Mark Wright’s mother, Carol Wright, recently got candid and opened up about her son’s marriage to Michelle Keegan.
For those who don’t know, 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 Kroningsstraat star.
Her daughter Jessica Wright was also there and as she read a letter from a listener, she joked, “Every time my mother-in-law comes over, she acts like I stole her son.”
The 65-year-old woman expressed her thoughts on her daughter’s comments, saying: “It’s a tough call because everyone’s sons are like, you know, they’re your sons and… a woman comes along and they take your son.”
“But I’m a little different because I actually hold back for that reason. I always think that when the girl comes into our family, it’s quite overwhelming for a lot of us, so it seems like I’m holding back a little bit,” Carol claimed.
Jessica then said that she hated how people portrayed her mother as the “evil mother-in-law.”
“It doesn’t look like me at all, I’m the complete opposite,” Carol claimed in response, clearly stating that she would definitely step in to “protect” her son Mark if he ever needed her.
The Come dance strictly Star’s mother explained, “If I thought my son was going to marry someone who wasn’t good for him, and you knew it wasn’t good for him, and you knew it would never last… then of course a mother-in-law would have to intervene a little bit.”
“Because you don’t want them to be unhappy. You want them, once they get married, to be happy and to stay married forever,” Carol Wright noted.
