some response to her column as "predictably patronising, borderline sexist".[12]
She later said she had made a mistake and apologised for her stance, saying she had written it when she was frightened and angry and that her advocacy of internment was misguided.[11] She also said she had received death threats.[11]
Personal life
In May 2011, she began dating former Westlife singer Brian McFadden. Their engagement was announced on 12 January 2012 and they were married on 2 September 2012 in Florence, Italy. In June 2015, Vogue purchased an apartment in her hometown of Howth Dublin.[13] On 7 July 2015, Williams and McFadden announced that they were separating after three years of marriage.[14][15][16][17] They divorced in 2017.
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Williams appeared on ITV's Loose Women discussing her relationship with Spencer Matthews of Made In Chelsea fame, whom tabloids claimed she had ‘tamed’. Matthews and Williams were engaged on the stage at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 30 January 2018.[18]
She married Spencer Matthews in June 2018, at his family's 10,000 acre Glen Affric Estate near Inverness. Spencer is the youngest son of David Matthews, Laird of Glen Affric, by his second wife.[19]
In March 2018 she announced her pregnancy.[20]
She gave birth to a son, whom they named Theodore Frederick Michael Matthews, on 5 September 2018 at 3:55am in a London hospital.[21][22][23]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–2011 | Fade Street | Main | Season 1 and first half of season 2 |
| 2012 | Dancing With the Stars | Contestant | Partnered with Christopher Page. Third couple to be eliminated |
| 2013 | Stepping Out | Contestant | Finished second place with Brian McFadden |
| Reality Bites: Vogue Does Home and Away | Presenter | RTÉ2 series special about the 25th Anniversary of Home and Away | |
| 2014 | Vogue Does the Afterlife | Presenter | Aired on 18 December 2014 on RTÉ2 |
| 2015 | Bear Grylls: Mission Survive | Contestant | Series 1 winner |
| Vogue Does Straight A's | Presenter | RTÉ2 documentary about revisiting the leaving cert | |
| Vogue Williams – Wild Girls | Presenter | 3-part RTÉ2 series looking at women in prison, female fighters and sex swinging | |
| 2016 | Vogue Williams – On the Edge | Presenter | 4-part RTÉ2 series looking at transgender, bodybuilding, cat fishing and drugs |
| Loose Women | Guest panellist | 1 episode | |
| Celebrity Haunted Hotel: Live | Participant | ||
| 2017— | Getaways | Co-presenter | BBC Northern Ireland series |
| 2017 | The Jump | Contestant | Withdrew in episode 1 due to injury |
| Partners in Rhyme | Guest | 1 episode | |
| 2018 | Celebrity Mastermind | Contestant | 1 episode |
References
- ↑ "Vogue Williams: 'Everyone thinks I made up or changed my name and I'm actually called Vogue!' - Independent.ie".
- ↑ "Vogue wins Bear Grylls: Mission Survive". 3 April 2015.
- ↑ Williams, Vogue (28 September 2017). Everything: Beauty. Style. Fitness. Life. Hachette UK. pp. 2–11. ISBN 9781473649330. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ↑ "Stepping Out line up revealed".
- ↑ "Jamelia for Bear Grylls' Mission Survive". 2 February 2015.
- ↑ "Bear Grylls stars in Mission Survive on ITV".
- ↑ "Getting wild: Vogue Williams drinks her own pee on Bear Grylls". evoke.ie. 9 March 2015.
- ↑ "You'd hardly blame Vogue Williams for breaking down on TV with this celebrity survival challenge". evoke.ie. 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "Jamelia among guests at the Celebrity Haunted Hotel this Halloween".
- ↑ "Vogue Willams-On The Edge".
- 1 2 3 4 Kelly, Aoife (11 June 2017). "'I made a mistake and I'm sorry but the reaction I got - death threats - doesn't promote debate' - Vogue Williams on internment comments". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Clarke, Donald (6 June 2017). "Vogue Williams is not an idiot, she's a sinister totalitarian". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ↑ "It's a big day': Vogue Williams and Brian McFadden buy Dublin house". evoke.ie. 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Shock as Vogue Williams and Brian McFadden announce split". evoke.ie. 7 July 2015.
- ↑ "Black day at the races for recently separated Vogue Williams". evoke.ie. 13 July 2015.
- ↑ "'I haven't had the best year' Vogue Williams admits she's struggling since split". evoke.ie. 9 November 2015.
- ↑ "Vogue Williams gets winter ready and shows off enviable bod after strict retreat". evoke.ie. 18 November 2015.
- ↑ Vogue Williams and Spencer Matthews announce engagement featuring bizarre The Lion King musical proposal Irishmirror.ie 01 Feb 2018
- ↑ "See the incredible Scottish estate where Spencer Matthews and Vogue Williams said 'I do'". Hello Magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
Spencer's father David Matthews bought the Scottish estate in 2008, and has since held the title of the Laird of Glen Affric. The title will be inherited by Spencer's brother James upon their father's death, while Vogue's new sister-in-law Pippa Middleton will become known as Lady Glen Affric.
- ↑ "Vogue Williams landed €50,000 payday for glossy photoshoot announcing pregnancy". Independent.ie - 27 March 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ↑ "Spencer Matthews and Vogue Williams welcome birth of their son". Aberdeen Evening Express - 5 September 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
In a caption next to the photo, Matthews wrote: “This morning at 3:55am, we welcomed our son into a quiet London hospital.......Matthews is the son of landowner and entrepreneur David Matthews and artist Jane Spencer Parker, who are Laird and Lady of Glen Affric in the Highlands.
- ↑ Vogue Williams [voguewilliams]. "This morning at 3:55am, we welcomed our son into a quiet London hospital... He is beautiful and healthy. We feel truly blessed". Instagram. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ↑ Vogue Williams [voguewilliams]. "My whole world has changed with the arrival of our beautiful boy Theodore. The last two weeks have been the best of my life. I am loving every minute of being a mother, even the very sleepy wake up calls at night. Spencer and I have never felt love like it, Theodore you are our world...❤️". Instagram. Retrieved 15 September 2018.