Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett defends Molly-Mae Hague and accuses her critics of being sexist

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DRAGON'S Den star Steven Bartlett has defended Molly-Mae Hague and accused her critics of being sexist. The reality star, 22, came under fire after after making ‘tone deaf’ comments on poverty on Steven's The Diary Of A CEO podcast last month.

Molly faced backlash from fans when she said: “You’re given one life and it’s down to you what you do with it. You can literally go in any direction. "When I’ve spoken about that in the past I have been slammed a little bit, with people saying 'it’s easy for you to say that because you’ve not grown up in poverty, so for you to sit there and say we all have the same 24 hours in a day is not correct.' "But, technically, what I’m saying is correct.

We do," the TV personality continued." Now Dragon's Den star Steven Bartlett has waded in to the discussion. He defended the fellow entrepreneur and said: "Molly Mae did an interview on my podcast, yesterday a soundbite from that interview went viral, she trended No.1 on Twitter, every newspaper covered it and MP's weighed in. "I've had male guests say what she said.

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