"I don't want to be a celebrity," former Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg insists when I ask him why he, his wife and six children have decided to take part in a Kardashian-esque reality series called Meet the Rees-Moggs.

He presents a new reality show about his ultra-traditional family. He lives in a mansion with its own chapel, where he attends Latin mass on Sundays. He has six children baptized with names of medieval monks,

The controversial former MP and his family feature in a new Discovery+ reality TV series titled Meet the Rees-Moggs.

With his pinstripe suits, impeccable manners and a tendency to quote Latin, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has long cut a distinctive figure in British politics, like a curiosity from another age.