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The life story of Kristina Castellina contains multitudes. Her childhood was transient and tumultuous, taking her from the Midlands to the Scottish Highlands to Blackpool. She was bullied and withdrew into herself, igniting an inner fire which fuelled her resilience and passion for the performing arts. Naturally emotional, she nevertheless erected barriers.

An enthusiastic figure skater, she fell in love with dance, throwing herself headlong into the world of entertainment, working jobs as variegated as Preston Panto and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. She sang on cruise ships and with Bonnie Tyler, but found the instability of the work unsettling, so invested her life-savings in a property development course and now runs an award-winning, multi million-pound real estate portfolio.

And she’s a mother-of-two.

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The entrepreneur who went from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to a million-pound property portfolio in Lancashire