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Michelle Collins, 62, reveals the heartbreaking reason her husband Mike Davidson, 40, proposed after detailing how it took her decades to find love
The Eastenders actress, tied the knot with her partner two years ago and the star admitted she was shocked by the proposal, which came out-of-the-blue a decade after the couple met.
Michelle, who is best known as Cindy Beale in the BBC One show, has revealed that her husband originally popped the question in order to make her feel safe following the death of her mother (pictured March 30) Michelle joined EastEnders in 1988 and became a firm favourite as the unfaithful wife of long-suffering Ian Beale but he told Kaye Adams that the fame took its toll on her private life. The actress left EastEnders in 1998 and went on to star in a host of hit TV dramas, including Two Thousand Acres of Sky and Sunburn, as well as spending three years as Rovers Return landlady Stella Price in rival soap Coronation Street.
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