Mike Dobinson, also identified in some reporting as Michael Dobinson, is best known publicly as the husband of English comedian Maisie Adam. Before their marriage, Adam repeatedly described him as running a cocktail bar in Brighton, while a 2025 Radio Times interview referred to him more broadly as a businessman.
Adam and Dobinson married on 10 June 2023. The timing made the wedding unusually visible: the following day, Adam played in Soccer Aid at Old Trafford and told ITV she had been more nervous about the match than the wedding. Contemporaneous reporting identified her new husband as Michael Dobinson.
Much less is firmly documented about Dobinson’s life outside his relationship with Adam. His exact current occupation, age, education and finances have not been publicly confirmed in reliable sources, and several online profiles appear to mix him up with other men who share the same name.
What does Mike Dobinson do?
Dobinson’s clearest documented professional background is in hospitality.
In a 2019 interview, Adam said she was living in Brighton with her boyfriend, who ran a cocktail bar. By December 2021, The Standard identified that boyfriend as Mike and again said he ran a cocktail bar in Brighton.
The same picture remained in place in 2022. In an Observer interview about Adam’s Sundays, she described finishing comedy gigs late at night while her fiancé sometimes returned even later from the cocktail bar.
By October 2025, Radio Times described Dobinson as a businessman rather than by a specific hospitality job title. His exact role as of September 2026 is not publicly established.
That distinction matters because some online biographies attach much more detailed career histories to him, including named employers, coding training and technology roles. Those claims are not supported strongly enough to present as fact.
His relationship with Maisie Adam
Adam was already publicly referring to a boyfriend in Brighton by 2019, although that early interview did not name him.
By December 2021, the connection was explicit: The Standard identified her partner as Mike and reported that the couple were engaged. Adam had announced the engagement that month.
Their life together occasionally appeared in interviews through small, concrete details. During the pandemic, Adam said Mike helped maintain the distinctive haircut that became part of her public look, while his bartending background meant cocktails were also part of their time at home.
In 2022, Adam described a routine shaped by two professions with late hours. She could arrive home from comedy work around 1am, while Dobinson sometimes finished later at the bar. She also described more ordinary Sundays involving walks, football, Formula One and a roast dinner.
Those details offer a clearer picture of Dobinson than many of the personality labels attached to him elsewhere. There is no need to describe him as “grounded,” “private by choice” or “supportive” when the documented material is more specific.
Their June 2023 wedding
Adam and Dobinson married on Saturday, 10 June 2023.
The next day, Adam took part in Soccer Aid at Old Trafford for World XI. Speaking during the event, she joked that she had been more nervous about playing in the charity match than she had been about getting married.
Wedding photographs shared publicly at the time showed the couple in wedding clothes on Brighton seafront. Those images establish the setting of the photographs, but not the exact ceremony venue.
The wedding also confirmed the Mike/Michael name variation seen across coverage. Interviews with Adam had generally called him Mike, while contemporary wedding reports referred to him as Michael Dobinson.
Life in Brighton
Brighton is the strongest recurring location in Dobinson’s public profile.
Adam was already talking about living there with her boyfriend in 2019. The 2021 and 2022 interviews connected Dobinson’s work to a Brighton bar, and in October 2025 Adam told Radio Times that she and her husband were living together in a small flat in the city.
The Brighton connection also runs through the couple’s wedding imagery and Adam’s own working life. But it would be a mistake to turn that into a more intrusive account of where they live. Public reporting supports the city, not the need for a precise residential location.
Is Mike Dobinson connected to BarByte?
A Companies House record exists for a Brighton-associated Michael Dobinson who became the sole director and controlling shareholder of BarByte Ltd when the company was incorporated on 27 November 2023.
BarByte was registered under the category “business and domestic software development.” It later filed dormant accounts for the period ending 30 November 2024, applied for voluntary strike-off in November 2025 and was dissolved on 24 February 2026.
The important limitation is identity. The Companies House filing does not mention Maisie Adam, so it does not by itself prove that the Michael Dobinson connected to BarByte is her husband.
That means BarByte should not be treated as a settled part of Dobinson’s biography without an additional direct link. It is also inaccurate to describe the company as an active or successful startup based on the registry record alone.
Is he the Michael Dobinson from Secret Escapes?
There is also a Michael Dobinson who has been identified in corporate material as Head of Performance Marketing at Secret Escapes.
That does not mean he is Maisie Adam’s husband.
Multiple Mike and Michael Dobinson profiles exist publicly, and no reliable source establishes that the Secret Escapes marketing executive is the same person as Adam’s husband. Claims that merge the two careers should therefore be treated as a namesake mix-up unless stronger evidence emerges.
The same caution applies to online profiles that attribute detailed digital-marketing, coding or education histories to Dobinson without a clear identity link.
What is known about Mike Dobinson’s age and net worth?
Dobinson’s exact age is not firmly established in reliable public reporting about Adam and her husband.
A Companies House record for the Brighton-associated Michael Dobinson connected to BarByte gives a birth month and year of April 1993, but because that corporate identity has not been conclusively tied to Adam’s husband, it should not be presented as his confirmed date of birth.
There is also no reliable public estimate of Mike Dobinson’s net worth. Figures circulating on biography websites are inconsistent and are not supported by disclosed assets, earnings, liabilities or ownership valuations.
His height, education and detailed family background are likewise not firmly established in the reliable public record.
What is Mike Dobinson doing now?
The most recent strong public description of Dobinson came in October 2025, when Radio Times referred to him as businessman Mike Dobinson and Adam spoke about the couple living together in Brighton.
As of September 2026, no reliable public source has established a more specific current job title.
That leaves a concise, evidence-based picture: Dobinson is Maisie Adam’s husband, has a documented background running a cocktail bar in Brighton, was later described publicly as a businessman, and married Adam in June 2023. Beyond that, several widely repeated claims about his career, age, businesses and finances remain too uncertain to state as fact.
