Patience Budden, was born in Ghana and has lived in England for nearly 20 years – 7 in East Devon. She is a student at Southampton University, studying Nursing, and planning to study Midwifery. Her interests are gardening, cooking, walking and classical music. Patience has two children, Anne, 19, who is on a degree course at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds; and Sean 18, who is planning to travel to New Zealand and the Amazon Rainforest before undertaking a degree in Sports Science at Leeds.