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Daily Mail
27-05-2025
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- Daily Mail
Vogue Williams reveals she got so drunk on margaritas at Jack Maynard's lavish wedding that she can't remember a whole chunk of the night
Vogue Williams has revealed she got so drunk at social media star Jack Maynard 's opulent French wedding to a £440m heiress that she lost a chunk of her memory. The TV presenter and mother-of-three, 39, confessed she couldn't remember getting back to her hotel room after overindulging at the lavish nuptials of Jack and heiress Lily Mackie at the five-star Château Saint-Martin & Spa in Vence earlier this month. Vogue, who attended the star-studded society bash with husband Spencer Matthews, 36, and their two eldest children, Theo, five, and Gigi, three, made the candid admission on the latest episode of her podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me. 'It was the nicest wedding I've ever seen in my entire life,' she said. 'I got excited on the Friday because there was a margarita bar. I got excited, and the next day, I woke up and I remembered the last bit of the night but I definitely didn't remember getting into the hotel room.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Waking up next to husband Spencer, the former Made in Chelsea wild child who is now sober, Vogue admitted she felt a creeping sense of dread: 'I was looking at Spen and I was like [makes a despairing noise] - you know when you're quite nervous. 'And as I went up to the wedding party, lots of people went, 'How's the head?' And I was like, oh no…' Despite her boozy antics, she insisted she had redeemed herself the following day. 'I was an absolute saint on the Saturday though,' she added. 'What were they thinking, with a margarita bar? It brought them down because it brought me down!' The Irish media personality also joked that she loves the tequila-based cocktail so much she should launch her own line. 'I should bring out my own margarita mix,' she teased. 'But supposedly it's not the cool thing to do anymore – to have a drinks line.' Spencer, who has launched the low-and-no alcohol brand, CleanCo, might not approve of such a career move. While he has admitted to still having the occasional drink, the former reality TV star has publicly embraced a lifestyle that avoids booze almost entirely. The couple were among the high-profile guests invited to celebrate Jack's second wedding to Lily, niece of Pippa Middleton's husband - and Spencer's older brother - James Matthews. The couple were among the high-profile guests invited to celebrate Jack's second wedding to Lily, niece of Pippa Middleton's husband - and Spencer's older brother - James Matthews The pair had already tied the knot at Chelsea Town Hall in April, but threw an extravagant second ceremony in the South of France for friends and extended family on 16 May. Photos shared by Vogue on Instagram show her in an elegant silver midi-dress with a mock-neck detail and matching strappy heels, standing beside a tuxedo-clad Spencer. Their youngest son, Otto, two, was not pictured. She gushed at the time: 'This day last week at the most beautiful wedding we've ever been to… Congrats @lily_mackie @jack_maynard.' Jack, a social media star and the younger brother of singer Conor Maynard, wed Lily - whose businessman father is reportedly worth £440 million - in front of a well-heeled crowd that included influencers Caspar Lee and Josh Pieters, as well as Jack's siblings Conor and Anna. Vogue also revealed on the podcast that she and Spencer had once considered marrying at the same French venue before opting for a low-key registry ceremony in Scotland. 'Spenny and I, before we got married, we were doing our little registry office wedding in his parents' place in Scotland and then we were going to get married in this place in France,' she said. 'It's amazing. And I went, and I was like, thank God we didn't – we would have embarrassed ourselves.'
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Vogue Williams admits suffering from 'mum guilt' on special Q&A episode of the Mail's The Life of Bryony podcast
On a special bonus episode of 'The Life of Bryony podcast', model and TV presenter Vogue Williams answered viewers' questions on motherhood and toxic friendships. Debating the issues with Mail columnist Bryony Gordon, Vogue, 39, admitted she suffers from 'mum guilt' due to her busy celebrity lifestyle. Vogue married Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews in 2018, and they have three children together, Theodore, Gigi, and Otto. The TV presenter remarked that many mums put too much pressure on themselves to 'do and be everything'. 'I suffer from mum guilt all the time', Vogue admitted. 'I feel guilty when I am working, and I feel guilty when I am with my kids. I worry when I spend more time with one of them and not the others. 'I spend a lot of time with Theodore and Gigi because I take them places – so I have to create time to spend with Otto on his own. 'I think as women we put so much pressure on ourselves to be able to do and be everything. Going out there and working should be great for your children to see. 'Whether you're a working mum or staying at home, I think you're always going to feel some level of guilt. When realistically, you can't do it all.' Podcast host Bryony said that feeling of guilt is a generational problem, with women of a certain age raised under the false premise that they could 'have it all'. She said: 'Women of our generation were brought up with that notion – that you can have it all. 'Even the question itself – you see these high-profile women always get asked that question. No one is asking that question of men. 'I don't want to have it all – I don't need to be everything to everyone.' 'Everyone just has to accept that sometimes, laundry is a nightmare, and we might forget to reply to an email or several.' Vogue jokingly responded: 'I have 364 unread WhatsApps – It's terrible!' Listen to the full audience Q&A with special guest Vogue Williams here. New Q&As are released every Friday. To catch Vogue and Bryony's full and frank conversation, search for 'The Life of Bryony' now, wherever you get your podcasts.
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Vogue Williams looks stunning in a silver midi-dress as she joins suave Spencer Matthews and their children at Jack Maynard and Lily Mackie's magical French wedding
Vogue Williams ands Spencer Matthews shared a series of throwbacks on Sunday after attending close friends Jack Maynard and Lily Mackie's magical wedding in France. Maynard and Mackie followed their initial wedding at Chelsea Town Hall with an ostentatious second ceremony, held for a wider group of friends and family at the Château Saint-Martin & Spa in Vence on May 16. Exactly one week after joining guests at the luxury five-star hotel, Vogue was evidently still enthralled by their big day as she took to Instagram with a handful of photos taken during the ceremony. Posing alongside Spencer and two of their three children, Vogue, 39, caught the eye in an elegant silver midi-dress with a mock-neck detail, teamed with a pair of matching strappy heels. Accompanying his wife, former Made In Chelsea star Spencer, 36, looked dapper in a black tuxedo and bow-tie, paired with a crisp white dress shirt. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The couple were joined by eldest children Theo, five, and daughter Gigi, three, during the ceremony - but youngest child Otto, two, was curiously absent. Sharing a handful of photos from the big day, Vogue swooned: 'This day last week at the most beautiful wedding we've ever been to… Congrats @lily_mackie @jack_maynard.' Guests included Jack's brother Conor Maynard, sister Anna,and YouTuber influencers Casper Lee and Joshua Pieters. Mackie, the niece of Pippa Middleton through her husband James Matthews, looked elegant in a gorgeous white strapless wedding gown, with a lace veil. She is the daughter of electrical businessman Adam Mackie, who is believed to be worth an astonishing £440 million. Mackie and Maynard were first linked in 2020, after they met through their well-heeled reality TV circles. Romance between the heiress and TV star Jack blossomed when a fellow Made in Chelsea star, Miles Nazaire, introduced the couple - leading to theie original wedding on April 16. Mackie previously shared the first stunning glimpses of their intimate London wedding on social media. Maynard and Mackie (pictured) followed their initial wedding at Chelsea Town Hall with an ostentatious second ceremony at the Château Saint-Martin & Spa in Vence on May 16 The two children looked lovely in their wedding attire as they posed for a series of photos at the stunning five-star hotel and resort Vogue recently admitted her husband bore the brunt of youngest child Otto's 'hitting and biting' phase during a recent trip to Legoland. The Irish presenter celebrated Otto's second birthday in April, but a subsequent trip to Legoland at Windsor Resort in Berkshire almost went awry when the infant bit his father in the groin. Recalling the painful incident during the latest instalment of Vogue & Amber - the podcast she co-hosts with her sister - she said: 'It was so random, we just went there for the day. 'It took us thirty-eight minutes to get there from our house and I thought this is a bit of me. And I kind of went off with Otto a little bit because he wasn't able to go on all of the rides that the other kids were on. 'But then he bit, you know that I've been saying he's been hitting and stuff, he bit Spenny in the crotch.' She added: 'I was just like, "Oh God, that is bad." 'We still managed to have a fantastic day, despite the biting'.
Sunday World
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Vogue Williams opens up on death of father, husband's drinking and future plans
With Vogue Williams' new memoir Big Mouth out, the model told of her Made in Chelsea star husband's previous drinking, which she is glad is in the past. Vogue Williams with husband Spencer Matthews at the Baftas in London in 2023. Photo: Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images Model and podcaster Vogue Williams has spoken of the red flags she noticed from her husband Spencer Matthews when they first got together. The couple, who have been married for the last eight years and share three children, previously co-presented the Spencer & Vogue podcast until last year. With Williams' new memoir Big Mouth out, the model told of her Made in Chelsea star husband's previous drinking, which she is glad is in the past. Her book covers her' life story, from growing up in Howth, to her parents' divorce, wild teenage years, college in Aberdeen, a nascent public career as a DJ, model and TV personality, her father's death, her marriage to Brian McFadden, right up to the present day. Vogue Williams with husband Spencer Matthews at the Baftas in London in 2023. Photo: Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images News in 90 Seconds - May 24th 2025 Having been divorced from Westlife's Brian McFadden at 30, Williams and Matthews met on the reality television skiing contest The Jump. Despite assuming the role of a ladies man and a drinker, the Dubliner said he was both kind and fun. In an interview with The Irish Times, she told that her husband had 'red flags hanging off him', which included being fond of the drink. Her memoir tells of a tipping point where she told him that they wouldn't be able to continue their relationship if his drinking carried on in the same way. She credited his transition from that time, saying she much prefers him now that he is not drinking and that he has grown up and matured over the years. Last year, he finished a gruelling 30 marathons in 30 days in the desert as well as returning to his home city of London, to complete its world-famous marathon. She also downplayed any rumours of divorce, saying that speculation was rife after they discontinued their podcast, but that it was months in the making. The-mother-of-three, who opened up on the death of her father in 2010 which brought intense grief and the breakdown of several long-term relationships, said she feels really fortunate that she has found someone that she wants to spend the rest of her life with. Known for her openness in her podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me with comedian Joanne McNally, the book also speaks about a miscarriage she had after the birth of her first son, Theodore. She spoke of the callous nature of the miscarriage, which was confirmed in a clinic in London. The doctor announced the loss of her pregnancy without any compassion, but she conceded that it was perhaps more commonplace for them there. On her love of books, both reading and writing, the former model has hinted that she is ruminating over three book ideas she plans to bring to a publisher. The clothing line owner also said she plans to do more radio, as she enjoys covering for Ryan Tubridy on Virgin Radio. More TV is also on the cards in the future and she is in the midst of filming a home improvement programme called Renovation Rescue.
Irish Times
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Vogue Williams: ‘Spencer ran towards me with red flags hanging off him in every direction'
Vogue Williams is experiencing a common feeling that overcomes people who have written a memoir and are now having to do interviews to convince others that the book is worth reading. She found the editing process particularly gruelling. After months of going through every line, in a book that's all about her, she told a friend recently, 'I hate it … I hate myself too, I cannot read about myself any more.' She's joking, sort of. 'Then I had to read it out loud for the audio book, I had to read it four times. I was like 'here she goes again'.' Her entertaining book, which is definitely worth reading, is called Big Mouth, both because of the prominence of that feature on her face and because she has always talked a lot. The proof is in her school reports and in her podcasts, of which she has three – the most popular is My Therapist Ghosted Me , with her close friend, comedian Joanne McNally, which launched during the pandemic and grew so big it spawned a live tour . 'It's been kind of magic, great for both of us,' she says. Then there's Never Live It Down , in which she gets celebrities and comedians to recount their most embarrassing moments. The latest is Vogue & Amber (Amber is her older sister), which last year replaced Spencer & Vogue, the podcast she made with her husband until 'I could tell he was getting bored'. Vogue Williams: 'Whatever I have, it suits me down to the ground right now.' Photograph: Ruth Rose She has been married to Spencer Matthews , former star of reality show Made In Chelsea , for the past eight years. His family own Eden Rock hotel on the Caribbean island of St Barths and Glen Affric, a 10,000 acre estate in Scotland. Matthew's brother is James, who is married to Pippa Middleton, Kate Middleton 's sister. When I ask Williams what it's like to be so royal adjacent, she says 'I never actually speak about any of that because they're very private. And I'm not as private as everyone, but I think when somebody wants to be private, I respect that.' READ MORE Privacy is not something Williams craves, clearly – she shares a good deal of her life with more than a million social media followers – and a memoir seems an obvious choice for someone who is a bona-fide brand, the very model of a modern multi-hyphenated woman. In addition to the podcasts, she has her own gender-neutral children's clothing line Gen, a long-standing advertising contract with Fairy – she's the perfectly groomed woman in those ubiquitous 'click clack' ads – and has her own booming fake tan brand, Bare. As expected, the former model looks stylish and camera ready on the video call from her home in London. Several rings flash from her fingers and she wears necklaces with G, T and O charms, around her neck. The letters stand for Theodore (6) Gigi (4) and Otto (2), her three children with Matthews. She wrote the book herself and enjoyed the process, but name-checks writer and theatre maker Una McKevitt as a valued collaborator. 'I find her so interesting and inspiring to be around.' The narrative breezes along, with many tangents and unexpected details of her life: she doesn't wrap her children's Christmas presents, is just one shocking example. It's also laugh-out-loud funny: 'Besides permanently trying to make myself look younger and fake tanning all the time, I think I am fairly low maintenance,' she writes. She is a 'passionate' reader. And now a writer. 'I just love everything to do with books,' she says. Something happened when she had her first child, Theodore, and she went off books for a while. When she went back to them a few years ago, her husband was surprised. 'He said, 'you're reading?' and I was like, yeah, I read all the time … but he didn't know me as a reader.' She eventually wants to write fiction. Graham Norton is an inspiration – the Cork chatshow host started off writing memoirs before moving to novels. 'I really enjoyed his biographies, I mean he could just leave the pages empty and I'd love them …'. Her goal was 3,000 words a week but 'I was going over that, and I realised actually I'm going to finish quite early'. 'I just love everything to do with books,' says Williams, a 'passionate' reader. Photograph: Ruth Rose The book begins with a love letter to Howth , Co Dublin, where she grew up, which somebody from Tourism Ireland needs to immediately turn into an ad. Her childhood was happy, despite the fact that her parents split up when she was six. She thinks her anxiety, which she still suffers from, began as a young child worrying about her late father Freddie who had health and other problems. 'Everybody loved him, he was the life and soul of every party,' she says. But 'he would have been a nightmare to be married to'. I saw nothing wrong as a 16-year-old with sneaking out to nightclubs and stealing drinks. I used to drive them insane — Vogue Williams The family's life changed when her mother, the ultra-glamorous and hard-working former air steward Sandra, married Scottish businessman Neil. Her stepfather's business interests grew to the point where the family moved into a huge house on the cliffs of Howth with two swimming pools and a tennis court. That transition from being the daughter of a single mother in a family that couldn't afford a car to being called 'rich bitch' at school was 'weird and brilliant'. She lived a kind of dual teenage existence; when she stayed with her dad she could do as she pleased. Her stepfather was far more strict. He had grown up poor in the tenements of Dundee. She says her work ethic is thanks to him, but she was 'hard work growing up. I loved having fun, doing whatever I wanted to do. I saw nothing wrong as a 16-year-old with sneaking out to nightclubs and stealing drinks. I used to drive them insane.' Later, in her 20s, Williams would go on to have considerable success as a model in Dublin, although she's not sure if gigs where she was paid to stick her head in a giant burger – it's worth googling the photo – can really be described as modelling. A great woman for the side hustle from an early age, she became a DJ and was cast in reality TV show Fade Street, a show Irish people loved to hate. Her father died the first night Fade Street aired in 2010, and one of the best lines in the book is the family joke that 'he died because he was so embarrassed for me'. Vogue Williams: 'I much prefer Spencer now he's not boozing. He has really grown up and matured over the years' Williams uses this breezy, humorous tone to deflect, which can often make the darker parts of her memoir more affecting. Here's how she describes losing her dad after a second heart attack: 'My dad died of fun because he was always out drinking and smoking, having the absolute time of his life with zero concern for his health. It wasn't a surprise to any of us and I'm sure if there is an afterlife he would have been pretty chuffed with getting as far as he did living the life that he led, but it's still a ball of s**t to lose a parent and it happens to all of us.' That 'ball of s**t' had a deep impact on her life. In an attempt to outrun her grief, she emigrated to Australia not long afterwards with her new boyfriend Brian McFadden from Westlife. Interestingly, she doesn't mention his or anyone else's names in the book. She's aware that many people will open the book and go straight to the chapter called Big Wedding, Small Marriage. Was it difficult to write about? 'Yeah, it was quite challenging,' she says, adding that she 'doesn't want to throw anyone under the bus. You can read between the lines of why it didn't work out.' Anybody expecting salacious stories of Brian McFadden's relationship transgressions will be disappointed, although the reader is left under no illusions about the fact that there were some. She's careful about how she describes the 'many reasons' she ended the relationship, saying 'there are things that went on in our relationship that will never be forgiven'. Now 39, she knows they never should have got married; at 26 she was too young. 'You don't know yourself at that age.' She remembers not wanting to ring people to tell them she was getting married 'because they'd be p**sed off' which told its own tale. She says she was living 'someone else's life' in Australia. Her career felt less important than his. She wasn't suited to following someone else around while they work, and she hated being so far from home. The couple eventually moved to London but after four years, the marriage was over. Being divorced at 30, when her plan was to be settled with children by then, was disorienting. She did a lot of therapy, discovering things about herself like the fact that she is drawn to men with alcohol issues, depression or anxiety. She doesn't like calling her dad an alcoholic, but she writes in the book that he was 'functioning that way for most of my life'. The main way it affected her was that she has often ended up with people who are too 'fond of the drink' which is her preferred phrase when talking about her dad's issues. She often chose men she imagined she could 'fix', realising over time that it's impossible to help anyone who doesn't want to help themselves. 'I mean I had pictures of people like Eric Cantona and Liam Gallagher on my wall from age eight or nine, so from a young age I was drawn to people like that.' At this point the conversation is interrupted by Spencer Matthews. 'He keeps doing this,' Williams laughs, with an eyeroll. Has he read her book? 'I've not quite finished it,' he says, looking handsome and healthy and sounding extremely posh. 'But it's very well written, she is a literal marvel.' What does he think about the bits about him? 'Well, firstly I have no say in those bits and I imagine it's all accurate.' Williams confirms that she didn't run those parts past him before publication. The UK media has been full of speculation that they are divorcing, ever since they called time on their podcast Spencer & Vogue. It's fake news, apparently. Williams explains in the book that there were artistic podcasting differences; she enjoys light-hearted easy topics, whereas Spencer wanted more serious content. Despite having his exit planned months in advance, 'everyone decided we were getting a divorce'. They are very much together on the evidence of this interview. Vogue Williams and Spencer Matthews. 'Everyone decided we were getting a divorce.' Photograph: Ian West/PA With Spencer gone, we return to the subject of relationships. This tendency to be attracted to certain types continued with Matthews, who she met on reality television skiing contest The Jump. 'Spencer ran towards me with red flags hanging off him in every direction,' she says. 'I thought 'oh, he's right up my street, I'll have him'.' She had made assumptions based on his Made In Chelsea persona and 'what I'd seen or read about him'. He was the villain of that show, playing the part of a hard-drinking, ladies man. In reality, she says, he was 'really kind and fun to be around'. I remember Spenny once asking me if I had any friends that aren't gay. I said [her sister] Amber, then I remembered she is gay. So yeah, I'd say my friends are 90 per cent gay — Vogue Williams But Spencer was also 'too fond of the drink' and it did cause issues in their relationship. She recounts in the book that at one point his drinking got so bad she couldn't even trust him to take their dogs for a walk. She hated seeing him waste his potential. Williams is ambitious and wants her partner to be ambitious too. She says she didn't give him an ultimatum, but explained she 'couldn't continue if he wanted to carry on the way he was drinking'. 'I much prefer him now he's not boozing. He has really grown up and matured over the years.' When he quit drinking – 'I still drink sometimes but mostly I am sober' he clarified to me earlier – he started an alcohol-free drinks company called CleanCo and has become a marathon runner, taking that to astonishing extremes. Last year, he ran 30 marathons in 30 days in the Jordanian desert, and he recently completed the London marathon in three hours and six minutes. They are solid, it seems, but Williams is sanguine in the book, saying that having experienced the breakdown of several long-term relationships, 'it's more realistic to think they will all go the same way. I do believe, though, that I have met someone I want to spend the rest of my life with and I feel very fortunate.' She used the book to explore things she hasn't talked about on her various podcasts. She experienced a miscarriage after having their first son. Despite appearances, she says 'I can be surprisingly private about certain things'. She didn't talk much about her pregnancy loss at the time because she had a friend who was much further on in her first pregnancy, and 'had to give birth to the baby, and lost her baby'. Although her own miscarriage was 'incredibly sad, it was very early on and I already had a child. It was so devastating to watch my friend go through that, and it's not that I felt my own wasn't as important but I just didn't feel the need to talk about it at the time.' Writing about it didn't feel like a 'huge, massive' thing but one detail stands out. She was away on holiday when it happened, and when they went to a London clinic for confirmation, the doctor did a scan and just announced, 'Yes, that was a miscarriage, see ya later, bye'. 'I suppose they are used to it, but a bit of a nicer bedside manner would have been really appreciated,' she writes in the book. [ Even the word 'miscarriage' seems to suggest the mother is somehow at fault Opens in new window ] She also describes the book as her Botox coming out party. 'I've literally got a bruise on my forehead right now,' she laughs. She goes to an 'amazing' woman in a dermatology clinic in Dublin, every three or four months. 'I'm in and out in 10 minutes, which suits me … I want to age disgracefully.' She suffers with anxiety and hopes that her writing about it in painful yet typically funny detail might help other people. She has never actually been tested for ADHD, but she probably will at some point because her therapist thinks it might help her anxiety. 'Whatever I have, it suits me down to the ground right now,' she says. And the way her life is going, you can't really argue with that. Williams is an engaging interviewee; few subjects are off-limits. She writes in the book that in addition to what she calls her 'big meat cleaver hands' she also has a deep voice and says that when she orders room service in a hotel, she'll often be asked 'is that everything, Sir'? Before moving to the UK, she made several documentaries in Ireland including one called Transgender, an attempt to educate people on the trans community. While filming she was mistaken for a trans person herself. What did she make of the recent Supreme Court decision in the UK which ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law? She gets more serious for a moment. 'It's caused a huge amount of pain,' she says. 'I have a really good friend who is trans, and as soon as that ruling came out, I texted her, and she was like, 'it's really nice to hear from you and know that you're thinking of me through all of that.' Because I can't imagine how difficult that is … I learned so much from doing that documentary. I just don't understand it. I never will. It's the same with marriage equality. I never understood why people would care if somebody wanted to love somebody else. I don't get it. I just try and be as supportive as I can with all my friends within that community. It's all you can do at the moment, the whole thing is disappointing.' She writes a lot about friendship in the book, her gay friends in particular. 'I remember Spenny once asking me if I had any friends that aren't gay. I said [her sister] Amber, then I remembered she is gay. So yeah, I'd say my friends are 90 per cent gay.' She loves working out. One of the many rings on her fingers is a 'fitness ring' which tells her how many steps she's done. This morning she did a 5km run with friends and cycled in and out of town, an hour round-trip that, she points out, would have taken almost twice that in a car. Also, on one of her fingers, is half of her dad's wedding ring. Her sister Amber wears the other half. 'I'd die if I lost that,' she says. [ From the archive: Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally take home prestigious honour at British Podcast Awards Opens in new window ] She doesn't like to describe herself as an entrepreneur – 'it's such a cringe word; I prefer business owner' – but she exudes Big Entrepreneur Energy. 'I'm quite a creative brain, I go through phases where my brain is on fire and I have so much going on, whether it be TV or the next book I am planning, I'm always creating something fun and new.' Her ambition is almost blinding. She has three ideas for novels which she is bringing to HarperCollins and wants to do more TV work 'a big shiny floor show'. At the moment she's filming home improvement programme Renovation Rescue, which makes good use of her degree in construction and quantity surveying. She did it in Aberdeen, encouraged by her stepfather Neil, who said if she completed the degree she'd have his blessing to go and pursue a showbiz career. (He's retired in Spain now, but still looks after her finances. And her husband's too. 'It's practically his full time job.') She'd like to do more radio. 'I like covering for Ryan [Tubridy],' she says of her occasional stints on Virgin Radio. Her clothing line Gen, designed to be shared by siblings, is stocked in M&S and Next, while her Bare tanning products are in Boots. 'Because they did so well in Boots Ireland, we're now in the UK stores so thank you everyone in Ireland, we love you so much.' Vogue Williams with her friend, comedian Joanne McNally, who together present My Therapist Ghosted Me, which launched during the pandemic and grew so big it spawned a live tour. Photograph: Evan Doherty She is also in the process of trying to sell her duplex apartment in Battersea – 'Do you want to buy it?' – so the couple can buy a 'forever home' in the same locality, close to the children's school. 'It's a really family oriented area,' she says. What does she hope people take from her book? 'First of all I hope people don't think I'm regurgitating the stuff that I talk about all the time. Because it's not that,' she says. 'I want people to be able to laugh through parts, but to take things from certain stories, whether I'm talking about anxiety or death or grieving or break-ups. I hope people might learn from things that I've learned and mistakes that I've made. Mainly, I just really envision people sitting on the beach, having a cocktail and enjoying it. That's what I really want.' And then she's off, walking to the school gate to pick up her children, a woman with a big mouth and even bigger ambition, who has a lot more to do. Big Mouth by Vogue Williams is published by HarperCollins
