In May 1996 she was presented with the
Rear of the Year title. She had a series of high-profile romances including engagement to
Darren Day in the 1990s. She married Robert Ashworth in June 2001, but a series of early problems occurred including a row on a return flight from the Caribbean after she had been filming ITV's
Wish You Were Here...?. In 2015 Ashworth blamed phone hacking for ruining his career and marriage. In 2003, her father Karl Shaw was featured in an article in the
News of the World, and said that Shaw survived on "three bottles of wine and a packet of crisps a day". He also said that if "she carries on this way it will kill her". She made moves to turn her life around including spending two months in rehab and leaving her husband. Before this she had set up an eating disorder charity called The Tracy Shaw Foundation which helps teenagers combat eating disorders, as she had struggled with
anorexia during the 1990s, and at one stage her weight plunged below six stone. Her marriage ended in divorce in 2004, and Shaw set up home with and subsequently became engaged to childhood friend Ashley Poundall, the son of her mother Anne's boyfriend of eight years, Colin. The couple currently live in
Caversham Heights, Berkshire and have two sons Louis (born February 2005) and Luca (born September 2006).
Stalker In 2000, stalker Kevin Sedgewick pleaded guilty to harassing Shaw over a period of five years. He had written a number of letters to her, as well as
Coronation Street co-stars
Jacqueline Pirie and
Jennifer James, and hung around the grounds of Granada Studios in Manchester, put his arms around Shaw, and asked for a kiss. Sedgewick pleaded guilty later that year to multiple acts of gross indecency with children. He is reported to suffer from hearing voices in his head. ==Discography==