Television personality Ant Middleton has been banned as a director after his company failed to pay more than £1m in tax.
The former SAS: Who Dares Wins chief instructor was the director of Sway and Starting Limited along with his wife, Emilie Middleton. The company, which was described as offering media representation services, was set up to manage income from his television and media work.
But both the directors failed to ensure the company paid more than £300,000 in VAT and over £800,000 in corporation tax between 2019 and 2022.
This was despite more than £4.5m being paid into the company’s accounts from 2020 to 2022.
The pair had also taken out almost £3m from the company in the form of a director’s loan account by…
