 She attended Bursledon Infants and Junior School, before moving on to Hamble Secondary School, now Hamble Community Sports College in Southampton.At the age of fifteen, she appeared in her first professional job, a principal dancer in the Southampton Christmas Pantomime with Ruth Madoc and Maureen Nolan and John Challis.At the age of sixteen, Gough attended Laine Theatre Arts, a performing arts college in Epsom.