Spencer Matthews on Losing Someone You Love | GREAT MOMENTS
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
There are moments in life that split everything into before and after. Losing someone you love is often one of them.
This Great Moment is for anyone who’s experienced loss or, watched someone they love change after it.
Spencer Matthews is one of my oldest friends, and in this conversation he opens up about losing his brother, Mike, when he was just 10 years old. He reflects on how that experience changed him, what grief has taught him and the clarity it can bring to everything else in life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello everyone, this is Great Moments, where I share some of my favorite moments from my conversations on Great Company. |
| 0:14.9 | Something that's made me think, made me laugh or changed my perspective, and hopefully, hopefully there's something in it for you too. |
| 0:21.8 | So are you ready? |
| 0:22.8 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:26.2 | How old are you when your bro died again? |
| 0:28.2 | 10. |
| 0:29.2 | Really? |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, 10. |
| 0:30.8 | Quite difficult to process at that age. |
| 0:33.4 | Death, you know, difficult thing for anyone to lose a loved one. But what was your relationship like? He was my hero. I kind of, I loved him dearly, but obviously it was he was in his mid-20s or, you know, coming into his mid-20s, 22 when I was 10. So, you know, huge age difference. It's not like, you know, we're outside playing sport together or socializing together in the same circles or anything. He was very much, uh, my dad would work a lot when I was younger. So he was, he was away a lot of the time. Like, I don't, I don't remember too much about my dad being at home with us. Um, so Mike was, was there because James was away racing a lot. He was a professional racing driver. That's your older. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. And so I was with Mike a lot. You know, Mike and I would play video games together. We'd play hide and seek together. You know, we were pals, you know, and he would look after me. And I would always feel that, oh, that's nice. And I would always feel that. So this is a picture of your brother. is a picture you're bro he made me feel safe |
| 1:27.8 | and he made me feel loved and you know so so did uh so did my mom obviously you know but to me he was |
| 1:34.5 | um he was everything to me as a as a as I wanted to be just like him really yeah you know |
| 1:41.1 | he was a great influence on me at a young age. |
| 1:49.6 | Because if you're your hero, right, and when he goes up on Everest and he doesn't come home, |
| 1:55.8 | and how is that even like articulated to you at the time? |
| 1:57.1 | How do you, what happened? |
| 1:59.0 | How do you even find out at 10 years old? |
| 2:06.2 | Language was used with me that was accurate, but that I didn't, that made it harder for me to understand. Because it wasn't definite. It would be definite to an adult, but not to a kid. |
| 2:13.0 | So I came up to my parents' room. Do you remember it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was in, I was in, we were in the Caribbean at the time. |
| 2:21.0 | And my mum asked me to come up to their room. |
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