MONEY
My money
Stand-up comic Stephen K Amos, 54, on Sade, supermarket night shifts and stuffing envelopes
What did you learn from your parents about money?
When I was a kid, we moved seven or eight times – and I went to several different primary schools – because my parents would buy run-down properties, all around South London, and do them up. We kids thought we were in the witness protection programme! But they were successful at it. Their message was ‘put your money in bricks and mortar’ but that you needed to work hard to earn that money. So it’s ironic that I’m currently playing Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady – he tries to avoid money because he doesn’t want the responsibility that comes with it!