Dragons Den fans slam ‘obnoxious’ contestant as he clashes with the show’s stars in awkward showdown
DRAGONS Den viewers slammed an ‘obnoxious’ contestant who got into conflict with one of the dragon’s in an embarrassing showdown.
Thursdays show saw Hillary Kennedy and her fiance Will Moxham enter Dragons’ Den to introduce the panel to their product – planthood – a plant based meal delivery service.
The couple were ambitious and passionate about their business and said they wanted to show the dragons “a new way of eating”. They were asking for £75,000 for a 2.5% stake in their business. The duo explained that they want to help people reduce their meat consumption.
However, the subscription service plat-based meal kits did not impress all of the dragons. Touker Suleyman started of with the questions as he asked the couple: “So if I went into Lidl what would I pay for that?”
“I wouldn’t use Lidl as a benchmark for our service,” Max, who appeared to be getting irritated, replied. “I’m just trying to put myself in your customers’ shoes,” Touker replied.
Max, clearly agitated at this point, didn’t seem to approve of Touker’s approach to his beloved business.
He snapped back at Touker: “It’s just, it’s just not going to happen. It’s not…”
What isn’t going to happen? Touker challenged Max.
“The type of people who, have, up until this point been paying a premium for this type of service, they’re not going to suddenly drop this and go to Lidle and plan all their meals and do this every week. It’s not going to happen,” Max responded.
Touker who wasn’t backing down, persisted with the roasting, and told Max that a lot of people are going to say that they can probably buy all of this in the supermarket for £20.
Max then hit back with: “I don’t think you are putting yourself in our customers shoes.”
The BBC Dragon then exclaimed: “I am your consumer, I can afford this, but I also don’t throw money away and there’s nothing there that I cant buy.”
But the entrepreneur wasn’t going to back down easily, he penned: “I mean the recipe-box market alone, the size of that shows you that, if people are willing to do that, then they’re definitely willing to have even more convenience than that.”
Fans were shocked at the awkward show-down and took to Twitter to share their thoughts, with some slamming Max and branding him “obnoxious”.
One wrote: “Wow the vegan subscription box pitchers got as hard a line here on Twitter as they did by Souka! I liked their product and they stuck up for themselves well. I’m not even vegan and shop at Lidl.”
Another penned: “Don’t know what is worse tonight the vegan couple on Dragons Den or the candidate’s on The Apprentice. “
“They lost me when he looked down his nose at people who shop at Lidl,” another fumed.
A fourth raged: “I’m Sorry but the Vegan couple on Dragons Den are still on my mind bugging me. The guy was so obnoxious.”