I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.
However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.
I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.
Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.
We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.
I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.