Spencer Matthews slams 'toxic' Made In Chelsea and admits he's 'not a fan'

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Privacy Notice Spencer Matthews rose to fame when he appeared on the first series of E4’s Made In Chelsea back in 2011. But the 35 year old has a bittersweet relationship with the reality show, which he exited in 2015. While he accepts that it gave him a platform, Spencer told OK! that his participation “became quite toxic”. We caught up with Spencer views on tackling trolls’ cruel comments, reality TV and the growing brood he shares with stunning wife Vogue Williams… Hi Spencer. You’ve been subjected to body shaming and cruel comments about your appearance, and you took action on Instagram recently. Why did you hit back? The comments are only from women. I thought it was important to bring it up because I have children at home. If the comments were remotely bothering me, I questioned what it was going to be like for my daughter and other young women online. I’m training for specific purpose and I’m very aware that I’m losing weight and my body is getting smaller. It’s a conscious decision. I find social media to be a very strange place at times. There I was doing something for charity and I was getting people saying “You’re not sexy any more” or “You look ill.” It’s sad that people feel so comfortable commenting on the appearance of others. I would never message somebody I didn’t know and say they looked old, overweight, skinny and ill.

Spencer and Vogue have their own podcast

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Vogue gets it a lot too, doesn’t she? It’s so false and there’s no concern. It’s meant to be cruel and it’s not cool. Nobody likes reading horrible messages about themselves. I thought I would say something, and the response has been massive. Did the hate stop? I got one message in the aftermath. It used to be 50 a day. I’m not crying myself to sleep. Your late brother Michael climbed Mount Everest. Does challenging yourself run in your blood? The three boys in my family were always relatively adventurous. My adventurous nature was stunted by alcoholism from the age of 16/17 all the way up to 29. I lost a lot of that in me. After going teetotal for about three-and-a-half years, I was able to find my similarities to my brothers Mike and James. I started to follow in James’ footsteps, he did a lot to raise money for the Michael Matthews Foundation. He ran 20 or 30 marathons, organised events and cycled across America. I looked at him like he was crazy because I never quite understood why he would want to put himself through that level of physical pain. After giving up alcohol I understood more about pushing yourself through boundaries. I haven’t hit breaking point yet.

The couple share three children – Theodore, Gigi and Otto

When you lost Mike, did that bring you closer to James in any way? James hates being spoken about. We were very different for a long time because my priorities were all wrong. I was interested in socialising and drinking, but he’s always been a wonderful in-tune person who worked incredibly hard. I looked at him and I thought I could never be like that. Here he was running a marathon and running a hedge fund and I was a loser. That did help me when I got sober, I knew I could be like him. Have you ever watched yourself back on Made In Chelsea? I wasn’t a fan of the show when I was doing it. I’m aware of how popular Made In Chelsea is and no matter what I do I will always be connected to it. That show carries no weight, it’s an entertainment reality show. If people love it, good for me, but I fell out of love with it a really long time ago. Obviously, it gave me the platform that I now build on and enjoy. That’s great. The people who created the show are friends of mine, but the show itself became quite toxic for me.

Spencer said he “wasn’t a fan” of MIC
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Have you moved away completely from reality TV? I’ll do any project that I find interesting and that others will find interesting. I did Pilgrimage, MasterChef and The Jump. Celebrity Big Brother is a popularity contest, I don’t need to be told I’m funny or cool. I’m 35 and I have kids. Back then, maybe I sought validation and I wanted to be loved. I don’t feel that way any more. Catch Spencer & Vogue wherever you get your podcastsStory SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnBig BrotherMade In ChelseaMasterchefThe JumpSpencer Matthews

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