![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/comedian-london-hughes-hits-out-at-white-boys-club-that-held-back-her-uk-career/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_Academy-Museum-of-Motion-Pictures-Vanity-Fair-Premiere-Party-Arrivals-Los-Angeles-California-USA.jpg&description=London spent years slogging away in the UK trying to build up her career, having started out on adult TV network Babestation before making a career U turn and appearing on CBBC British comedian London Hughes says she has no regrets about turning her back on the UK - having found success and an impressive income over in the US of A. The 34-year-old comedy star spent years slogging away in the UK trying to build up her career, having started out on adult TV network Babestation before making a career U turn and appearing on CBBC and later being a contestant on Celebs Go Dating. And while London racked up an impressive number of achievements - snagging the Comedy Store's 2009 Funny Woman Award and a nomination for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show in 2019 - she says she struggled to hit the big time in the UK. She decided to move to Los Angeles in 2020, only for her plans to be derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic and global lockdown. But she managed to go on to secure a new TV show and a comedy special while the world was in chaos. With her autobiography, titled Living My Best Life, Hun, releasing next month, the funny-woman says she's so glad to have made the move to the States. Opening up to the Guardian, London also said she would encourage other aspiring comedians from minority groups to leave the UK for the USA where she says she has found support and success that didn't exist at home. She told the publication: 'I miss my friends and family. I miss pickled onion Monster Munch, and Malibu and pineapple in a can. I miss sea salt and chardonnay-flavoured crisps from the Co-op. Do I miss working in Britain? After the way I was treated? Not at all." Explaining her own success, she continued: 'I made more money in that first year of moving to America than I'd made in my whole life in Britain. I'm, like: 'England! What is wrong with you? How dare you make me feel like I wouldn't make it when I had all this talent in me'.' She also explained her frustration ove){kind=link}
London spent years slogging away in the UK trying to build up her career, having started out on adult TV network Babestation before making a career U turn and appearing on CBBC
British comedian London Hughes says she has no regrets about turning her back on the UK – having found success and an impressive income over in the US of A.
The 34-year-old comedy star spent years slogging away in the UK trying to build up her career, having started out on adult TV network Babestation before making a career U turn and appearing on CBBC and later being a contestant on Celebs Go Dating. And while London racked up an impressive number of achievements – snagging the Comedy Store’s 2009 Funny Woman Award and a nomination for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show in 2019 – she says she struggled to hit the big time in the UK.
She decided to move to Los Angeles in 2020, only for her plans to be derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic and global lockdown. But she managed to go on to secure a new TV show and a comedy special while the world was in chaos.
With her autobiography, titled Living My Best Life, Hun, releasing next month, the funny-woman says she’s so glad to have made the move to the States. Opening up to the Guardian, London also said she would encourage other aspiring comedians from minority groups to leave the UK for the USA where she says she has found support and success that didn’t exist at home.