Spencer Matthews admits to ‘friction’ with wife Vogue Williams over ‘dangerous’ desert marathon challenge-Rebecca Sayce-Entertainment – Metro

The couple disagree on Spencer Matthews’ upcoming mammoth marathon challenge (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

Spencer Matthews has admitted his desert marathon challenge caused friction between him and his wife Vogue Williams.

The Made In Chelsea star, 35, will take part in The Great Desert Challenge, which will see him undertake a whopping 30 marathons in 30 days through the Jordanian desert.

Beginning in the Wadi Rum and finishing near the Dead Sea, the reality TV personality will undertake the task while raising money for Global’s Make Some Noise charity.

If successful, it will earn him the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive marathons run on sand.

However, the ‘dangerous’ feat has caused friction between Spencer and his wife Vogue, with whom he tied the knot in 2018.

‘She thinks it’s mad. She thinks it’s dangerous and she thinks it’s mad. I’ve spent a while kind of sitting with her and explaining to her the reasons that I feel comfortable taking on the challenge.,’ he said during an appearance on Aimee Fuller’s Monday Mile podcast.

Spencer has admitted Vogue thinks he’s ‘mad’ for undertaking the challenge (Picture: Instagram/Vogue Williams)

He has said the marathon is a ‘deadly scenario’ which adds to the worry (Picture: Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

‌’She’s not a runner in the way that I run and I think she sees the whole thing as just being a bit dangerous,’ he continued.

‘There was a time at the beginning where it created a little bit of friction in the house because she didn’t really understand why I would want to put myself in this, you know, potentially deadly scenario. And just before we, you know, make it all peaches and cream, it is a deadly scenario.’

He went on to explain why the challenge could prove to be perilous, saying how runners are mostly alone with ‘nobody to help you.’

‘Although I will be very well supported, if you take races like the Marathon des Sables and the Amazon Jungle Ultra, both of which I did pretty well in, you are unsupported,’ he said.

‘So, you’re carrying all of your food, you’re carrying all of your kit that you sleep in, and you’re carrying any changes of clothes that you may wish to carry, although most who are serious about the race, wouldn’t bother carrying a change of clothes, because it’s just additional weight.

If successful, the Made In Chelsea star would become a Guinness World Record holder (Picture: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

‘And essentially, if you get into serious trouble on that, there’s the potential of quite serious risk. Because if you’re in the middle of the Amazon and you feel your heart going a bit funky, you keel over for a bit, there could be nobody to help you for a while, depending on where you are in the race.’

‌Despite being ‘petrified of failing’ the challenge, Spencer said the sight of his son Theodore, five, at the finish line is spurring him on.

Recalling a heartfelt epiphany while training, he said: ‘So I had some tempo runs to do the other day, which is kind of a normal run. And somewhere in the run, you do much faster kilometres, and these were sub four minutes, kilometres.’

He continued: ‘And on the last one, I’ve done them all, sub 4, and I had one to go and I just couldn’t do it. I had 500 metres left to go…And I just had this like, crazy vision out of nowhere of Theodore, my son, being stood on the side of the thing, going, “go on Dad!” I was just like, “oh, my god”, I just got this huge surge and just hammered the rest of it.’

‘Your kids screaming for you or your wife screaming for you. It’s all in your head though isn’t it, like all of these feelings of wanting to give up, right, you can always push through them. It’s just a case of actually doing it,’ he added.

Spencer also shares daughter Gigi, three, and youngest son Otto, two, with Vogue.

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