A former beauty queen, a builder and a private tutor are among the candidates hoping to secure Lord Alan Sugar’s financial backing in The Apprentice.
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Asked if he has any advice for Simon on how to improve ‘The X Factor’s dwindling viewing figures, he said: “He wouldn’t listen to me…”
“I’m Jamaican. We come first, we win on the track and we will win in the boardroom.” Hugh Hefner is one of his role models.
With quotes like “I’m a Swiss army knife of bouncy skills, business skills”, “I am the definition of success” and of course “I’m god’s gift” you know we are in for weeks of drama and pantomine as the wannabes blag, bitch and backstab their way through the various tasks.
Lancaster University graduate Riley eventually got the boot for failing to impress Sugar during a challenge that saw the contestants market a new soft drink in New York.
Lord Sugar also claimed that the show has maintained its ratings by avoiding unnecessary changes to the series’ successful formula.
David Stevenson, a 25-year-old businessman who runs his own sports marketing firm in the city said that his greatest achievement was promoting a high profile women’s football match at what was a sold-out Wembley Stadium.
Airing on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th October, the eleventh series sees Lord Sugar return with adviser Baroness Karren Brady.
The BBC are billing it as the “toughest” series yet and having had a sneak peek at the first episode today, I can confirm it looks set to be a memorable one.
21-year-old Elle Stevenson, who describes herself as “a geezer bird” also has a few famous inspiration, naming Taylor Swift as her career idol.
Mergim Butaja was born in Kosovo and fled the war-torn country to the United Kingdom with his parents when he was seven years old. Everyone he’s met probably sucks up to him.
Speaking about the qualities he is looking for in his next business partner, Lord Sugar says, “When I started my business I loaded the lorries, I designed the product, I stood on the production line and I marketed the product and that’s what I’m looking for here”. Whilst living in Jamaica, she founded both an event management company and a children’s non-profit organisation and now owns a Jamaican-inspired boutique.
Key information: Whiteley previously worked as a DJ on a mid-morning show for her local radio station as well as a stint as a court reporter.
“I’m an interesting mix between happy go lucky and adventurous and then quite logical and sensible”.
She says: ‘Lord Sugar might think I’m a bit gushing, he might find me over-zealous, but I think he’ll think I’m great’.
Key information: Saunders describes himself as sharp, motivated and obsessed with making his first million.
Age: 27 Sample quote: “People do say to me they’ve never met anyone like me.”
She says: ‘I am strong minded… It’s a unusual combination. After spending nearly all of his employed-life in sales, he cites founder of Rich Dad Company, Richard Kiyosaki, as one of his business inspirations because he admires the way he does business.
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She owns her own Dubai-based events company and is keen to be project manager straight away. He got up and walked out, and as he went, he just said, “Bored”.
