Will Mellor is a familiar face on TV screens after the actor turned presenter shot to game on Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
After breaking onto the television scene, Will went on to star in soaps such as Hollyoaks and Coronation Street, while recently taking up a role as a documentary presenter on "Cops Who Kill".
Away from the cameras, the 47-year-old lives a happy life with his wife of almost two decades, Michelle McSwann. The pair met while working together in the stage musical |Oh, What s Night" in 1999. The couple got together, split briefly and then tied the knot in 2007. They now have two kids together - Jayden aged 19 and Renee aged 16.
After Will and Michelle became husband and wife 16 years ago, the actor told Sunday People he was thrilled to finally be able to call Michelle "my wife", as writes the Mirror.
"We were always a good unit but now we're married, it feels stronger somehow, more solid. Can you believe it? I'm an old married man now and I love it", Will said.
He gushed. "I told Michelle we both had to be 100 per cent and she felt the same way because neither of us wants to do this all again. And as soon as I felt that way, I proposed. I knew I wanted to ask her to marry me when we were away in Grenada at Christmas so I planned to ask her parents first and do it all properly."
The sunset proposal saw Will take Michelle out on a boat. He played their favourite song as he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. "It was very romantic and I admit I did get a bit teary, I don't know why. I thought it was the woman who was supposed to cry but in this case it was me," he said. "I think the occasion hit me all at once because it was just so right and exactly how I'd imagined it would be."
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The couple wed in a private ceremony at a grand manor house in Warwickshire, declining to sell snaps to magazines as they insisted they were keen to enjoy a "normal" day. Will explained: "And that's how we intend to live our lives - very normal and down-to-earth, which is the way I was brought up," he continued. "I want to leave the work at work and come home and have an everyday family life. We're a little unit now, and even though you have to work at a marriage, we will work at it together."
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Will took part in BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last year, partnered up with dancing professional Nancy Xu. Michelle and the couple's two kids were often seen cheering him on in the audience.
The smitten pair celebrated 24 years together in March, with Will posting on social media to part the celebrating. Will captioned the stunning snap: "Still love our date nights!" Then a month later, they jetted off to the Caribbean for a sun-soaked family holiday, which he shared they'd been waiting three years for. "Making some amazing memories," Will wrote on social media.
Before coupling up with his now wife, Will was in a tumultuous two-year relationship with Coronation Street actress Angela Griffin.
Following their split, the actress told the Mirror in 2001 she had "sworn off" dating as a result the relationship break down, saying: "I'm steering clear".
Speaking about the intense interest that surrounded her relationship with fellow TV star will, Angela added: "Maybe 50 per cent of the stories were untrue, but some were spot on. We're still good mates, though. Is that grown-up of me? Or more like manipulative moves - 'We're just friends, but look what you could have had!'"
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