1. Vogue Williams was born on 2 October 1985 and is an Irish presenter 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.
16 Facts About Vogue Williams
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Vogue Williams is the youngest of three siblings, after brother Frederick and sister Amber; she has two half-siblings.
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Vogue Williams attended the all-girls Santa Sabina Dominican College in Sutton.
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Vogue Williams returned to Dublin to undertake further studies in quantity surveying at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
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On 15 April 2012, Vogue Williams began her stint in the twelfth series of Dancing with the Stars in Australia, partnered with Christopher Page; they were the third couple to be eliminated from the competition on 6 May 2012.
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On 4 February 2015, Vogue Williams was confirmed to be participating in the ITV reality series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive which started airing on 20 February 2015.
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Vogue Williams won the show on 3 April 2015, beating Kelly Holmes and Mike Tindall.
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In December 2015, Vogue Williams appeared alongside Brian McFadden in a celebrity episode of Catchphrase.
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Vogue Williams was to take part in the fourth series of The Jump on Channel 4 in February 2017, but pulled out due to injury sustained whilst training.
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On 4 June 2017, in the wake of terrorist attacks in Manchester and London, Vogue Williams wrote an opinion piece for the Sunday World entitled "Internment camps are grim necessity", which called for the establishment of internment camps for the detention without trial of "3,000 [Muslim] extremists living in the UK".
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Vogue Williams acknowledged that internment in Northern Ireland didn't work but that terrorists today could not be negotiated with.
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Vogue Williams pointed out that internment in Northern Ireland drove Irish Republicans away from negotiation.
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Vogue Williams later said she had made a mistake and apologised for her stance, saying she had written it when she was frightened and angry and that her advocacy of internment was misguided.
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On Sunday 29 March 2020, Vogue Williams became the new host of Sunday Breakfast on Heart FM.
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In June 2015, Vogue Williams purchased an apartment in Howth, near Dublin.
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Vogue Williams became engaged to reality TV star Spencer Matthews in January 2018; Vogue Williams and Matthews married on 9 June 2018.