Former Apprentice winner Stella
English owns property worth £1million and pays a firm up to £1,000 a
week to manager her public relations, it has been revealed.
The
mother-of-two this week said she had fallen into poverty and was trying
to claim benefits as she fought off a claim by Lord Sugar, who was
trying to win £35,000 in legal costs and damages.
Miss
English, 34, said just three years after she found fame on the BBC1
show, she was down to her last £200, she could lose one of her homes and
her marriage had collapsed.
Former Apprentice winner Stella English said she
had fallen into poverty at a tribunal this week. It has now been
reported she spends up to £4,000 a month on PR
It has now been
reported she pays PR firm Big Talent Group up to £4,000 a month and owns
two flats and a house in South London worth £1million, according to The
Mirror.
The
paper reported Land Registry deeds revealed Miss English bought the
first flat in 2005 for £250,000 and the second for £245,000 in 2007.
Both were expected to be worth more now.
Senior talent agent Terry Mills, of Big Talent Group, declined to comment when contacted by MailOnline today.
Lord Sugar had been seeking to
recover £35,000 after Miss English lost her constructive dismissal case
against him earlier this year.
Miss
English wept earlier this week when an East London Tribunal Service
panel ruled that she should not have to repay any of the money.
At
the original employment tribunal, Lord Sugar claimed Miss English
knowingly lied when she said the £100,000-a-year job at his firm, which
she won through the BBC programme in 2010, was a sham.
Miss English said she had fallen into poverty
and was trying to claim benefits as she fought off a claim by Lord
Sugar, who was trying to win £35,000 in legal costs and damages
Recently, she claimed she was making
double that amount from new business ventures, including a fashion label
and an events company.
But
at the hearing this week it emerged that the mother of two has not
worked since July and is attempting to claim housing benefit and
jobseeker’s allowance.
She said that she worked at Citigroup until July, earning £500 a day, but her contract with the banking giant had ended.
She
is also facing the prospect of having one of her homes repossessed and
has seen her marriage collapse as a result of the stress of the original
case.
Miss English
told the tribunal that she now only has around £200 in her bank account
and was unable to even afford a birthday present for her son.
At the original employment tribunal, Lord Sugar
claimed Miss English knowingly lied when she said the £100,000-a-year
job at his firm, which she won through the BBC programme in 2010, was a
sham
‘I cannot afford to
feed my kids let alone pay the mortgage – that doesn’t even matter any
more,’ she said. ‘It is my son’s birthday today but I can’t afford to
buy him anything because everything we have goes on trying to survive.
‘A couple of weeks ago I made an application for housing benefit and there is an interview set up. I have no choice.
'Unless I find a contract I will not be able to support my family any more, I am losing close to 3k a month.’
Lawyers
for 66-year-old Lord Sugar insisted Miss English brought the original
legal action against him simply because she was ‘bored’ with her day job
and missed the glamour of appearing on television.
But
tribunal judge George Foxwell rejected his application to recover some
of his costs, saying that Miss English truly believed she had a case.
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