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This article is about the politician. For the footballer, see Becky Jane.
Rebecca Jane
File:Rebecca Jane profile photo (cropped).jpg
Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 October 2022
LeaderNeil Hamilton
Preceded byPat Mountain
Personal details
Born
Rebecca Jane Sutton

Barrowford, Lancashire, England
Political partyUK Independence Party (UKIP)
Spouse(s)
James
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(m. 2005, divorced)​

Ben Dowlers
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(div. 2015)​
Children2

Rebecca Jane Sutton (née Sutton-Gregory) is a British politician, originally from Barrowford. She was appointed the deputy leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in October 2022.

Life and career

Early life and The Real Lady Detective Agency

Rebecca Jane Sutton[1] was born in Barrowford.[2] She once worked as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike,[3] and managed a property company, which went bankrupt in 2009 during the Great Recession. She married James[who?][2] in 2005, with whom she had a daughter, Paris, in 2006.[2] While seven months pregnant with Paris, after suspecting James of having an affair,[4] and finding other private investigators unsympathetic[5] and unhirable for less than a day's wage plus expenses, she headed out with her friends Jess, Stephanie and Helen to surveil him;[2] she later discovered that he had six affairs in total,[4] to which she reacted by entering into an affair of her own.[2] Spotting a gap in the market,[6] and finding other private investigators unwilling to work for less than a day's wage plus expenses,[2] she established The Lady Detective Agency, a private investigation company; at the time, she was going by the name Rebecca Sutton-Gregory.[3] Her second husband, police officer[2] Ben Dowlers,[7] with whom she had a daughter,[8] Peach,[9] was her first ever boyfriend, when she was thirteen, and had previously been declined by her in Burnley when she was eighteen;[7] she moved from front-line investigation to marketing due to concerns from Ben's bosses that her work could be compromising for Ben.[2] In January 2013, HarperCollins published her book, The Real Lady Detective Agency, about her experiences.[10] In 2015, she divorced Ben after she and her engaged neighbour had an eighteen-month affair,[11] and in 2018, she left the agency.[12]

Later media appearances

On 30 September 2012,[13] Jane appeared on the BBC's Dragon's Den,[14] and in 2017 she and her agency employee Kieran Lee took part in the 18th series of Big Brother UK;[15] she lasted eighteen days.[16] At the time of her Big Brother appearances, she was studying for a master's degree in law at the University of Central Lancashire.[5] Jane launched the 'Killing Catfish' campaign on ITV1's Loose Women in April 2017,[17] as a result of her investigative work for Matt Peacock, a victim of catfishing.[18] Between February 2021[19] and October 2022, she wrote for the Burnley Express; she left after being appointed deputy leader of UKIP, and used her final column to note that she had joined "around 2.5 years ago" after her "former boss wanted to stand as an MP", and after she researched parties for him and found that UKIP's views reflected her own.[20]

In June 2023, it was announced that she would be standing as a candidate in the 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, following the resignation of Boris Johnson. An article about UKIP published that month in The New European described Jane as a "far more proactive presence in the leadership" than its leader Neil Hamilton, that she "juggle[d] mental health work with GB News appearances", and that her "focus ha[d] been on attempts to unite the parties to the right of the Conservatives, which she refers to as "centre-right" or "splinter parties".[21]

Personal life

Sutton wrote in The Real Lady Detective Agency that she had "no sense of smell", as a result of, when she was a baby, pushing part of a pen up her nose and damaging her nerve endings.[2] She noted in a July 2022 Burnley Express article that she had suffered from five years of post-natal depression following Paris's birth, and that she almost died during the birth of Peach and suffered from PTSD as a result;[9] she mentioned in another article the following month that she suffered from a further bout of suicidal ideation in June 2021, following the ending of a relationship and her consequent forced departure from her job, the coverage in Sunday newspapers of her private life, and the abuse she suffered from as a result.[19]

References

  1. ^ "I beg to move, That this House has...: 18 Jul 2017: Westminster Hall debates". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Jane, Rebecca (17 January 2013). The Real Lady Detective Agency: A True Story. HarperCollins UK. ISBN 978-0-00-748899-5.
  3. ^ a b "10 friends form East Lancashire lady detective agency". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  4. ^ a b Scheerhout, John (22 July 2017). "Rebecca Jane is a private detective who catches love cheats – this is how she does it". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Preston law student avoids early eviction on TV's Big Brother". www.lep.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Why I'm ok with physical infidelity". Burnley Express. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Northern Life talks to The Real Lady Detective, Rebecca Jane". Northernlifemagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Lancashire born Rebecca Jane tells Hannah Stephenson how the true story of The Real Life Lady Detective Agency came about". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  9. ^ a b "I got parenting wrong?!". Burnley Express. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Barrowford's Rebecca Jane - the woman behind The Real Lady Detective Agency". Lancashire Life. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Private investigator who made a fortune exposing cheating men reveals her own affair". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  12. ^ "Enterpreneur sells female private investigation company". Insider Media. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  13. ^ "Series 10, Episode 4". Dragons' Den. 30 September 2012.
  14. ^ "Blackpool to host women in business awards". www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  15. ^ "Big Brother fame beckons for Rebecca and Kieran". Burnley Express. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  16. ^ "Big Brother's Rebeccca Jane becomes the third housemate to be evicted". Evening Standard. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  17. ^ "12 months in Lancashire – Part Two". 2BR. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  18. ^ "Kym Marsh on her 'Catfish' nightmare: 'Someone stole my identity and pretended to be me for 10 years!'". Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  19. ^ a b "Suicidal ideation". Burnley Express. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  20. ^ "Burnley's outspoken Rebecca Jane named as new leader of UK Independence Party". Burnley Express. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  21. ^ Withers, Matt (23 June 2023). "How Ukip came crashing down to earth". The New European. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
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