Rock Crumbles. Sir Alans “rottweiler-in-chief” Paul Kemsley £500Mn property firm fails.
He is close friends with Sir Philip Green, Joe Lewis and Mike Ashley and was once photographed in a clinch with Pamela Anderson at a party at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. More recently, he has gained fame as Sir Alan Sugar’s “rottweiler-in-chief” during the interview stage of The Apprentice. But last night’s episode of the popular television show, featuring the infamous “job interview from hell”, saw the introduction of a new interrogator after Paul Kemsley, the …
He is close friends with Sir Philip Green, Joe Lewis and Mike Ashley and was once photographed in a clinch with Pamela Anderson at a party at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. More recently, he has gained fame as Sir Alan Sugar’s “rottweiler-in-chief” during the interview stage of The Apprentice.
But last night’s episode of the popular television show, featuring the infamous “job interview from hell”, saw the introduction of a new interrogator after Paul Kemsley, the property tycoon and former Tottenham Hotspur vice-chairman, declared himself unavailable “due to other commitments”.
It emerged yesterday that, at the time of filming, Rock Investments, Mr Kemsley’s £500 million property empire, was teetering on the brink of collapse. Last Thursday, his efforts to save the business he founded in 1995 ended in failure and administrators from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have taken control. The group, which PwC said had fallen victim to “the well-documented slowdown in the property market”, has 40 properties in the UK, two office blocks in Manhattan and a villa development in Turkey. The assets include the former Burberry headquarters on Haymarket, London, Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park football stadium, the Anchor retail park in Burnley and the Regency Arcade in Leamington Spa.
