I don’t want to be a celebrity,” former Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg insists when I ask him why he, his wife and six children have decided to take part in a Kardashian-esque reality series called Meet the Rees-Moggs. “You have to be open if you’re a public figure and if you’re telling people to vote for you, you have to tell them who you are and what you’re about,” he says. “And, of course, I thought it would be fun.”
It is not known how much he is being paid by Discovery+ for the documentary, but as his wife is the heiress to a reported £45 million fortune, money doesn’t seem to be a motive. So, what other motivation could there be for the former banker to take part in the show? Is it part of a plan to re-enter politics in the next election after he lost his seat in July?
You get the sense he misses the goings-on of Westminster – he confesses that he still sticks to his MP timetable of returning to his former constituency every Thursday afternoon to Sunday. But he says he hasn’t thought that far ahead. He jokes taking part in his family reality show is “better than going into the jungle” and that he has no plans to follow in the footsteps of Nigel Farage and Matt Hancock, who appeared on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
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