Will Mellor's smitten marriage after failed romance with Coronation Street star
Actor and presenter Will Mellor is a familiar face on our television screens, having shot to fame on Two Pints... to then starring on Hollyoaks, Coronation Street and recently having taken up documentary presenting on Cops Who Kill. Away from the cameras, he lives a very happy and settled-down life at home with his long-term dancer and actress wife, along with their two children.
The former Strictly Come Dancing star, 47, has been with his other half, Michelle McSwann, for two decades, and they met while starring together in the stage musical Oh, What a Night in 1999. The couple got together and split up before marrying in 2007, and now have two grown-up children, Jayden, 19, and Renee, 16.
Will teared up when he got down on one knee during a sunset proposal (sassymumma1/Instagram)After finally committing, Will told the Sunday People he was thrilled to finally be able to call Michelle 'my wife'. "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," 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."
He has been married to Michelle McSwann since 2007 (Instagram)
The couple have two children together, Jayden and Renee (WireImage)They tied the knot in a private ceremony at a grand manor house in Warwickshire, and declined to sell pictures to a glossy magazine, insisting they wanted a 'normal' day. "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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When Will starred on Strictly last year, partnered with professional dancer Nancy Xu, Michelle and their kids were cheering him on in the audience. In March, the couple celebrated 24 years together, with Will posting a stunning snap on Instagram captioned: "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.
Will teared up when he got down on one knee during a sunset proposal (sassymumma1/Instagram)
He dated Corrie's Angela Griffin for two years before (PA)But before settling down and building the beautiful family he has now, Will had a tumultuous two-year relationship with Coronation Street actress Angela Griffin. After their split, Angela told the Mirror she had sworn off dating other actors as a result. "I'm steering clear," she said in 2001. Of the intense interest that surrounded their romance at the time, she continued: "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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