Where is the ex Mark Croft of Kerry Katona now? Former taxi driver pushed the spotlight for a quiet life in Bolton with his new wife – after the TV star blamed him for her drug use

Kerry Katona Famous has had a series of high -profile relationships and has just launched a new romance with personal trainer Paolo Margaglione.

Undoubtedly, one of her most turbulent romances with former taxi driver Mark Croft, who blamed her for contributing to her drug use – which he denied.

The couple married in 2007 after a year of dating and had two children together – Heidi, 18 and Maxwell, 17 – before they went their own way in 2011.

Their very public split was marred by accusations of unfaithfulness, and Kerry later admitted that she cheated on Mark with Ex Royal Marine Kevin Green.

After their fleeting apart, Kerry then blamed him for contributing to her drug use.

Since then, Mark, 54 has shifted anything but the spotlight and now a much more modest life away from fame, after they have recovered since their split.

Mark, originally from Wigan, now lives in Bolton with his second wife Kelly Croft, 37, with whom he married in 2016.

They share a child together, while Mark also has a daughter from an earlier relationship. She lives in Warrington with her mother.

Little else is known about Mark’s life since the divorce of Kerry, who recently admitted her affair during their marriage, was the best she has ever done. “

In 2023, Kerry exclusively spoke about Slingos Lippy Gossip Show alongside host Emma Conybeare and Rebecca Lawrence from MailOnline about her affair.

“I had an affair myself when I was with Mark Croft and it was the best thing I ever did,” she shared.

“We were both married, we both fell incredibly in love with each other, he left his wife a little bit, but for me that just … It saved my life.”

In the same year, Kerry claimed that she and her children no longer had contact with Mark, but said she told her daughter Heidi that she could put them in contact if she wanted to.

She told Closer: ‘Despite how I think about Mark, I don’t want her to regret. Max can’t even remember what Mark looks like and he is not least interested, but I understand that Heidi wants to be the girl of a dad. ‘

The couple had a turbulent relationship after getting married in Gretna Green on Valentine’s Day in 2007.

Their wedding came six days before the birth of their daughter Heidi. In April 2008 they welcomed a son, Maxwell Mark.

Shortly after the ceremony, reports claimed that Mark slept with a former lover in the days after their engagement and also had an affair with a second woman.

They split forever in 2010, when Kerry was introduced to Ex Royal Marine Kevin in January when he agreed to help during a Bootcamp course for weight loss in Kent.

The singer admitted that he kissed Kevin, but insists that the relationship did not develop any further because they were both married.

Kerry and Mark had several public bust-ups in the course of their relationship, whereby the singer was more likely to blame him for contributing to her public battle with drugs.

Speaking in 2010, he owned his obsession with spending her money and revealed how he helped her wasted millions, left her bankrupt, but claimed that he was behind her drug problems, were not true.

Mark told how he blew £ 1.4 million on Flash cars and sheds a £ 135,000 Ferrari aside, simply because it was too wide for the parking lot of Sainsbury.

Kerry was placed bankrupt in 2008 because he did not deliver the final £ 87,000 of a tax account of £ 417,000.

He now told the news of the world at that moment: “If someone said to you,” you don’t have to work “, because they have a lot of money, what would you do? I had the life of Riley. ‘

Speaking of her three marriages, a challenging Kerry in 2023 was that she has no regrets of everything she has done in life and claims: “I have not made any mistakes, they have all been lessons.”

The TV personality was married to Brian Mcfadden from 2002 to 2006 and their share of Kids Molly, 23, and Lilly Sue, 22.

She was also married to the late George Kay from 2014 to 2017 and they share one child – DJ, 10.

Kerry went famous in 2012 that artist Steve Alce, but less than a year later the fast -moving romance was over.

She also went from Emily in Paris star Lucien Laviscount 12 years ago and called ‘Friends with benefits’.

In more recent years, Kerry had a six -year relationship with Ryan Mahoney, but she ended their engagement in November about a ‘break of trust’.

After their split, Kerry became public with Paolo Margaglione, 33, earlier this month, passionately kissing and hand in hands with the trainer, who has been her junior for 10 years.

But Kerry’s new romance was then questioned in the midst of claiming that Paolo is only interested in ‘fame’ and his public profile is growing.

Paolo’s former girlfriend claimed that she went out with him when he went on celebrities Daing and accused him of having her two -time with the atomic kit star.