Hilary Lorraine Devey CBE (born 10 March 1957) is an English businesswoman, television personality and entrepreneur, famous for her two-year character on BBC Two programme “Dragons’ Den” until she left to present the five-part Channel 4 show “The Intern”.
Hilary Devey has featured in a number of television programmes including Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire in 2008, where she contributed more than 350,000 to the Back Door Music Project and the Syke Community Centre in Rochdale. Appearing on the programme she popularised her saying “you’d make my foot itch” to signal dissatisfaction or insufficient interest in a enterprise. She afterwards declared that she’d be leaving the show in June 2012, as Hilary Devey had signed an exclusive two year deal with Channel 4. In September 2012, Devey presented her last programme for BBC Two, a miniseries called Hilary Devey’s Girls On Top, a combined Open University and BBC Two production. In April 2013 she started fronting the brand new Channel 4 show The Intern, a six-part company documentary in which sees gave three young interns a week’s trial in the work in their dreams. The primary three aired in the Thursday 9pm timeslot, but the later three were air on Wednesday nights at 11pm. On 3 April 2014, Devey declared that she was set to host a brand new Channel 4 company programme, which she’ll start filming in June. On 20 June 2014, Devey will participate in a star episode of Fifteen to One.
She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the Transport Industry and to charity. She is the chairman and Chief Executive for Pall-Ex.
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Business entrepreneur who founded haulage company Pall-Ex. She has a son, Mevlit with Turkish-born Cypriot businessman Hussein Ahmet.
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Title
Year
Status
Character
Sunday Morning Live
2016
TV Series
Herself
Loose Women
2012-2015
TV Series
Herself - Presenter / Herself
Running the Shop
2015
TV Series
Herself - Presenter
Question Time
2015
TV Series
Herself
Through the Keyhole
2014
TV Series
Herself
Imagine
2013
TV Series documentary
Herself - Businesswoman
Daily Mirror: The Pride of Britain Awards
2013
TV Special
Herself
The One Show
2011-2013
TV Series
Herself - Guest
The Intern
2013
TV Series
Herself
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2012
TV Series
Herself
Dragons' Den
2011-2012
TV Series
Herself - Dragon
Hotel GB
2012
TV Series
Herself
Room 101
2012
TV Series
Herself
National Television Awards
2012
TV Special
Herself - Presenter
The Graham Norton Show
2011
TV Series
Herself - Guest
The British Comedy Awards 2011
2011
TV Special
Herself
This Week
2011
TV Series
Herself
That Sunday Night Show
2011
TV Series
Herself
Daybreak
2011
TV Series
Herself
Breakfast
2010-2011
TV Series
Herself - Pall-Ex, CEO / Herself - Business Woman
The Wright Stuff
2010
TV Series
Herself - Guest Panelist
The Secret Millionaire
2008
TV Series
Herself
Known for movies
Loose Women (2012-2015) as Herself - Presenter / Herself
Dragons' Den (2011-2012) as Herself - Dragon
The One Show (2011-2013) as Herself - Guest
National Television Awards (2012) as Herself - Presenter