Trinny Woodall has revealed the ageism she encountered while trying to set up her own business.
The TV presenter, 60, runs her own makeup and skincare brand called Trinny London which is worth a reported £50million.
But it wasn’t easy for the style expert to find funding for the business when she first approached venture capitalists at 51.
Speaking to The Telegraph, she said: ‘They’d say, “‘We’re just worried, will you really be able to run the business in ten years’ time?” I was getting that when I was, like, 51.
‘That’s probably the most extreme ageism I’ve encountered. Even when we stopped doing TV in England, it wasn’t ageist, it was just ‘We’re bored with them. We want something new.’
Trinny Woodall has revealed the ageism she encountered while trying to set up her own business
The TV presenter, 60, runs her own makeup and skincare brand called Trinny London which is worth a reported £50million
Trinny is currently single and although feels she is ‘good on her own’, she doesn’t like being in a house by herself.
The journalist wondered if Trinny might intimdate a lot of men, to which she nodded in response.
She said: ‘A friend said to me, ‘Trinny you’re such a businesswoman, I think it can intimidate some men. I think for any woman who has been in a relationship for a long time, when you go on dates, there’s that thing of “Who am I on a date now?’ I’m sharing this because it’s what so many women go through.’
Trinny added she has ‘never been a good flirt’ and needs to work on her body language for future dates.
The star recently told how she was ‘dipping a toe’ back in the dating pool, following her split from Charles Saatchi.
In a video shared to her Instagram, Trinny and pal Chloé Dall’Olio were showing fans how to dress for a first date.
Trinny wrote in the caption: ‘If, like me, you’re tiptoeing into the dating pool this year and feeling a little out of your depth, don’t panic – @chloedallolio and I have cracked the code on date dressing for the woman you are today.’
The star went on the reveal she ‘hasn’t been on any dates yet’ as she finds it ‘really f***ing difficult’.
But it wasn’t easy for the style expert to find funding for the business when she first approached venture capitalists at 51
Last year, Trinny split from her partner of a decade art collector and Nigella Lawson’s former husband, Charles, 80
Last year, Trinny split from her partner of a decade art collector and Nigella Lawson’s former husband, Charles, 80.
It was first reported in March the relationship had ended, with friends suggesting the 21-year age gap between them was to blame for them going their separate ways.
Two months after Trinny hinted the pair had gone their separate way, Charles was seen enjoying a cosy lunch date with the model Lady Martha Sitwell, 43.
Lady Sitwell later confirmed: ‘Yes, we met for lunch. Charles is a very clever, very funny man.’
Charles was seen ‘canoodling’ with Lady Sitwell in his usual corner table at the Mayfair restaurant Scott’s – where he had previously taken both Trinny and his ex-wife Nigella, 63.
They split in 2013 after pictures emerged of him grabbing Nigella’s neck while they were dining outside the exclusive venue.
Trinny revealed to podcaster Elizabeth Day: ‘I have been in a relationship for ten years, and whatever people choose to believe or read, I know I have been in love with the person I was in a relationship with, and I had good years in that relationship.
‘But I also know that I got to a stage where I knew I was not happy in it. And that’s a very tough thing. Because a relationship becomes familiar.’
She added: ‘Oddly, I never thought, ‘I’m scared to be on my own’. That’s something that didn’t occur to me at all. It was more, ‘Do I feel quite on my own in the relationship?’ And I did. I got to a stage where I felt on my own.
‘So then in the end it was about, “OK, I have the power to do what I want to do”. So I just then thought, “OK, I’m going to move on”. And it was difficult, because any change is difficult.’
