‘Meet the Rees-Moggs’ will give us an insight into the “very odd life” of the former Conservative minister, says his sister Annunziata Rees-Mogg.
The door will open to the home of ex-Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg on Monday, December 2, and his sister believes the new TV show could be “beneficial to the public”.
The reality TV show will follow the family, Jacob, his wife Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair and their six children, in both the run up to the general election and its consequential aftermath for the Tory party.
“I had reservations – it will become much clearer once it’s been aired, but I think showing sides of human life can be a positive thing,” says former MEP Anunnziata Rees-Mogg.
She says: “Of course Jacob is the former cabinet minister, but he is also a dad and a husband. I think understanding what politicians do day to day is something that’s beneficial to the public as it’s a very odd life.
“The risk he has taken to expose his family could pay off.”
Jacob spent 14 years in the House of Commons, serving as Member of Parliament for North East Somerset. July saw him lose his seat in a landslide victory to the Labour party, ending one of the most famed yet divisive political careers in modern history.
Annunziata also made a career in politics having been a Member of the European Parliament and standing in the 2005 and 2010 General Elections for the Conservative party.
“I stood for election a couple of times and it’s a life not many people do have to live, your day-to-day experience is very different,” she adds.
Meet the Moggs has seen the family compared to the American Kardashian family, yet Annunziata believes the Kardashian’s “win on every front”.
She says how “names or bank balance, they trump the Rees-Moggs”.
“They live an incredibly glam A-list life that Jacob and his wife and kids don’t,” she explains. “They do live a very different life to most people – but it does revolve around family and I think that’s what’s important to most people.”
Meet the Rees-Moggs streams on Discovery+ from Monday.
