AJ Odudu says she was left feeling like she was the 'wrong sex, colour and class' when she struggled to break into the TV industry.
While the 34-year-old has now cemented herself as one of the UK's top TV hosts, things were not so rosy for her when she started out.
After a modest upbringing in a working class family in Blackburn, where her mum Florence was a cleaner at a grammar school and her dad James was a bus conductor, AJ saw her reputation skyrocket after her appearance on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021.
