Alex Polizzi, a most unlikely sex bomb | London Evening Standard

While Olga and Rocco risked almost everything they had to build a new empire, Alex found herself with a bit of money at her disposal and her ex-boyfriend Marcus banging on the door. Marcus is a fourth-generation master baker and, in 1997, he was a baker in search of a bakery or, at least, funding for a bakery. 'He is really a very clever person,' says Alex. 'He had gone to all the major banks and asked for investment and everyone said no, so he came and gave me this tale of woe.' Olga and Alex each invested £60,000 (Marcus paid them back within a year) and Alex, with customary gusto, dived into the business. 'I wasn't dating him at that point but we kind of fell into going out together during that agonising first year of running the bakery when we had two days off in the whole year. It was a nightmare. We kind of got together because we never saw anyone else.' Millers Bespoke Bakery now supplies the Caprice group, Gordon Ramsay, Brown's Hotel (of course), and most of London's high-end department stores, with the bread churning out from a 20,000sq ft premises in Colliers Wood.

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