Michelle Keegan targeted for fly-on-the wall parenting series as it emerges she’s ‘weeks away from giving birth’
WITH her first baby due next month, Michelle Keegan is back on set for Brassic to finish scenes before going on maternity leave.
But as she prepares to fill her time with night feeds and dirty nappies, TV insiders tell me the actress and husband Mark Wright are being targeted for their own fly-on-the-wall series, documenting the journey into parenthood.
A source said: “Michelle and Mark are such a TV power couple, and becoming parents is huge for them. A couple of production companies are writing up propositions to see if they’d let in cameras to follow them becoming parents.
“These fly-on-the-wall shows are huge on ITV, as well as streamers like Prime, and there is a huge audience that would love an insight into Michelle and Mark’s world.
“It’s all just in the planning stages and no formal approaches have been made but the offers are close to being finalised.”
They added: “Michelle is pedal to the metal on Brassic at the moment.
She is finishing up her scenes before she goes off for a break.
Her co-stars will stay working until about May but Michelle is having to get finished in about three weeks.”
The production companies will have their work cut out trying to persuade Michelle to go down the reality telly route.
Mark, who found fame on Towie, is no stranger to having a camera following his every move.
But since she quit Corrie in 2014, Michelle has worked her socks off to break into more serious acting.
I love her as Erin Croft in Brassic — a show wrongly robbed of the Best Comedy gong at the NTA’s year after year.
And her turn as Maya Stern in Fool Me Once on Netflix was absolutely outstanding.
It will need to be an impressive offer to get Michelle to turn her head.