Actors and television professionals from middle class backgrounds are most-likely to pretend to be working class to sound 'more deserving' of their success, a study has found. Well-off people from these professions are also more-likely to describe their rise to stardom as coming from 'humble origins', researchers claim. This way, people won't think their success was due to their privileged upbringing. The study by London School of Economics sociologists involved 175 interviews with actors, architects, accountants and TV professionals. Of those, 36 people who had undeniably middle-class upbringings thought of themselves as working class. Of the 36, 24 participants were actors or worked in TV.