Having previously appeared in Mr Bates vs The Post Office, actor Will Mellor is now continuing to fight for justice as the presenter of the new BBC One documentary, Surviving the Post Office. In the show, Will, who previously played sub-postmaster Lee Castleton in the acclaimed ITV drama, highlights the devastating toll the events have taken on the families at the heart of the saga - some of whom claim their health was seriously affected as a result. Away from his onscreen work, the 48-year-old has led an interesting love life.
He's been with his wife, dancer and actress Michelle McSwann, for two decades after first locking eyes on the set of a stage musical in 1999. However, things have been far from smooth sailing for Will and Michelle, who endured a painful split before finally tying the knot in 2007. As Will revisits the individuals whose lives were ripped apart by the Horizon scandal, the Mirror takes a look at his rollercoaster romances.
.. After finally committing, Will told the Sunday People he was thrilled to finally be able to call Michelle 'my wife'.
"We were always a good unit but now we're married, it feels stronger somehow, more solid. Can you believe it? I'm an old married man now and I love it," he gushed. "I told Michelle we both had to be 100 per cent and she felt the same way because neither of us wants to do this all again.
And as soon as I felt that way, I proposed. I knew I wanted to ask her to marry me when we were away in Grenada at Christmas so I planned to ask her parents first and do it all properly." The sunset proposal saw Will take Michelle out on a boat.
He played their favourite song as he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. "It was very romantic and I admit I did get a bit teary, I don't know why. I thought it was the woman who was supposed to cry but in this case it was me," he said.
"I think the occasion hit me all at once because it was just so right and exactly how I'd imagined it would be." They tied the knot in a private ceremony at a grand manor house in Warwickshire and declined to sell pictures to a glossy magazine, insisting they wanted a 'normal' day. "And that's how we intend to live our lives - very normal and down-to-earth, which is the way I was brought up," he continued.
"I want to leave the work at work and come home and have an everyday family life. We're a little unit now, and even though you have to work at a marriage, we will work at it together." When Will starred on Strictly last year, partnered with professional dancer Nancy Xu, Michelle and their two kids, Jayden, 19, and Renee, 16, were cheering him on in the audience.
In March, the couple celebrated 24 years together, with Will posting a sweet snap on Instagram captioned: "Still love our date nights!" Then a month later, they jetted off to the Caribbean for a sun-soaked family holiday, which he shared they'd been waiting three years for. "Making some amazing memories," Will wrote on social media. But before settling down and building the beautiful family he has now, Will had a tumultuous two-year relationship with Coronation Street actress Angela Griffin.
After their split, Angela told the Mirror she had sworn off dating other actors as a result. "I'm steering clear," she said in 2001. Of the intense interest that surrounded their romance at the time, she continued: "Maybe 50 per cent of the stories were untrue, but some were spot on.
We're still good mates, though. Is that grown-up of me? Or more like manipulative moves - 'We're just friends, but look what you could have had!'" Surviving the Post Office airs this evening (July 22) at 8:30pm on BBC One Do you have a story to share? Email me at julia.banim@reachplc.
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