the lower classes and are set tasks relating to that era. From September 2016, Rutherford was a contestant in the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing where he was partnered with professional Natalie Lowe. He was eliminated in week 9, after a dance-off with Claudia Fragapane. Also in 2016, he appeared in five episodes of Season 1 of the television series Battlechefs. In 2017 Rutherford worked for Eurosport as an analyst for the channel's coverage of the World Athletics Championships after he was unable to compete in the event due to injury. In 2019, Rutherford won the 14th season of Celebrity MasterChef. Rutherford also appeared in the BBC Two series Pilgrimage, walking Via Francigena, an ancient pilgrimage route to Rome. Rutherford revealed he was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness and was now "non-religious". In April 2021, Rutherford joined fellow British Olympians Nicola Adams and Kelly Smith, and fitness instructor Mr Motivator in launching the ‘Energy Fit for the Future’ campaign by Smart Energy GB, which aimed at encouraging people to install smart meters in their homes. At the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics, held in the summer of 2021 in Tokyo, Rutherford was part of Eurosport and Discovery+'s coverage of the Games as a reporter on the ground in Japan. Honours Rutherford was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics. In July 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science by the University of Bedfordshire. Rutherford was given the European Athletics Lifetime Achievement award in October 2018. A metal statue in honour of Rutherford, by artist Clare Bigger, was erected in Milton Keynes, in June 2014. Personal life Rutherford lives in Woburn Sands, a town on the outskirts of Milton Keynes. He and his partner, Susie Verrill, have two sons and one daughter. Rutherford is an avid supporter of Manchester United, and is an Athlete Ambassador for the global sport for development charity Right To Play. In August 2014, Rutherford was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. In March 2017 Rutherford revealed that his former agent Gab Stone had embezzled over £40,000 from him to fund a gambling addiction, which he discovered at the beginning of 2015. Stone was subsequently convicted of fraud by deception and