Growing up as a young boy in Plymouth, Steven Bartlett never felt like he was “enough”.
A first-generation immigrant of British-Nigerian descent who left his birth country of Botswana aged two, Bartlett’s success was far from guaranteed. He wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth (”We didn’t have a huge amount of money, didn’t have fancy things like holidays,” Bartlett has recalled); his parent’s weren’t particularly academic (his mother left school before she could read or write), and his meandering attention span made traditional education almost impossible (Bartlett has been diagnosed with ADHD).
