We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

My parents were both entrepreneurs.