The Real Deal

Richard Desmond is the founder and owner of Northern & Shell Plc, publishers of the Express Newspapers group as well as the celebrity magazines OK!, New! and Star. He is also the drummer for The RD Crusaders, a rock supergroup formed with The Who's Roger Daltrey, whose charity concerts have raised some ¿15 million. He lives in north London with his wife, Joy, and has three children: adult son Robert who is a software developer and leading Holocaust memorial activist, daughter Angel, 4; and son Valentine, who was born in January 2015. He is currently working on a major new regeneration project in London's Docklands.