SOPHIE Gravia had just finished a gruelling 12 hour shift on her ward when she was messaged by new celebrity fan Michelle Keegan - who was reading her latest book thousands of miles away on a sun soaked beach. The single mum of two has insisted on keeping her day job as an NHS nurse in Lanarkshire despite becoming a bestselling author. But as she was heading home after a particularly taxing day she found out that Our Girl star Michelle, 37, was enjoying Meet Me in Milan from her sunlounger in Dubai last October.
She says: “I had actually met her husband Mark Wright at an event in Ingliston last year and told him I was an author. “Then about three weeks later Micheel was holidaying in Dubai when she slid into my DMs when I was leaving work after a long day - I couldn’t believe it. “Michelle just messaged saying, ‘I love your book’ and how it was hilarious.
At first I was thinking, ‘This can’t be THE Michelle Keegan’ then I checked and she had over seven million followers on Instagram. “I messaged my editor about it and she told me the sales had gone sky high since Michelle had posted my book on her socials.” Michelle’s career has also skyrocketed after the success of the Netflix series Fool Me Once, where she plays widowed mum Maya Stern who is left disturbed by an image of her late husband captured on her toddler’s nanny cam.
But Sophie had a chance to join Michelle on the streaming network when they wanted her to take part in their reality hit datin.
