Jacob Rees-Mogg left viewers stunned when he compared himself and his wife Helena to Tyson and Paris Fury in a baffling This Morning interview on Wednesday.
The couple were interviewed on the ITV programme by hosts Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary to promote their new fly-on-the-wall documentary after a trailer was released last week.
Meet the Rees-Moggs is set to star the former MP, 55, his wife, 47,and their six young children: Mary, Peter, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred and Sixtus – as well as the servants who work for the family, including maids, a nanny and cooks.
The Discovery+ documentary will also follow his failed General Election campaign after he spectacularly lost his North East Somerset seat while standing next to a man dressed as baked beans.
Cat asked the duo: ‘Have you ever seen anything like it before? You say in the show “I’ve never seen The Kardashians” but did you start watching The Fury’s or something?’
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Jacob Rees-Mogg left viewers stunned when he compared himself and his wife Helena to Tyson and Paris Fury in a baffling This Morning interview on Wednesday
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Tyson Fury and wife Paris pictured in April 2023
‘We did watch it in the summer,’ admitted Jacob, with Helena chiming in with: ‘We did watch The Furys together’.
‘As your homework? joked a stunned Cat, to which Helena added: ‘It was too late by then we’d started’ and Jacob agreed: ‘We were well into it by then’.
The policitican added: ‘But I thought, and this is what’s happening now with this programme, I thought Mrs. Fury was wonderful and I think Helena comes out of this wonderfully.
‘Mr. Fury and I are sort of the old grumps in the background but I don’t mind that. Helena and Mrs. Fury are great stars in all of this.’
Suddenly, the interview took another bizarre turn as Helena jumped in to say: ‘Very kind, I think she’s much, much hotter than me so.’
‘Don’t talk yourself down,’ quipped Dermot, before laughing: ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation.’
At Home With The Furys was hugely popular on Netflix when it was released last year and immediately rose to the top of the streaming service’s charts.
With a similar concept to Meet The Rees-Moggs, their entertaining reality TV show gave an insight into their life parenting their six children.
In one hilarious scene in his documentary trailer, Sir Jacob’s maid is seen making a bed and then ironing some white boxers.
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The couple were interviewed on the ITV morning programme by hosts Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary to promote their new fly-on-the-wall documentary after a trailer was released last week
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Meet the Rees-Moggs is set to star the former MP, 55, his wife, 47,and their six young children: Mary, Peter, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred and Sixtus
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The documentary will also follow his failed General Election campaign after he spectacularly lost his North East Somerset seat while standing next to a man dressed as baked beans
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At Home With The Furys was hugely popular on Netflix when it was released last year and immediately rose to the top of the streaming service’s charts
She said: ‘He does like his boxers being ironed’ and Jacob explains this by saying ‘I am just lazy, that’s all’.
The trailer shows the family around their mansion in Somerset alongside clips of Jacob out campaigning in the general election.
In the trailer, Sir Jacob said: ‘I am afraid and this is probably a sin, I quite enjoy winding people up.’
The trailer features clips of Sir Jacob being shouted at by members of the public, with the former MP largely unfazed by their comments.
In one interaction a woman shouts ‘I hope you lose your job’, to which Jacob replies ‘thank you so much.’
Another woman is interviewed saying: ‘I would be over the moon if Rees-Mogg is gone.’
His children feature a lot in the documentary, in once scene in the trailer they are asked: ‘Do you consider you and your family to be posh?’
His eldest daughter Mary replies: ‘We have posh accents so, yeah if we are being real, we are quite posh.’
In another scene, one of his young sons excitedly tells his dad ‘lets go to Disney’ with Jacob batting away the suggestion saying ‘I don’t want to go to Disneyland at all’.
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With a similar concept to Meet The Rees-Moggs, their entertaining reality TV show gave an insight into their life parenting their six children
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The policitican added: ‘But I thought, and this is what’s happening now with this programme, I thought Mrs. Fury was wonderful and I think Helena comes out of this wonderfully’
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The trailer shows the family around their mansion in Somerset alongside clips of Jacob out campaigning in the general election
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Jacob Ress-Mogg is described as ‘the most controversial reality candidate’ as he is seen sipping a glass of wine
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Jacob and Helena have six children who are all featured in the fly-on-the-wall documentary
Promoting the first look on X (Twitter), Sir Jacob joked that the show was available with ‘the latest Magic Lantern technology’.
His sons are also asked about how they would describe their father, one says ‘funny’ and the other disagrees saying he is ‘very unfunny’.
The documentary has been dubbed the ‘British Kardashians’, but Jacob says ‘I think this will be a rather different kettle of fish actually than the Kardashians’.
Despite 17 years of marriage, Helena reveals in the trailer that it wasn’t love at first sight with Sir Jacob but asks the crew not to ‘tell him that’.
Sir Jacob is a precocious and at just nine he wrote his first will and testament.
When he was 12, he was selling stocks and shares and would amuse classmates by calling his stockbroker at lunch time.
As an adult, his interest and ability to make money grew and he is now worth an estimated £100million.
Together with his wife, he is also a director of the UK company Saliston. Its most recent accounts show net assets of £10.3million.
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Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg was a conservative MP from 2010 to 2024 and served in the government under Boris Johnson and Liz Truss
Since their marriage in 2007, he and Helena Rees-Mogg have also bought two properties in which they live.
The first is a house in his North East Somerset constituency which they purchased outright in 2010 for £2.9million; the second is a house in Westminster which they bought in 2018 for £5.6million.
Wealth experts have speculated Rees-Mogg’s mother-in-law, Lady Juliet Tadgell, is worth in the region of £95million thanks to her property interests in Britain and America and her extensive art collection.
As Helena Rees-Mogg is Lady Juliet’s only surviving child (her half-brother died in 1998 aged 36), it seems fair to assume that she will one day inherit some of her mother’s estate.
The politician lost his Somerset North East & Hanham seat in July’s General Election to Labour’s Dan Norris by more than 5,000 votes.
Afterwards, he said he could not ‘blame anybody other than myself’ and that it had been ‘a very bad night for the Conservatives’.
