BBC Strictly Come Dancing Final: Layton Williams' mum reveals how he went from the Dicky Bird estate to the top
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStanding in the classroom where she taught a Strictly Come Dancing finalist as a year six pupil, Joanne Morris reflects on the enormity of his achievements.
St Paul's CE Primary School stands to the west of the Dickie Bird estate, on the edge of Bury. Famous for being split in the middle by the M66 motorway, the Dickie Bird is in the top one percent most deprived areas in the country.
It's the estate where stage and screen actor Layton Williams grew up as a young boy - and St Paul's is where his talent first shone. "I think the biggest thing is how proud we are," Joanne, now headteacher at St Paul's, tells the Manchester Evening News.
She looks towards the Dickie Bird estate and says: "I'm very emotional, I could cry thinking about how that tiny boy, that lives on a back street up there, from one of the most deprived areas in the country, is now on Strictly Come Dancing." READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing couple 'will win' thanks to 'telepathic connection' READ MORE: Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola shares big 'risk' he took for partner Ellie Leach As a young boy, Layton 'never really had dreams' of the career he would go on to enjoy.
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