Mark Wright is sick up with people doubting his marriage to Michelle Keegan, and he has reacted angrily to accusations about the couple living’separate lives.’
The Only Option Is Essex star Mark, 36, married former Coronation Street actor Michelle, 36, in 2015, two years after announcing their engagement.
Last week, the couple was enjoying up the sun in Ibiza with pals, but some couldn’t help but accuse them of not spending enough time together.
Mark has openly reacted to the examination of his marriage, insisting that the couple does, in fact, spend a lot of time together.
‘We spend a lot of quality time together and have a lot of weekends away,’ he explained. ‘We’ve had things planned. We spend valuable time together just like any other relationship, and I don’t say that lightly.’
He told OK! Magazine that he could spend ‘two solid weeks’ with Michelle at their £3.5million Essex mansion but ‘no one will know that because I’m not necessarily posting about it.’
Mark made a very poignant homage to his wife ahead of her involvement in BBC drama Ten Pound Poms, despite not exposing their entire relationship on social media.
‘Here we are, back in July 2022 in Sydney Australia, where this amazingly, brilliant, hardworking special little wife of mine spent 5 months last year working her but off, filming her new programme Ten Pound Poms!!’ he said, sharing a throwback photo of the couple looking effortlessly stylish. he said, sharing a throwback photo of the couple looking effortlessly stylish.
He added: ‘Tonight we finally get to see it on our screens and I’m so bloody excited and proud. 9pm tonight @bbcone.’
Mark recently confessed that he was devastated to learn that he had been passed up for a job that was instead offered to Freddie Flintoff.
Speaking to former Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews on his Big Fish podcast, Mark said he was unsure if he was driven by ‘arrogance or confidence’, which all unfolded after losing a gig.
‘I lost a job here in the UK and it p***ed me off. I was waiting for it for so long,’ he said.
‘It was a big Saturday night television show, presenting it, and I’d been waiting for it for about five, six years, by this point I was owed it. It was my job.
‘It was on the table, and it got taken away from me five days before and given to someone else because this big star wanted the job, Freddie Flintoff. So he got it.’
He added: ‘By then I was just fed up of waiting, kissing a**e, screen tests. I went, “you know what, I’ve had it, I’m going to make a point. I’m going to America”.’