35 Things You Didn’t Know About Made In Chelsea
Amazing facts from the poshest show on TV
Channel 4Rumour has it that Phoebe-Lettice Thompson is seeing Foals drummer, Jack Bevan!
PA PhotosLucy Watson has appeared as a presenter on Daybreak.
PA PhotosVictoria Baker-Harber refuses to ever cut her hair.
Rex FeaturesSpencer Matthews has been linked to American Pie star Tara Reid.
WennAndy Jordan is a keen surfer who wants to set up his own watersports business.
PA PhotosRosie Fortescue went to Downe House, the same boarding school as Kate Middleton (although not at the same time).
PA PhotosRichard Dinan dropped out of school at 16 to become a businessman. He’s also the son of an actual Lady. So there you go.
Rex FeaturesMark-Francis Vandelli recently revealed that his parents threatened to disown him if he got involved in the reality TV show. He did it anyway and they forgave him. “My mother told me that if I ever got involved in reality TV then that would be the end of our relationship. My father said the same. So I really wanted to just do something for myself and kind of test how far it could go,” he said.
Rex FeaturesVictoria Barker-Harber owns more than 30 pairs of Christian Louboutins. Surely, she could share some with us, then?!
PA PhotosOne of Cheska Hull’s all-time favourite movies is Sleepless in Seattle.
WennJamie Laing claims his three special powers are that he doesn't sweat, he never tires and he can sleep anywhere.
PA PhotosIn 2011 Francis Boulle set up the website, www.sexymp.co.uk, which allows visitors to rate the attractiveness of members of the House of Commons.
Rex FeaturesSpencer Matthews’ father was once a car mechanic from Sheffield. “My dad is a working class, straight-talking Yorkshireman and he’s very proud of his roots,” Spencer said. “He is a natural businessman. He’s invested in so many things, but his main business now is the Eden Rock-St Barths hotel in the Caribbean.”
PacificCoastNews.comShe might be posh but Rosie Fortescue loves wearing high street brands.
WennJamie Laing has two full siblings, a brother and a sister, and four step-siblings from his parents' three other marriages. “But I’m the favourite,” he says.
Rex FeaturesBinky starred in Posh Rock, another Channel 4 reality TV show, which documented a summer in Rock, a village in North Cornwall, dubbed Chelsea-on-Sea.
WennFrancis Boulle’s full name is Francis Maximilien Yvan Christophe Boulle. Yes, really.
WennSpencer Matthews is bilingual.
PA PhotosOliver Proudlock went to university in Newcastle with Caggie Dunlop’s older brother, Freddie.
PA PhotosLouise Thompson used to date Francis Boulle. Hmm?
WennWhen he’s not blow-drying his lovely tresses, Ollie Locke is writing a fantasy novel.
Rex FeaturesJamie Laing studied theatre and performance at Leeds University; he also got together with Caggie Dunlop there.
WennVictoria Baker-Harber is half Fijian and has a second home in the Bahamas.
Bigpicturesphoto.comDid you know that Amber Atherton was one of the first cast members contacted about the project? The socialite and entrepreneur revealed: “The producer asked to meet all of my friends, and out of them she cast Rosie Fortescue. Then she asked to meet all of Rosie’s friends, and so on, until she’d chosen all of the characters.”
PA PhotosMillie Mackintosh and Caggie Dunlop spent their gap year together, travelling around Australia and South East Asia. But, try as we might, we just can’t imagine them with backpacks.
PA PhotosGabriella Ellis attended the Gillotts School in Henley-on-Thames, making her the only MIC star not to go to private school.
PA PhotosCaggie Dunlop’s family home is in the Isle of Wight, but when she’s in London, Caggie lives in Fulham (so, strictly speaking, she’s not Made In Chelsea).
WennHugo Taylor was linked to Princess Eugenie back in 2008, when the young royal was on her gap year.
Rex FeaturesCaggie Dunlop’s mum is a feminist academic.
Rex FeaturesGabilicious was born in Brazil and is a coffee heiress.
Rex FeaturesGemma Gregory starred as the young Estella, alongside Charlotte Rampling, in the 1999 TV version of Great Expectations. She has also appeared in The Gypsy Girl and My Family.
PA PhotosGabriella Ellis says her biggest influences are Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera.
Rex FeaturesAmber Atherton appeared in Chalet Girls with Ed Westwick.
PA PhotosCaggie Dunlop writes a weekly relationship column for the Evening Standard newspaper called Laid In Chelsea.
Rex FeaturesSmartypants Hugo Taylor has never got lower than an A in an exam.
