Apprentice star Luisa Zissman reveals huge amount she paid daughter, 16, to get top GCSE grades saying she was ‘scammed’

APPRENTICE star Luisa Zissman has revealed she was “scammed” by her daughter after financially motivating her with huge sums to bag top GCSE grades. The 39-year-old believed all the parents at her daughter Dixie‘s posh private school were giving out cash rewards but, it turns out that couldn’t have been further from the truth. Luisa Zissman has revealed she spent thousands paying her daughter to get top GCSE grades Credit: YouTube/LuAnna: The Podcast Dixie left her mum ‘shocked’ by her good grades Credit: Instagram/luisazissman Luisa admitted on her LuAnna podcast that she felt “like a mug” after forking out thousands on her pay-for-grades scheme. The TV star told how she was “shocked” her eldest daughter managed to get sixes and sevens – the equivalent of As and Bs – meaning she was forced to cough up some of her highest cash rates. Sign up for the TV newsletter Thank you! Revealing her not “too ridiculous” rewards, Luisa admitted: “I said if she got a nine (a high A*), I’d give her £1500… a grand for an eight (A*) and £500 for sevens.” Luisa ended up parting ways with a whopping £2750 as Dixie exceeded the results she got in her mock exams. Read more on Luisa Zissman Days later, the mum-of-three found out while driving Dixie and her seven pals to Reading Festival, that no other parents had adopted the same strategy. She said: “All the kids were like, ‘Oh Dixie, you just got loads of money’ and I was like ‘Did none of you get that then?’ “Dixie told me that all the kids were getting it at school [the money]… Turns out none of them did… I’ve been well shafted.” “I’m such a mug,” confessed Luisa as she recalled Dixie’s clever “scam.” Most read in TV Speaking on how the idea came about, Luisa added: “I thought financial incentive right? “Because I really want to teach them that in life, if you work really hard, you get good financial rewards.” Luisa recently left fans furious after branding people who eat McDonald’s as “gross lazy sloths.” In a clip that was shared on their TikTok page, Luisa expressed: “I think if you eat McDonald’s and fast food, that means you’re lazy. “I just feel like you’re lazy and unhealthy and you’re a sloth. “I think badly about people that eat McDonald’s, especially McDonald’s breakfast, it’s just gross.” Her podcast co-host, Anna Williamson, attempted to counter her controversial opinion saying: “Sometimes though Lu, a little sausage McMuffin in the morning hits the spot.” But, Luisa was having none of it as she doubled down on her previous statements calling the fast food chain “rank.” She shot to fame in 2013 after finishing as the runner-up on the ninth series of The Apprentice. Luisa shares her two of her girls – Indigo, nine, and Clementine, eight – with her millionaire husband Andrew Collins. Meanwhile, she shares Dixie with her ex-husband Oliver Zissman. Comment now