Name	Jennie Mcalpine
Height
Naionality	England
Date of Birth	24 May 1984
Place of Birth	England, UK
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McAlpine was born and bred in Bury.[1] She is from an Irish decent as her grandfather is from County Kerry while her grandmother is from County Sligo. As a young girl she used to put on shows on the patio for the neighbours, charging them 50 pence apiece. She did song and dance routines, copying groups like Bananarama.[2]

Her Lochgelly-born[3] father Tom McAlpine (b. 1951) works for Manchester Mental Health Services and is a keen amateur dramatist.[2] With his encouragement she took up amateur dramatics at the age of eight,[1] when father and daughter appeared together in a pantomime by the Bury Parish Players.[2] She was the fairy and he was the dame.[1] As a teenager she joined the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop.[2]

McAlpine's parents separated when she was ten, after which she lived with her father. She has a brother, Thomas McAlpine (b. 1974),[2] who worked in Woolworths.[4]

She had a difficult time at school and did not like teachers: 'My reports always said I talked too much and made me think I was crap. I wasn't in the popular group at school and I didn't especially get on with the girls ... All through school I was going for parts. They wouldn't give me time off for the auditions, so I used to end up wagging it.'[5]