Jacqueline Turks in to Make Money
This is the multi-millionairess determined to win television’s latest reality show spin-off from The Apprentice. Glasgow-born Jacqueline Doherty, 37, has set her heart on winning The Last Millionaire. In the new six-part BBC3 series, which starts on Wednesday, Jacqueline is joined by fellow Scots entrepreneurs James Watt, a micro-brewery tycoon from Aberdeen and Oli Norman, a PR guru from Glasgow. The contestants are stripped of their cash, credit cards and contact books and are dumped in a foreign city, given only a nominal sum of start-up capital in local currency.
They pair off and set up money-making schemes in five days. In the first show the teams are dumped in Istanbul and given only 150 Turkish lira, about a week’s wage, to get them started.
Scheme.
While they didn’t always see eye to eye Jacqueline commented: “I chose James as a partner and simply accessed the internet and found the wealthiest companies and offered my creative services.” As for her motives for going on the show, she said: “I wanted to show people that you can set something up from nothing. I understand these fundamentals. “I didn’t come from a middle class background. I did three jobs to pay my way through art school. My story to other people watching the show is if I can do it, you can.” Jacqueline made her fortune with 2FluiidCreative, a web company based in Glasgow.
DAILY STAR, Saturday,
November 8, 2008
