Strictly Come Dancing star Vogue Williams has revealed her plans to go on a solo holiday to recuperate after a hectic Christmas period. The 39-year-old, who is also known for co-hosting the ‘My Therapist Ghosted Me’ podcast with Joanne McNally, 41, expressed that she’s not looking to save money but rather to indulge in some self-care.
Vogue shared that her decision was partly influenced by the lack of support she and her husband Spencer Matthews, 36, received during their time in Ireland. Despite having family and friends around, they were left without any help with childcare, which Vogue said brought her to her “end of the road”.
Speaking to her co-host Joanne, Vogue said: “I’m going away for Christmas…I’m not actually looking to save any money. I’m going to spend it all on myself, on my holiday, on my own.”
She recounted her recent trip to Ireland, saying: “When we were in Ireland, because I have friends and family there, I just assumed one of them, one of them might say, ‘Do you want me to take the kids over for a walk for half an hour? ‘ Not once. Yesterday, I said to Spencer, ‘I think I’ve hit the end of the road here’.”
The model and mother also opened up about the challenges of parenting her five-year-old son Theodore, affectionately called ‘T’, who has taken up a noisy new habit. She described the situation: “He’s started doing this thing where he just walks around screaming the whole time, or making these insane noises. So there’s never one tiny moment of quiet,” reports Dublin Live.
Vogue, mother to three children with Spencer, has openly discussed the pressures of juggling a bustling career with family life.
She expressed her feelings of being overwhelmed at home: “I feel overwhelmed in this house. It’s probably because I have been here for like a solid week. Now I’m just like ‘get me out of this house’. I can’t stand being here anymore, the kids are just so loud and you can’t get away from it ever.”
Vogue has previously touched on the hectic nature of raising Theodore, Gigi, aged three, and two year old Otto.
On the ‘Vogue and Spencer’ podcast earlier in the year, she compared the demands of parenting to partying, saying: “Weekends in our house are awful. They are a tough business. I would honestly say going on a bender for a week in Ibiza would be easier than a week in our house.”
Spencer concurred, describing the experience as exhausting: “You feel like you’ve been put in a blender by the end of it… It’s just that they always need something….Like Theo must have asked me for about 19 different things ‘Can I have waffles? Can I have water? Can we order this? Can I Google this? ‘ Like, can he not learn to type? “.