Munford was born in Twickenham, SW London and attended Hampton School before doing a number of jobs including working on building sites and managing betting shops in 'tough' districts of London.
To fund this travelling, Munford worked for several years (and winters) as a motorbike despatch-rider in London despite breaking his knee, nose, left arm, ribs and nearly having his left foot amputated, before retraining as a journalist at the London College of Printing in 1998 [REF].