The Dragons Rejected Me, so the House Had to Save My Business ; She Proved Tv's Money-Wizards Wrong and, After Living with Her Sons in the Garage, Alex Hall (Once Mrs Jeremy Clarkson)Will Soon Return to Her Beautiful Home

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As viewers of Dragons' Den will appreciate, budding entrepreneurs will make great sacrifices to keep their businesses afloat. But not many would take the extreme route Alex Hall chose.

To keep her company going and a roof over her family's head she rented out her three-bedroom Victorian country house in Chiddingfold, Surrey, and decamped to the garage at the bottom of the drive.

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The Dragons Rejected Me, so the House Had to Save My Business ; She Proved Tv's Money-Wizards Wrong and, After Living with Her Sons in the Garage, Alex Hall (Once Mrs Jeremy Clarkson)Will Soon Return to Her Beautiful Home

Her unusual relocation was something she kept to herself when she appeared on a follow up programme of the BBC2 show last month, after appealing to the likes of Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones for funding to expand her olive snack company, The Big O.

Alex, 41 a divorcee who was briefly married to TV motormouth Jeremy Clarkson left emptyhanded when she first appeared on the show last September. ...

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