& The Beautiful The Bold
Irish entrepreneur Philip Marley talks to Waterfront about dating a Beverley Hills TV star, why he thinks the British economy is stagnating, and his radical plans to change the way we live
with his outspoken nature and bold business ideas, it’s likely we’ll be seeing and hearing a lot more from him over the coming year. Philip, who once sold the student property company he founded for €30m, only to later buy it back for €1, will soon be thrusting himself, and his love life, onto our TV screens as part of Rich and Ditched, a reality show he has created in collaboration with girlfriend and Real Housewives of Beverley Hills star Dana Wilkey. T e show, which Philip expects to premier in the UK in June this year, follows the romantic exploits of glamorous and wealthy divorcees
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hilip Marley isn’t shy about coming forward. T e Dublin-born businessman may not be widely known in the UK at the moment, but
living in London and places Philip and Dana at its heart. Philip said: “It shows you this whole new
breed of 40-somethings that exist out there in the world today - people who are young at heart and still like to party. “T is is one of our fi rst ventures together and
we believe that the reality TV model still has a long way to go. I think people are interested to see what happens to 40-year-olds after they get separated and how they restart their lives - particularly the wealthy ones, because of the glamour element.” It is a typically bullish career move by the 41-year-old, who also has plans for a show about the renovation of 17th century Aldborough House in Dublin, which he owns.
Having started out in marketing and
advertising, Philip made his fortune in student accommodation at a relatively young age, with the formation of the Ely Property Group. His current focus is a radical evolution of that, which he calls Common Interest Communities. I talk to him while he’s in Bahrain, working towards his “Arab only” village in London. Negotiations are also underway for sites in Norway, Holland and the US. He explains: “What I came to realise was that there was a next stage for student housing and social media taught us this. Facebook has clearly proven that young people want to form communities, albeit on the internet, and they would live together. In essence we’ve taken Facebook and made it real life. We spent a fortune on software, which
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