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Wyllie was born in Shettleston, in the east end of Glasgow, and grew up in Craigton, in the south-west of the city. [3] He was educated at Bellahouston Academy and Allan Glen's School. [4] He later resided in Gourock. He worked as a customs officer before taking up art. [5] He described himself as a "scul?tor".
The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3 ]
John Patrick Byrne was born into a family of Irish Catholic descent in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and he grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme. His mother, Alice McShane, was married to Patrick Byrne when he was born. He was, however, conceived from an incestuous affair between his mother and her father, Patrick McShane.
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. [8]
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Still Game (4 P) T. Take the High Road (10 P) Pages in category "Television shows set in Glasgow" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
Cooper's mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, grew up as an American socialite due to her family's status. She later became an artist, actor, designer, and author. She died in 2019.
In March 2022, she voiced a character in My Old School, the film about 30-year-old fraudulent pupil Brandon Lee at Bearsden Academy in Glasgow, and also sang the closing theme, "My Old School". [54] [55] In January 2023, Lulu appeared on the fourth series of The Masked Singer as "Piece of Cake".