Dragons’ Den’s Theo Paphitis lashes out at working mums and says partnity leave is for wimps

Theo Paphitis, the star of Dragons’ Den, has unreconstructed views on women in the workplace, and says paternity leave is for wimps, says Celia Walden

I’m sitting in a car park outside Pinewood Studios in the back of Theo Paphitis’s Maybach, flicking through TV channels, an ice-cold Perrier in my hand, inhaling the scent of silly money.

 

 

Cato, Paphitis’s chauffeur, looks disappointingly unlike Inspector Clouseau’s manservant but has been instructed to tend to my every whim as I wait for the cast of Dragons’ Den to break for lunch.

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Joycellyn Akuffo

Founder and editor of www.motherswhowork.co.uk, a mother of two wonderful children, wife, entrepreneur (check out www.geekschool.co.uk) and journalist.

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