Dragon's Den star Sara Davies devastated over reaction on hit BBC show

Entrepreneur and erstwhile Strictly prima Sara Davies has been successful concern since she was astatine university, but the mum of 2 admits there's 1 portion of filming the deed BBC amusement that she finds devastating

Dragons’ Den prima Sara Davies is present a good respected and assured Dragon connected the deed BBC series, but she admits there's inactive 1 constituent of the amusement that she finds devastating. The 40-year-old entrepreneur became the youngest ever pistillate capitalist erstwhile she walked into the Den successful 2019, replacing outgoing Dragon Jenny Campbell.

But successful an exclusive chat with OK! astir her caller solo amusement that's airing soon, Sara says she inactive hasn't rather gotten utilized to shattering dreams successful the Den. "When person to say, ‘ don’t deliberation this is commercially viable,’ connected Dragons’ Den and they look crestfallen, it’s devastating. o it’s beauteous connected this amusement that ne'er person to bash that!”

Sara, who appeared connected Strictly Come Dancing successful 2021 with Aljaž Škorjanec, acceptable up Crafter's Companion erstwhile she inactive astatine assemblage aft coming up with an thought for a merchandise that would alteration radical to marque custom-sized enveloped for homemade cards. Her technologist dada helped her make the prototype, and Sara went connected to crook it into a multi-million lb concern that trades successful much than 40 countries astir the world.

It was her acquisition arsenic an inventor that led her to marque her caller BBC One show, The Big Idea Works, which sees Sara teaming up with a squad of engineers to crook the ideas of different inventors into reality. The format was decided aft Sara spent 3 months with a North East TV accumulation institution arsenic portion of a BBC thrust to marque much contented extracurricular of the London.

“My archetypal large interruption 20 years agone came from identifying a occupation and having an thought for a solution — radical were making homemade cards but didn’t person the envelopes to fit. My dada was an technologist truthful was capable to instrumentality what was successful my caput and marque it into a moving prototype. So the lightbulb infinitesimal for the amusement was uncovering much mundane radical who person ideas, and getting tons of engineers successful the country to bring them to life.”

The amusement was made successful the North East, wherever Sara lives with her hubby Simon and their 2 sons Oliver, 11, and Charlie, eight, and staffed by section endowment - and this is thing she's incredibly arrogant of.

“Our caput cameraman said to maine 1 day, ‘I was a spot precocious this greeting due to the fact that I dropped the kids disconnected astatine school. I haven’t been capable to bash that for months due to the fact that I’ve been distant moving — I can’t archer you what it means to beryllium capable to bash a occupation successful the North East.’ So I’m hopeless to marque the amusement specified a smash deed that it goes connected to beryllium recommissioned. That’s what drives me.”

The Big Idea Works airs Monday to Thursday , 2pm, connected BBC One. Also disposable connected iPlayer

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