Celia Mortimer was Mike's first girlfriend.
He explained in a podcast:
"Did you know about the early days when I was a young man and my first girlfriend was from the art college?
She was at the art college and I was in André Bernard’s ... I was a hairdressing apprentice. Her name was Celia Mortimer and she used to come in from the art college because we used to do, at night time for the staff, the apprentices, they would – art college kids girls would come in the ladies’ hairdresser for these free dos. Something. Get a free haircut. And all those apprentices would practice on doing their hair. Everyone benefitted and Celia was in there. Somebody had done her hair and she was under the dryer and she was watching this strange young man, called ‘me’, and she was just fascinated by him because she said, ‘I’ve never seen anybody with more disdain from like brushing up the floor.’ I was brushing up the floor as though this broom, this brush, was on the end of my finger as though I didn’t want to touch it. I didn’t. I hated it – brushing up the floor. All the hair. Cleaning the blinds, with all the dust, stacking the towels etc. Washing ladies hair.