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On hold: Carina Lepore had hoped to open more bakeries by now Carina Lepore, winner of The Apprentice in 2019, is determined to keep her fledgling business afloat. As a result of winning the BBC TV contest, Lepore got a £250,000 cash injection from Lord Sugar into her artisan bakery and coffee shop business, Dough … Read more
Financial guru Alvin Hall says the best money decision he ever made was investing in some technology stocks in the 1990s. Hall, 68, became famous on Wall Street for his work as a financial trainer and his ability to translate complex financial concepts into simple English. He lives in a £1.5million apartment in Manhattan, New … Read more
Home comforts: Melinda Messenger has invested in property Former glamour model Melinda Messenger earns a fraction of the money she used to receive in the late 1990s at the height of her fame. But she appreciates what she has more nowadays. The 49-year-old happily retrained as a psychotherapist and lives in Berkshire with children Morgan, … Read more
Television presenter and farmer JB Gill says the best money decision he ever made was investing in property. The 34-year-old used to earn big money as a member of boyband JLS. He now lives in a £1.7 million farmhouse with wife Chloe and children Ace, six, and two-year-old Chiara, and runs a successful turkey farm … Read more
Cut above: Nicky Clarke also has a property empire Nicky Clarke earned just £12 a week when he started out as a hairdresser. Now, he can command thousands of pounds a day. But his best money decision, he says, was investing in property. He recently sold a five-bedroom house in St John’s Wood, North-West London, … Read more
Musician Sacha Puttnam’s biggest money mistake was leaving rock band Bush before they made it big and sold 50million records. The son of award-winning film producer Lord Puttnam was a teenager at boarding school when his father made Chariots Of Fire. After leaving Bush, he wrote and scored music for numerous prestigious films. Sacha spoke to … Read more
Entrepreneur Piers Linney doesn’t own a property, invest in the stock market or save into a pension. Linney, who made millions investing in tech firms before appearing on the BBC TV show Dragons’ Den as an expert investor, sold his London home after the Brexit vote and now rents. He has never saved into a … Read more
Sarah Beeny paid a seven-figure sum for her 220-acre Somerset farm, which is the subject of Channel 4 show, Sarah Beeny’s New Life In The Country. The 48-year-old star of Property Ladder spoke to DONNA FERGUSON about the highs and lows of her financial life. She is supporting Brain Tumour Research’s online ’12 Days of … Read more
There’s one little luxury that actor Michael Xavier cannot live without: a flat white coffee with oat milk. The award-winning star of West End shows says working in musicals pays an eighth of what he could earn in TV. Xavier, 42, spoke to DONNA FERGUSON from his home in Hertfordshire where he is preparing to … Read more
Saving up: Saving Mr Banks actress Victoria Summer The best money decision that actress Victoria Summer ever made was cutting off her hair. Summer, star of Saving Mr Banks and Transformers: Age Of Extinction, was convinced by a photographer to get a pixie cut in 2012. She says it propelled her career to new heights. … Read more