Vogue Williams and Spencer Matthews married

Vogue Matthews (née Williams, born 2 October 1985^[1]) is an Irish model and media personality, known for participating in Dancing with the Stars and Stepping Out and for winning the 2015 series of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.^[2]

Early life and education

Williams was born on 2 October 1985 in Portmarnock, a northern suburb of Dublin. Her parents, Sandra and Freddie, a former car salesman^[3], separated when she was seven, and her father died in 2010. She was the youngest of three siblings, with a brother, Frederick, and a sister, Amber, and she also has two half siblings.^[4][5]

Williams attended the all-girls Santa Sabina Dominican College in Sutton and then, at the insistence of her property-developer stepfather Neil Wilson, enrolled for and subsequently completed a degree in construction design and management at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. As part of her degree, Williams worked for six months in London on building sites. She returned to Dublin to undertake further studies in quantity surveying at the Dublin Institute of Technology.^[6]

Williams's step-father Neil Wilson is best known for establishing the IT company Datalex.