A TEENAGE businesswoman who was scouted by the makers of television show Dragon’s Den - only to be rejected for being too young - has been encouraged to keep going by the show’s stars.
Rose Dyson, 17, is the owner of Pura Cosmetics which which uses the ‘purest’ natural ingredients to create lip care cosmetics.
Rose revealed she had been scouted for the BBC show, in which entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to some of the biggest names in the industry in a bid for investment.
She was contacted by the BBC out of the blue following a stint on a local radio station. But was then told contestants have to be 18.
Rose, of Towngate, Silkstone, was at former dragon Theo Paphitis’s Small Business Sunday event having won a competition run by Theo, when both he and fellow dragon Deborah Meaden encouraged her not to be disheartened.
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