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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Meet the Rees-Moggs review – my obsession with Jacob’s wife runs deep

Jacob and Helena Rees-Mogg sit on a garden bench with their children (excluding the eldest son, Peter)
Jacob and Helena Rees-Mogg with their children (excluding the eldest son, Peter). Photograph: Discovery+ UK

I often feel these days that I am going bonkers. Or that I am staying sane while the world goes bonkers around me, which amounts to the same thing. It is getting to the point where I will almost miss being disoriented if it ever stops.

There is no danger of that, however, for as long as Meet the Rees-Moggs exists. Yes, it is a reality show about the former Tory MP for North East Somerset, once described as “a haunted Victorian pencil”, Jacob Rees-Mogg, his wife, Helena, and their six children. “We had to try five times before we got one who looked like me,” says Helena, and she is right. Helena, I hazard a guess, is always right.

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