He has cut and styled the hair of numerous celebrities after leaving school with just one GCSE.
Paul Jones, from Oxley, has cut and styled the hair of numerous supermodels and celebrity A-listers after leaving school with just one GCSE in pottery.
"I always had a funny little dream I would be working at a salon and Nicole Kidman would come in and she would whisk me away and all over the world, but I thought 'that's never going to happen'," the hairdresser said. He started at a college in Wolverhampton city centre, which closed down, before heading to another site based in King Street. He was the only boy on apprenticeship at the time – something which generated a"lot of stick" at the time – and worked at Cato in 1996. He later achieved his NVQ in hairdressing.
"I did Olivia Coleman's hair," he recalled."She was doing press for her latest film and I've never met her, I walked into the room and she said 'can you cut hair?' because a lot of people can style hair but they might not be able to cut it. I said 'yes' and she said 'will you cut all my hair off'? So I had to cut her hair really short.
It enabled them to travel the world covering some of the world's biggest fashion shows in New York, London, Milan and in Paris and the likes of the The Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain in Rome and the streets of Havana, before making the"heart-breaking decision" to leave and try life as a freelancer.
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