John Bishop supported by fans as he shares marriage update

John Bishop has received rafts of well wishes from fans as he shared a heartwarming update about his marriage to wife Melanie.

The Liverpool-born star married Melanie in 1993 and they share three sons together. John has previously said how his start in comedy was inspired by heartbreak as his marriage was falling apart.

He said: “There was no huge fight or revelation about someone else. We just grew apart. Maybe it had something to do with having three kids so quickly. For six years there was always someone in the house in nappies. Our marriage just faded.

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“You realise that the person you wanted to spend your life with no longer wants to be with you, or you with them. Suddenly it felt like walking round the house with drawing pins in your shoes.”

John told the Big Interview in 2004 about how he performed his first stand-up gig while he was in the midst of an 18-month separation from his wife. He said: “I was as miserable as sin at the time because I was going through a rocky period in my marriage, so it was either a lap dancing bar or a comedy club so I went to the Frog and Bucket.”

He said: “We met up after the show and she said seeing me up there reminded her of me as I used to be. When I was a good laugh.” It appears the joke worked, as the couple are still together to this day and living happily on a farm in rural Cheshire.