Matt Meets Shaf Rasul - I made £2m before lunchtime one day .. it's an intense buzz

DRAGONS' Den star Shaf Rasul doesn't look like a man who's just lost £20MILLION.

He beams: "Uch, money isn't important to me."

Easy, I guess, when you've still got £82m left in the kitty.

We meet at Shaf's HQ, an anonymous office and warehouse block in a soulless industrial estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

The only clue to the Asian businessman's vast wealth is a dark green Aston Martin DB9 sitting outside the front door.

Shaf - whose new business column starts in The Scottish Sun on Monday - says: "That's my seventh DB9 in two years.

"It's crazy as it costs me about £30,000 every time I get a new one. So I've wasted £210,000 just because I wanted to change the colour of my car."

Shaf was raised in Alloa and speaks at ten to the dozen in a strong Clackmannanshire accent saying 'purson' instead of 'person' and 'I boat it' in place of 'I bought it.'

He's around 5ft 9ins, bald as a coot with a slight pot belly.

Patting his bulge, he says sheepishly: "I need to get to the gym more often."

The multi-millionaire almost constantly smiles - who said money doesn't make you happy?

So he must have needed a surgeon to remove his grin the day he made £2m in two hours.

He laughs: "I bought a property in Edinburgh at 9am for £3.3m and sold it by 11am for £5.5m minus the £200,000 legal cost. So that was a £2m profit before lunchtime.

"You just get this intense buzz. You smile a lot but it wears off by tea time.

"Then I was looking out for my next deal, my next buzz again. But that same day I was supposed to audition for Dragons' Den.

"After that deal I thought, 'Do I really want to mess around with the BBC?' So I turned them down and they gave the job to James Caan instead."

Shaf missed out on the chance to join Duncan Bannatyne and Co for the hit BBC1 series, launched in 2004.

But the Beeb came back in for him to launch their online edition in March this year alongside American-born investment advisor Julie Meyer. Done in the same format as the main show, it's aimed at younger viewers.

The maximum investment is £50,000 rather than £200,000, and host Evan Davis has been replaced by Radio 1 presenter Dominic Byrne. It's been so successful an eight-part spin-off will be screened on BBC2 from September 17.

Read the Full interview in The Sun...