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Vogue Williams
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Williams in May 2014
Born (1985-10-02) 2 October 1985 (age 39)
Occupation
  • Presenter
  • media personality
Years active 2010–present
Television
  • Fade Street
  • Stepping Out
  • Bear Grylls: Mission Survive
  • Spooked: Ireland
Spouse(s)
(m. 2012; div. 2017)
Spencer Matthews
(m. 2018)
Children 3
Relatives
  • James Matthews (brother-in-law)

Vogue Williams (born 2 October 1985) is an Irish model and TV personality. She is well-known for being on TV shows like Dancing with the Stars and Stepping Out. She also won the adventure show Bear Grylls: Mission Survive in 2015.

Early Life and School

Vogue Williams was born on 2 October 1985. Her birthplace was Portmarnock, a town near Dublin, Ireland. Her parents, Sandra and Freddie, separated when she was seven years old. Her father passed away in 2010.

Vogue is the youngest of three children. She has an older brother named Frederick and a sister named Amber. She also has two half-siblings.

She went to an all-girls school called Santa Sabina Dominican College in Sutton. After finishing school, her stepfather, Neil Wilson, encouraged her to go to university. She studied building design and management at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. As part of her studies, Vogue worked on building sites in London for six months. Later, she returned to Dublin to study how to manage building costs at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Her Career in TV

Vogue Williams started her public career on 11 November 2010. She appeared in an Irish TV show called Fade Street. This show followed the lives of four young Irish women in Dublin. In the show, viewers saw Vogue working at Stellar Magazine. They also saw her taking acting classes and learning to be a DJ.

On 15 April 2012, Vogue joined Dancing with the Stars in Australia. She danced with a partner named Christopher Page. They were the third couple to leave the competition on 6 May 2012. In 2013, Vogue and Brian McFadden took part in a dancing show called Stepping Out in the UK. They finished in second place.

On 4 February 2015, it was announced that Vogue would be on the TV show Bear Grylls: Mission Survive. This show started on 20 February 2015. Vogue won the show on 3 April 2015. She beat famous people like Kelly Holmes and Mike Tindall. In December 2015, she was on a special celebrity episode of Catchphrase with Brian McFadden. On 21 June 2016, she was a guest on the TV show Loose Women. She also appeared on Celebrity Haunted Hotel in October 2016.

Vogue presented her own four-part TV series called Vogue Williams – On the Edge. In this show, she looked into topics that affect young adults. For example, she explored social anxiety and worries about body image. She was supposed to be on The Jump in February 2017. However, she had to pull out because of an injury she got while training.

On Sunday 29 March 2020, Vogue Williams became the new host of Sunday Breakfast on Heart FM radio. In September 2021, she started presenting the talent show The Big Deal on Virgin Media One.

Williams also presents the Spooked Ireland series. This show first aired in Ireland and then in the UK on 29 September 2023.

Her Family Life

In May 2011, Vogue started dating Westlife singer Brian McFadden. They announced their engagement on 12 January 2012. They got married on 2 September 2012 in Florence, Italy. In June 2015, Vogue bought an apartment in Howth, near Dublin. On 7 July 2015, Vogue and Brian announced they were separating after three years of marriage. They divorced in 2017.

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Glen Affric, the Matthews family's estate where Williams married Spencer.

Vogue became engaged to TV star Spencer Matthews in January 2018. Vogue and Spencer got married on 9 June 2018. They have three children together. Their first son was born in 2018, a daughter in 2020, and another son in 2022. Their first two children were christened in the Church of England. Their third child was christened Catholic.

TV Shows and Appearances

Year Title Role Notes
2010–2011 Fade Street Season 1 and first half of season 2
2011 Blow Up The Liffey Bridges! Molly Carroll A play performed in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin
2012 Dancing With the Stars Contestant Partnered with Christopher Page; third to be eliminated
2013 Stepping Out Contestant Finished in second place with Brian McFadden
2013 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
2015 Vogue Does Straight A's Presenter RTÉ2 documentary about revisiting the Leaving Cert examination
2016 Loose Women Guest panellist 1 episode
2016 Celebrity Haunted Hotel: Live Participant
2017–present Getaways Co-presenter BBC Northern Ireland series
2017 The Jump Contestant Withdrew in episode 1 due to injury
2017 Partners in Rhyme Guest 1 episode
2018 Celebrity Mastermind Contestant 1 episode
2019 Your Face or Mine? Contestant, alongside husband Spencer Matthews Series 6 Episode 1
2020 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Contestant 1 episode
2021 The Big Deal Presenter Aired on Virgin Media One
2023 Spooked Ireland Presenter Paranormal investigation; season 1
2024 Richard Osman's House of Games Contestant Series 8, Week 1
2025 Renovation Rescue Co-host With Luke Mabbott

See also

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