Editing Louise Redknapp (section)

==Early life and education==
Redknapp was born Louise Elizabeth Nurding in Lewisham, London.<ref name=Western-Mail-2009-09-20>{{cite news |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/farm-louise-redknapp-2083706 |title=On the farm with Louise Redknapp |newspaper=Western Mail |date=20 September 2009 |access-date=26 February 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408062643/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/farm-louise-redknapp-2083706 |archive-date=8 April 2014}}</ref> Her father was a builder and her mother worked at [[Gatwick Airport]].<ref name=Mirror-2011-12-11>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/sex-relationships/sex/louise-redknapp-jamie-and-i-are-happy---268639 |title=Louise Redknapp: Jamie and I are happy – but I still check his text messages |newspaper=Daily Mirror: Trinity Mirror |date=11 December 2010 |access-date=26 February 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525185723/http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/sex-relationships/sex/louise-redknapp-jamie-and-i-are-happy---268639 |archive-date=25 May 2014}}</ref> Redknapp and her two younger brothers grew up in [[Eltham, London|Eltham]], London, and [[Oxted]], Surrey. She describes herself as having come from a single-parent family with her mother.<ref name=pelley>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/mar/21/louise-redknapp-i-am-the-shabbiest-mum-on-the-school-run |title=Louise Redknapp: 'I'm the shabbiest mum on the school run' |newspaper=The Guardian |author=Rich Pelley |date= 21 March 2020}}</ref>

At the age of 11, Redknapp won a scholarship<ref name=pelley/> to the [[Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts]] in London, where she met her future Eternal colleague [[Kéllé Bryan]] on her first day.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article3251365.ece|title=How Louise Redknapp beat endometriosis and became a mum|work=The Times |location=London |date=26 January 2008|access-date=26 January 2008 | first=Celia | last=Dodd}}</ref>