 Gough trained in dance at Fitzell Roberts School of Dance in Southampton, and both dance and musical theatre at Laine Theatre Arts, a performing arts college in Epsom, Surrey.Gough was born in 1984, and grew up in Bursledon, Southampton, England with her parents and three older brothers until she was sixteen years of age.Gough started dance lessons at the age of four years at the Fitzell Roberts school of dance in Thornhill, Southampton, and it became the main focus of her life.