Early Life and Education
Wood was born in Moston, Manchester. He attended Heald Place Primary School in Rusholme, Manchester. When he was eight, his family moved to Wythenshawe, where he went to Benchill Primary School, and later Manchester Grammar School where he developed an interest in theatre, playing Grusha in the first British amateur production of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle. He studied A-levels in English, French and History.
He studied History and English at Oriel College, Oxford, touring the USA for six weeks in his final year. He graduated with a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts degree. Later he undertook post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon History, also at Oriel. Three years into his research for a DPhil, he left to become a journalist with ITV.
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