PHOTOS DANA STINE, ITV
In the year 2000, Michelle Hardwick played Hero in a Northern Broadsides production of Much Ado About Nothing. Unbeknownst to her, nestled in the audience lapping up every second of the Shakespearean comedy, was the woman who would one day become her wife.
“How amazing is that? We were breathing the same air,” Michelle exclaims when we speak on the phone. She’s generously squeezed in our call at the end of a busy day starring as vet Vanessa Woodfield in Emmerdale.