IN MY EXPERIENCE…
Lorraine Kelly
With her debut novel hitting the shelves, TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, 64, discusses her happy marriage, love of penguins and her favourite place
by PAM FRANCIS
Your parents were teenagers when you were born in Glasgow in the late Fifties. Did you like having such young parents?
They were both 18, and the advantage of having such a young mum and dad is that I’ve still got them living up in Scotland. Everybody else at school had conservatively dressed parents, but my mum was super cool and wore make-up and miniskirts.
My parents were trendy – they listened to the Rolling Stones and The Beatles – and everyone loved coming to our house.
What kind of a child were you growing up?
It was a very happy childhood. Then my wee brother Graham came along when I was six and my nose was well out of joint. He was the perfect child from central casting. Blond curls, big blue eyes, he was quite fat, like an angel cher ub. I was ghastly to him. I used to nip his arms.
What was the best advice your mum gave you?