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Lucy Tobin

‘We’re on the road to trump Haribo’: Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing on tasting sweet success with Candy Kittens

Made in Chelsea, the reality show which Laing joined in 2011, helped rocket-fuel his start-up success

(Picture: Joseph Sinclair )

If you’re thinking of starting up a business in a sector you know nothing about, intending to fake it till you make it, Jamie Laing, the Made in Chelsea TV star-turned-sweets entrepreneur, reckons you’re doing exactly the right thing.

“A lot of young entrepreneurs don’t realise that naivety is your biggest weapon,” the 33-year-old founder of £8 million-turnover confectionery brand Candy Kittens reports.

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