The Celebrity Big Brother house is never short of clashes or conflict, and this year’s series could see Michael Fabricant contributing to the drama. The former MP has joined the latest series of the reality show alongside pop star Chesney Hawkes, TV presenter Angellica Bell, TOWIE star Ella Rae Wise and drag queen Danny Beard amongst others.
Although we're sure to get to know Michael a bit more in the coming weeks, here's everything you need to know about him...
Who is Michael Fabricant?
Michael Fabricant is a British politician and member of the Conservative Party. The businessman, who owned a company which designed and built radio stations, served as MP for Lichfield in Staffordshire from 1992 until his defeat in 2024. In 2022, he was knighted in then Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation honours and became a Sir.
How old is Michael Fabricant?
Michael was born on 12 June 1950, making him 74 years old and a Gemini.
Why is Michael Fabricant controversial?
Michael Fabrican'ts political career was littered with controversies. He was sacked as vice-chairman of the Conservatives in April 2014 after he tweeted about Maria Miller’s resignation as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he posted, ‘About time’.
That same year, he was criticised for tweeting about journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, writing that he ‘could never appear’ on a show with her, as he ‘would either end up with a brain haemorrhage or by punching her in the throat’. Gloria De Piero, then Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, called his post ‘utterly appalling’ while a Tory Party spokesperson said his comment was ‘completely unacceptable’.
Fabricant – who once shouted ‘Bollocks’ loudly in the chamber during a 2016 discussion on the EU referendum and was criticised for having an apartheid-era flag of South Africa on display in his parliamentary office – also caused controversy when he defended Johnson after the then-PM was fined for breaching Covid rules in April 2022.
‘I don’t think at any time he thought he was breaking the law. I think at the time he just thought like many teachers and nurses who, after a very long shift, would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink,’ he said. He received backlash after official bodies representing those professions said they did no such thing and Fabricant said he had not intended to cause offence.
Does Michael Fabricant wear a wig?
Michael’s blond hair has come under much speculation, with many wondering if he wears a wig or whether his hair is real. He has refused to discuss his hair, insisting it is a personal matter. In 2014, he revealed that some of his ‘do is ‘enhanced’ but insisted he did not wear a wig.
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that. All I will admit to is that there is some – but only some – enhancement of the follicular area,’ he said.
Are Andy Street and Michael Fabricant a couple?
They are. Fabricant and Andy Street are not married but the ex-MP referred to the former West Midlands Mayor as his ‘life partner’.
‘We’ve got a place together in Wales because we both like walking. We go on holidays together, and we’re very, very close,’ he said in 2021. ‘But we lead separate lives. If we lived together all the time, I think we’d murder each other. Other people think we’re joined at the hip. We’re not but we’re very close. I think we’re life partners. We’ve got something special but I’m not quite sure what it is.’
Fabricant came out as bisexual in 2017 when he appeared on Celebrity First Dates. ‘People do assume that I’m gay. I’m not gay – I’m bisexual if you’ve got to define these things,’ he said. ‘Sexually, I was far more active with women than I ever have been with blokes, if I’m honest, but I won’t go into detail.’
What is Michael Fabricant’s net worth?
While his exact wealth has not been revealed, Fabricant is rumoured to have a net worth of over £5million. He leads a comfortable life, having said, ‘I am more of a spender. Life is for living.’
Fabricant revealed that he made a lot of money in 1987 when his business won some lucrative contracts abroad and with the BBC. ‘The business made millions of pounds that year: a seven or eight-figure sum. I don’t want to reveal how much I personally made that year, but in cash terms it was a lot more than I am paid now as an MP, even all these years later,’ he said in 2020.
He sold the company to an American corporation in 1991. ‘I don’t want to go into how much I sold it for, but it was a lot of money,’ he said.
Where does Michael Fabricant live?
Fabricant owns a one-bedroom apartment in Westminster and has a holiday home in Wales. ‘I also own half of a small country estate in the mountains of the Snowdonia National Park. It’s a converted old mill with 32 acres,’ he said.
Does Michael Fabricant have Instagram?
He does, and if you're dying to see what he's up to you can follow him at @michael_fabricant.