Vix Leyton

Vix Leyton

Welsh Vix is our consumer finance expert, as well as a stand up comedian, columnist and co-host of Hotukdeals’ celebrity shopping confessions podcast ‘False Economy’.

Discovered by comedian Mark Watson on Twitter in 2019, she is a professional stand up as well as host of the smash hit panel show ‘The Comedy Arcade’.

An award winning Money expert, winning trophies at the Headlinemoney awards in 2015 and 2017, she is Standard Issue podcast’s consumer champion, and a regular media commentator on all matters household money. That said she is also an incurable impulse buyer, and frequently finds it difficult to apply her solid, sensible advice to her own life.

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