Early Life
Chisholm was born on 12 January 1974 at Whiston Hospital in Whiston, Lancashire (now Merseyside). Raised in Rainhill, Merseyside and then Widnes, Cheshire where she attended Fairfield High School. Following school, Chisholm studied for a diploma course in dance, singing, drama and musical theatre at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, Kent. During college, she replied to an advert in The Stage by Chris and Bob Herbert, who were looking to form a new girl group, later to become the Spice Girls. She left college just short of completing her three-year course and gained teaching qualifications in tap and modern theatre dance with the ISTD.
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