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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.

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.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.