{"id":19272,"date":"2016-05-22T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/?p=19272"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:07:30","slug":"the-only-way-is-fame-for-towie-star-mark-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/?p=19272","title":{"rendered":"The only way is fame for TOWIE star Mark Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanborg.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sean-borg-final.gif\" alt=\"sean-borg-final\" width=\"216\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former \u2018TOWIE\u2018 star\u00a0Mark Wright\u00a0is set to become a star in America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oo-er!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/michael.gif\" alt=\"michael\" width=\"216\" height=\"331\" \/>The reality TV star, who\u00a0rose to fame on\u00a0The Only Way is Essex (think Jersey Shore with English accents)\u00a0\u2013 has had his\u00a0BBC\u00a0show\u00a0The Dengineers\u00a0sold to the USA, meaning he will be aired on the\u00a0Discovery\u00a0Family Channel\u00a0across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The show sees Mark\u00a0help\u00a0children build their dream dens.\u00a0A source said:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s actually a really big\u00a0deal\u00a0for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis US agent thinks it could open the door to more presenting work in the USA, especially as Discovery is such a big channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark has the same agent as Ryan Seacrest and Piers Morgan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Discovery Family channel &#8211; formerly Discovery Kids \u2013 reaches 70 million\u00a0households\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving TOWIE, Mark went on to various hosting jobs, including on\u00a0Heart FM\u00a0and\u00a0Take Me Out: The Gossip.<\/p>\n<p>He also took part in\u00a0Strictly Come Dancing\u00a02014.<\/p>\n<p>Only one series of \u2018The Dengineers\u2019 has been shown so far, but a second has been filmed and will air later in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Mark\u2019s certainly\u00a0come a long way since his days mixing it up with Arg and\u00a0Gemma Collins\u00a0on the popular reality show.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he returned to the series this year to host\u00a0a 200th\u00a0TOWIE episode\u00a0special.<\/p>\n<p>Mark has yet to comment on the news himself.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Mark!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Former \u2018TOWIE\u2018 star\u00a0Mark Wright\u00a0is set to become a star in America. Oo-er! The reality TV star, who\u00a0rose to fame on\u00a0The Only Way is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sean-borg-goes-la"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19301,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions\/19301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}