Born in Nairobi in 1992 to an English father and a Kenyan mother (she won’t talk about her parents), Hayward came to Britain aged two and was brought up by her paternal grandparents, John and Diana, in Sussex. ‘They didn’t expect to have a child sprung on them and they couldn’t remember what to do, so they sat me down in front of a video of The Nutcracker,’ she says. ‘That was it.’