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The Money Saving Expert has guided the nation through many a cash strapped moment including lockdowns and the cost of living crisis.

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The Martin Lewis Money Show on ITV has provided invaluable advice on many difficult situations including the vital energy price cap and how to make the most of your savings and bank accounts. Then at the beginning of he was upgraded to a CBE. Martin, 52, has amassed a staggering net worth thanks to his success but life hasn't always been easy for the Mancunian after he suffered a tragic loss as a young boy.

Martin isn't the only famous face in his family, as his wife is television presenter Danielle Lara Lewington, The couple have been happily married since and share a daughter together - Sapphire Susan Lewis who was born in - who Martin describes as his "mini MSE. As a teen, Martin studied government and law at the London School of Economics before doing a postgraduate in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University.

His first media job was working as a producer for the BBC's business unit, but it was on digital start-up channel Simply Money that he debuted his Money Saving Expert persona. When the channel went bust in , he was given a Money Saving Expert slot on Open House with Gloria Hunniford, and it is around that time that he is said to have started sending a regular email to friends titled, Martin's Money Tips.

According to BBC Radio 4's Profiles segment, his friends started passing it on to their friends, and as demand grew, he decided to set up his own platform. In he launched his hugely successful website, MoneySavingExpert. And his achievements are astonishing given the terrible tragedy that befell Martin and his family when he was just 11 years old.

Of the earth-shattering event, he told Radio 4: "Three days before my 12th birthday I went to Sunday school - or Jewish Sunday school as it was - someone strange picked me up and when I got home I was told mum had been horse-riding with my sister and there had been an accident involving a lorry. The next day my dad told me she had died the next morning - and that was the end of my childhood.

I cried every day until I was The heartbreak drove Martin into seclusion for most of his teenage years, and good friend Kerry Perkins - who he met at uni - said he would never be the same again.