On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.