I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to get into the television industry. There wasn’t a light-bulb moment or an event that inspired it. I just knew I wanted to work in TV production, and I honed my decisions and life-choices at every stage in my school and teen years to try and give myself the best chance. At sixteen I was given the opportunity of work experience at Molinare, one of the leading studio and post-production houses in London, and I was fortunate to go back again a year or so later, getting an insight into the television and radio studios, editing and dubbing suites as well as transmission.

My first proper job in the industry came