{"id":516,"date":"2022-06-15T22:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/15\/hilary-devey-had-charisma-and-ability-says-theo-paphitis\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:46:50","slug":"hilary-devey-had-charisma-and-ability-says-theo-paphitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Devey had charisma and ability, says Theo Paphitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Former Dragons&#8217; Den star Theo Paphitis has told the BBC that co-star Hilary Devey, who has died at the age of 65, &#8220;totally commanded&#8221; her position after joining the business investment show in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Devey came to public attention when she replaced James Caan on the programme, later saying her best investment had been a mattress-duvet for caravans, boats and trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Paphitis said Devey, who died after a long illness on Saturday night, was a &#8220;straight-talking northern girl&#8221; who had &#8220;an amazing generosity of spirit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-61778681?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Former Dragons&#8217; Den star Theo Paphitis has told the BBC that co-star Hilary Devey, who has died at the age of 65, &#8220;totally commanded&#8221; her position after joining the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}