Mikey North, best known for playing builder Gary Windass on ITV's Coronation Street, leads a quieter life off-screen with his wife and two children. The actor, who joined the soap in 2008, is married to actress and fitness instructor Rachael Isherwood. The couple tied the knot in 2016 after meeting three years earlier.
Rachael Isherwood appeared in the 2011 Hollywood blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger as a USO dancer. Mikey proposed during a romantic getaway in the Lake District in 2015. Recalling the moment, he said: 'I asked her to shut her eyes. When she opened them I was down on one knee with the ring.' The wedding was attended by several Corrie co-stars, including Bruno Langley and Sam Ashton, with Ian Puleston-Davis serving as best man.
The couple's first child, son Archie, was born in November 2016 after a traumatic birth. Rachael required an episiotomy that cut through a vein, causing significant blood loss. 'I lost one and a half litres of blood,' she revealed. Mikey described the scene as resembling a 'chainsaw massacre'. Their daughter Eliza was born in 2019.
In 2018, Mikey overcame a long-standing phobia of driving by participating in the TV show All Star Driving School. He passed his test and admitted: 'I've never been so nervous in all of my life... when I passed I burst into tears.'
Coronation Street airs weeknights at 8:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
