Hear'Say enjoyed brief success, achieving two UK number one singles and a UK number one album, but Kym Marsh left the band in 2002 to pursue a solo career.
35 Facts About Kym Marsh
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Kym Marsh released an album titled Standing Tall in 2003, which peaked at number nine in the UK and spawned two UK top ten singles.
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Kym Marsh won the British Soap Award for Best Newcomer at the 2007 British Soap Awards, as well as winning the Newcomer category at the 2007 National Television Awards and being nominated for Best Female Dramatic Performance at the 2017 British Soap Awards.
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Since October 2020, Kym Marsh has co-fronted the BBC One morning lifestyle programme Morning Live alongside Welsh presenter Gethin Jones.
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From 2022, Kym Marsh appeared in the revival of the BBC school drama series Waterloo Road.
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Kym Marsh was born on 13 June 1976 in Whiston Hospital in Whiston, Merseyside to Pauline and David Kym Marsh, who lived in Garswood, Ashton in Makerfield, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.
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Kym Marsh has two older brothers and one older sister.
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Kym Marsh's 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.
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Kym Marsh attended Byrchall High School in Ashton-in-Makerfield and the Elliot Clarke Stage School in Liverpool for two years, leaving when she was 15.
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In late 2000, Kym Marsh auditioned for the ITV talent show Popstars.
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Kym Marsh was one of the five singers chosen for the newly formed band Hear'Say, along with Danny Foster, Myleene Klass, Suzanne Shaw and Noel Sullivan.
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Kym Marsh was hailed by her girl bandmates as 'the funniest out of the bunch'.
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In January 2002, Kym Marsh announced that she was leaving Hear'Say.
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In July 2003, Kym Marsh released her debut solo album, Standing Tall, which peaked at number 9 in the UK.
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In early 2006, Kym Marsh entered Making Your Mind Up with a song titled "Whisper to Me", a show intended to pick a singer and a song for the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Kym Marsh came fourth in the contest, which was won by Daz Sampson.
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Kym Marsh made her television acting debut in 2005, in an episode of the BBC One soap opera Doctors, playing a character called Ruth Parry.
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Kym Marsh joined the cast of Coronation Street, playing Michelle Connor from April 2006 a role she held until 2019.
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In contrast, the 2017 stillbirth storyline as well as Kym Marsh's performance received rave reviews and were praised by the stillbirth charity Sands.
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Kym Marsh, whose real-life son Archie was stillborn, explained that it was important for her to take on the storyline in order to raise awareness of the issue.
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Kym Marsh voiced for the change in law which would see stillborn children receive birth certificates.
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Kym Marsh later won the 2017 British Soap Award for Best Female Dramatic Performance.
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On 24 February 2019, it was announced that Kym Marsh would be leaving the soap after 13 years and Michelle's final scenes were broadcast on 27 December 2019.
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Kym Marsh began presenting the daily morning magazine show Morning Live on BBC One on 26 October 2020, alongside Gethin Jones.
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In March 2021, Kym Marsh appeared in the fourth series of the BBC One drama The Syndicate as Donna.
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On 4 August 2022, it was announced that Kym Marsh would be competing on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing.
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On 22 November 2022, it was announced that Kym Marsh had tested positive for COVID and would, therefore, have to miss that Saturday's appearance on the show.
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Kym Marsh was the tenth celebrity to be eliminated, on 3 December 2022, after losing the dance off to Molly Rainford and Carlos Gu.
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Kym Marsh has been married three times and has four children and two grandsons.
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Kym Marsh has a son named David was born on 1995 and and a daughter named Emilie was born on 1997 and from a relationship with Dave Cunliffe.
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Kym Marsh married the actor Jack Ryder in St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 10 August 2002.
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On 3 October 2012, Kym Marsh announced that she would be taking Lomas' name professionally.
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In May 2019, Kym Marsh became a grandmother when her daughter Emilie had a son.
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On 14 June 2021, Kym Marsh announced her engagement to army major Scott Ratcliff and they were married on 16 October 2021.
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Kym Marsh became a grandmother for the second time in August 2022, when her son David and his fiancee Courtney had a son named Clayton.