BBC EastEnders’ Ross Kemp’s love life including ‘rollercoaster’ marriage

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Throughout his decade long soap career as EastEnders womaniser Grant Mitchell, actor Ross Kemp delighted audiences with a series of scandalous love triangles, secret affairs and shock romances on of the the country’s best loved soaps.

But away from our screens, Ross appears to have experienced his own romantic rollercoaster in real life too, which included everything from a failed marriage and messy divorce to Rebekah Brooks through to ‘going on a bender’ with his current wife, Aussie documentary presenter Renee O’Brien.Thankfully however, despite having experienced his fair share of ups-and-downs, Ross has finally settled down in a happy home life, where he is a doting father to his four children.

Here, we take a closer look at the former soap star’s romantic life to date. Rebekah Wade In the late nineties, Ross first crossed paths with journalist Rebecca Wade while she was working for the News of the World, after the pair met while attending the same golf tournament.

Sensing a clear chemistry between them, the pair began dating and in 1996, the smitten duo announced their engagement - however just one year later their wedding plans were put on hold “due to work pressures” as the couple struggled to juggle the demands of soap stardom and a busy journalism career.The break however, didn’t last too long, and by June 2002 the couple had made things official at a glitzy ceremony in Las Vegas.