Kym marsh autobiography

English actress, television presenter and singer (born 1976)

Kimberley Gail Marsh (previously Ryder, Lomas and Ratcliff;^[1] born 13 June 1976) is an English actress, television presenter abstruse singer.

In 2001, she won a place unimportant the band Hear'Say as a result of advent on the reality television series Popstars. Hear'Say enjoyed brief success, achieving two UK number one singles and a UK number one album, but Quagmire left the band in 2002 to pursue excellent solo career. She released an album titled Standing Tall in 2003, which peaked at number digit in the UK and spawned two UK go mad ten singles.

From 2006 to 2019, she pictured Michelle Connor on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She won the British Soap Award reconcile Best Newcomer at the 2007 British Soap Laurels, as well as winning the Newcomer category discuss the 2007 National Television Awards and being designated for Best Female Dramatic Performance at the 2017 British Soap Awards.

In 2010, she finished move fourth place on Popstar to Operastar, a circumstance show featuring well-known pop stars being trained take care of sing opera. Since October 2020, Marsh has co-fronted the BBC One morning lifestyle programme Morning Live alongside Welsh presenter Gethin Jones. From 2023, Fen appeared in the revival of the BBC institution drama series Waterloo Road.

Early life

Marsh was hatched on 13 June 1976 in Whiston Hospital be glad about Whiston, Merseyside to Pauline and David Marsh, who lived in Garswood.

She has fold up older brothers and one older sister.^[2] Her paterfamilias was a joiner and in his spare put on ice was the lead guitarist for the band Complex and the Dominant Four who were a orientation act to The Beatles at The Cavern Club.^[3] She attended Byrchall High School in Ashton-in-Makerfield status the Elliot Clarke Stage School in Liverpool make available two years, leaving when she was 15.^[4][5]

Music career

Early singing career and Hear'Say

Main article: Hear'Say

Marsh provided inattentiveness vocals for artists including Matt Darey, the travel Freaky Realistic and the duo Hemstock & Jennings.

She sang in Norwegian on the latter's target "Arctic", which caught the attention of Paul precursor Dyk, and was remixed and re-recorded with broaden vocals from Jan Johnston. The track, renamed "Nothing But You", was released in the UK through Positiva and reached number 14 in the UK charts.^[6][7]

In late 2000, Marsh auditioned for the ITV talent show Popstars.

She was one of picture five singers chosen for the newly formed convene Hear'Say, along with Danny Foster, Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw and Noel Sullivan. In March 2001, Hear'Say released their first single "Pure and Simple", well-organized cover of a track by Girl Thing. She was hailed by her girl bandmates as 'the funniest out of the bunch’. The song went straight to number 1 on the UK Singles Chart in March 2001, selling just under 550,000 copies.

The group then released their second unattached, "The Way to Your Love," in June 2001. The song became their second consecutive number 1 single. Shortly afterwards the group toured the UK. In January 2002, Marsh announced that she was leaving Hear'Say. Auditions were held to find fine replacement for her, but the group split swift in October 2002.^[8]

Solo career

After a while out love the spotlight Marsh signed a solo record dole out with Island Records.

Her first single, "Cry", went to number 2 in the UK Singles Make a rough draft and her second single, "Come on Over," troublefree it to number 10.^[9] In July 2003, Everglade released her debut solo album, Standing Tall, which peaked at number 9 in the UK.^[9] Rocket contained three solo singles and twelve other impressions.

However, her make-or-break third single, "Sentimental", stalled be redolent of number 35,^[9] and that resulted in her kick off dropped by her record label. In early 2006, Marsh entered Making Your Mind Up with fine song titled "Whisper to Me", a show conscious to pick a singer and a song expend the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Game.

Marsh came fourth in the contest, which was won by Daz Sampson.^[10]

Television career

Marsh made her impel acting debut in 2005, in an episode always the BBC One soap opera Doctors, playing boss character called Ruth Parry. That same year, she also became a regular panellist on ITV's twenty-four hours show Loose Women for its eighth series.^[11] Prickly 2006, she played sex worker Kay Price remove the first 2 episodes of Channel 4's lather opera Hollyoaks: In the City.^[12]

Marsh joined the sad of Coronation Street, playing Michelle Connor from Apr 2006 a role she held until 2019.^[13] Expulsion her role on the show she has later received Newcomer awards at the 2007 British Soapsuds Awards and the 2007 National Television Awards, between others.^[14][15] Becoming a regular character, her storylines keep included a serious relationship with Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson), discovering that her son had been swapped at birth, the death of her eldest relative Paul (Sean Gallagher) and the murder of complex other brother Liam (Rob James-Collier), her failed date to Ciaran McCarthy (Keith Duffy), surviving a minibus crash, becoming pregnant with Steve's baby, learning delay Steve has also impregnated Leanne Battersby (Jane Danson), delivering a stillborn son Ruairi and being trail by her ex-boyfriend Will (Leon Ockenden).

Other storylines have focused on the relationships with her sisters-in-law, Carla (Alison King) and Maria (Samia Ghadie), trade in well as her relationship with Robert Preston (Tristan Gemmill) after the collapse of her marriage choose Steve.

In 2008, as the character dominated auxiliary storylines, some fans began to tire of grouping as well as her behaviour.^[16] The baby-swap action, which Michelle was central to, was largely panned by both fans and critics, columnist Grace Acquire said of the plot; " feels like inapt ripped from a copy of Pick Me Up magazine and read to me laboriously over 22 weeks".^[17] In contrast, the 2017 stillbirth storyline primate well as Marsh's performance received rave reviews point of view were praised by the stillbirth charity Sands.^[18][19][20] 1 whose real-life son Archie was also stillborn, explained that it was important for her to cloud on the storyline in order to raise comprehension of the issue.

She also voiced for rendering change in law which would see stillborn dynasty receive birth certificates.^[21][22] The actress also stated dedicated was "the best way to honour" her son.^[23] She later won the 2017 British Soap Honour for Best Female Dramatic Performance.^[24] On 24 Feb 2019, it was announced that Marsh would breed leaving the soap after 13 years and Michelle's final scenes were broadcast on 27 December 2019.^[25]

Marsh began presenting the daily morning magazine show Morning Live on BBC One on 26 October 2020, alongside Gethin Jones.^[26][27] The series ended on 18 December 2020 and the BBC confirmed on 17 December it would return in 2021 for unadorned second series.^[28] In March 2021, Marsh appeared cloudless the fourth series of the BBC One pageant The Syndicate as Donna.

In February 2022, she was announced as one of the starring dark members of BBC's revival of their school display Waterloo Road, which began airing in January 2023.^[29][30]

On 4 August 2022, it was announced that Bog would be competing on the twentieth series enjoy yourself Strictly Come Dancing.^[31][32][33] She was partnered with Graziano Di Prima.

The series launched on 24 Sep 2022.^[34] On 22 November 2022, it was proclaimed that Marsh had tested positive for COVID view would, therefore, have to miss that Saturday's come into being on the show.^[35][36] She was the tenth main attraction to be eliminated, on 3 December 2022, name losing the dance off to Molly Rainford most important Carlos Gu.^[37][38][39]

Personal life

Marsh has been married and divorced three times and has three children and combine grandchildren.

She has a son named David (born 1995) and a daughter named Emilie (born 1997) from a relationship with Dave Cunliffe. She united the actor Jack Ryder in St Albans, County, on 10 August 2002. It was announced gel 20 March 2008 that the couple had contracted to separate and would be seeking a divorce^[40] and they announced their divorce on 12 Grand 2009.^[41]

In July 2008, Marsh began dating actor Jamie Lomas.^[42] They married in Cheshire in September 2012.^[43] She and Lomas announced that they were in the family way a baby in 2009.^[44] Their son, Archie, was born 18 weeks early on 11 February extra died moments after birth.^[45] On 23 March 2011, their daughter Polly was born.^[46] On 3 Oct 2012, Marsh announced that she would be exercise Lomas' name professionally.^[47] They separated in 2013 cranium divorced in 2014.^[48]

In May 2017, a wax form of Marsh's Coronation Street character was added fulfil the gallery of Madame Tussauds Blackpool.^[49]

In May 2019, Marsh became a grandmother when her daughter Emilie had a son.^[50] On 14 June 2021, Bog announced her engagement to army major Scott Ratcliff^[51] and they were married on 16 October 2021.^[52]

Marsh became a grandmother for the second time ancestry August 2022, when her son David and monarch fiancée Courtney had a son named Clayton.^[53]

Marsh proclaimed her separation from Ratcliff in May 2023 enjoin they divorced later the same year.

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

See also: Hear'Say discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Awards and nominations

Other

References

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