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A primary trailer for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new actuality present has been launched.
Meet the Rees-Moggs marks the infamously posh Etonian’s transfer from politics to actuality tv following the lack of his North East Somerset seat to Labour’s Dan Norris within the final common election.
Within the trailer, Rees-Mogg admits he’s “nicely conscious” of the reputational dangers of permitting cameras into his house however provides the programme will likely be “a distinct kettle of fish from The Kardashians”.
Meet the Rees-Moggs is filmed on the former MPs seventeenth century Somerset mansion, Gournay Court docket, the place he lives alongside his spouse, Helene de Chair and their six kids – who’ve all been named after medieval saints, together with Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius and Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher.
The primary look footage from the five-part docu-series sees Rees-Mogg’s housekeepers scrubbing away anti- Conservative graffiti from the grounds, ironing the previous MP’s boxers and sharpening his silver.
“I’m simply lazy. That’s all,” the previous politician, who famously has by no means modified a single nappy regardless of having half a dozen kids, explains of the quite a few employees he employs.
Elsewhere, Rees-Mogg, who induced controversy by reclining on the entrance bench of the Home of Commons throughout a key Brexit debate in 2019 admits to the digital camera he “fairly get pleasure from[s] winding individuals up,” which the dedicated Catholic displays is “most likely a sin”.
Within the footage, which was filmed within the run as much as the 2024 common election, it’s clear the previous MP’s North East Somerset constituents are suitably riled. “I hope you lose your job,” one individual yells, whereas one other proclaims: “I will likely be over the moon if Rees-Mogg is gone.”
The Impartial’s personal South West reporter, Alex Ross, noticed the documentary being filmed, when Rees-Mogg turned up on the marketing campaign path with a full digital camera crew.
In line with Ross, the staff adopted him door-knocking round a housing property on the sting of Bristol and even induced controversy by filming him together with his household at church, apparently interrupting a gaggle of youngsters who have been receiving their First Holy Communion.
Upon shedding his North East Somerset seat to Labour within the worst consequence at a common election since John Main’s defeat in 1997, Rees-Mogg tells the cameras: “I’m not a canine. I don’t lick my wounds. Life goes on. What’s subsequent ought to all the time be the query.”
Meet the Rees-Moggs additionally offers perception into the previous MP’s personal life in addition to the political. When his spouse is requested whether or not it was love at first sight she shortly replies “no”.
“Clearly, I didn’t inform him that.”
Meet the Rees-Moggs will stream on Discovery+ within the UK and Eire later this 12 months.
