David and Victoria BeckhamThe Fleet Street Fox spoke sense in November 2013 when she said of Beckham: “Take a bow, Savvy Spice. We got you wrong”. This former Spice Girl turned business maven deserves to be admired for her work ethic and success. She won the Designer of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards in 2011 and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour named her one of the 100 most powerful women in the country in 2013. The wife of the most famous footballer on the planet and a mother of four, Beckham has 7 million followers on Twitter and once commented: “I never try to follow a trend or fashion”. This multi-millionairess most definitely has had the last laugh.

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Kate Spivak

The founder of a “social dining group”, Kate Spivak has over 21,000 followers on Twitter.

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From the same Steeple territory

Rosemary Conley

“Slimming guru” Rosemary Conley’s luck changed in 2014 when her empire went into administration. Though her low-fat “Hip & Thigh Diet” regime was all the rage in the 1990s, newer “blockbuster” alternatives stole her mantle and her business, Quorn House Publishing – worth an estimated £13 million in 2006 – went down with losses of […]