Former CBBC star with famous wife quits TV career for normal job two decades on from finding fame

MICHAEL Underwood has officially turned his backmost connected fame and is present loving beingness distant from the spotlight successful a wholly antithetic career.

The prima roseate to fame connected CBBC successful the precocious 90s arsenic a kids TV big and was 1 of the astir recognisable stars connected the channel.

He adjacent recovered emotion with his co-star Angellica Bell arsenic they turned their on-screen presenting enactment for the transmission into a real-life off-screen emotion story.

But whilst his woman Angellica is inactive enjoying her clip connected TV - helium has swapped the TV workplace for the schoolroom and couldn't beryllium happier.

In an exclusive interrogation with The Sun, Angellica opened up connected however her hubby was uncovering caller fulfilment arsenic a teacher aft being near retired of TV enactment erstwhile the Covid pandemic hit.

She told us: "It's funny. He couldn't get immoderate work. He had a teaching degree. He was like, 'I can't beryllium around' truthful helium started teaching.

"It's been amazing. It was hard astatine archetypal due to the fact that helium truly wanted to bash TV and had nary power implicit that.

"But helium loves it now. His students are similar his extended children. They are blessed to person him. He thinks of originative ways to teach, to support them engaged.

"He's adjacent got immoderate parents present going, 'Oh my gosh, I utilized to ticker you connected Jungle Run'.

"He's present teaching their children. He's like, 'oh my gosh, this is great'."

The prima admitted that astatine the opening of her romance, it was her hubby Michael who was much excited by the imaginable of TV jobs whilst she took a much backseat approach.

Looking backmost connected the commencement of their careers, she added: "It's funny. Michael loved TV. We met connected CBBC. I was a spot much laissez-faire astir TV.

"He truly wanted to bash it. He had a teaching grade before. He did tons of CBBC. Then helium went to bash CITV, Jungle Run. He loved it.

"Then helium did shows connected ITV and Good Morning Britain. He was the Entertainment Reporter."

Tellingly, Angellica went connected to adhd that we whitethorn spot Michael backmost connected screens soon, arsenic she teased: "He's had a fewer offers and stuff. And we person been approached to bash immoderate bits."

Michael has been teaching for implicit 5 years astatine Surbiton High Boy’s Prep School successful south-west London, teaching Year 4, who are 8 and 9 years old.

Luckily helium was already a trained teacher arsenic helium did a four-year BEd teaching grade earlier landing his large interruption connected television - connected the proposal of his mum.

Michael antecedently explained: "It was my mum who really said: 'Why don’t you deliberation of doing play arsenic a teaching degree, specialise successful that and you’ve got thing to autumn backmost connected if the acting doesn’t enactment out.'"

Angellica was speaking to The Sun arsenic portion of Currys' run to prevention Black Friday by committing to their caller minimum modular wherever nary woody has been cheaper successful the past six months, encouraging different retails to travel suit.