OFFICIAL PROGRAMME
I say what I want . I have to respect boundaries , don ’ t get me wrong . But be yourself .
EXCITING CONTENT was no thought before saying . People loved it because they could see me . They didn ’ t see that in GPs . They had a guy that was on reins the whole time . Should I ? Shouldn ’ t I ? Sometimes it will slip out and gets me in trouble . Here I ’ ve got that little halfway effect where I can kind of say what I want . Just be a little bit reasonable . I like that . I just want to be myself . I don ’ t want no f ***** g media training !” That ‘ myself ’ that Redding speaks of had a tough upbringing in some ways , and was very much driven from outside when he was young . Not my opinion , it is what he himself said , for example in his attitude to school . “ I didn ’ t go to school . That ’ s the problem . I didn ’ t really go to school ,” he said . “ I didn ’ t have really a normal childhood , and I realise that more now I ’ m older . Back then it was normal to me . Now when I think back to it , when you ’ re young , kids are 15 , 16 , and 14 and they go down the field , they go drinking with their friends on the weekend and they stay over and do this and they do that . I was in the garage on the cross-trainer , training ! Not by my choice , because my uncle Daryl dragged me there . I thought that was normal . Then we ’ re traveling around Europe to races . So , I was never really at home . So then you kind of don ’ t get in with groups of friends . Then you ’ re here , then you ’ re there . You
^ go to school a couple of days . You ’ ve got no f ***** g clue what ’ s going on at school because you ’ re never there . The area you grow up in … I wouldn ’ t say Gloucester is the poshest place in England , by a long shot . So , that builds character . My family is very normal . My dad , Adrian , was a lorry driver . I used to wake up most weekends in the truck the other side of England because my parents at that young age , my dad had no choice but to still work and fund me . I had to go with him whether I liked it or not . My uncle was just a handful on top of it . I would say . My dad and my uncle were always the ones kind of pushing me .” My uncle was a handful . Not that is intriguing phrase , tell us more …? Is he too much on your side , maybe …? “ He ’ s too much ,” says Redding . “ His heart is in the absolute right place , 100 %.
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