Shop Smart: Save Money the Hampstead and King Alfred’s School way
Fiona Phillips and Gaby Roslin are plugging a new Channel 5 TV show. Called Shop Smart: Save Money, “their new TV show that encourages savvy shopping”, says the Daily Mail. Both presenters are keen to show how they learnt the value of a coupon and special offer from periods of poverty and periods of “financial issues”. “When I was a student, I had £5 a week to live off,” says Roslin.
Even now, she says she still can’t scatter the cash. ‘I have bills to pay like everyone else. Mortgage, gas, electricity, water, car. We all do.’
Prescient stuff. Says Roslin: “My parents weren’t well off and I was brought up thriftily.”
In 2010, she told the Independent:
From the age of three, all I wanted to be was on television. My dad was a Radio 4 newsreader. He was a friend of Valerie Singleton and I used to go to Television Centre to watch Blue Peter being broadcast…
I got into King Alfred’s, a co-ed, progressive school in Hampstead.
King Alfred School is fee paying. It’s located in one of the country’s most expensive places to buy a home. The current fees t the school are:
Reception, Years 1 + 2 (4 – 6 years): £ 5,177 per term
Years 3 – 6 (7 – 10 years): £ 5,965 per term
Upper School (11 – 18 years): £ 6,241 per term
The Sun says: “Gaby Roslin is well-placed to give advice on how to get value for money.” Here’s a bit more about King Alfred’s:
You were not told who was top or bottom and you called teachers by their first names. At first, you didn’t have marks. I wasn’t very good at maths but they didn’t say: “Let’s drop it.” You discussed it with the teachers.
Cynics would call it the kind of school wealthy kids who don’t need to write CVs go to.
Posted: 9th, June 2018 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
