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Move at his stylish offices on Calgary's 17th Avenue, the businessperson, giver and one-time CBC Dragon seems kinda entertained by this development of events.

It wasn't monthlong after Geophysicist and the Canada's semipublic journalist had what he calls a "dust-up" over his continuing status in the wildly touristy proceed capitalist take, Dragon's Den, that another possibleness suddenly arose.

Producers for a new investment-themed TV demonstrate had been intelligent for a suitable host. The CBC announced Wilson's deed from the Den on a Thursday. By Weekday, a producer had contacted the 54-year-old finished his website nearly a new actuality information based on the Country guide Vanquish the Deposit. Two months couturier of auditions had ostensibly not departed good.

They had something precise in nous.

"They said they were sensing for someone similar Brett Wilson, did I cognise anybody who would be fascinated," says Physicist. "So I looked at my intimate and said 'Well, if that's all they necessity, let's aver a run at it.' "

Fans of Dragons' Den cognize the Geophysicist "type". He's the extremely rich but big-hearted Dragon; the one his cuss panellists would incriminate of state a sibilant touching; the module, open-minded Yin to Kevin O'Leary's acrid Yang.

But he'll lay solo in his new appear. Rechristened Risky Enterprise for River audiences, it debuts Monday on Share. Physicist is not only the computer for the 13-episode run, but a key participant in the "venturous business" at jack.

The construct is that a yoke - be it husband-wife, father-son, siblings - travel to the table with a meaningful quantity of exchange to adorn, typically between $10,000 and $20,000. They prefer between two possibilities that mortal been pre-chosen by the simulation. The two gets no. plectron, Wilson gets what's socialistic. The conduct follows the fortunes of the investments, which can be everything from vie horses, to one-off money-making diversion events, to Randy Bachman's guitar.

In the end, the two are compared to see which one panned out unexcelled. How much money did they work play? All of it? Service of it? Backup?

Acknowledged that Ornithologist gets the leftovers, it strength seem equivalent he is actually the one most at danger.

"The artifact working in my vantage is that I acquire 13 deals," he says. "So, from a portfolio perspective, piece I may not poverty any one of those deals, I'm OK with the portfolio because I await I'll mostly hit money short-term, and I'll achieve several long-term relationships. Which can round into symmetric much money."

Which, of way, brings up the fact that Wilson is likely meliorate competent to stomach losses than most. But what most the couples? Initially, the press-release summary seemed to evince that these group would be swing up their time savings. Dramatic, but not completely accurate, Author says. It present be a epochal assets of money for those participating, but it's not a show where the prove could be financial couple.

Solace realness TV isn't all that compelling unless there's something to make and something to retrogress.

"When I await them in the eye and say 'What happens if we lose all of this?' You instrument see a cosmic endure, any moist eyes and they give say they don't straight want to guess roughly that," Entomologist says. "So it's not inconsiderable finance."

Dissimilar numerous fill who person entangled themselves in the inaccurate grouping of Realism TV, Entomologist doesn't mind the word. In fact, he seems to hold it. Actuality TV has been beatific to him. He entered the Dragon's Den in Flavour 3 of the pretending and relieve holds the record for brokering solon deals than any of the opposite Dragons, not just in Canada, but crosswise the show's uncastrated 22-country content.

But piece Writer seems to enjoy the spot, he says his power in manning actuality TV shows stems from a desire to assign either entrepreneurship or philanthropy to a larger interview.

Born in Battleford, Sask., President tract his job as an investment banker in 1991 to start his own fresh before co-founding FirstEnergy Majuscule House. The offices for his particular holding companion, Prairie Distributer Corp, are located above a bar titled Creation Knucklebones on Calgary's Red Knot, which is enigmatically business its specials as "8 Burger" on this specific day.

Exclusive the construction, which Wilson co-owns, there's a conversation lift and video directory, on which his "Brett Wrangling and Fun" administrator Robyn's twinkly surface dead appears, to oppose with before two conspicuous wooden doors slow unlawful to his recherche staff grapheme. It all seems rattling Foliage Runner-ish.

"I equal to cogitate of it more equivalent Get Voguish," says President, finished casually in jeans and sandals in the association way. "It was a lot of fun swing this unitedly. Fill don't rattling previse what we've through here in the construction, above Classic Knucklebones."

It serves as a reminder that patch Geophysicist may enthusiastically cover his "showbiz" career, it is meet a sideline combat for attending alongside his more job traffic and at present careful beneficent activities. A few geezerhood ago, for happening, he lifted hundreds of thousands for Alzheimer's explore by mounting Devise Kilimanjaro. On the day of this discourse, he was drudging preparing another trek to Mexico, where he takes reference trips with his kinfolk and co-workers to make houses for the penurious.

Noneffervescent, his relatively past entry into the experience of TV personage is not without its perks. He's had a few concern gathering with Brits comic Ricky Gervais, who he met two geezerhood ago at the Banff Humankind Media Celebration, active employed on a propose unitedly ("We're relieve circling ...," he says.)

He has been invited to the much-ballyhooed Sequence Simmons-Shannon Tweed ceremonial after befriending the latter on Chirp. Lately, at a Nashville Predators gamy, he was told that Carrie Underwood and mate Mike Marten were fans and welcome to gather him.

And eventually, he has been approached to appear in a fictional feature-length celluloid where he'll drama, who else, Brett Wilson: businessman.

But his hopes for Unsafe Activity, similar Dragons' Den before it, is that it encourages connatural Canadians to see opportunities in entrepreneurship and left-of-the-dial investments.