Martin Lewis 'almost quit' job as money saving expert amid financial struggles
dailyrecord.co.ukMartin Lewis was months away from quitting his job in financial journalism and facing his own money struggles when he got his big break in the industry.The UK's top money saving expert, 50, appeared on This Morning on Thursday as he celebrates 20 years of dishing out crucial advice to the nation.
The much-loved journalist was looking back on his career with ITV hosts Phil Schofield and Holly Willoughby after making his first TV appearance on the show back in 2003.Opening up about his own journey to success, Martin told Holly and Phil that tried for two years but almost gave up on his dream to get his own slot on the popular ITV daytime programme.
They told him that "money doesn't work on TV."Martin went on to say: "I felt that that was really missing out there so I had this idea at the time it would be interesting...
so I went into money journalism and personal finance journalism. But I was very close to giving up being money saving expert."Before I came along money journalism was about was about investment and it was a bit woo if you talked mortgages never mind gas and electricity bills or anything like that - and the television money stuff was about spending.
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