He’s not the Hollywood actor worth $350 million. He’s the 49-year-old Lancashire lad in a powder-blue suit who, on 5 December 2025, quietly married Britain’s most beloved TV presenter in front of just ten people.
This is the real Michael Douglas: the celebrity hairdresser, mdlondon founder, podcast co-host, devoted dad, and the man Davina McCall calls “my calm in every storm”.

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Early Life: From Leyland Garages to London Salons

Born on 10 May 1976 in Leyland, Lancashire, Michael grew up in a no-nonsense working-class family. He attended Balshaw’s Church of England High School, leaving at 16 when his mum gave him an ultimatum: “Get a job or get out.”

His first apprenticeship? Motorbike mechanic. Grease, spanners and zero glamour.
Then he watched his best mate’s older brother come home from the salon every day laughing, pockets full of tips, and surrounded by girls. Michael’s light-bulb moment arrived with perfect comic timing:
“I thought, ‘That guy is the happiest person I know… and it’s a great way to meet girls.”

At 19 he swapped overalls for scissors, trained under Wella in London, and never looked back.

Career: 35 Years of Blow-Dries, Fashion Week Chaos and Building an Empire

By the late 1990s Michael was a session stylist on the international Fashion Week circuit — London, Paris, Milan, New York. Name a 2000s supermodel and he’s probably fixed her extensions backstage: Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Sienna Miller, Yasmin Le Bon, Jodie Kidd.

One of his favourite war stories involves Johnny Depp and a can of black hairspray that went catastrophically wrong minutes before a show. (“I aged ten years in ten seconds.”)

He became a TV fixture too — resident hairdresser on BBC’s The One Show, regular on This Morning and Good Morning Britain, and the man who could give you a red-carpet blow-dry in seven minutes flat.

During lockdown he and Davina started doing Instagram Live hair tutorials from their kitchen. The reaction was so huge that Michael launched MD London — professional-grade dryers, straighteners and curling tools designed to survive daily use by real women, not just models. Today the brand is stocked in salons and homes across the UK and ships worldwide.

Relationship with Davina McCall: 25 Years in the Making

They actually met around the year 2000 when Michael was booked to do Davina’s hair on Big Brother at Elstree Studios. For almost two decades they were strictly friends — the reliable stylist she texted at 2 a.m. when she needed an emergency up-do.

Everything changed in late 2018, a year after Davina’s marriage to Matthew Robertson ended.
“It was like a lightning bolt,” she later said. “We’d known each other forever, but suddenly we couldn’t keep our hands off each other. We’re like lovesick teenagers.”

Key milestones:

• 2019 – Go public as a couple
• January 2023 – Move in together in rural Kent
• 2023 – Launch podcast Making the Cut (beauty tips mixed with very funny couple banter)
• November 2024 – Michael nurses Davina through brain-tumour surgery
• October 2025 – Stays by her side for breast-cancer lumpectomy
• July 2025 – Proposes on an Ibiza cliff path (while Davina moans about her pink steel-toe cowboy boots)
• 5 December 2025 – Marry in an intimate registry-office ceremony with only ten guests
• 6 December 2025 – Attend a friend’s much larger wedding as surprise newlyweds (“the perfect weekend”)

Net Worth 2025

Estimated £1–2 million.
Income streams:

• mdlondon sales
• TV appearances and session styling
• Podcast sponsorship
• Brand partnerships (currently an ambassador for OGX)

He’s comfortably off but still the man who’ll rant on Instagram about a £300-a-night hotel room with wonky curtains.

Affairs & Controversies

None.
In an industry famous for drama, Michael’s record is spotless. His marriage to first wife Tracey ended amicably many years ago; they remain on good terms for the sake of their son.

Family & Children

Michael has two children from previous relationships (both now adults; he keeps their names and faces private).
He is stepfather to Davina’s three children with ex-husband Matthew Robertson:

• Holly Robertson, 23
• Tilly Robertson, 21
• Chester Robertson, 18

Sources say he asked the kids for their blessing before proposing: “Do you mind if I make an honest woman of your mum?” They apparently replied, “What took you so long?”

The blended family is famously close — all five children reportedly attended the tiny December wedding.

Ethnicity

White British. 100 % Lancashire — Anglo-Saxon roots, no relation whatsoever to the Bermudian-Dutch-Jewish heritage of the Hollywood Michael Douglas (a mix-up that still amuses him).

The Man Himself

Friends describe him as funny, calm, allergic to pretension, and the person who can make Davina McCall — a woman who has presented live TV to millions — dissolve into giggles.

In his own words (from the Making the Cut podcast):
“I’m just a bloke from Leyland who got lucky with a pair of scissors… and then got really lucky when the best woman in the world finally noticed me.”

Twenty-five years after first brushing Davina’s hair on a noisy Big Brother set, Michael Douglas has gone from stylist to soulmate, from friend to husband — and, in December 2025, from boyfriend to the man who gave Britain its most heart-warming love story of the year.

Shop his tools, steal his blow-dry hacks, but good luck trying to borrow his happily-ever-after. That one’s already taken. 💍