page_title: Mark Bright
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Mark Bright / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Michelle Gayle.
context_page_description: Mark Abraham Bright is an English sports correspondent and former footballer.
  Born to a Gambian father and English mother, he was adopted into a foster family in Stoke-on-Trent at an early age. He played non-league football for local side Leek Town, before joining nearby Football League side Port Vale in 1981. He turned professional at the club the following year, though would only enjoy an extended run in the first-team during the 1983–84 season. He signed with First Division club Leicester City in June 1984. He failed to find success with Leicester however and was sold on to Crystal Palace in November 1986. He helped Palace to win promotion out of the Second Division via the play-offs in 1989 and went on to play on the losing side of the 1990 FA Cup final, before winning the Full Members' Cup in 1991. Building an effective strike partnership with Ian Wright, he scored 114 goals in 286 league and cup games for Crystal Palace and was also named on the PFA Second Division Team of the Year in 1987–88 and as the club's Player of The Year in 1990.
context_section_description: He met British singer and actress Michelle Gayle in 1995 and the couple married in Las Vegas the following year. They divorced in 2007, although they remain as friends. Their son, Isaiah, was born in April 2000. Bright has completed six half marathons since his retirement in 1999, all of them in the Great North Run. He is also a regular competitor in the London Marathon, raising funds for cancer research in 2000, the Willow Foundation in 2005 and The Rhys Daniels Trust in 2006.
caption: Ex-wife Michelle Gayle.
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