Vogue Williams' brutal one-word assessment of Spencer Matthews before they met
Vogue Williams had a blunt one-word assessment of husband Spencer Matthews before the pair met. Irish TV presenter Vogue, 39, met former Made in Chelsea man Spencer, 36, while filming Channel 4's The Jump in 2017.
Their relationship blossomed while on set and they soon began dating, eventually trying to knot in 2018 at the Glen Affric estate in Scotland. They now share children Theodore, Gigi, and Otto together.
Vogue, however, confessed to having a "preconceived idea" of Spencer. While he has since tackled extreme endurance challenges, like his astonishing 30 marathons over 30 days in Jordan's deserts, Spencer's life was much different during his early days.
He first rose to fame as a heavy-drinking party boy in Made in Chelsea. It prompted Vogue to decide she wouldn't be a fan of the reality star.
Speaking to The Sun, Vogue said: "I kind of met him with a preconceived idea, and I was like, 'I'm not going to like him' because I thought he was a sociopath."
"But after I met him, I loved his personality straight away ... he was so sound, but I was being really good at being single and I wanted to stay single, so I thought, 'He's going to be a really good friend'? That's the first thing I thought."
Even though it's all smooth sailing now, Vogue once shared that she would have given Spencer the digital cold shoulder on a dating app. On their podcast Vogue & Amber, alongside her sister Amber Wilson, Vogue chimed in advice for a fan navigating the tricky waters of online dating for true romance.
Vogue Williams shared her thoughts on dating apps, saying: "I totally get that, and I've got single friends and they feel the same. Although dating apps are obviously a great place to start, I've personally never used them, but I've had a go on other peoples."
She continued, "But you're just judging someone completely on the way they look. And I always say this, Spencer is obviously gorgeous, but he wouldn't have been my type when we met. And I would have swiped past him on a dating app."
The love story between Vogue and Spencer Matthews has blossomed over the years, with the couple recently marking their seventh wedding anniversary. While they kept celebrations low-key this year, Vogue has grand plans for their tenth anniversary.
On her podcast 'My Therapist Ghosted Me', Vogue revealed to her friend Joanne McNally that she's planning a third wedding in 2028. This follows their second wedding, which was part of their reality TV series 'Vogue, Spencer and Wedding Two'.
She explained: "I have bad news. Spen and I, when we're 10 years married, in three years time, we are going to do a wedding. I know that we got married, but when we got married in Scotland and that wasn't meant to be our wedding, there were like 20 people there.
"Then we did the TV wedding, which wasn't a real wedding, because it just wasn't a real wedding, it was for TV. We actually want to do a wedding in three years' time when we're married for 10 years. No one will bloody believe it, imagine being married to someone for 10 years."
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