Spencer George Matthews is a British entrepreneur and television personality. He is the founder and CEO of the Clean Liquor Company and Eden Rocks Diamonds. He frequently invests in startups and early growth companies. He is best known for TV shows such as Made in Chelsea, Celebrity MasterChef, The Bachelor, The Jump and Spencer, Vogue and Wedding Two.
Early life
He is the third son of landowner and entrepreneur David Matthews from his second marriage to Rhodesian-born Jane Spencer Parker, an artist. His mother was educated at the Slade School of Art. He is named after his maternal grandfather, Robert Spencer Parker, an architect. He has an older half-sister, Nina, and two older brothers James and Michael, the latter of whom died at age 22 scaling Mount Everestin 1999. The family owned Caunton Manor, a 30-acre estate in Nottinghamshire, and Eden Rock in Saint Barthélemy, one of the top 100 resorts in the world. Matthews split his childhood between the two residences. He was educated at Eton College. In 1999, when Matthews was ten years old, his brother Michael was killed in a mountaineering accident on Everest, hours after becoming the youngest Briton to conquer the peak. He attended the University of Southern California where he studied Cinema and Television with the aim of becoming an artist, but dropped out after nine months. In 2007, upon purchasing a 10,000-acre estate with hunting lodge in Scotland, his parents acquired the Scottish courtesy titles of Laird and LadyGlen Affric.
Career
Matthews worked as a public relations manager and an actor and as a foreign exchange trader at Icap currency brokers. He came into the public eye through the E4constructed reality show Made in Chelsea. In 2017, he won the fourth series of Channel 4’s competition show, The Jump. In 2018, he successfully participated in and reached the final of Celebrity Masterchef. In 2018, he became the face of Cartoon Network's Ben 10 Deluxe Omnitrix Watch. 2019 saw Spencer work alongside his wife on their own E4 show, “Spencer, Vogue and Baby Too.” The show was so popular with audiences that it returned for a second series the same year. He has presented for BBC Watchdog, appeared in Cbeebies 2019 marketing campaign and worked with the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board. In 2019 he launched luxury diamond jewellery business Eden Rocks and the Clean Liquor Company.
