Yahoo News This Morning's Rochelle Humes felt like 'failure' for missing out on uni
The Saturdays star and This Morning presenter has had a glittering career - but says she still feels she missed out on a university education.
Watch: Rochelle Humes felt like a 'failure' for not going to university
What did you miss?
Rochelle Humes has admitted to feeling like she'd "failed" by not going to university – despite having a hugely successful career in music and TV.
Humes has had success from an early age as part of S Club Juniors, followed by The Saturdays and then becoming a in-demand broadcaster. The Saturdays star was part of two huge 2000s pop groups right around the time her peers were becoming students and says she still feels she missed out on a life experience.
So it might have come as a shock to This Morning viewers when in a chat about a recent survey that found one in three people now think university is a waste of time, she admitted to feeling like a failure for not having been to uni herself.
What, how and why?
Humes said: "I didn't go to university and I really felt like I'd failed, I know my mum would have much preferred it if I did go to university at the time and I didn't. I always felt like it was an experience that I missed out on, education aside."
However, as her co-host Dermot O'Leary pointed out her many successes, we take a look at some of her biggest career achievements. Co-host Dermot O'Leary joked: "But you got a first from The Saturdays, not many people can say that, baby!" as she replied: "I got a first in girl band!"
The singer and TV star continued: "Actually, it's not necessarily the first thing you look at on a CV now, which is a different outlook, and I always believed it was. So on one side it's really refreshing, but also if you know what you want to do and you know what that vocation is then it is obviously the right place for you, but it is also extortionate."
O'Leary couldn't let her comments about failure slide, though. He said: "Roch, all joking aside, you did learn on the job. You started in the industry really young, you're a success story, you're an incredible business woman, you're so savvy, you learned from your experience."
She told him: "You always think the grass is greener – even now, I think I wish I studied this, because then maybe I wouldn't have to employ this person to do this part of the business."
But asked whether she'd go back and study now, she laughed: "I've got three kids and there isn't much time, but when everything calms down a bit, maybe."
Guest Ashley James asked Humes whether she would want her own children to go to university and she said: "I don't know and I wouldn't be a hypocrite to say you have to because I didn't, but I'd like to be able to provide that option for them, but each child is different."
Rochelle Humes' biggest successes
It is no secret that Humes has been a huge success in the UK showbiz world. Her glittering career started young with S Club Juniors with two albums and nine singles. This success was quickly followed with her girlband The Saturdays where she performed alongside her friends Mollie King, Frankie Bridge, Una Healy and Vanessa White. The Saturdays had four albums, 18 singles and one number one.
As time has moved on, Humes has become well known as a presenter and she has become part of the This Morning family. At first she starred alongside her husband Marvin Humes and now she returns on her own to guest present the ITV show. She still works with her husband on TV but now they host their own music show together, The Hit List.
Other career highlights include her TV appearance on Strictly Come Dancing's Xmas special in 2013, a voice cameo as a villager in Disney film Wish as well as being a successful businesswoman.
This Morning airs on ITV1 at 10am on weekdays.
