– 8, November 2008
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.
Jacqueline, whose dad is a bulldozer driver said: “I am sure the show is trying to set me up as one of the real hard nuts in the group. But I am not. My personality is fun-loving and I do laugh a lot.” While her rivals emerged with daft schemes such as selling bottled water in the street, Jacqueline teamed up with fellow Scot James to offer their services to big international companies.
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 2Fluid, a web company based in Glasgow.
DAILY STAR, Saturday,
November 8, 2008
