If there’s one thing the MIC cast is known for it’s being posh. So it should come as no surprise a lot of the cast were made in private schools, even if those weren’t in Chelsea.
Series 29 ended recently on a dramatic finale with emotional scenes abound leaving fans anxious to find out what will happen next.
So whilst we wait to see what’s happening in the cast’s current lives, let’s go back and look at their pasts. More specifically, where they were educated.
Kabir Khurana
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Starting off big, Kabir went to one of the UK’s top boarding schools for boys, St Paul’s. The tuition fees start at £9,054 including VAT, increasing to £10,390 per term if you’re between 13 and 16.
After St Paul’s, Kabir went to Latymer Upper which costs up to £10,014 per term, and is famous for many of its alumni including actors Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Kabir also studied philosophy at UCL.
Arman PK
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Arman studied at Royal Grammar School Guilford, a private school in Surrey that began in 1509. Tuition here starts at £4,563 for its nursery school.
He later went to Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, which has a boarding fee of £16,902 per term.
Arman also received a First Class Honours for his engineering degree at the University of Warwick and was also a student at Warwick Business School as part of his joint degree program studying both engineering and business management.
Zeyno Taylan
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Zeyno graduated from the University of Bristol, where she earned a degree in social sciences and law, focusing on child psychology in 2021.
Before that, she studied at private boarding and day school Bishop’s Stortford College from 2013 to 2018 which also taught Charli XCX. It currently costs £17,365 per term for full boarding.
Freddy Knatchbull
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Freddy studied politics at Newcastle University and finished his degree during his time on Made in Chelsea.
Before that though, he attended Radley College, an Oxfordshire all-boys boarding school. The college covers 800 acres including its own golf course and also taught former MIC star Jamie Laing. Radley’s termly fees currently go up to £19,200 per term.
Miles Nazaire
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Miles studied at The BRIT School, the famous performing arts and technology school, between the years 2009 and 2013.
The BRIT School has taught many well-known celebrities including Amy Winehouse, Adele, Jessie J, and Tom Holland. Despite its reputation for performing arts, Miles left with a degree in broadcast digital communications.
Reza Amiri-Garroussi
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Reza was educated at Epsom College, a boarding school with a long history of teaching the elite.
It’s also the alma mater of two other MIC stars, Caggie Dunlop and Jess Woodley. Epsom’s tuition fees cost up to £55,158 a year for full boarders.
Later on, Reza achieved a bachelors degree in film and history of art as well as a masters in business and finance at the University of Kent.
Ollie Locke
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Ollie went to boarding school Hampshire Collegiate School in Embley Park, the former family home of Florence Nightingale.
Whilst there, Ollie also shared a dorm with Lily Allen’s brother and Game of Thrones star Alfie Allen.
Fees here cost up to £11,550 per term.
Paris Smith
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Paris attended exclusive prep school The Hampshire School, which was known as being “the happiest school in Chelsea” before its closure in July 2024. So this means she was actually made in Chelsea.
Paris then went on to study higher education at The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in Woking. The school is famous for being the setting for the CBBC show School for Stars, which Paris actually featured in.
Paris then went on to study fine arts at The Art Academy, London and graduated in 2018.
Jack and James Taylor
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Jack Taylor has just graduated from being a student at Westminster University, studying a degree in real estate. Not much is known about his education before then. However, his brother and fellow MIC star James Taylor was educated at Friends School Saffron Walden, which also taught Headlock singer Imogen Heap and children’s fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones.
Afterwards, James went to Framlingham College, which has a mock Tudorbethan hall within its prep school campus at Brandeston Hall. The college’s buildings and interiors were used in series two of the BBC comedy Detectorists.
He also studied a global business management degree at the private Regent’s University, where he got a 2:1 and a polo scholarship, the latter of which the uni only gives out two a year. He also did a year abroad at Northern Arizona University in the US.
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