Meet the ex Tory MP who wears starched pants, has never boiled an egg and eats foie gras (but loves a Greggs eclair)

JACOB Rees-Mogg is not your accustomed world TV star.

A erstwhile Tory Cabinet minister, helium is worthy tens of millions, has ne'er watched the Kardashians and astir apt thinks the sweetener hut is simply a cocoa store alternatively than a nightclub connected The Only Way Essex.

So erstwhile Jacob got an email asking his household to prima successful their ain show, helium assumed it was idiosyncratic was pulling his leg.

“I thought it was a spoof”, Jacob tells maine astatine his £6million location successful Westminster.

“I thought - wherefore would anybody privation to marque a programme astir us?”

But this was nary joke.

It was from the makers of At Home With The Furies - which follows ‘Gipsy King’ boxer Tyson Fury, woman Paris and their brood. 

They wanted to bash the aforesaid with the Moggs.

After discussing it, Jacob, his woman Helena (an aristocrat and heir to a £45m creation collection) and six children Peter, Mary, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred, and Sixtus determine to fto the cameras in.

And so, we participate Moggland. 

The bid kicks disconnected with Rishi Sunak calling the predetermination and follows the household arsenic Jacob and the Tories are swept from power.

It is simply a satellite of state houses, smoking jackets and household heirlooms. 

We conscionable their beloved nanny Veronica, 82, a cuddly matriarch who looked aft Jacob arsenic a newborn and is onto her 2nd procreation of Mogglets.

Unflinchingly polite and ever immaculately dressed successful a treble breasted suit, Jacob adjacent has his boxer shorts starched. 

“He likes them rather stiff”, 1 of his maids tells us.

His woman Helena is simply a affluent aristocrat whose afloat sanction is Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair.

The girl of the precocious writer and aristocrat Somerset de Chair and affluent heiress Lady Juliet Tadgell, she is acceptable to inherit her mother’ £40 cardinal creation postulation - which includes works by the Old Master Van Dyck.

But successful the amusement she  is a benignant of each mum; shepherding the kids to school  and organising day parties portion delivering witty 1 lines. 

At 1 constituent she sounds much revolutionary Marxist than precocious Tory arsenic she wryly observes the Conservatives “have gone from calamity to farce.”

Mary, 15, the lone daughter, tries to thatch her dada slang. She has immoderate occurrence with the connection “rizz” which a triumphant Jacob says means charismatic.

But “wasteman” has her dada perplexed. Does it mean dustman, helium asks with a puzzled look.

Every Saturday night, the household stitchery astatine their Tudor state heap successful Somerset for meal served - rather virtually - connected metallic platters.

Men and boys are successful suits, close down to small 7 year-old Sixtus. Ladies don frocks.

It is much Downton Abbey than Geordie Shore.

As Jacob explains to maine backmost astatine his Westminster home, cooking, cleaning and DIY are conscionable not his thing.

“What’s the astir exotic happening you person cooked?”, I inquire him.

A abbreviated soundlessness follows.

“Can you boil an egg?”

“I'm definite it can't beryllium that analyzable tin it?” Jacob replies, with a smile.

“Have you ever cooked for your woman Helena”, I persevere.

“No, bully heavens, I don’t privation to springiness her nutrient poisoning”, the Moggster responds, flashing a grin.

Nor has helium ever sewn a fastener oregon enactment up a shelf.

“I did effort mending a ceiling airy once”, Jacob volunteers.

“I had switched the mains off, and spent ages cautiously looking astatine the wires and everything.

“It was each going perfectly and past astatine the end, I dropped it. It fell disconnected the ligament and smashed.”

He baulks astatine the proposition helium was Britain's poshest MP (“gosh no!”), but erstwhile I inquire him what his favourite repast is I person to google the answer.

“It’s Tornadoes Rossini”, Jacob declares, practically salivating.

“It is simply a large lump of fillet steak, with immoderate foie gras connected apical sauteed…served with Pomme souffle.”

In different words - posh steak and chips.

But it isn't each good eating with daddy Mogg.

On the run way luncheon was astir ever a Greggs sandwich and cocoa eclair.

“Greggs bash the astir delicious cocoa eclairs”, helium enthuses, “they are fantabulous and fresh. I person a saccharine tooth.”

So what is Jacob’s presumption connected the large barroom debate? Is it jam oregon pick archetypal connected a scone?

“Now, the cardinal question present is the butter”, helium explains.

“If you person butter, you spell butter, jam, cream.

“If you don't person butter, past the pick is replacing the food and truthful you person pick and past jam.  

“But you tin ne'er person excessively galore dairy products. So doctors urge this - you whitethorn person to instrumentality a fewer statins successful return.

Jacob was the youngest lad of William Rees-Mogg, who edited The Times earlier becoming a adjacent successful the House of Lords.

Educated astatine Eton and Oxford University, helium is simply a devout Catholic.

His location successful Somerset has its ain chapel, and helium has a jaw-dropping postulation of relics.

These are bits of saints' bodies oregon apparel cherished arsenic symbols of devotion.

His astir treasured possession is simply a portion of the hairsbreadth garment worn by Thomas More.

More was a starring spiritual thinker who advised Henry VIII but was beheaded successful 1532 aft refusing to travel the King successful his interruption from Rome. 

Mr Rees-Mogg besides has a portion of the “true cross”, said to beryllium the transverse Jesus was crucified on.

“My astir prized relic is my hairsbreadth garment by Thomas More due to the fact that helium is simply a large saint and the certainty of it”, Jacob explains.

He is specified a instrumentality of Thomas More that helium cannot bring himself to work oregon ticker Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall - which paints More’s large rival Thomas Cromwell successful a amended light.

“No no, no, no. Thomas Cromwell is simply a dreadful man. Cromwell is simply a truly nasty portion of work, precise destructive”, the Tory tells me.

It’s not conscionable saints relics Jacob collects.

Hanging connected his surviving country partition is simply a framed handkerchief that was dipped successful the humor of Charles I astatine his execution successful 1649.

It was owned by Colonel Sir John Penruddock - who aboriginal went connected to pb a Royalist uprising.

Another prized possession is his vial of Queen Victoria’s anointing lipid - a teenage acquisition from his father.

“I was astir 15. I went backmost to schoolhouse and radical said, ‘what person you been fixed for Christmas?’ People had been fixed ghetto blasters and things similar that”,  Jacob recalls.

“I said ‘I've been fixed Queen Victoria’s anointing oil’,  which to maine was overmuch much exciting, but I deliberation my friends thought I was mad. I was thrilled.”

As a politician, Mr Rees-Mogg met royalty galore times.

For a portion helium was Lord President of the Privy Council - an past station which meant backstage audiences with Queen Elizabeth II.

“You didn't get beverage and the speech was lasting up, but it was perfectly wonderful”, helium says. 

And earlier you inquire - no, helium ne'er sloped disconnected to person a sneaky look astatine the loo.

But helium does callback 1 tense clip wherever helium had to ascent implicit Extinction Rebellion blockades to get to Buckingham Palace.

“We got to the gate, which would usually beryllium driven to, and said to a alternatively suspicious policeman ‘hello we are really present from the Privy Council’”, Jacob says laughing.

“We were fto successful - I deliberation our names were connected a list.”

A time is simply a agelong clip successful politics. The 5 months since the predetermination has brought monolithic change.

The caller Labour government announced £40 cardinal of taxation rises and farmers person been blockading Westminster with tractors.

Jacob brands Rachel Reeves a “menace” and says Labour are waging “class war” from No10.

In America, that different large world TV star Donald Trump was elected President.

Jacob thinks Trump’s comeback could pave the mode for different - Boris Johnson's.

“I person not spoken to him astir this but helium indispensable beryllium looking astatine Donald Trump and thinking, look, Donald tin bash it, he's 78 I've conscionable turned 60 - a batch of beingness successful maine yet”,  helium says.

Does Jacob fancy a comeback? 

“I emotion being progressive successful politics. I emotion being a subordinate of parliament, if the circumstances are right, I'd emotion to spell back.”

If Westminster is not connected the cards Jacob jokes that determination is different elected bureau helium could basal for.

“I americium eligible to beryllium Pope - immoderate Catholic antheral is”, Jacob says.

The Moggs bash Rome - that’s bid 2 sorted.

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