Mark Wright forced to self-isolate with Michelle Keegan after Crawley Covid-19 outbreak with new BBC2 show postponed

MARK WRIGHT is self-isolating at home with wife Michelle Keegan after a huge coronavirus outbreak at his new football team.

Wright recently signed a deal to play for League Two side Crawley Town - but the club have been plunged into crisis with ELEVEN positive Covid cases.

This has seen their FA Cup clash at Bournemouth on Saturday postponed - and means TV and radio star Wright is stuck indoors with his stunning other half.

Wright's agent Jonathan Shalit confirmed to SunSport: "Mark is of course following all guidelines.

"Consequently he as had to postpone his daily BBC 2 fitness show, Workout the Wright Way, by a week, which was due to start next Monday.

"Also will be broadcasting his daily Heart evening radio show from home, which he did last night until, he is allowed out."

Wright, who celebrates his birthday today, will now have to self-isolate for seven days as per government rules.

This gave him time to appear remotely as a guest on hit ITV show Loose Women where he put on an exercise class for the panel.

The former Towie star is promoting a one-month plan to get people fit during lockdown.

The 34-year-old made his professional football debut earlier this month for Crawley when he came on as a late sub in the stunning 3-0 FA Cup win against Premier League Leeds.

It meant he had finally realised his dream of playing professional football at the age of 33.

Wright was in the Spurs academy, captained the youth team and played alongside Jamie Redknapp in the reserves.

But after a summer of drinking and eating, he came back out of shape and was let go - leaving him broken.

Now, 15 years later he has laced back up the boots for some League Two action.

Crawley's next match in the FA Cup against Bournemouth is set to be rearranged for Tuesday, subject to the results of two rounds of tests beforehand.

Earlier this month Wright revealed how his family had been living their own Covid nightmare.

His father Mark Snr, mother Carol and two uncles had all contracted the virus in what he described as 'the scariest week of my life' over New Year.

Wright explained how his dad 'wasn't the same mentally' while one of his uncles remains in hospital.

Wife Michelle was recently pictured filming scenes for her hit TV series Brassic.

It is not known whether her schedule will be affected.

The UK yesterday recorded its highest ever number of deaths with 1,610 lives lost to the pandemic.

That brings the total to 91,470.

There were also 33,335 new cases, bringing the total to 3.47m.