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
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