Editing Michael Grade (section)

==Early life==
Grade was born into a [[Jewish]] show business family originally called Winogradsky.<ref name="Freedland">{{cite web |url=https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/interview-michael-grade-two0vkxx |title=Interview: Michael Grade |work=The Jewish Chronicle |accessdate=2024-02-20}}</ref> His father was the theatrical agent [[Leslie Grade]], and his uncles were the impresarios [[Lew Grade]] and [[Bernard Delfont]].<ref name="transdiffusion">{{cite web |author=Glenn Aylett |url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/tvheroes/michael_grade.php |title=Michael Grade – the most popular media mogul in Britain |work=Transdiffusion.org |access-date=6 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011101447/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/tvheroes/michael_grade.php |archive-date=11 October 2011}}</ref> When he was three years old, his non-Jewish mother (Lynn Smith) left the family to conduct a relationship with wrestling commentator [[Kent Walton]]. Grade was brought up by his paternal grandmother, and he only saw his mother once more as an adult.<ref name="Freedland"/> He was educated at [[Stowe School]] in Buckinghamshire and [[St Dunstan's College]] in London.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}