Paul C. Brunson

Yeah, no, all my friends will be watching this.

I'm definitely a Geordie.

Yeah, but I was never really a massive football fan, and those terms came because of the football teams.

Ooh, um...

I mean, Gateshead was predominantly council estate.

And so I got brought up on a council estate.

My mum and dad managed to buy the house off the council, you know, back then.

I think it was like 15, 20 grand or something.

You know, we're talking like 1970s, 1980s.

I don't know whether I've put like the blinkers on a lot of my childhood or not because I can't really articulate what it was like for me.

I know that, you know, I had two great parents.

They loved me and my brother David.

And I had no problems at home.

You know, the usual arguments.

My mom and dad consequently broke up.

But it wasn't a bad house.

I didn't live in a house where there was addictions or alcoholism or abuse or anything like that.

It was just normal.

My dad and his family, you know, and my mum, I suppose, you know, we didn't really talk about things, especially my dad's side of the family.

He had a really tough upbringing.