There was a time when Spencer Matthews was among the British media’s most maligned men. ‘There’s A Reason Spencer Matthews Is Still Made In Chelsea’s Most Controversial Villain,’ a 2022 article from women’s magazine Grazia reads. ‘How Spencer Matthews’s move from supershagger to woke-bro bankrupted Made in Chelsea,’ a headline from The Guardian unfurls.
We are now more than a decade into the era that no one saw coming; one which plucked Matthews from addiction and self-sabotage into a clean-cut, family man — one set on abolishing former stereotypes and growing from trauma. What sparked the transformation? “Meeting my Irish beauty,” he smiles from a July family holiday in Spain. “No, I think it’s all part of growing up and taking responsibility for your actions.
"I was pretty selfish about my own life. I would just kind of do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. And then, I met someone that I really cared about and began to see my behaviour affecting that.
"When that happens, all of a sudden you begin to realise that maybe your parents are right. When I addressed it fully and completely gave up [alcohol], immediately my life became completely different. Far more beautiful, better, full of energy, and you know.
.. full of colour.
It’s a remarkable thing.” A post shared by Irish Examiner (@irish_examiner) Over the past 13 years, Matthews has been a reality TV star, an entrepreneur, a competitive athlete, a father, a podcaster, a documentarian, a r.
