Dragon Den’s Duncan Ditches The Missus

DRAGONS’ Den’s curmudgeonly, bluff, re-haired but multi-millionaire Scot Duncan Bannatyne, 62, is bailing out of his deal to “all my goods I thee endow” and divorcing his wife.

Joanne McCue, now 45, was a former director of nursing at his Nursing
Homes business when they married in 2006. They have two children.

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Posted: 14th, September 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Daily Mail Lambastes Terry Pratchett’s TV Suicide Show While Advertising Duncan Bannatyne’s Twitter Suicide

IN Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, Peter Smedley, 71, committed assisted suicide. He had motor neurone disease. He had gone to Switzerland to die at an euthanasia clinic.

The Daily Mail sees its chance to hit the BBC. It talks of hundreds of complaints. Complaints are the barometer of righteousness. The more complains, the more wrong the thing is and the more demanding of more outrage.

The money quote soon comes:

Nola Leach, chief executive of CARE, said: ‘I rather thought that we had moved on from the days when people gathered in crowds to watch other people die.

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Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (14)