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He owns a publishing empire but Lord Heseltine tells ME & MY MONEY: 'My only shares are in Marks & Spencer... they cost me £500 in 1955!'
The most expensive item Tory politician Michael Heseltine bought himself for fun is a £4,000 golf buggy to get around his 70-acre garden easily. Lord Heseltine, who recently turned 90, owns Haymarket Publishing and lives with his wife Anne in Thenford House, a Georgian property in Northamptonshire. He tells Donna Ferguson one of the lessons in life he has learned is 'show me the problem, show me the person in charge'. He says one of his top priorities is to enjoy life and the time he has left....read
Antiques Roadshow expert Andy McConnell tells ME & MY MONEY about a clear winner: I paid £8 for five glasses that were worth £5,000
Christopher Biggins says his fortunes changed with I'm A Celeb: I did Porridge and panto, but it was the jungle that set me up for life
Carrie Grant tells ME & MY MONEY about the TV jingle that changed her fortune: 'Where in the world? PC World' paid our mortgage!
I went from a £10 labourer... to earning £400 a week in The Battle Of Britain! Actor James Cosmo tells ME AND MY MONEY... now I'm launching a whiskey
Veteran comedian Arthur Smith tells ME & MY MONEY: 'I cashed in my pension to cope in the pandemic and that's no joke'
'Downton Abbey's' real Lady Mary, Fiona Carnarvon, tells ME & MY MONEY: 'I've ploughed my savings into... gin!'
Racing driver Ben Collins: It was fun being The Stig on Top Gear but my best year was as stunt double for 007 (and why I bought a £200k Defender)
Gymnast Becky Downie tells ME & MY MONEY holidays and fancy clothes are on hold until she's built a gym with her sister Ellie
Ken Hom tells ME & MY MONEY he sold a bottle of champagne for £26k: 'I've made a tasty sum as a chef, but my best buys were wine and watches'
Right Said Fred star Fred Fairbrass: We borrowed £1,500 to make I'm Too Sexy... it transformed our lives
Lady Colin Campbell tells ME & MY MONEY she has a 'modest upper-class existence'... I eat caviar and live in a castle, but I'm really not rich!
Watchdog star Alice Beer tells ME & MY MONEY she wasn't always watching the pennies: I was earning so much I bought a Range Rover without thinking
My biggest money mistake? Not buying a stake in Arsenal FC when I had the chance: Lord Cruddas speaks to ME & MY MONEY
Dragons' Den star Sarah Willingham tells ME & MY MONEY about her 'mad' plan to buy cocktail bars: We started in the pandemic... now it's worth £60m
TV maths whizz Hannah Fry's big money mistake: Not starting a pension when I was younger, it will take so much to catch up all that lost compounding
TV's Nicholas Owen tells ME & MY MONEY he finds it hard to spend - with one exception: 'I don't care for houses but DO love a sports car!'
Angie Best - ex-wife of footballer George - tells ME & MY MONEY about her life as a model: I earned a packet at Playboy Club - then hit road with Cher!
Actress Frances Barber tells ME & MY MONEY about the price of fame: I didn't earn as much as Dustin Hoffman, but my Winnebago was just as big!
DJ Toby Anstis tells ME & MY MONEY: My biggest money mistake... investing in a bitcoin mining company after I got a tip about it from a friend
Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini tells ME & MY MONEY he made a Mad profit selling his comics, and Sir Paul McCartney once bought him bed sheets
TV presenter Clare Nasir tells ME & MY MONEY her best financial move: The day I married 6 Music's money saving wizard
TV's Rory the Vet tells ME & MY MONEY why he still pinches himself over his job: £5,000 for one day's filming... that's animal magic
TV's Queen of Clean Lynsey Crombie tells ME & MY MONEY: 'I lived on £20 a week... now I can make £75,000 for mentioning cleaning products on Instagram!'
Cobra beer's Lord Bilimoria tells ME & MY MONEY about his first success: 'I sold £2 polo sticks to Harrods and made a fortune'
I spent £23,000 on internet names for my new soft play cafe firm: Apprentice star Khadija Kalifa tells Me & My Money about what she did next
The Snowman music writer HOWARD BLAKE says: I've made three money mistakes - my first, second and third wives!
I quit my six-figure salary job to be a comedian... and then lockdown hit: CALLY BEATON on turning to gigs on Zoom and why her pension matters
I was a lockdown labourer: Former EastEnders star Matt Lapinskas tells ME & MY MONEY he rolled up his sleeves to pay bills, now he's in panto
Kerry Ellis tells ME & MY MONEY about her best year financially while starring in a West End hit: Eight shows a week, but I got paid a Wicked wage!
Plumbing boss Charlie Mullins tells ME & MY MONEY how years of hard work paid off: My best pay day? When I sold up... and banked £145m!
The vegan chef who can earn £2,000 from an Instagram post: Niki Webster tells Me & My Money how she built her recipe for success
First Apprentice winner Tim Campbell tells ME & MY MONEY about his taste for the high life: I can afford luxuries... but you can't beat a cinnamon bun!
Crime writer Mark Billingham talks to ME & MY MONEY about power bosses and traders: Cashing in on cost of living crisis? Now that's true crime...
Great Pottery Throw Down star tells ME & MY MONEY about a VERY big decision: Giving a house to my ex-wife was worst and best thing I've ever done
Former Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton tells ME & MY MONEY of a way to cream a fortune: 'I once earned £20k sitting in a yogurt bath!'
Actress Juliet Cowan tells ME & MY MONEY about her finance 'phobia': I didn't know you can fix a mortgage, so when my rate went up, I sold my house!
Relationships expert Annabelle Knight tells ME & MY MONEY how investing in training paid off: 'I earned £950 in an hour... to say what TV stars might be like in bed'
Strictly Come Dancing star Robin Windsor reveals his best payday: 'I danced my way to £10k... doing two-minute cha-cha-cha!'
'I'll never retire from The Repair Shop... it's not the money but how we bring stuff back to life,' Brenton West tells ME & MY MONEY BBC show is like 'family'
'My brother Philip Green kept me away... but he DID bail me out,' self-proclaimed 'black sheep' of billionaire's family tells ME & MY MONEY
Right Said Fred singer tells ME & MY MONEY about record that became a massive success: 'I'm Too Sexy cost £1,200 to make and reaped £10m'
Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Nicole Sealey: I went from being struggling single mum to building a railway construction business fortune
Explorer Laura Bingham tells ME & MY MONEY about drastic steps she took after a break-up; 'I couldn't afford rent on my home - so I moved into the shed'
Danish tycoon Lars Seier Christensen tells ME & MY MONEY of his luxury tastes: 'I'll splurge £1,000 on a meal out - up to four times a week'
Chef Rosemary Shrager tells ME & MY MONEY how she worked to rebuild her fortune: 'My parents taught me value of money... by keeping me short of it!'
Ex-Emmerdale actress Gemma Oaten tells ME & MY MONEY: 'I've been on TV but I had to go on benefits when Covid shut my play'
SAS star Mark Billingham tells ME & MY MONEY about looking after Hollywood stars as a bodyguard... and being paid £10,000 a month
Two weeks after I took out insurance my home was hit by once in 100-year floods that caused £40,000 of damage: Stand-up comic Luisa Omielan in ME & MY MONEY
Electric Six singer Dick Valentine's surprising confession to ME & MY MONEY: 'Rock star? I'd rather check shares than chuck TVs out of windows'
Royal lookalike artist Alison Jackson tells ME & MY MONEY about her riches to rags (...to riches) tale: Family wealth all went to my brother
Dancing On Ice's Alex Murphy tells ME & MY MONEY: 'I earn more as an influencer than I did on the ice... and I'm investing in a pension'
'Coupon Kid' Jordon Cox tells ME & MY MONEY he still practises what he preaches: 'I'm so tight...if I paid full price for a Krispy Kreme, I'd cry inside!'
Ex-rugby star Ollie Phillips tells ME & MY MONEY how he survived a financial nightmare: 'I helped jail fraudsters who used my name to borrow MILLIONS'
Breakfast star Isabel Webster tells ME & MY MONEY: 'I treated myself to a £1,000 handbag when I got my GB News job
From homeless to celebrity barber, Mark Maciver has Stormzy and Anthony Joshua as clients and says: 'I earned £5,000 for a 45-minute haircut!'
Author and star agent Melanie Blake: I wrote a bonkbuster in seven weeks that made me £500,000... after making £6m from the age of 23 by helping celebrities
TV's Andrea McLean gives ME & MY MONEY her investing advice: 'I treat losses in Equitable Life like my men... pick yourself up and find a better one!'
TV Gladiator turned author tells ME & MY MONEY about his financial rollercoaster ride: 'I lost $1m on Hollywood Hills house in 2008 crash'
T'Pau's Carol Decker tells ME & MY MONEY about getting out of poverty: 'I put my Heart And Soul into making sure I'd NEVER be homeless again'
Historian Bettany Hughes hates extravagance but tells ME & MY MONEY she HAS touched King Tut's gold slippers!
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