Mark Wright’s mother, Carol Wright, recently got candid and opened up about her son’s marriage to Michelle Keegan.
For those unaware, the 38-year-old TV personality and the 38-year-old English actress got married in 2015 in a lavish ceremony at St Mary’s Church in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Mark and Michelle welcomed their first child, a daughter named Palma Elizabeth Wright, on March 6, 2025.
Now, in the latest episode of their family podcast, Wright at Home, Carol reflected on her relationship with her sister-in-law, the Coronation Street star.
Her daughter Jessica Wright was also there and while reading a letter sent in from a listener, she quipped, “Whenever my mother-in-law comes over she acts like I stole her son.”
Articulating her thoughts on her daughter’s remarks, the 65-year-old said, “It’s a hard one because everyone’s sons are like, you know, they’re your sons and… a woman comes along and they do take your son.”
“But I’m a bit different because I actually hold back because of that reason. I always think that when the girl comes into our family it’s quite they feel a bit overpowering to so many of us, so I seem to be like I hold back a bit,” Carol claimed.
Jessica then went on to state that she hated how people portrayed her mum as the “evil mother-in-law.”
“It’s nothing like me, I’m totally the opposite,” Carol asserted in response, clearly proclaiming that she would definitely intervene to “protect” her son Mark if he ever needed her.
The Strictly Come Dancing star’s mother explained, “If I thought that my son was going to marry somebody that wasn’t right for them, and you knew they weren’t right for them, and you knew it was never going to last… of course a mother-in-law should step in a little bit.”
“Because you don’t want them to be unhappy. You want them, once they get married, to be happy and stay married forever,” Carol Wright noted.