Victoria Wood CBE

Celebrity bio

Victoria Wood was born in 1953 just outside Bury, Lancashire, where she grew up in a remote house which she now discribes as "an open prison". Her family did not major in communication and they often took their meals separately.

 
She says "I did have an isolated life as a kid and I was miserable a lot of the time. My mum would be in her roomwith her books and stuff, and my dad, who was anaspiring writer, would be in another, typing away. I'd bein mine with a bag of sweets, my piano and the telly. Thats how we were."