Vogue Williams is said to be feeling sore after Jamie Laing brought up her ex-husband Brian McFadden during a podcast interview.
Reflecting on the collapse of her marriage while on Jamie’s Great Company in May, she said: ‘It’s really embarrassing.
‘It’s quite humiliating because you know people have started speculating and people started talking about it and you’re hearing it, you know it’s true and you’re trying to not let it out.
‘We released a really cringy statement as well, which I don’t think is necessary.’
She also said that she had felt like a ‘failure’ at the time, because many around her had expected their divorce.
A source has now claimed that Vogue felt blindsided by Jamie bringing up the subject of her ex, describing the incident as ‘awkward and embarrassing for her.’
A source told The Sun: ‘She was too young and impressionable and got swept away by Brian and his boyband fame and their marriage was a disaster.
‘Bringing up Brian takes her back to a place she would rather forget. It’s awkward and embarrassing for her.
‘She sees it as a mistake she’d rather leave in the past so she was quite upset when Jamie mentioned his name like he was still part of her life – it was a bit of a low blow actually and left her wondering why he did that when he knew how it would make her feel.’
Irish television presenter and media personality Vogue rose to fame on the 2010 reality series Fade Street.
She met Westlife star Brian at a nightclub in 2011, and they were married the following year.
Their marriage lasted for three years, with the pair announcing in 2015 that they had split up.
This, they did through matching social media posts, shared via Twitter.
In hers, Vogue wrote: ‘It is with sadness that Brian and I have made the tough decision to go our separate ways.
‘We will always care greatly about each other, remain friends and wish each other all the very best for the future.
‘We have nothing else to say on the subject and we would like to thank our friends and family for their support during this difficult period. Vogue x.’
The couple’s divorce was finalised in 2017, two years after they announced that they would be separating.
Reflecting on their marriage from his end, Brian said in 2018: ‘I don’t speak to Vogue any more either.
‘It’s pointless. She’s married now and is having a baby.’
Describing Spencer as a ‘great guy,’ he added that he’s ‘delighted for her and I hope she has a lovely family.’
Since then, Vogue has always maintained that the marriage was a mistake,explaining in her 2025 autobiography how she’d tried to ‘make it work’ regardless.
‘The relationship wasn’t all terrible, we did have some great times too, and for the most part he was good fun to be around,’ she admitted.
‘But he was not husband material,’ she continued.
‘It was me who called it in the end. I couldn’t keep trying, it felt pointless… I’m not here to throw anyone under the bus but there are things that went on in our relationship that will never be forgiven.’
Brian is now married to PE Teacher Danielle Parkinson, having been together since 2016.
The couple, who welcomed daughter Ruby together in 2021, were married in July 2025.
He shares two other ex daughters together, Molly and Lily-Sue, from his marriage to Kerry Katona.
In 2017, she met Spencer Matthews while competing on the Channel 4 sports reality show The Jump.
While Vogue was forced to withdraw due to an injury, the pair kept in touch, and confirmed their romance soon after.
By June 2018 they were married, and welcomed their first child, Theodore Frederick Michael in September that year.
In 2020, daughter Gigi Margaux was born, followed by son Otto James in 2022.
In April this year, the couple announced that they were expecting their fourth child together, with Vogue warning she has a ‘mad’ baby name up her sleeve.
‘I’m just going to warn everyone, the name we love is f****d,’ she said on podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me. ‘Okay, it’s mad.’
Co-host Joanne McNally agreed with Vogue’s assessment of the name, describing it as ‘the heaviest hitter yet’ of all the names Vogue and Spencer have picked so far.
Metro has reached out to Vogue Williams, Jamie Laing and Brian McFadden for comment on this story.
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