First look at Meet the Rees-Moggs starring ex-MP on Discovery+

This is the first image from Jacob Rees-Mogg's new fly-on-the wall documentary dubbed the 'British Kardashians'. 

The former Conservative MP is seen reclining on a plush red sofa, reminiscent of the time he was rapped for slouching on the front green benches of the House of Commons. 

The politician is seen in his navy blue suit smiling warmly at his wife Helena who cocks her head towards him with a loving gaze. 

 Meet the Rees-Moggs is set to star the ousted MP, his spouse and their six young children: Mary, Peter, Thomas, Anselm, Alfred and Sixtus. 

The Discovery+ documentary will also follow his failed General Election campaign after he spectacularly lost his North East Somerset seat last week while standing next to a man dressed as baked beans.

The show will first hit screens on December 2 and promises to 'lift the lid on the man behind the public image'.   

While some have likened the show to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, others compared it to the 'spooky' TV hit The Addams Family. 

The programme, made by production company Optomen which also produced At Home With The Furys, will follow Jacob around Parliament and at his country pile of Gournay Court in West Harptree.   

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Religion occupies a central place in the life of Jacob Rees-Mogg – overriding even politics.

Friends have revealed that he has had a private chapel built at his house in Somerset, where Catholic Mass is said occasionally and which he uses as a place of contemplation.

He also reads the catechism to his children over lunch every Sunday as a way of passing on to them the teachings of the church.

In rare pictures of his brood, Jacob's children are all immaculately turned out dressed in shirts and ties and floral dresses.

Sir Jacob himself was precocious and at just nine he wrote his first will and testament.

When he was 12, he was selling stocks and shares and would amuse classmates by calling his stockbroker at lunch time.

Speaking to the Daily Express at the time, he explained: 'I like playing with money. I love the stuff. I want more and more of it.'

As an adult, his interest and ability to make money grew and he is now worth an estimated £100million.

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Together with his wife, he is also a director of the UK company Saliston. Its most recent accounts show net assets of £10.3million.

Since their marriage in 2007, he and Helena Rees-Mogg have also bought two properties in which they live.

The first is a house in his North East Somerset constituency which they purchased outright in 2010 for £2.9million; the second is a house in Westminster which they bought in 2018 for £5.6million.

Wealth experts have speculated Rees-Mogg's mother-in-law, Lady Juliet Tadgell, is worth in the region of £95million thanks to her property interests in Britain and America and her extensive art collection.

As Helena Rees-Mogg is Lady Juliet's only surviving child (her half-brother died in 1998 aged 36), it seems fair to assume that she will one day inherit some of her mother's estate.

The Rees-Moggs could, therefore, worth a combined total of at least £165 million. Ultimately, the family's wealth could plausibly exceed £200 million.

Sources close to Rees-Mogg, however, have described the figures relating to his family's wealth as 'fanciful'.

The politician lost his Somerset North East & Hanham seat in July's General Election to Labour's Dan Norris by more than 5,000 votes.

Afterwards, he said he could not 'blame anybody other than myself' and that it had been 'a very bad night for the Conservatives'.