PRESENTING A CHILLING NEW SHOW VOGUE WILLIAMS ON A BIG FAMILY MILESTONE AND MAKING TIME FOR ROMANCE

'I want to spend more time with the kids in Ireland because it's such a chilled place I feel automatically relaxed there'

- LAURA BENJAMIN

Strong and sassy, frank and forthright, Vogue Williams isn’t your timid type. So it’s intriguing to hear that the woman who beat two sporting heroes – Dame Kelly Holmes and Mike Tindall – to win notoriously tough reality series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive in 2015 was so freaked out during the filming of her latest show that she had to sleep with the lights on.

In Spooked: Ireland, we see the mum of three in her beloved Emerald Isle, where she was brought up, to explore its most haunted locations. And even for a self-confessed sceptic like Vogue, it proved a spine-tingling experience.

SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS 

Uncovering chilling mysteries, myths and tales of murder, a team of experts attempt to bring peace to tortured souls refusing to leave their earthly dwellings, while Vogue also speaks to terrified locals desperate for help. No wonder she went home feeling a bit jumpy.

“I think if Spenny had been with me, I would have been totally fine, but I was getting back to my hotel at 2am after a day’s filming and leaving all the lights and the TV on because I was so on edge,” Vogue, 37, tells HELLO! – Spenny being her husband of five years, entrepreneur and media personality Spencer Matthews.

“It felt so much more scary, being on my own,” adds Vogue, who looks the very model of calm and poise in our exclusive photoshoot.

Having signed up for the show thinking it would be “a bit of fun”, Vogue, who presents the programme alongside a medium, a ghost hunter and a parapsychologist, wasn’t a total stranger to ghostly goings-on.