I rejected Dragons’ Den’s huge offer – my jam company is now worth £2m and it was the best thing I ever did

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DRAGONS' Den businesswoman Rachel Kettlewell thought she'd struck gold on the show when she got a huge offer. However, she has explained that she later didn't accept the deal to sell a slice of jam firm Fearne & Rosie.

However, the firm went on to rocket anyway and is now accepting smaller investments from fans of the brand. Vitamin mogul Tej Lalvani, 47, who bowed out of the show this series, offered Rachel £40,000 for 35 per cent of the business - or 30 per cent if he got his money back quickly.

Speaking to the Express, Rachel said: "I held it together until Tej said he would like to make an offer. "At that point, I just burst into tears because it was such an emotional experience." However, she later decided not to go ahead with it - saying the jam firm took off after appearing on Dragons' Den.

She explained: "We just didn't do the deal because it wasn't the right deal for the business. We grew an awful lot quite quickly after the show." @font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-HeavyNarrow.woff2').