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#'''The Successful''' — they get the deal. The [[British Newspapers|Sunday Times]] once tried to make a big deal of the fact that some deals never went through after the show, but it didn't really work because the show never made a secret of that fact — both sides have a period of due diligence, and there have been several people who lied about their figures on the show. As Theo Paphitis put it, "I kept up my end of the bargain. The show is not about a cash prize, it is about us pledging to invest. But people must tell the truth. Simple."
** There have been several very successful products that got their start in the Den, not least [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012091606/http://www.reggae-reggae.co.uk/ Reggae Reggae Sauce] and a growing set of hardware products owned under an umbrella company by Duncan Bannatyne and James Caan.
The US title ''Shark Tank'' redirects here; if you're looking for the similarly-named trope, see [[Shark Pool]].
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne. Jones described Bannatyne as "a shit" in Series 1, and doesn't seem to have changed his opinion. Bannatyne says he can't see what Jones' problem is. Bannatyne ended up going down this path with James Caan later on.
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