Personal Life
Shapps married Belinda Goldstone in 1997 and they have three children. In 2000 he had chemotherapy and recovered from cancer, his children being conceived by IVF after the therapy. Mick Jones, a former member of punk rock band The Clash, is Shapps' cousin.
In September 2012 it was reported in the Daily Mail that campaign leaflets published on behalf of Shapps when he was standing for election in Southwark North and Bermondsey stated he was born in London, while those published after he won his Welwyn Hatfield seat claimed he was born in Hertfordshire.
Shapps has been revealed to have an alter ego and has been photographed as 'Michael Green', a self-help guru, and has used other pseudonyms including 'Sebastian Fox'. He has reportedly said that his use of a pseudonym was to keep his business separate from his political work, and said in October 2012 that he had stopped using the alter-egos "a long time ago".
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