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    Kay Mellor

    Mar 01, 2021 5 minutes
    Interview: Jane Graham @Janeannie

    1967 THE YEAR KAY TURNS 16

    • Sandie Shaw wins Eurovision for the UK

    • Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup

    • Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia

    When I was 16 my main preoccupation was being pregnant and about to have my first child at 16. With nowhere to live and no income. I’d left school and gone to secretarial college. Back then in the day, you could either be a secretary, a nurse or a teacher if you were a woman. Those were three things that were open to you. So because I was a bit of a writer and wanted to do drama, my mum said, if you do a secretarial course for a year, you can go to drama school. So that was the deal. And then when I was at secretarial college I got pregnant.

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