'Meet the Rees-Moggs' fly-on-the-mansion-wall TV documentary to launch

Ousted Tory MP, millionaire hedge fund manager and knight of the realm Sir Jacob Rees Mogg is to be the star of his own fly-on-the-wall reality TV show, it has been announced.

The five-part ‘docu-series’ promises to ‘lift the lid on the man behind the public image’, and will follow his ultimately unsuccessful attempt to survive the Conservative Party wipeout in the General Election of July 2024, and retain his seat near Bristol.

The series will be called Meet The Rees Moggs, and will stream on the Discovery+ channel from December 2, when channel bosses will do a ‘box set drop’ - releasing all five hour-long programmes in one go.

Programme-makers said they were granted ‘exclusive access’ to provide a ‘never-before-seen look into his life at home in the 17th century Somerset house where he lives with his wife and six children’.

“Following Rees-Mogg through the run up to the General Election and the aftermath that follows, the series will give viewers insight into the political figure who divides opinion as well as the husband and father at home,” a spokesperson said.

Sir Jacob was the MP for North East Somerset for 14 years from 2010, and unsuccessfully defended his seat - renamed North East Somerset and Hanham after boundary changes - against the man he beat in 2010, Labour ’s Dan Norris.

It was an eventful General Election campaign, which saw noisy ‘Stop Brexit’ man Steve Bray arrive in Keynsham to blast ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ outside Sir Jacob’s constituency office, only for the Tory politician to arrive in his Jaguar to counter that by blasting out Rule Britannia from his in-car stereo.

As well as renewing a political battle from 14 years earlier in fighting Dan Norris, he was also up against a man in a baked bean balaclava from the Monster Raving Loony Party. Ultimately though, Sir Jacob lost his seat with a huge swing to Labour from the Conservatives, losing by more than 5,000 votes.

Sir Jacob married Helena de Chair - the daughter of Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Tadgell, the former Marchioness of Bristol - at Canterbury Cathedral in 2007, and the couple have six children, with Sir Jacob infamously claiming to have never changed a nappy, saying: “I’ve made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever. I don’t think nanny would approve because I’m sure she’d think I wouldn’t do it properly,” referring to Veronica Crook, the nanny who raised Sir Jacob and his children, having worked for the family for more than 57 years.