The former TOWIE star, 27, gushed about his Coronation Street fiancée, claiming that it was being away from her that told him she was the one.
Mark admitted that he couldn’t stand to be away from Michelle while he was filming for his new show, saying: “I was desperate to see her, I missed her so much. I couldn’t be away from her for that long, so I though I’m going to get on this flight and propose.
“I flew Michelle to Dubai and that’s where I told her I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.”
Michelle, 26, said yes to Mark’s proposal but he revealed that their relationship struggled at the beginning.
He said: “Michelle had just come our of a relationship. We both lived far away from each other and had different jobs.”
Mark also took the opportunity to defend his lifestyle before he met Michelle, saying: “In the past I have lived like a lot of young boys – meeting a lot of people and having a fun time, but the moment I met Michelle I was a completely different man.”
It seems that Mark’s behaviour while on The Only Way is Essex gave Michelle a preconception of him, as Mark revealed: “In the beginning, Michelle did say to me, ‘I imagined you would be different.’”
While they may have to wait until next year to finally get married, it seems Mark couldn’t be happier right now.
He said: “I’ve got now, for the first time in my life, what I’ve always wanted and what every boy dreams of – affection in a relationship, love, best friend, a girl I fancy… everything rolled into one.”