Michelle Keegan’s true feelings on Lauren Goodger amid wild Mark Wright claim

Michelle Keegan’s true feelings on Lauren Goodger amid wild Mark Wright claim

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Lauren Goodger’s relationship with Mark Wright was once called “so cringe” by actress Michelle Keegan, and the former TOWIE star admitted it made her feel “strange” when she found out her ex was expecting.

After revealing their happy news in December 2024, Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan are getting ready to give birth to their first child. The couple has been together for almost 10 years and has been married for almost 10 of those. They have both worked hard to establish careers and construct their dream mansion in Essex.

Before presenter Mark, 38, met his future wife he was involved in a 12 year on-off relationship with reality star Lauren Goodger, also 38. Their volatile relationship, which included their engagement in a car park, was documented in TOWIE. They met while attending school. In a fiery episode, Lauren famously shoved him into a swimming pool, which sparked a lot of rumors about Mark’s infidelity.

Mark Wright and Lauren Goodger
For 12 years, Mark and Lauren lived side by side (Getty Images).
Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan
Lauren continues to discuss them, Mark and Michelle claim (Getty Images).

In the year that followed his meeting with Coronation Street actor Michelle, 37, Lauren was heartbroken and more than willing to admit her feelings for her ex-lover in the years that followed. They eventually split in early 2012. In 2013, Mark and Michelle proposed on a beach in Dubai, and Lauren responded to an “Ask Me Anything” on social media in which she claimed she chose to choose Wright over Mark. This didn’t go down too well with Mark who furiously tweeted: “It’s been well over 2 years and it still continues. I find it so disrespectful to myself but more importantly, my fiancée. Be a proper woman. Please leave me out of your public conversations, stop embarrassing yourself. Initially, show some respect and “MOVE ON”.

Although Lauren recently called Mark the “love of her life,” she recently called him the “love of her life” after initially moving on with Jake McLean, tragically killed in a car accident in Turkey and then with Charles Drury, who she shares with her three-year-old daughter Larose. When Lauren and dating expert Paul Brunson spoke on Paul Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast, Lauren claimed that her ex must have felt the same way. Never did I believe I would fall in love with anyone else, she said. For 12 years, I was permanently with him. It wasn’t a smooth sailing relationship. We broke up a few months here, got back together, but we grew up together. We grew up. My life’s love was with him. Without his lack of a shared desire for me, we wouldn’t have remained together for that long.

According to reports, her comments, which came over a decade after their split, didn’t go down well with Mark and Michelle. OK! was told by a source. Michelle continued to mention their names in the magazine that the pair were frustrated, noting that she doesn’t know Lauren or is cross with her. “She doesn’t like what she reads when Lauren talks about her. Mark is very protective of his wife and family, and he also gets angry. He doesn’t like them being brought up by Lauren, especially as it was so long ago. It’s ancient history for him”.

Michelle Keegan
Michelle labelled Lauren ‘ cringe ‘ for taking Mark back (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Lauren Goodger
(Dave Benett/Getty Images) Lauren has always been open about Mark.

Michelle, a Brassic star, once expressed her thoughts on Lauren as well. Back in 2011, she made a jibe at Lauren and Mark, who were engaged at the time. In her Love It!, Michelle wrote. magazine column: “I love TOWIE! It’s one of those shows you don’t want to watch, but just can’t help turning on. I don’t know how Lauren can take Mark back so easily, though – it’s so cringe! I wouldn’t be able to get back with someone who’d slept with lots of girls I knew, but that’s just me”.

Lauren acknowledged that the shock of learning about Mark and Michelle’s baby announcement made her feel strange. She told Closer magazine: “Obviously it’s weird at first, isn’t it? When you hear that your ex is going to be a dad, it is strange. There was a part of me that was like, ‘ Oh my god, Mark’s having a baby’, but I’m happy for him. Mark will always hold a place in my heart because he was my first love, but I’m not jealous and I don’t wish we were together because then I wouldn’t have Larose, and she’s my world”.

Lauren went on to have another daughter, Lorena, in 2022 but tragically she passed away just minutes after she was born. She has never made it a secret that she wanted to give Larose a sister or brother, but she also discussed becoming pregnant with Mark’s child when she was 19 years old. She chose to go through with the termination because she was then too young to become a mother. Mark acknowledged that he had a bad time at the time. Lauren reflected: “When I was pregnant at 19, it just wasn’t the right time. Despite our mothers’ wishes, we both wanted a baby. If I was a bit older, I would’ve kept the baby, although it’s mad to think I’d have a 17-year-old now”.

Source: Mirror

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