Michelle Keegan is sick of speculation about her marriage to Mark Wright.

Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright

Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright

The couple have spent most of the past year together at their Essex home amid the COVID-19 pandemic but Michelle doesn't think it is unusual that they previously spent a lot of time apart for work, as she filmed in South Africa and Mark worked in Los Angeles.

She told The Mail on Sunday’s You Magazine: "Going away for work is never seen as a good thing, only as a negative, and I don't understand that. Are you seriously supposed to turn down work in case it impacts your marriage? I find it ridiculous. The travelling could be tiring but it was amazing. I remember taking off one weekend and spending it on a tropical beach and thinking, 'I'm being paid to be in another country doing something I love.'"

And Michelle revealed the pandemic has given her and Mark quality time together, which they never had before.

She explained: "[For Christmas] we had breakfast in bed and some buck's fizz, which we never normally do because we're usually in a rush to get up and go to see family. We actually watched a film during the day – that's never happened before – and we had dinner in the evening, rather than at 3pm, with a chicken instead of turkey, which is what I prefer. We'll never have that time, just the two of us at Christmas, again.

"Before COVID, we'd do our own things but now we set our alarms and have got into routines of working out together."

Michelle, 33, also admitted she is sick of people asking when she and Mark, 34, will have kids and even her own family don't ask them anymore.

She said: "I'm used to people asking me but it's no one else's business. Nobody else knows what goes on behind closed doors. I think that's the reason that question affects me so much – it's very private! Mark is asked about it occasionally but I'm asked every single time."

When questioned: "Do family ask as well?", Michelle answered: "Not any more! People don't mean any harm by it, but they know what the answer's going to be."

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