Alison Steadman in the late Mike Stott's "My Mad Grandad" on BBC Radio 4. In Manchester in 1972, shooting his television film "Hard Labour", director Mike Leigh drove over to Liverpool to see Ted Whitehead's play "The Foursome", (Steadman was in the Liverpool Everyman cast). He asked Steadman to be in his film. "During the preparation of the film, Mike and Alison, as they both say, 'got together.'" They married in 1973 and had two sons, Toby (b. February 1978) and Leo (b. August 1981). The couple separated in 1995 and divorced in 2001. Steadman's present partner is Michael Elwyn;the couple live
Alison McGovern McGovern married economist Ashwin Kumar, formerly a senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions and Passenger Director at Passenger Focus. The couple have a daughter, born in 2011. Alison McGovern Alison McGovern (born 30 December 1980) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Wirral South since 2010. The granddaughter of songwriter and activist Peter McGovern, she was born in Clatterbridge, Merseyside, the daughter of a British Railways telecoms engineer father and a mother who was a nurse. She was educated at Brookhurst Primary School, and then Wirral Grammar School for Girls,