“Let's stop telling people from modest backgrounds that their education is capped at a certain level because of where they grew up. In fact I can attest to the fact that all this attitude does is put people off wanting to test the waters and apply, or push themselves towards higher education at all.”

English television personality and singer

Stacey Solomon is an English television personality and singer. She rose to prominence in 2009 on the sixth series of ITV’s The X Factor, where she finished third, and she went on to win the tenth series of I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! the following year. She is best known for her work in British entertainment and for becoming a familiar public figure through reality television. Her profile was built through competition television rather than a long recording career, and her public image has been shaped by that early rise to wider recognition.