Duncan Bannatyne Biography
Duncan Bannatyne, OBE, is a Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist, and novelist whose commercial interests include hotels, health clubs, spas, media, television, and real estate. He is most known for his role as a business angel on the BBC show Dragons’ Den.
How old is Duncan Bannatyne? – Age
He is 75 years old as of 2 February 2024. He was born in 1949 in Clydebank, United Kingdom. His real name is Duncan Walker Bannatyne.
Duncan Bannatyne Family – Education
His father, Bill, served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during World War II and worked on the Burma Railway after being seized by the Japanese during the Fall of Singapore; he later worked in the foundry at the Clydebank Singer plant. As a child, he shared a room with his parents and brothers in a large house with six other families. He attended Dalmuir Primary School and excelled in arithmetic, earning a place at Clydebank High School after clearing the Eleven Plus test.
Duncan Bannatyne Wife – Children
Bannatyne lives in Portugal, where he married Nigora Whitehorn on June 3, 2017. Bannatyne has four children from his first marriage with Gail, which was in 1983: Hollie, Abigail, Jennifer, and Eve; and two from his second marriage, Joanne with in 2006: Emily, born in 1999 and Thomas, born in 2002. He has multiple grandchildren, including Ava and Austin, from his oldest daughter.
Duncan Bannatyne Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £303,266,800.
Duncan Bannatyne Surgery
On The Graham Norton Show, he publicly revealed getting cosmetic surgery beneath his eyes; he also acted in the Tyne Tees Television comedy pilot Girl’s Club, where he co-starred with actress Georgia Taylor. In 2011, he revealed that he has prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces.
Duncan Bannatyne I’m a Celebrity
Bannatyne appeared on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! for the fifteenth season in 2015. His participation money in the show was donated to Operation Smile charity. He joined other celebrities such as Britt Ekland, Henry Blofeld, John Altman, Susie Blake, and Barbara Dickson.
Duncan Bannatyne Clubs
Bannatyne has since grown into health clubs, owning the Bannatyne Health Club & Spa network, as well as hotels and property. In August 2006, he paid £92 million to Hilton Hotels for 26 health clubs. With 71 facilities, the Bannatyne Group is now the UK’s largest independent health club chain. The company now operates 46 spas (as of June 2018) and wants to open more, including its first Northern Ireland-based health club in Belfast, as well as four hotels.
Duncan Bannatyne Political activity
Bannatyne backed the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher from 1975 to 1990, then switched to the Labour Party under Tony Blair from 1994 until 2007. He continued to support Labour during Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, who led the party from 2007 to 2010. He also gave to Labour under Blair and backed Brown, despite criticizing Brown’s ministry for engaging in “petty squabbles based on personal ambition”.
Bannatyne appeared to flip back to the Conservatives in March 2011, supporting specific measures enforced by Conservative chancellor George Osborne despite having derided the Conservative government a few months before. In April 2015, one week after signing a letter to The Daily Telegraph supporting the Conservatives in the impending general election, he changed his mind and promised his vote to Labour, citing Labour leader Ed Miliband’s “courage” in committing to abolish non-domiciled tax status. Bannatyne voted in favor of Brexit during the referendum in June 2016.
Duncan Bannatyne Career
In 1964, following half a month working for a neighborhood bureau producer he enlisted in the Illustrious Naval force, at first enrolling for quite some time as a lesser inferior designing repairman (stoker) at RNTE Shotley close to Ipswich, otherwise called the young men’s preparation foundation HMS Ganges. He served in the Naval force for a very long time remembering a spell for the plane carrying warship HMS Falcon, prior to losing an official a boat arrival breakwater in Scotland and getting a shocking release. In his self-portrayal he guarantees this was to some degree a response to this official’s maltreatment of his position, to a limited extent a challenge by his shipmates and to some degree an approach to escaping the Naval force, with which he had become frustrated. Bannatyne was nineteen when this occurred. After the episode he needed to serve nine months in Colchester military confinement community.
Bannatyne spent his twenties moving starting with one work then onto the next. Upon his re-visitation of Clydebank he prepared as a farming vehicle fitter and afterward went around the nation fixing farm trucks. He resided on the island of Jersey for a very long time from 1974 where he acquired a HGV permit and made money through a few positions including deckchair chaperon, frozen yogurt vender and medical clinic doorman. He additionally surfed, celebrated and met his most memorable spouse on the island. With Jersey’s troublesome business environment for untouchables, at age 29, Bannatyne and his better half moved to Stockton-on-Tees in North East Britain. He has expressed that he was poor and didn’t have a ledger until the age of 30.
His business profession started very quickly after his transition to Stockton-on-Tees with a frozen yogurt van bought for £450. He before long extended by purchasing more vans during the time of the Glasgow Frozen yogurt Wars.
He sold the business for £28,000, establishing a nursing home business called Quality Consideration Homes which he then, at that point, sold for £26 million of every 1997 and youngsters’ nursery chain Simply Learning for £12 million. The Simply Learning CEO during the 1992-97 period was Michael Fallon while out of office as a MP.
Bannatyne accepted his OBE halfway in acknowledgment for his work with noble cause like Mary’s feasts. He has subsidized a few undertakings more than a ten-year time span in Romania, remembering Casa Bannatyne for Târgu-Mureş, a hospice for vagrants with HIV and Helps in which he contributed £80,000. He laid out the Bannatyne Magnanimous Confidence in Walk 2008.
On 19 May 2008, Bannatyne added his help to the send off of the Designed for Giving Effort at the Place of Center to urge UK business pioneers to set up and advance a Work environment Giving plan to help UK enrolled foundations with charge compelling gifts through representatives’ compensation. He then, at that point, assisted with advancing Clydesdale Bank’s and Yorkshire Bank’s endeavors to advance the program through ATM (Mechanized Teller Machine) rolls. On 29 August 2008, Bannatyne showed up on TV program Who Needs to Be a Mogul?, raising £20,000 for a noble cause NCH.
He became Leader of the foundation No Smoking Day in October 2008. The foundation runs the yearly wellbeing mindfulness crusade – assisting individuals who with needing to quit smoking. This followed on from him making a narrative about the morals of English American Tobacco. In August 2010, he consented to become Benefactor of PC David Rathband’s Blue Light Establishment, a foundation laid out by the Northumbria Police Constable David Rathband, who was dazed by gunfire wounds in the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt.