Kym Marsh

At 47 years old, Kym Marsh has this physical status:

Kimberley Gail Marsh (formerly Ryder and Lomas, born 13 June 1976) is an English actor, producer, and singer-songwriter who came to fame in 2001 after winning a spot in Hear's Ayre as a result of appearing on the reality television show Popstars.

Hear'Say enjoyed brief success, charting two UK number one singles and a UK number one album, but Marsh left the band in 2002 to pursue a solo career.

Standing Tall, She released an album in 2003 that debuted at number nine in the United Kingdom and produced two UK top ten singles. Michelle Connor has been playing Michelle Connor on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street since 2006.

She was named Best Newcomer at the 2007 British Soap Awards and the 2007 National Television Awards, as well as the award for Best Female Dramatic Performance at the 2017 British Soap Awards.

In 2010, she came in fourth place when she appeared on Popstar to Operastar, a reality show on which well-known pop stars were preparing to sing opera.

Early life

Marsh was born in Whiston Hospital in Merseyside, Australia, on June 13, 1976, to Pauline and David Marsh. She has two older brothers and one older sister. Her father was a joiner and in his spare time was the lead guitarist for the band Ricky and the Dominant Four, who were a supporting act to The Beatles at The Cavern Club. She attended Byrchall High School in Ashton-in-Makerfield and the Elliot Clarke Stage School in Liverpool for two years, ending when she was 15 years old.

Personal life

Marsh has been married three times and has four children and two grandsons. She has a son named David (born 1995) and a daughter named Emilie (born 1997) from a relationship with Dave Cunliffe. On October 10, 2002, she married actor Jack Ryder in St Albans, Hertfordshire. On March 20, 2008, it was revealed that the couple had decided to separate and would seek a divorce, and that they would marry on August 12, 2009.

Marsh dated actor Jamie Lomas from July 2008 to present. In September 2012, they married in Cheshire. In 2009, She and Lomas announced that they were expecting a baby. Their son, Archie, was born 18 weeks early on February 11 weeks and died a few weeks after birth. Polly, their daughter's age, was born on March 23, 2011. Marsh declared on October 3rd that she would not be identified as Kym Marsh but rather as Kym Lomas. They separated in 2013 and divorced in 2014.

In May 2017, a wax figure of Marsh was added to Madame Tussauds Blackpool's gallery.

Marsh became a grandmother in May 2019 when her daughter Emilie had a boy. On June 20,2021, Marsh and Scott Ratcliff, an army major, announced their union, and they married on October 16, 2021.

Marsh became a grandmother for the second time in August 2022, when her son David and his fiancée Courtney had a boy named Clayton.

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Music career

Marsh performed session vocals for artists including Matt Darey, the group Freaky Realistic, and the duo Hemstock & Jennings. She appeared on Norwegian on the latter's album "Arctic," which captured Paul van Dyk's interest, and was remixed and re-recorded with additional vocals from Jan Johnston. The track, renamed "Nothing But You," was released in the United Kingdom via Positiva and debuted at number 14 in the UK charts.

Marsh auditioned for the ITV talent show Popstars in late 2000. She was one of the five members of Hear'say's newest group, as well as Danny Foster, Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw, and Noel Sullivan. Hear'Say's first single, "Pure and Simple," was released in March 2001, a cover of a Girl Thing track. Her girl bandmates characterized her as "the funniest out of the bunch." In March 2001, the album debuted on number one on the UK Singles Chart, despite the fact that it only sold less than 550,000 copies. In June 2001, the group debuted "The Way to Your Love," their second single. The album was their second straight number one single. The group toured the United Kingdom shortly after. Marsh revealed in January 2002 that she was leaving Hear'Say. Auditions were held to find a replacement for her, but the company disbanded in October 2002.

Marsh has landed a solo record deal with Island Records after being out of the limelight for a while. "Cry" was her first single on the UK Singles Chart, and her second single, "Come on Over," made it to number ten. Marsh's debut solo album, Standing Tall, debuted in July 2003, peaking at number nine in the UK. It featured three solo singles as well as twelve other tracks. "Sentimental," her make-or-break third single, stalled at number 35, resulting in her being barred from her record label. Marsh performed "Whisper to Me" in early 2006, a song that was supposed to select a singer and a song for the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. Marsh came in fourth place in the competition, which was won by Daz Sampson.

Television career

In an episode of the BBC One soap opera Doctors, Marsh made her television debut in 2005, playing Ruth Parry, a woman. She appeared on ITV's daytime program Loose Women for the eighth season in the same year. In 2006, she appeared as Kay Price in the first two episodes of Channel 4's soap opera Hollyoaks: In the City.

Marsh appeared on Coronation Street from April 2006, when she played Michelle Connor from April 2006, which she continued until 2019. She has since been rewarded with Newcomer awards at the 2007 British Soap Awards and the 2007 National Television Awards, among other things, for her appearances on the show. She became a regular character by having her son exchanged at birth, the death of her older brother Paul (Sean Gallagher), Leanne Battersby (Keith Duffy), her failed pregnancy with Steve's baby, learning that Steve has also stalked her ex-boyfriend Will (Leon Ockenden), and being stalked by her ex-boyfriend Will (Leon Ockenden). Other storylines have focused on Carla (Alison King) and Maria (Samia Ghadie), as well as her friendship with Robert Preston (Tristan Gemmill) after her marriage to Steve ended.

Some readers began to get sick of her as well as her behavior in 2008, when the storyline was dominant. Both supporters and critics generally opposed Michelle's baby-swap storyline; columnist Grace Dent wrote of the plot: "It seems like something ripped from a copy of Pick Me Up magazine and read to me ardently over 22 weeks." In comparison, the 2017 stillbirth storyline as well as Marsh's performance received rave reviews and was lauded by the stillbirth charity Sands. Marsh, the narrator of Archie's real life son, was also born, said that it was important for her to get to the storyline in order to raise concerns about the subject. She also lobbied for the reform of legislation, which would see stillborn children get birth certificates. It was also "the right way to honor" her son, according to the actress. She was named Best Female Dramatic Performance at the 2017 British Soap Award. Marsh would be leaving the soap after 13 years, according to Michelle's last scenes on February 27, 2019.

Marsh, alongside Gethin Jones, began presenting the daily morning magazine show Morning Live on BBC One on October 26, 2020. The series came to an end on December 18, 2020, and the BBC announced on December 17 that it would return in 2021 for a second series. Marsh appeared in the fourth series of the BBC One drama The Syndicate as Donna in March 2021. She was announced as one of the starring cast members of BBC's revival of their school drama Waterloo Road a year later.

Marsh will be ranked on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing, which will be announced on August 4, 2022. She was partnered with Graziano Di Prima in a Graziano Di Prima project. On September 24, 2022, the series was released.

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