"I am out!" Theo Paphitis managed to butcher the Dragons' Den catchphrase in his tweet announcing he's quitting the BBC2 show to spend more time with his business interests – no matter, we get the message: he's out! Paphitis, the former chairman of Millwall Football Club, becomes the second "dragon" to quit in a year after Hilary Devey also said "I'm out!" (to join Channel 4) last year. Long-serving fire-breathing entrepreneur types Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne remain but there are now two chairs to be filled on the long-running business startup show. Paphitis said it had "not been an easy decision or one that I have taken lightly", but added his time was being taken up by his "exciting, successful new lingerie brand Boux Avenue" as well as hardware chain Robert Dyas and the Ryman stationery shops, both equally as sexy and exciting as that lingerie range (in their own way, you understand). BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow said TP would be "much missed, not only for his dragon-like ability to interrogate an idea, but also for the generosity of spirit he always showed towards any entrepreneur he thought was doing their best." Maybe the remaining dragons can interrogate their wannabe successors on a spin-off show, Dragons' Dragons' Den?
