![]() ![]() ![]() Her newspaper column was written about whatever personally interested her, such as how pointless it is to date over 35, and led to an invitation from Picadilly Press to write a teenage diary book. She began to write for Woman's Hour on Radio Four, for comedians, and for a London newspaper. Rennison's first major success was her one-woman autobiographical show, "Stevie Wonder Felt My Face." She went on tour performing this show, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the BBC later produced a one-off special of it. While there, she was part of an all-female cabaret group called Women with Beards, a performing group that poked fun at men and why they are responsible "for all the ills of society." Career On returning to the UK, Rennison lived in a small flat in Notting Hill doing an assortment of jobs until she decided to pursue her dream of acting and enrolled in a Performing Arts course at the University of Brighton. When she was 15, her family moved to Wairakei, New Zealand, where she became pregnant and later gave up a daughter for adoption. She attended Parklands High School, an all-girls school, from the age of 11, which she later credited with inspiring her as a comedic writer. ![]() Rennison was brought up in Leeds, Yorkshire, in a three-bedroomed council house in Seacroft with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin. ![]()
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