Michael Fabricant

Some Lesser Known Facts About Michael Fabricant

• Michael Fabricant was born to a Jewish family. His father was a rabbi of the Brighton and Hove Synagogue.

• After completing his postgraduate studies, he started doing research in economics and econometrics at the University of Oxford, University of London, and the University of Southern California.

• He later started working as a businessman and was the director and co-founder of an international broadcast manufacturing and management group for 11 years before becoming an MP in 1992.

• On 2 July 1992, he made his first speech in the House of Commons.

• He was later selected as MP from Lichfield in many terms and also served in many important positions in the UK government.

  

• He has served as political advisor to the 1995 BBC drama series The Final Cut and even made a cameo appearance. He also appeared in the BBC show House of Cards.

  

• In 2008, he founded the Conservative Friends of America, an organisation that supports the Conservative Party.

• In November 2012, he published a pamphlet named The Pact, which advocated for a coalition between UKIP (UK Independence Party) and the Conservative Party for an in/out EU referendum.

• During a Daily Mail interview in 2014, he demanded to remove the rule that stopped gay people from donating blood until they signed an affidavit claiming they hadn’t had a physical relationship with anyone for 12 months.

• In April 2015, he revealed that he was diagnosed with skin cancer (melanoma and basal cell carcinoma), which was later treated.

• He claimed in October 2016 that he was checked for prostate cancer, which came back positive. A prostatectomy was done, which was successful in curing the cancer.

• He is a very close friend of Andy Street, a politician of the Conservative Party and former managing director of John Lewis, and former Mayor of the West Midlands. Street is a gay and has publicly accepted it.

  

• He and Street have a common property in Snowdonia, Wales and love walking together. He once called Street his life partner and claimed that they live busy lives but can depend on each other for anything.

• Though there have been many rumors that he is gay, he has claimed that he is a bisexual person. He was in a relationship with an American girl who came to the UK with him. He met her first while studying in California.

• However, he didn’t want any relationship or the responsibility of marriage or children. So, he never got married or had any children.

• In October 2018, he drove a cycle naked in London, with only a black box around his private parts, to promote the naked bike rally from Lichfield to Whittington (in Staffordshire).

• He once said in a 2021 interview that when he became the MP for the first time in 1992, he found that the Conservative Party in Westminster was very different from the party’s wing in Brighton.

• He said that if he had not been a Tory MP, he might have voted for Tony Blair in 1997.

• He smoked cannabis while studying in college but never took any chemical drug, including cocaine.

• In April 2025, he appeared in the 24th season of Celebrity Big Brother, which aired on ITV.

• Many rumours claim that he wears a wig, but he has never commented on it and has always maintained that it is his personal matter.

  

• He often remains in the headlines for his tweets as he shares his views on the social media platform.

• He has often said that people from his constituency Lichfield like him for being a character.