The Apprentice is returning to our screens this month and a brand new batch of candidates will probably be battling it out to win Lord Alan Sugar’s funding.
It is the chance of a lifetime for a enterprise proprietor, and the 18 entrepreneurs are all hoping to win the £250,000 money injection and invaluable recommendation from Lord Sugar.
The total line-up for the present has been launched forward of it is return on Thursday and this yr’s appears extra entertaining than ever earlier than.
This yr’s group options 9 males and 9 girls who will all do their greatest to impress Lord Sugar and his advisors, Baroness Karren Brady, Tim Campbell and Claude Littner.
The hit BBC present is now in its seventeenth season, and marks the primary in individual launch since 2019 because of the Covid pandemic.
It started in 2005 as a groundbreaking present which featured among the nation’s greatest younger enterprise minds hoping to safe a job with the then Sir Alan.
Nevertheless the programme has slowly become a extra actuality TV-inspired fare, with huge personalities gloating irreverently about their expertise in enterprise.
Amongst them are two sweetshop house owners, two hairdressers, a martial arts teacher, and a pest management firm proprietor and they are going to be put via their paces via a sequence of tough duties, with the primary set in Antigua.
The twentieth anniversary of the sequence will air subsequent yr, with Lord Sugar saying he would do 20 years after which retire, having invested over £3million of his personal cash through the years.
Meet all 18 candidates hoping to safe an funding for his or her enterprise concepts.
Meet the candidates: 1. Marnie Swindells 2. Simba Rwambiwa 3. Dani Donovan 4. Gregory Ebbs 5. Victoria Goulbourne 6. Reece Donnelly 7. Avi Sharma 8. Denisha Kaur Bharj 9. 10. Joseph Phillips 11. Mark Moseley 12. Megan Hornby 13. Shazia Hussain 14. Shannon Martin 15. Sohail Chowdhary 16. Kevin D’Arcy 17. Rochelle Anthony 18. Emma Browne
AVI SHARMA
Youngest: Avi is that this yr’s youngest candidate, and works as a metropolis banker in London. He describes himself as ‘assured’ and ‘optimistic’ and says he can ‘convey a smile to essentially the most depressing face!’
‘Some say I am delusional, I desire the time period optimistic.’
Avi is that this yr’s youngest candidate, and works as a metropolis banker in London.
He describes himself as ‘assured’ and ‘optimistic’ and says he can ‘convey a smile to essentially the most depressing face!’
He desires Lord Sugar’s funding to assist get him out of the ‘rat race’ of a banking job, boasting: ‘I am the toughest working rat he’ll ever meet.’
BRADLEY JOHNSON
Success: Bradley is a self-made businessman, who’s the director of a development firm in North Yorkshire. He prides himself on his work ethic and drive which he claims has allowed him to create a enterprise that turns over half-a-million after being made redundant simply 4 years in the past.
‘I’ve a marketing strategy that may see us flip over seven figures after yr three and who is aware of the place else that would take us.’
Bradley is a self-made businessman, who’s the director of a development firm in North Yorkshire.
He prides himself on his work ethic and drive which he claims has allowed him to create a enterprise that turns over half-a-million after being made redundant simply 4 years in the past.
He admits that his greatest weak point is public talking, confessing: ‘I used to be all the time the shy child in school, I hated having to face up and skim in English lesson’.
DANI DONOVAN
In it to win it: Dani owns a hair salon in Hertfordshire, which she began as an adolescent and believes the important thing to enterprise is ‘ardour’
‘My greatest weak point can be my greatest power.’
Dani owns a hair salon in Hertfordshire, which she began as an adolescent and believes the important thing to enterprise is ‘ardour’.
She says she has a ‘distinctive’ persona and describes herself as ‘a distinct form of enterprise proprietor, which is much more relatable to individuals.’
Her self-confessed weak point, is ‘that nothing is ever ok and that I all the time need extra. This can be a weak point as a result of then I am by no means content material with what I’ve achieved. But it surely’s additionally a humongous power – it’s what has pushed me to return up to now.’
She believes she deserves to win the programme as a result of her enterprise fills a ‘large hole’ available in the market, saying: ‘It baffles me that nobody has accomplished it but!’
DENISHA KAUR BHARJ
Courageous: Denisha works as a monetary controller in Leicestershire and says she’s not afraid of getting out of her consolation zone
‘I’ve all the time recognized what I wished in life. I do know the goals I wish to obtain. There’s just one Denisha Kaur.’
Denisha works as a monetary controller in Leicestershire and says she’s not afraid of getting out of her consolation zone.
She describes herself as ‘sturdy, motivated and hard-working’ and says she will work beneath stress, overcoming each skilled and private assessments to achieve success.
Denisha says she desires the funding alternative as a result of she desires to ‘be mentored by the most effective to be the most effective.’
She argues she deserves it, as a result of: ‘I am a lady who desires to create an empire and have all of it; to have the ability to present for my household and to be an inspiration to younger girls. I dream huge, however I work further onerous and know all the things is feasible.’
EMMA BROWNE
‘Workaholic’: Emma is a senior account government in County Kildare and says she is ‘extraordinarily aggressive’ and a ‘workaholic’ who will ‘do something succeed’
‘I’m disgustingly aggressive. I’ll go to any lengths to win this funding.’
Emma is a senior account government in County Kildare and says she is ‘extraordinarily aggressive’ and a ‘workaholic’ who will ‘do something succeed’.
She has over 5 years of hands-on gross sales expertise and says she desires to make sure she’s going to win duties by being trustworthy about her opinions.
Describing her enterprise concept, she says: ‘I’m assured that whether or not I win the funding from Lord Sugar or not, I’m going to make my firm probably the most profitable concepts to ever come out of The Apprentice. Watch this area.
GREGORY EBBS
Fascinating: Gregory is the proprietor of an internet antiques market based mostly in Shropshire and can be a neighborhood coucillor, whereas he beforehand labored as knowledgeable cannon-firer
‘My greatest weak point, some may name a power for my part, is usually being just a little too uncommon.’
Gregory is the proprietor of an internet antiques market based mostly in Shropshire and can be a neighborhood coucillor, whereas he beforehand labored as knowledgeable cannon-firer.
He says his USP is ‘my capability to assume outdoors the field and check out new and various things’ and confesses to being ‘barely extra uncommon than most’.
He says: ‘I might say, a willingness to strive various things and never being afraid to be barely totally different is one among my greatest strengths.
Talking on his enterprise concept, Gregory stated: ‘I feel the possibilities of making this enterprise tremendous profitable is larger than anyone else’s, as a result of it’s such a implausible precept.’
JOSEPH PHILLIPS
Distinctive: Joseph is a safari information in South Africa, from Worcestshire and he believes that provides him the sting to be ‘distinctive sufficient to achieve the method’, describing himself because the ‘James Bond of the enterprise world’
‘If Lord Sugar desires to spend money on a enterprise to assist save the ocean, one lip balm at a time, then I’m his man.’
Joseph is a safari information in South Africa, from Worcestshire and he believes that provides him the sting to be ‘distinctive sufficient to achieve the method’, describing himself because the ‘James Bond of the enterprise world’.
He admits that his greatest weak point is his dyslexia and say he ‘struggled to maintain my head above water’ in school and sustain along with his friends.
However Joseph stated the analysis has now turn out to be a driving pressure to succeed and go additional as he wished to show you could nonetheless be something you wish to be with dyslexia.
He graciously provides: ‘I don’t deserve Lord Sugar’s funding greater than anybody else within the course of, however I do assume I’ve one thing that they don’t.’
KEVIN D’ARCY
‘With Lord Sugar as my enterprise companion, I do know we will experience that wave into the UK and past…’
Kevin is an accountant from Dublin who started his water sports activities gear enterprise throughout lockdown whereas juggling his job.
He claims his enterprise has turned over slightly below half 1,000,000 in two years and says that mixed along with his 10-year profession in monetary service units him other than the remainder.
Kevin admits his greatest weak point to be: ‘I generally is a little outspoken, so in all probability not understanding when to close up.’
MARK MOSELEY
Prepared: Mark is the proprietor of a pest management firm in London, arguing that Lord Sugar can make investments as a result of the business is value a whole lot of tens of millions of kilos a yr within the UK
‘If Lord Sugar doesn’t decide me, then he’s lacking a trick.’
Mark is the proprietor of a pest management firm in London, arguing that Lord Sugar can make investments as a result of the business is value a whole lot of tens of millions of kilos a yr within the UK.
He’s additionally a former soldier who has labored all around the world in distant and hostile environments, which means he needs to be proper at house within the boardroom.
He describes himself as ‘very talkative with the allure to match – I can promote to anybody’ and claims to have met celebrities and members of the royal household.
Mark confesses he might be ‘just a little bit over-confident occasionally’ however explains that ‘individuals purchase into confidence’.
MARNIE SWINDELLS
Spectacular: Marnie is a courtroom advocate in London who can be a gold medal-winning boxer and imaginative businesswoman who is able to face off in opposition to the opposite candidates
‘I’ve fought tooth and nail to get to the place I’m in the present day with my enterprise.’
Marnie is a courtroom advocate in London who can be a gold medal-winning boxer and imaginative businesswoman who is able to face off in opposition to the opposite candidates.
She says her USP is her ‘creativeness and creativity’ however admits her ardour and eagerness can typically translate as being too ‘headstrong’.
She says she deserves Lord Sugar’s funding as a result of: ‘I feel that taking the expertise I’ve within the boxing business and all of the expertise that he has within the enterprise business, collectively we might be a successful mixture.’
MEGAN HORNBY
Hopeful: Megan is the proprietor of a candy store and café in East Yorkshire and says her enterprise has a ‘actual area of interest’ in a niche available in the market
‘I feel that it doesn’t matter what scenario I’m thrown into, I’ll all the time give a hundred percent fact, even when it’s onerous to listen to.’
Megan is the proprietor of a candy store and café in East Yorkshire and says her enterprise has a ‘actual area of interest’ in a niche available in the market.
She says her greatest asset is her honesty, saying it is the ‘most essential factor in enterprise’.
Her greatest weak point is her ambition, confessing: ‘I can take too many issues on, and typically I have to concentrate on sure features.’
She says she ought to have the £250k as a result of: ‘I actually assume that with Lord Sugar’s funding, my enterprise could possibly be nationally recognised’.
REECE DONNELLY
Savvy: Reece is the proprietor of a performing arts faculty in Glasgow who is set to turn out to be the primary Scottish candidate to safe Lord Sugar’s funding
‘I’ll be turning over 1,000,000 kilos earlier than I’m thirty.’
Reece is the proprietor of a performing arts faculty in Glasgow who is set to turn out to be the primary Scottish candidate to safe Lord Sugar’s funding.
He says he’s the youngest CEO of an extra schooling school within the UK and says he has ‘all of the expertise, drive, and persona’ to succeed.
He admits that he might be responsible of neglecting the grunt work, saying: ‘Admin or accounting duties aren’t fairly for me’ however that this makes him a greater chief who is ready to delegate.
Reece says he desires to show: ‘Scotland is stuffed with forward-thinking entrepreneurs and that we aren’t in reality a haggis-eating, kilt-wearing nation.’
ROCHELLE ANTHONY
Glam: Rochelle owns a hair salon and academy in Bedfordshire and has in contrast herself to Kim Kardashian within the enterprise world
‘I’m all the time being in comparison with the Kim Kardashian of the enterprise world as a result of I’m doing enterprise with a touch of glam.’
Rochelle owns a hair salon and academy in Bedfordshire and has in contrast herself to Kim Kardashian within the enterprise world.
She describes herself as ‘tenacious, fierce and decided’ and says along with Lord Sugar they’d be ‘an absolute pressure to be reckoned with.’
In keeping with Rochelle, her greatest weak point is she does not just like the phrase ‘no’ and might’t let go, as a substitute turning it right into a ‘not but’, however learns from her errors.
The Apprentice, from Thursday fifth January, on BBC One and iPlayer
