Vogue Williams
| Vogue Williams | |
|---|---|
 Vogue Williams (2014) | |
| Born | 3 October 1985 |
| Occupation | Model, television and radio personality |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Television |
Fade Street Stepping Out Bear Grylls: Mission Survive |
| Spouse(s) |
Brian McFadden (m. 2012; separated 2015) |
| Website | Official website |
Vogue Williams (born 3 October 1985[1]) is an Irish model, television and radio personality, best known for participating in Dancing with the Stars and Stepping Out and for winning the 2015 series of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.[2]
Career
Her career began on 11 November 2010 in an Irish TV series Fade Street, a version of The Hills which follows the lives of 4 Irish girls in Dublin. The episodes focused on Vogue's work at Stellar Magazine, learning to act and her passion for DJ'ing.
On 15 April 2012 Williams participated in the twelfth series of Dancing with the Stars in Australia partnered with Christopher Page. They were the third couple to be eliminated from the competition on 6 May 2012.
In 2013, Williams and Brian McFadden took part in the ITV celebrity dancing competition Stepping Out.[3] The couple finished in second place.
On 4 February 2015, Williams was confirmed to be participating in the ITV reality series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive which started airing on 20 February 2015, she won the show on 3 April 2015, beating Kelly Holmes and Mike Tindall.[4][5][6][7]
In December 2015, Williams appeared alongside Brian McFadden in a celebrity episode of Catchphrase. On 21 June 2016, she was a guest panellist on an episode of Loose Women. On October 30–31, 2016 she was a guest on Celebrity Haunted Hotel on W.[8]
Williams presented her own four-part series called Vogue Williams – On the Edge, in which she investigated issues affecting the lives of fellow Millennials for example drugs, social anxiety, gender dysmorphia and the obsessiveness for 'the body beautiful'. [9]
She was due to take part in the fourth series of The Jump on Channel 4 in February 2017 however she had to pull out due to an injury sustained whilst training. She was replaced by Amy Willerton.
She currently presents her own radio show called 'Houseparty' on SPIN 1038, a radio channel in Dublin.
On 4 June 2017, in the wake of terrorist attacks in Manchester and London, Williams wrote an opinion piece for Sunday World entitled "Internment camps are grim necessity", which called for the establishment of internment camps for the detention without trial of "3,000 [Muslim] extremists living in the UK". [10][11]
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–2011 | Fade Street | Main | Season 1 and first half of season 2 |
| 2012 | Dancing With the Stars | Contestant | Partnered with Christopher Page. Third couple to be eliminated |
| 2013 | Stepping Out | Contestant | Finished second place with Brian McFadden |
| Reality Bites: Vogue Does Home and Away | Presenter | RTÉ2 series special about the 25th Anniversary of Home and Away | |
| 2014 | Vogue Does the Afterlife | Presenter | Aired on 18 December 2014 on RTÉ2 |
| 2015 | Bear Grylls: Mission Survive | Contestant | Series 1 winner |
| Vogue Does Straight A's | Presenter | RTÉ2 documentary about revisiting the leaving cert | |
| Vogue Williams – Wild Girls | Presenter | 3-part RTÉ2 series looking at women in prison, female fighters and sex swinging | |
| 2016 | Vogue Williams – On the Edge | Presenter | 4-part RTÉ2 series looking at transgender, bodybuilding, cat fishing and drugs |
| Loose Women | Guest panellist | 1 episode | |
| Celebrity Haunted Hotel: Live | Participant | ||
| 2017 | The Jump | Contestant (Withdraws Episode 1 due to injury) | Begins airing February 2017 |
Personal life
In May 2011, she began dating former Westlife singer Brian McFadden. Their engagement was announced on 12 January 2012 and they were married on 2 September 2012 in Florence, Italy. In June 2015, they purchased their first home together in Dublin.[12] On 7 July 2015, Williams and McFadden announced that they were separating after three years of marriage.[13][14][15][16]
She has a degree in Construction design and management and quantitative surveying.[17]
References
- ↑ "Vogue Williams: 'Everyone thinks I made up or changed my name and I'm actually called Joanne!' - Independent.ie".
- ↑ "Vogue wins Bear Grylls: Mission Survive". 3 April 2015.
- ↑ "Stepping Out line up revealed".
- ↑ "Jamelia for Bear Grylls' Mission Survive". 2 February 2015.
- ↑ "Bear Grylls stars in Mission Survive on ITV".
- ↑ "Getting wild: Vogue Williams drinks her own pee on Bear Grylls". evoke.ie. 9 March 2015.
- ↑ "You’d hardly blame Vogue Williams for breaking down on TV with this celebrity survival challenge". evoke.ie. 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "Jamelia among guests at the Celebrity Haunted Hotel this Halloween".
- ↑ "Vogue Willams-On The Edge".
- ↑ Brennan, Siofra (6 June 2017). "Vogue Williams calls for the internment of Muslim terror suspects - and is branded 'ineffably crude, stupid and pointless' by outraged fans". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ↑ Clarke, Donald (6 June 2017). "Vogue Williams is not an idiot, she’s a sinister totalitarian". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ↑ "It’s a big day': Vogue Williams and Brian McFadden buy Dublin house". evoke.ie. 23 June 2015.
- ↑ "Shock as Vogue Williams and Brian McFadden announce split". evoke.ie. 7 July 2015.
- ↑ "Black day at the races for recently separated Vogue Williams". evoke.ie. 13 July 2015.
- ↑ "'I haven’t had the best year' Vogue Williams admits she's struggling since split". evoke.ie. 9 November 2015.
- ↑ "Vogue Williams gets winter ready and shows off enviable bod after strict retreat". evoke.ie. 18 November 2015.
- ↑ "Bear Grylls Mission Survive episode 6".