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Trevor Sorbie COVER STORY Interview He is probably one of the UK’s best-known hairdressers and was once asked to be The Queen’s stylist. He’s mingled with the stars including Sting, Grace Jones and Paul McCartney but Trevor Sorbie doesn’t want to be remembered for any of that. He wants his legacy to be his charity My New Hair, which provides a wig styling service for those affected by cancer. Tell us about where you grew up? I was born in Scotland and I was 11 when I left Paisley. I lived in what they call a tenement building - another word for a block of crummy flats - and we shared an outside toilet with the building. Every Friday night the tin bath came out and me and my brother used to share it. At Christmas we had mince and potatoes. It was a very modest life – I mean, really modest. I often wonder what would have happened to me if I had stayed there and I can’t think what would have happened. I’d probably have ended up in a gang of 10 thugs and in prison! But I’ve been back, obviously, several times, and it hasn’t changed at all. You know, some places move and they develop but Paisley is just as it was, except there are a load of young kids hanging about on street corners. It is not a very safe place. If you fly to Glasgow Airport you’re actually landing in Paisle