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‘Nobody in my family had ever owned their own home — I never imagined in a million years I would own a property one day’
Interview by Helen Gilbert
The Sunday Times
Interview by Helen Gilbert
The Sunday Times
I grew up in a two-bedroom, council-owned semi in Epsom, Surrey, with my mum and two brothers, Nikki and George. My room had a bunk bed built into the wall, a cupboard with a wooden platform and a curtain that pulled across to make it feel like a cabin. Because George didn’t have his own room, he was passed between mine and my brother’s before we moved into a bigger place further up the road when I was about 10 years old. I have loads of happy memories of the summer holidays and playing football in the garden. Nobody in my family had ever owned their own home — I never imagined in a million years I would own a property one day.
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