I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, 'I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.'
Growing up in London was the best.
Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.