"They met in - what else - a bar in 1982. Ken made his first fortune in the rag trade, and owned Corks bar in Kensington. Lisa, who had made her acting debut at nine playing Glenda Jackson's daughter in A Touch of Class, and had earned enough by the age of 20 to buy her own London flat, was manning the door of Corks one night for a joke. "I was being a smartarse," she recalls.
"I tried to charge him to come in." She was 21, he was 37. "She was like a breath of fresh air coming into my life," says Ken. "I thought, hello, he looks interesting," says Lisa. They married six weeks later.
Working together, they claim, has helped to sustain the marriage. "We complement each other," says Lisa. "He's the impulsive one, I'm more conservative. He's always looking for a new venture."
Ken says: "We both like the same things and have similar ideas. We're not only lovers, but friends as well." Involving herself in Ken's business from the start, Lisa devoted herself to it full-time in 1995, giving up acting after a four-year stint in Los Angeles culminated in that Baywatch role."