Mark Wright ‘broke down’ in tears after watching Michelle Keegan’s performance in Fool Me Once

Michelle Keegan has amassed a pretty huge fanbase over the years. From her days in Corrie to her new Netflix show Fool Me Once, the 36-year-old is a firm favourite among British viewers.

But perhaps her biggest fan is husband Mark Wright, who admitted he broke down in tears when he watched Michelle's latest work.

In case you're still yet to watch the show (in which case we insist you do so immediately) the story centres around Maya Stern (played by Michelle), who is dealing with the death of her husband Joe (The Hobbit's Richard Armitage).

A grieving Maya tries to navigate Joe's death and piece together how and why he died - which is made even more confusing when she spots him on their daughter's nanny cam just days after the funeral.

In the process, Maya 'uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.'

Speaking on his Heart radio show, Mark, 36, couldn't stop praising Michelle.

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“I turned to my left to tell my wife how much I loved it and how proud I was," he said.

“I broke down. I got a lump in my throat, I did cry like a little bit of soppy, but I think it was just that moment of watching my wife on the screen.

“[She’s] absolutely impeccable [at] what she does - she works so hard to get to where she's got to. [It] seems that people are loving it. So when I'm telling her how proud I am I'm like, oh, my wife's back in the room.

“I think it's probably because of a credit to her - she's that good at what she does that it doesn't feel weird.

"At the time I completely snap out of the fact that that person on that screen playing Maya is the person on the screen instead of my wife who is sat right next to me.”

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Mark had already taken to social media to speak about Michelle's performance, telling followers how hard the actor works.

"It’s hard for people outside to see the work that goes in to an actor's life behind the scenes to get to the top," he said.

"People might think that it comes easy, they just roll up and do their job but it couldn’t be further from the truth."

Mark revealed how Michelle had spent hours reading scripts, living away from her family and 'worrying about her performance' but always keeps a smile on her face.

"Watching her nerves leaving the soap that made her over a decade ago, trying so hard to be taken seriously as an actor, moving into big serious dramas as her career has moved forward has been such an important thing to her."

You can watch Fool Me Once on Netflix now.