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
Handy: TV presenter Craig Phillips Former bricklayer Craig Phillips made hundreds of thousands of pounds as the first ever winner of TV’s Big Brother 20 years ago, but says his best money making venture has been to invest in buy-to-let property. The 49-year-old spoke to DONNA FERGUSON from his home near Liverpool where he lives … Read more
Jamie Lonsdale gave Princess Diana investment advice about her divorce settlement. The singer-songwriter’s first wife Laura Greig was one of Diana’s ladies-in-waiting. Jamie, 62, spoke to DONNA FERGUSON from his home in Pimlico, Central London, where he lives with son Arthur, 25. His new album Footprints is out now. Passion: Jamie has now made two … Read more
High earner: Neil Fox presents the Heritage chart rundown on United DJs Radio Neil Fox would revamp income tax if he were Chancellor of the Exchequer – making everyone pay the same rate. Talking from his home in South-West London, the 59-year-old DJ told DONNA FERGUSON he has fallen back on his savings in recent … Read more