Matthew James Willis (born 8 May 1983) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, television personality and actor.

In 2014 Willis played the role of Garth Stubbs in the revived ITV sitcom Birds of a Feather and Luke Riley in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.

Willis has noted he was a "problem" child, regularly sneaking out of the house by climbing down drain pipes.

In the latter end of that year, Busted began their first hiatus since the split to give space for the members to pursue other projects.

After a brief stay in rehab after Busted disbanded, Willis launched a solo career on Mercury Records, releasing singles in 2005 and 2006, "Up All Night", "Hey Kid", "Don't Let It Go to Waste", and a cover version of The Primitives song, "Crash" for the film Mr Bean's Holiday.

Just as he was about to depart on his first solo UK Tour with support band The Riverclub, he sacked his agents of six years, 'Prestige Management'.

[6] Willis' return to music saw him reunite with one of his ex-Busted bandmates (James Bourne) and with McFly to form the group, McBusted.

In early 2009, Willis and his wife did not renew their contract with ITV2 due to the birth of their first child in June 2009.

He interviewed Rihanna, Shayne Ward, Adele, Ozzy Osbourne, Kate Nash and many more including Perez Hilton who became very fond of Willis.

[9] In January 2014, Willis played Garth Stubbs in the revival of Birds of a Feather on ITV, but did not return for the second series due to McBusted commitments and was replaced by Samuel James.

In February 2014, Willis appeared in the short-term role of Luke Riley in EastEnders, the boyfriend of returning character Stacey Branning (Lacey Turner).

In August and September 2018, he starred as Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors in Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

A range of celebrity guests are featured on the podcast, during which they are asked to admit 'the darkest pleasures and weirdest confessions they would rather no one knew about'.

[20][21] In 2023, Willis began his own podcast 'On The Mend' in which he interviews guests who 'have hit rock bottom and made it through to the other side'.

In April 2005, aged 21, Willis stayed for three weeks at London's Priory Hospital for the treatment of alcoholism.

[31] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Willis and his wife completed training with St John Ambulance to act as vaccination volunteers.