Coronation Street Mikey North’s famous wife revealed and fans will be floored
Coronation Street’s Mikey North is a firm favourite on the soap but it turns out he has a rather famous wife in real life.
Mikey shot to fame playing Gary Windass on the ITV soap – making his debut way back in 2008. Gary rocked up to the cobbles with the rest of the Windass family, including mum Anna (Debbie Rush). And it didn’t take him long to become a firm favourite.
The builder also played a part in several big storylines over the years. From his failed romances on the cobbles to his PTSD battle, Gary’s time in Weatherfield has not been short of drama.
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Away from the ITV soap though, Mikey lives a much less dramatic life with his wife and two children. The soap favourite is married to actress wife Rachael Isherwood.
The pair got married back in 2016 after meeting three years prior. Mikey and Rachael have two children together, a son named Archie, bor
n in 2017, and a daughter named Eliza, born in 2019.
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As for Rachael, she’s no stranger to appearing on screens. The fitness instructor had a major role in the Hollywood blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger back in 2011, as MCU Fandom reports. Rachael played the role of a USO dancer.
Mikey popped the question to Rachael during a romantic getaway in the Lake District in 2015. Recalling the proposal, Mikey shared with OK!: “I asked her to shut her eyes.
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“When she opened them I was down on one knee with the ring. I was looking up at Rachael, with my knees getting wet, and I just said: ‘Will you marry me?'”
He added: “In the moment before I proposed I was shaking like a leaf. Then when she said yes, I called my 
mum and just couldn’t stop crying.”
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Fast forward to 2016 and the pair made things official by getting married. And as expected, there were plenty of Corrie stars in attendance including Bruno Langley, who plays Todd Grimshaw, and Sam Ashton, who plays Chesney Brown. Mikey also had Ian Puleston-Davis, who plays his on-screen stepfather Owen Armstrong, as his best man.
It was an emotional day for Mikey who admitted: “Rachael looked amazing. I’m known for letting my emotions run away with me, so I was really concentrating on trying not to cry.”
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