Mark Wright's mum Carol has shared her devastation at not seeing her family this Christmas. Carol's area in Essex falls under the Tier 4 rules, which means everyone living there is not allowed to mix with other households, even over Christmas.
The TOWIE star, 60, took to her Instagram account on Christmas Eve to share her sadness, saying this is the first year of her life that she will not spending it with her big family.
Instead of the usual 12 to 30 people around her dinner table, there will just be three of them in her house on the big day. Carol shared a picture of a Christmas gone by, which included Mark and his wife Michelle Keegan and his sister Jess Wright.
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