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TV presenter and children’s author Konnie Huq thinks people who buy brand names are wasting their money and should be spending their cash either trying to make society more equal – or saving lives. Huq, 44, who made her name as the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, says she doesn’t need any more money … Read more
Our lifestyle guru Dr Michael Mosley is too scared to look at how much money he’s lost due to the coronavirus outbreak. The doctor and TV presenter popularised the 5:2 diet and says writing his most famous book, The Fast Diet, was the smartest financial decision he ever made. But he invested most of the … Read more
Author and commentator Julia Hobsbawm says the best money decision she ever made was buying her first home, a one-bedroom flat in Camden, North London, for just £40,000. Hobsbawm, who is feeling the financial effects of the coronavirus on her income, also reveals she has a shoe habit and is used to treating herself every … Read more
Paralympian Will Bayley was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that affects all four limbs, and was diagnosed with cancer when he was seven. He began playing table tennis during his recovery and went on to represent Great Britain at the Paralympics, achieving world number one ranking in 2012 and winning a silver medal in London … Read more
TV presenter Johnny Ball has never forgotten the days he struggled to make ends meet, playing drums in Liverpool and hanging out with The Beatles. Ball, now 81, went on to earn six-figure sums presenting science and technology programmes for children throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He has never tried to give his daughter, DJ … Read more
Timmy Mallett on Good Morning Britain Children’s TV star Timmy Mallett finds investing tediously boring but necessary to change the world for the better, he tells Donna Ferguson. Mallett, who famously used to whack children on the head with an inflatable hammer on TV in the 1980s, thinks ethical investments have a huge power to … Read more
A bottle of Levi Roots Reggae Reggae sauce Reggae Reggae Sauce entrepreneur Levi Roots says the best financial decision he ever made was to hire a top-class corporate lawyer before he entered the Dragons’ Den in 2007. The multi-millionaire also credits his mentor and Dragon investor Peter Jones as the reason he has never made … Read more
Former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik endured the darkest period of his life after he lost his parliamentary seat in 2010. He struggled to find work for years afterwards and suffered from depression. Now 54, he lives in Surrey and is working as a brand and marketing strategist with Icon Relocation, a relocation company for … Read more
The biggest money mistake that Helena Morrissey ever made was not investing enough in shares. The former City fund manager has regularly taken home an annual bonus of more than £1million for providing excellent returns for her client investors. But Morrissey says she has failed to invest enough of her own money in the stock … Read more
Chef: Sophie Faldo was the winner of TV show, the Great British Bake Off, in 2017 Sophie Faldo, winner of Great British Bake Off in 2017, expects that she will never earn enough to be able to buy her own home. The 35-year-old former soldier, who served in Afghanistan in her 20s, currently rents a … Read more