Before taking on his Sky role, Spencer worked as a newspaper journalist and for British Satellite Broadcasting.
Spencer's career began as a reporter on his local newspaper in Essex and later for a Fleet Street news agency.
He has also worked as a reporter and a sub-editor for three national titles and a London evening paper.
[3] He now writes a weekly political column in the online men's lifestyle magazine Malestrom.
In June 2014 he had a collection of short stories published: The X Tractor: Cornwall's Culling Plan.