Imagine for a minute that John Logie Baird was around at the peak of the Industrial Revolution, and invented his television around the year 1800. By around 1810 we’d have regular TV news broadcasts. Around 1834,

"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.

This reality series will show Jacob Rees-Mogg, his wife Lady Helena, their six children, below stairs staff and Nanny Veronica. Their five-part series covers the couple as they juggle very busy lives over the last year in their two homes - a Grade II* listed 17th-century Somerset mansion and a townhouse in central London.

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,

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."I've said so many things,

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

In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people, Sir Jacob said it would have been " common sense" for residents to flee the building, ignoring fire brigade advice. A survivors group described the comments as "extremely painful and insulting".