THE BBC is making a documentary about lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone – and it’s trying like a warts-and-all affair.
The present will inform how the previous mannequin from the East Finish of Glasgow turned a multi-millionaire within the predominantly male world of enterprise.
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However it is going to additionally cowl how Baroness Mone, who based the Ultimo push-up bra in 1999, additionally turned mired in a private protecting gear (PPE) scandal following the Covid disaster.
Simon Younger, Head of Commissioning, Historical past, on the BBC mentioned: “It’s nonetheless unclear the place this story will finish, however there’s no higher time to return to grasp the place all of it started.
“It would reveal the foundations of one of the astonishing tales within the current historical past of British enterprise.”
The Rise And Fall Of Michelle Mone, which is predicted to air early subsequent 12 months, will have a look at how, all through the Nineties, she grew her underwear empire and got here to embody the entrepreneurial spirit of the day.
She turned such a high-profile determine within the trade that she was made a baroness in 2015.
However her repute was severely dented 5 years later with the arrival of the Covid pandemic, throughout which period she used her membership of the Home of Lords to make use of a “VIP quick lane” to advocate an organization known as PPE Medpro to produce protecting gear to the Authorities.
For 3 years she and her husband Doug Barrowman publicly denied any involvement with the corporate, which was subsequently accused by the Authorities of supplying defective PPE.
£60million revenue
Then, in a high-profile BBC interview, Baroness Mone later conceded she had lied to the press about her and Doug’s involvement in PPE Medpro, and that the couple stood to profit from a £60million revenue made on the deal.
The collection will hear from a lot of those that witnessed her rise and fall, together with mates, former colleagues and advisors, journalists and legal professionals concerned in her story.
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BANISH all reminiscences of clean John Nettles as a result of the brand new Bergerac appears far grittier.
The trailer for the crime collection reboot sees the detective, now performed by Damien Molony, trying like a damaged man with “one thing to show”. The present drops in February on U&DRAMA.
RUTH ON HO MUCH MONEY
LOOSE WOMEN host Ruth Langsford is laughing all the best way to the financial institution.
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Accounts for her telly agency Hey Ho Ltd reveal she paid herself a whopping £770,000 dividend final 12 months. This works out at a greater than respectable £2,110 a day.
The presenter’s enterprise is now sitting on £1.35million of reserves – which makes her one of many best-paid daytime earners on tv.
Whereas Ruth has coined in a good few quid within the final 12 months, she made much more the earlier 12 months.
That’s when she gave herself a £2,285,000 payout.
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So I’m guessing the drinks will probably be on her the following time the Unfastened Ladies gang are down the pub.
Ruth, who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, has made growing telly appearances not too long ago, together with on ITV2’s I’m A Celeb spin off, Unpacked, which noticed her jet Down Underneath to supply her ideas on the jungle campmates.
