Duncan Bannatyne
Duncan Bannatyne was born in Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom on February 2nd, 1949 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 75, Duncan Bannatyne biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Duncan Walker Bannatyne, OBE (born 2 February 1949), is a Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author.
Hotels, health clubs, spas, media, TV, and property are among his company pursuits.
He is best known for his role as a business angel on BBC show Dragons' Den.
He was made an OBE for his service to charity.
He has written seven books.
Early life
Bannatyne was born in Dalmuir west of Glasgow. Bill's father, who served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in World War II, then worked on the Burma Railway after being captured by the Japanese after the Fall of Singapore, he then worked in the foundry in the Clydebank Singer plant. Duncan, a young boy, and his siblings were in a large house shared with six other families in a large house. He attended Dalmuir Primary School, where he displayed a natural aptitude for arithmetic and gained a spot at Clydebank High School after passing the Eleven plus exam. Since the majority of students had a bicycle, he decided to buy one for himself. The local newsagent was not keen on him, so she asked him to find 100 new clients in exchange for a paper round. She called her bluff by returning with 100 names, but later realized that it would have been more profitable to have sold the list. At the High School, he loved PE and woodwork, but he was left at 15 without a diploma.
He joined the Royal Navy after a few weeks as a junior second class engineering mechanic (stoker) at RNTE Shotley near Ipswich, better known as the boys' training facility HMS Ganges, in 1964. He served in the Navy for many years, including a stint on the HMS Eagle, before throwing an officer off a boat landing jetty in Scotland and receiving a dishonourable discharge. In his autobiography, he claims this was in part a reaction to this officer's abuse of his position, a dare by his shipmates and in part a way of getting out of the Navy, with which he had been disillusioned. Bannatyne was nineteen when this happened. He was sentenced to nine months in Colchester's military detention center after the incident. He spent ten days in Glasgow's Barlinnie jail for not paying a £10 fine in connection with a charge of peace breaking and resisting capture.
Personal life
On June 3, 2017, Bannatyne married Nigora Whitehorn in Portugal. Bannatyne has four children by his first wife, Gail (m. 1983): Hollie, Abigail, Jennifer and Eve; two with his second wife, Joanne (m. 2006): Emily (b. Thomas (b. 1999) and Thomas (b. 2002 (British) The original author. From his eldest daughter, Ava and Austin, he has several grandchildren, including Ava and Austin.
He now lives in Portugal. Bannatyne was given an honorary doctorate of science by Glasgow Caledonian University on July 5, 2006, for services to industry and charity. On February 6, 2009, Teesside University also granted an honorary doctorate of business administration.
His sixtieth birthday was celebrated at Murano's in London, with stars including David Coulthard, James Caan, Theo Paphitis, and Anna Ryder Richardson. In the North East of England, Beverley Knight, a UK soul singer, and Chesney Hawkes headlined a second party, which took place in a converted warehouse in Darlington, County Durham. He openly discussed having cosmetic surgery under his eyes on The Graham Norton Show; appeared in the Tyne Tees Television comedy pilot Girls Club, where he performed alongside the actress Georgia Taylor. He claimed that he suffers from prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces in 2011.
Career
Bannatyne spent his twenties shifting from one job to another. He started off as an agricultural vehicle fitter and then travelled around the country rebuilding tractors. He lived on the island of Jersey for four years, starting with a HGV licence and working in various capacities, including deckchair attendant, ice cream maker, and hospital porter. On the island, he surfed, partied, and married his first wife. Bannatyne and his wife returned to Stockton-on-Tees, Jersey's tough business climate for strangers at the age of 29. He has said he was insecure and did not have a bank account until the age of 30.
With an ice cream van bought for £450, his company began almost immediately after arriving in Stockton-on-Tees. During the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, he soon increased by purchasing more vans. He sold the company for £28,000, establishing Quality Care Homes, a nursing home company that he later sold for £26 million in 1997 and the children's nursery chain Just Learning for £12 million. Michael Fallon, the Just Learning chief executive during the 1992–97 period, died while out of office as an MP.
Bannatyne has since expanded into health clubs, with the Bannatyne Health Club & Spa chain as his name, as well as hotels and properties. In August 2006, he purchased 26 health clubs from Hilton Hotels for £92 million. With 71 locations, the Bannatyne Group is the country's biggest independent health club chain. The company currently (June 2018) has 46 spas with plans for more, including at its first Northern Ireland-based health club in Belfast, and it operates four hotels.
According to the Sunday Times Rich List, his fortune as of 2018, which was estimated at £280 million.
Bannatyne has written seven books: Anyone Can Do It, Wake Up and Change Your Life, How to Be Effective With Your Money, How to Be Effective With Your Time, 43 Business Mistakes Every Business Needs to Answer, 37 Questions People In Business Wants To Answer, and Riding The Storm.
Bannatyne appeared on BBC television show Dragons' Den from 2005 to 2015. During his time on the show, he invested in 36 companies.
Bannatyne appeared in the fifteenth season of "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" Operation Smile charity was paid for his participation in the show.
Bannatyne appeared in the BBC series The Real Marigold Hotel in 2020. He appeared on television, including Britt Ekland, Henry Blofeld, John Altman, Susie Blake, and Barbara Dickson.
Bannatyne received an OBE for his work with charities such as Mary's meals. Over a ten-year span in Romania, he has funded many projects, including Casa Bannatyne, a HIV and AIDS charity in Târgu-Mureş, which he funded with £80,000. In March 2008, he founded the Bannatyne Charitable Trust.
Bannatyne's support for the launch of the Geared for Giving Campaign at the House of Commons was given on May 19th, 2008, to encourage UK business leaders to develop and promote a Workplace Giving initiative to benefit UK registered charities by increasing tax-effective donations made by staff. He then helped promote the scheme at Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank by providing ATM (Automated Teller Machine) rolls. Bannatyne says, "They're really going for it, because over 21% of their employees are contributing through this scheme."
Bannatyne appeared on television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, raising £20,000 for charity NCH on August 29, 2008.
In October 2008, he became President of No Smoking Day. The charity supports people who wish to quit smoking by running the annual health awareness campaign. This came after he made a documentary about British American Tobacco.
He accepted the Patron of PC David Rathband's Blue Lamp Foundation, a charity established by Northumbrian Police Constable David Rathband, who was blinded by gunshot wounds in the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt.