Born in Buckhurst Hill on the border of Essex and London in 1987, Mark Wright rose to fame as a cast member of The Only Way Is Essex. Originally, however, his ambitions lay in football – with a youth career playing for Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham. He was playing for non-league Bishop’s Stortford when he joined the reality TV show in 2010 for three seasons; he has gone on to forge a career in TV and radio broadcasting.
His brother, Josh, born in 1989, has been a professional footballer since he was 17 and currently plays for Ebbsfleet United. The brothers travel the UK in their new BBC show, A Wright Family Holiday, along with their father, “Big” Mark.
