The controversial former MP and his family feature in a new Discovery+ reality TV series titled Meet the Rees-Moggs.

"I don't want to be a celebrity," former Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg insists when I ask him why he, his wife and six children have decided to take part in a Kardashian-esque reality series called Meet the Rees-Moggs.

Imagine for a minute that John Logie Baird was around at the peak of the Industrial Revolution, and invented his television around the year 1800. By around 1810 we’d have regular TV news broadcasts. Around 1834,

In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people, Sir Jacob said it would have been " common sense" for residents to flee the building, ignoring fire brigade advice. A survivors group described the comments as "extremely painful and insulting".

With his pinstripe suits, impeccable manners and a tendency to quote Latin, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has long cut a distinctive figure in British politics, like a curiosity from another age.

Money is something I’ve always liked,” said a 12-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg in a 1982 interview. “I’ve always wanted to be rich.” Now a multi-millionaire, the former Tory MP, Brexiteer — and star of his own reality TV show,

He presents a new reality show about his ultra-traditional family. He lives in a mansion with its own chapel, where he attends Latin mass on Sundays. He has six children baptized with names of medieval monks,