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RICHARD EDEN: Is it the end of the affair for Sarah Beeny's dating app? My Single Friend desperately needs kiss of life after accumulating debts of £1.5million
RICHARD EDEN: I can disclose that My Single Friend, the online dating site she established two decades ago, is in desperate need of the kiss of life.
She has charged through life at what she describes as '1,000 miles per hour', restoring Rise Hall in Yorkshire to stately magnificence, giving birth to four boys in five years and presenting a succession of hit television property shows. In the process, the irrepressible Sarah Beeny has earned herself an army of fans, many of them men, one of whom, on meeting her, summarised her as 'foxy [both] on television and in the flesh, fun and funny'. Although that fate has been averted in the last fortnight, My Single Friend would appear in urgent need of re-financing, with documents filed at Companies House revealing that it has burned through all its financial reserves.
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