{"id":167280,"date":"2025-09-29T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167280\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:44:13","slug":"dragons-den-swindon-business-to-appear-on-bbc-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167280\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons&#8217; Den: Swindon business to appear on BBC show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Series 22 of the long-running programme, which sees entrepreneurs try to convince a line-up of millionaires to invest in their businesses, is due to restart on Thursday, October 2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This comes after multiple breaks to the 14-episode series, which first began in February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  PA has reported that entrepreneurs from Swindon will be among those to feature in the newest batch of episodes, starting on October 2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The identities of the Swindon contestants have not yet been revealed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A synopsis published by PA said: \u201cThey include a Welsh ranger who delivers a prehistoric pitch for educational dinosaurs, and business partners from\u00a0Swindon\u00a0who are hoping for a flavourful investment in their nutritional yeast company.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cMeanwhile, an outdoor fitness venture flexes for funds and two sisters from London are selling an app to empower women returning to work.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The new series has featured The Body Coach Joe Wicks as a celebrity guest Dragon alongside Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Sara Davies, Steven Bartlett and Touker Suleyman.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Other guest judges to have appeared alongside the five usual Dragons during the season are beauty mogul Trinny Woodall and fashion tycoon Emma Grede.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Adver is keen to get in touch with the business which is appearing &#8211; please email reporter Jason Hughes at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/25499892.dragons-den-swindon-business-appear-bbc-show\/mailto:Jason.Hughes@newsquest.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">jason.hughes@newsquest.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Series 22 of the long-running programme, which sees entrepreneurs try to convince a line-up of millionaires to invest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-167280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}