Tommy Mallet has revealed how he ended up a millionaire after his father cruelly told him he'd amount to nothing.
The TOWIE star's footwear business Mallet London has been a huge success and he recently made the Forbes 30 under 30 list of most influential entrepreneurs.
He'd left school without any qualifications and his dad told him he'd never make any money and end up "skint".
Tommy, 28, and his pregnant fiancée Georgia Kousoulou, 29, appeared on an episode of TOWIE: The Story Of… on IGTV on Tuesday night in which they spoke about how they grew up and came to be on the ITVBe show.
He said: "I went to an all-boys Catholic school in Holloway, North London.
"I went to two different schools because I moved to Essex in Year 8 or 9.
"I didn't like listening to teachers, I like to do things my own way – so I got through school selling drinks, sweets and cookies."
After he left school he promised his dad he would be a millionaire by the time he was 30.
Tommy explained: "My dad told me when I left school that I was never going to be anyone, and I was going to be skint because I didn’t have any grades.
"So I told him, in McDonald's car park, when he was shouting at me, that I don't need him, and I'll be a millionaire by the time I'm 30.
"Off the back of that, I got pushed into being an architect but I was the worst one you've ever met in your life because I didn't know algebra."
It was when Tommy became a labourer that he got a "hunger for money".
He continued: "I went to college with [TOWIE star] Charlie Sims, we both bunked college together and ended up being a down and out, and then I ended up being a labourer and that's where I found my hunger for money."
