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Investment: Lord Cruddas set up his financial services firm with £10,000 in 1989 On the day that multi-millionaire entrepreneur Lord Cruddas sold a stake in his company for £180 million, he enjoyed a glass of champagne with his wife – and then he went straight back to work.  Now 69, the Conservative life peer tells … Read more

Suits you sir: Broadcaster Toby Anstis Broadcaster Toby Anstis made a sizeable six-figure sum last year, but when he started out as a children’s BBC TV presenter in the early 1990s he was paid just £8,000.  The popular radio DJ tells Donna Ferguson he thinks pensions are ‘absolutely brilliant’, although his best financial move was … Read more

Legendary French chef Pierre Koffmann says investing in a pension when he was young is one of the best decisions he has ever made.  The 73- year-old, one of the few chefs in the UK to have ever been awarded three Michelin stars, told Donna Ferguson he started saving for his retirement 40 years ago … Read more

Actor and former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan has no pension to rely on in retirement. But he doesn’t feel financially insecure because he is using equity release to access the wealth he has accumulated in his £2.5million South London home.  Duncan, 67, who presented the BBC children’s show in the 1980s, told DONNA FERGUSON … Read more

Winner: Kay Mellor’s TV hit The Syndicate begins its fourth series on Tuesday Screenwriter Kay Mellor OBE believes NHS frontline workers should be given a ‘big fat pay rise’ when the pandemic is over – and says she is willing to pay higher taxes to help fund it.  Mellor is the writer of hit TV … Read more

Olympian Graham Bell was so poor when he was training as a ski racer that he would eat the food other skiers had left behind on tables in restaurants.  Along with brother Martin, Bell competed for Great Britain at the Winter Olympics throughout the 1980s and 1990s. But he never made much money and doubled … Read more

It took songwriter Eliot Kennedy just an hour to write 1996 hit song Say You’ll Be There for the Spice Girls – netting him more than £1million.  Kennedy, 51, who has just released his first album, also co-wrote several other number one hits in the 1990s such as Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love, When … Read more

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