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| Robinson, 61, acid-tongued presenter of The Weakest Link, claims she stopped counting her wealth after £20m. With a £6m two-year BBC deal and a six-year contract with NBC in America worth £6m a year, her comment rings true. Born in Liverpool, she was heavily influenced by her mother, a successful poultry dealer who gave her a mink coat to keep her warm on doorsteps when she got her first reporter’s job on the Daily Mail. Rising through the Fleet Street ranks she made her name as a columnist on the Daily Mirror. Robinson’s well-documented alcoholism in the 1970s meant she lost custody of daughter Emma when her first marriage ended in divorce. She turned around both her career and personal life, however. Her autobiography, Memoirs of an Unfit Mother, pulled no punches and earned her at least £250,000 into the bargain. Alcohol-free for 27 years and married to John Penrose — who manages her career and finances — for almost as long, a proclivity for buying and selling properties has seen the couple move house 18 times in 25 years. We count her in at £60m taking account of the NBC contract, her growing property empire and future television shows. | ||||||||||||||||
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