Tommy Mallet has be honoured for his rise from a school 'dropout' to fashion mogul by being included in the Forbes 30 under 30 for multi-millionaires and successful entrepreneurs.
The 28-year-old founder of footwear company, Mallet London, had struggled at school with dyslexia and left education without any qualifications.
A chance meeting with a show producer in 2014 gave him an opportunity to appear in The Only Way Is Essex, and alongside fiancée Georgia Kousoulou, who is now pregnant, he flourished and became a reality star.
This gave him the opportunity to follow his dream of being a footwear entrepreneur and his brand is thought to be worth £2.5million with Mallet London clocking up £11.8million sales in the six years since the company
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