Hello! Magazine UK – 19 August 2019

Dragons’DenreturnsonSunday 11 Augustat 8pmonBBC2.

REPORTS: EMILY HORAN. LAURA BENJAMIN. PHOTOS: ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA. BBC. JOSHUA ATKINS. NETFLIX. PA PHOTOS. SIMON ARMSTRONG

CULTURE

INTERVIEW:EMILYHORAN

DON’T MISS

THIS WEEKÉ

EVENT

BAREFASHION

SHOW

Britain’sonlyvegancatwalkshow

takesplaceat theOldTruman

BreweryinEastLondonand

showcasesthebestinvegan

clothing,beautyproductsand

accessoriesalongsideveganfood

andcocktails.

On 10 August;visitbarefashion.co.uk.

BOOK

FLEISHMAN IS INTROUBLE

TobyFleishmanis readytostartdatingagainnow

thathismarriagehasended.Butwhenhis

soon-to-be-ex-wifeRacheldisappears,heis forced

tojuggleworkwithparenting– andlookbackon

hisbehaviourtounderstandwhyhismarriage

imploded.TaffyBrodesser-Akner’sdebutbookhas

alreadybeenlabelledthenovelofthesummer.

Outnow,publishedbyHeadline.

FILM

THESUN IS

ALSOA STAR

Fatebringsromantic

Daniel(CharlesMelton)

andpragmatistNatasha

(YaraShahidi)together

onemagicaldayinNew

York.Butwillthatbe

enoughtotakethese

teensfromstar-crossedto

luckyinlove?

Incinemasfrom9 August.

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THEBIG FEASTIVAL

A feastforthesenses,thisthree-day,

family-friendlyfestivalis jam-packed

withmusicfromRudimental,Jess

GlynneandLewisCapaldi,foodfrom

topchefsincludingRaymondBlanc

andPrueLeith,andplentyoflive

entertainment.Headdowntoformer

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Visitthebigfeastival.com.

STREAMING

GLOW

Back for its third season, Netflix’s

hit comedy drama follows the

female wrestlers as they take the

Las Vegas Strip by storm, only to

find themselves struggling with

their identities both in and

outside the ring. Starring Betty

Gilpin and Alison Brie (right) and

new girl Geena Davis.

From 9 August.

Sara’s success story began when she was 21 and studying

for a business degree. While on work experience with a

local craft company, she discovered a gap in the market for

a tool to create bespoke envelopes for handmade cards.

“The card-making industry was booming and I would

speak to lots of crafters who didn’t have envelopes to fit

their handmade cards. I thought: ‘There needs to be a tool

to fold envelopes in different sizes.’”

After working on a number of designs, Sara came up with

the Enveloper, a simple board that can be used to create

bespoke envelopes from sheets of A4 and A3 paper.

“I rang a shopping channel and pitched my idea in

October. They let me launch my Enveloper on their show

and we sold 8,000 overnight. By Christmas, I’d sold 30,000.”

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

By the time Sara graduated with a first-class degree the

following summer, her business was generating sales of

more than £500,000. She credits her parents, who run their

own decorating store, for her entrepreneurial spirit.

“They instilled a fantastic work ethic in me. We would live

and breathe the business, and that’s all I ever knew.”

With Crafter’s Companion turning over tens of millions a

year, and with more than 150 staff globally, Sara is flying high,

especially after being awarded an MBE in 2016 for her

contribution to and achievements in the craft industry.

“When the letter came through I thought it was a

phoney. I rang the Palace to check that it was real.”

Still resident in the North East, Sara travelled to London

to receive her award with her husband Simon, whom she

married in 2007, and their son Oliver, now five. She was

37 weeks pregnant their second son.

“I waddled up to Prince William. He took one look at my

bump and said: ‘Wow, that looks like it’s coming soon.’”

It was. Charlie arrived just three days later.

Sara’s sons are already showing signs of having inherited

her artistic flair.

“My husband’s always taking them outside with a football

and I’m saying: ‘Come on kids, let’s do some crafts.’ There’s

nothing I love more than when they ask to do crafts at the

weekend. I’m so thrilled it’s not: ‘Can I get my iPad out?’”

And if her boys want to follow further in her footsteps,

Sara will be backing them all the way. “If you’ve got the

drive and determination to succeed, the sky is the limit.”

A heavily pregnant Sara (above) receives her MBE from the

Duke of Cambridge in 2016. Three days later, her son Charlie

was born: “I was showing the midwives pictures of me getting

my MBE. They couldn’t believe it.” This month sees Sara join

Dragons Touker Suleyman, Deborah Meaden, Tej Lalvani and

Peter Jones (below left, from left) on BBC2’s DragonsÕ Den

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