Editing Jack Dee (section)

==Early life and education==
Jack Dee is the youngest of three children born to Rosemary ({{née}} Stamper) and Geoffrey Dee, after Joanna Innes Dee and David Simon Innes Dee. He was born in the [[Municipal Borough of Bromley]], [[Kent]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=X0W2nYTQziJ76AG%2BJ4teNQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=7 August 2016|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> (now within the [[London Borough of Bromley]]) and grew up in [[Petts Wood]]<ref name=comedycv>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/d/dee_jack.shtml BBC Comedy Guide: Jack Dee]. Retrieved 14 August 2006.</ref> before moving with his family to [[Winchester]] when he was young. His father was a printer and his mother was the daughter of two repertory actors, Henry Lionel Pope Stamper (1906–1985) and Edna May Howard Innes (1904–1969).<ref>Dee, Jack. ''Thanks For Nothing''. [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], 2009, pp. 133–34, 171.<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--></ref>

Dee was educated at both [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] and state schools. His first school, [[The Pilgrims' School]], a preparatory school in Winchester, was followed by the state [[Kings' School|Montgomery of Alamein School]] for his secondary education, and for a period he attended [[Frensham Heights School]]. He took his [[GCE Advanced Level|A-levels]] at [[Peter Symonds' College]], and left with a D and an F grade. Following this, he planned to attend drama college, but his plans were scuppered when his mother persuaded him to get a vocation; as such, he entered the catering industry and became a [[waiter]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Lucy|last=Cavendish|title=Now I don't need to be drunk to be happy|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/starinterviews/article-23371763-now-i-dont-need-to-be-drunk-to-be-happy.do|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120525160640/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/starinterviews/article-23371763-now-i-dont-need-to-be-drunk-to-be-happy.do|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 May 2012|newspaper=[[London Evening Standard]]|date=23 October 2006|access-date=17 January 2007}}</ref>