"I dreamed of being on Coronation Street and pulling pints in the Rovers," Ryan Kay says when asked about how he got into styling.
The cobbles are a far cry from how he actually spends his days, but he does spend them with a soap star or two - as the stylist behind the likes of Gemma Atkinson and Lucy Fallon.
Ryan, from Warrington, was also into sports as a youngster but, in the end, it was his passion for fashion that got him working with some of our biggest stars of the small screen.
At drama school, he became good friends with Nikki Sanderson, known for her roles in Corrie and Hollyoaks, and, going shopping for a photoshoot she had as a young actress ended up sparking a new dream for Ryan. "I went shopping with her and Maureen Nolan as they were doing a show called The Naked Truth and they were like, ‘You should be a stylist'," Ryan recalled to the Manchester Evening News. "I’d always loved fashion growing up.
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