Brother-sister duo Anna and William Brightman asked for a £50,000 investment into their beauty brand UpCircle, in exchange for one of the Dragons to own 2% of their company.
The entrepreneur, a keen golfer said to play off a handicap of eight, agreed to buy the loss-making retailer from private equity group Endless, which has owned it since 2018.
The Dragon's Den star, 33, revealed he popped the question to his long-term partner after surprising her while she was on holiday with her family in Morocco.
It sounds like a modern-day fairytale. A mixed-race university drop-out born into poverty, reduced to stealing food, who sets up a company from his bedroom and becomes a multi-millionaire by 25.
Deborah Meaden, 66, reacted to a tweet by broadcaster Adam Brooks, who claimed that expressing your beliefs 'can get you cancelled, sacked or even arrested'.
Venture capitalist Julie Meyer, 59, was awarded an MBE in 2012, and an honorary doctorate in law from Warwick University in 2014, but was stripped of both following a legal dispute in 2022.