His real name comes from the union of the names of her grandmothers, Catherine and Zeta. His father was employed in a candy factory and his mother a seamstress of Irish descent and Welsh. Catherine was the second of three children (the oldest is called David and Lyndon less) and was raised a Catholic.
Besides English, dominates Catherine Welsh, Spanish and French. While still a child, he underwent a tracheotomy that left a scar, impossible to hide, in the neck. After her parents won £ 100,000 at bingo in the 80's, Jones and his family moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals an upper class area of Swansea. He attended Dumbarton House School in Swansea and left school early to pursue his artistic ambitions. He studied three years of musical theater at various art schools and interpretation in Chiswick.
