List of The Apprentice candidates (UK series ten)
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice.
Candidates are listed alphabetically by series; individual candidate information is accessed by clicking on their name below.
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Where a date of birth is not provided, the age given is as of the time the relevant series aired.
Nurun Ahmed
Age: 37; Occupation: Marketing Officer & Fashion Retailer. Even though Ahmed won as project manager in week two, she was fired the following week. Lord Sugar fired her because he felt it was a big jump up from running a small business to a big one and he also felt that she hadn't shown much to him in the past three weeks.
Solomon Akhtar
Age: 22; Occupation: Technology Entrepreneur. Akhtar has lost 5 tasks, won 5 tasks and was brought into the boardroom in week two because the project manager felt that he hid away in the task. He strongly disagreed and stated that if a task to do with online technology came along that he would become project manager. He came in 5th place in the competition, and was fired because he failed to include crucial figures in his business plan.
Felipe Alviar-Baquero
Age: 34; Occupation: Lawyer. Alviar-Baquero was project manager in the first task but failed, however he remained in the process. Alviar-Baquero is the first Colombian on the show, and a joint-second lawyer to take part in any season of the show, after Karen Bremner from Series 2. Also, he is the first candidate who was a losing project manager on the first task, and went further than the winning project manager in the competition.
Jemma Bird
Age: 26; Operations Manager. Bird has been on the winning team in the first four weeks and came up with the girl's new team name: Tenacity. She was fired in week 5 due to her poor tour, and not contributing in the other tasks.
Ella Jade Bitton
Age: 23; Business Management Graduate. Bitton has also been on the winning team all three times and she says in her audition that she doesn't believe in game plans. In week four she was appointed as the project manager but lost and was the third person that week to be fired, as it was felt she didn't know what hard work was.
Lindsay Booth
Age: 30; Owner- Swimming Academy. Booth had been criticised for being too quiet and not giving any contributions to the tasks. In week three she was in the losing team and only managed to sell one item. In the boardroom almost the entire team put her under pressure until she admitted to Lord Sugar that she was out of her depth- he quickly fired her.
Katie Bulmer-Cooke
Age: 28; Fitness Entrepreneur.[16] Bulmer-Cooke took on the role of project manager in week three and led her team to victory by fourteen pounds.
Chiles Cartwright
Age: 35; Company Director. Cartwright was the leader of the boy's sub-team and made a fundamental error in his team-leading to their failure. He was fired in week one for his bad decisions.
Sarah Dales
Age: 32; Former PA & Hypnotherapist. Dales was the project manager of the girls' team in week one and won, however she was reported as being a terrible team leader. In week three Lord Sugar warned Dales that if her team lost she would be fired- luckily for her, her team won.
Robert Goodwin
Age: 25; Marketing Mangager. Goodwin was in the boardroom in week one but let off. However, in week two he was strongly suggested that he should take on the role of project manager; but he declined. This led him to be fired before the final boardroom.
James Hill
Age: 26; Multiple Business Owner. Hill compares himself as a younger version of Lord Sugar. In week three he was brought back into the boardroom for messing up the sales strategy but was let off. However he was told to watch his mouth in the boardroom.
In August 2015, Hill was a housemate on the sixteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother. On 24 September, he reached the final on Day 29 and was voted as the winner of the series.
Roisin Hogan
Age: 35; Accountant. Hogan was the project manager in week three and lost. However she remained in the process. Hogan is the second Irish person in this series. She was eliminated in the semi-final with criticism of the research she has done into her Konjac based ready-meals idea.[17]
Daniel Lassman
Age: 27; Director- Pub Quiz Company. Lassman was brought into the boardroom in week two for his bad pitching skills but remained in the process. He was later moved into the girl's team.
Scott McCulloch
Age: 24; Clinical Development Strategist. McCulloch became the project manager in week two but was fired by Lord Sugar for his bad managerial skills.
Bianca Miller
Age: 25; Owner- Personal Branding Company. Miller had been in the winning team (Tenacity) for the first two weeks but since she moved to team Summit she has won 5 tasks and lost 3. Miller was in the final and had plans for tights which matched women's skin tones, but lost to Mark Wright. Miller has announced that she will still continue with the tights brand.
Lauren Riley
Age: 29; Solicitor. Riley has been in the winning team in the first 3 tasks & task 5. Riley Was fired in week 7 due to lack of contribution.
Sanjay Sood-Smith
Age: 27; Senior Manager- Banking. Sood-Smith has been in the losing team from week one to week three.
Pamela Uddin
Age: 24; Assistant Brand Manager. Uddin is the second person from Ireland. She was fired in week 6 due to bad leadership.
Steven Ugoalah
Age: 29; Social worker. In week one Ugoalah was blamed by the project manager for the failure of the task- yet he was not brought into the boardroom and wasn't fired. Ugoalah is the only person in this series from Canada.
Mark Wright
Age: 24; Sales Manager- Digital Marketing. Wright is the only Australian in this series. He won the final on 21 December 2014 beating Bianca Miller.[18][19]
References
- ↑ "The Apprentice Contestant profiles — the men". BBC. 8 February 2005.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Contestant profiles — the women". BBC. 8 February 2005.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Series Two: Meet the Boys". BBC. 7 February 2006.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Series Two: Meet the Girls". BBC. 7 February 2006.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Series Three: Meet the Boys". BBC. 20 March 2007.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Series Three: Meet the Girls". BBC. 20 March 2007.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Series Four: Meet the Boys". BBC. 18 March 2008.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Series Four: Meet the Girls". BBC. 18 March 2008.
- ↑ "The Apprentice Series 5: Candidates". BBC.
- ↑ "The Apprentice 2010: Candidates". BBC.
- ↑ "The Apprentice 2011: Candidates". BBC.
- ↑ "The Apprentice, Series 8: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2012.
- ↑ "The Apprentice, Series 9: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2013.
- ↑ "The Apprentice, Series 10: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2014.
- ↑ "The Apprentice, Series 11: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2015.
- ↑ http://katiebulmer.com/
- ↑ "Roisin Hogan interview: Did Lord Sugar fire his best ever candidate?". Digital Spy.
- ↑ "The Apprentice: Mark Wright is Lord Sugar's new partner". BBC News. 21 December 2014.
- ↑ "Mark Wright wins The Apprentice 2014". The Guardian. 21 December 2014.
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