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Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. The series began on 28 March 2007 and finished on 13 June 2007, with Simon Ambrose as the winner.[1] Ambrose's prize was to work on a project to develop a hotel and golfing complex near Stansted Airport, whilst training as a chartered surveyor.[1] Kristina Grimes, the runner-up, has received many job offers from separate companies and is now working as an investment sales director.[2] Katie Hopkins, who finished in third place after leaving voluntarily, was fired from The Met Office as a result of her appearance on the programme.[3][4] The Apprentice is a British reality television series in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to become an apprentice to British business magnate Sir Alan Sugar, with the winner given a £100,000-a-year job working for his electronics manufacturing company Amstrad. ...
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The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The Apprentice is a British reality television series in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to become an apprentice to British business magnate Sir Alan Sugar, with the winner given a £100,000-a-year job working for his electronics manufacturing company Amstrad. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Simon Ambrose was the winner of the third series of the British version of The Apprentice. ...
Terminal building, designed by Sir Norman Foster Stansted Airport is a medium-sized passenger airport with a single runway, located in the English county of Essex about thirty miles north of London. ...
Kristina Grimes (born October 31, 1970) is a 36-year-old businesswoman from Julianstown, County Meath, Ireland. ...
Katie Hopkins (born 1976) is a Reality TV participant who appeared on the third series of the British version of The Apprentice. ...
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Sir Alan Sugar reprised his role as the boss with Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford as his advisors. Each week a business task was set and a member of the losing team was fired. Moving from BBC Two, this series attracted 10,000 applicants and promised "tougher tasks and better people" than before as Sugar believed that the show was morphing into "Big Brother".[5] Sugar also criticised the US version for making the error of "trying to change things just for the sake of it", causing it to backfire.[6] This series has been described as the most controversial all three, as the programme was accused of breaching the 1976 Sex Discrimination act, after questioning contestants Katie Hopkins and Kristina Grimes about their child-care arrangements, and exploiting a vulnerable contestant, Jadine Johnson, who was sectioned under the Mental Health Act.[7][8][9] Sir Alan Michael Sugar (born 24 March 1947). ...
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Big Brother is a reality television series broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Channel 4 and E4. ...
The Apprentice is a reality television show that originated in the United States on NBC. Billed as The Ultimate Job Interview, the show stars 16-18 businessmen and businesswomen competing in an elimination-style competition for a one-year, $250,000 starting contract of running one of host and executive...
Katie Hopkins (born 1976) is a Reality TV participant who appeared on the third series of the British version of The Apprentice. ...
Kristina Grimes (born October 31, 1970) is a 36-year-old businesswoman from Julianstown, County Meath, Ireland. ...
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Two 90-minute specials were aired during the programme's run. The first programme was titled The Apprentice: Beyond the Boardroom and featured information about the personal lives of each of the semi-finalists.[10] The second, The Apprentice: Why I Fired Them, featured Sugar revealing why he chose to remove each candidate from the programme.[11]
Format - See also: The Apprentice (UK)#Format
Unlike most other reality television programmes, the series was pre-recorded; filmed in the autumn of 2006 and airing during the spring of 2007.[12] Open auditions and interviews were held across the country before the series began in order to recruit the candidates.[13] During the programme, the candidates are split into two teams and must take part in a series of business tasks. Members of the losing team must report back to the boardroom, where Sir Alan Sugar and his assistants, Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford, analyse each candidate's performance.[14] At the end of each episode, one candidate gets fired, and leaves the programme.[14] However, some former candidates return in the final episode in order to help the finalists complete their task.[15] The only episode not to feature a task is the eleventh, which comprises several, individual interviews.[16] Whilst participating in the programme, all candidates stayed in a house in Notting Hill, and were not allowed to make contact with their families.[17][18] The Apprentice is a British reality television series in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to become an apprentice to British business magnate Sir Alan Sugar, with the winner given a £100,000-a-year job working for his electronics manufacturing company Amstrad. ...
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Candidates - See also: List of The Apprentice candidates (UK)#Series Three
 The original line-up of the 'Eclipse' team from Series Three in the boardroom. Back row left to right: Ifti, Rory, Tre, Paul. Front row left to right: Jadine, Adam, Lohit, Simon. As in the previous two series, the candidates were initially separated into two teams: men and women. Although this series contained 16 candidates, instead of 14 as in the previous two series. [19][20] The women chose "Stealth" as their name, while the men initially chose "Certus" but were forced to change this after it emerged that Tre, who had originally suggested it, had previously worked for a company with the same name.[21] The men eventually chose the name "Eclipse".[21] The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
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The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
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Simon Ambrose was the winner of the third series of the British version of The Apprentice. ...
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The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
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Katie Hopkins (born 1976) is a Reality TV participant who appeared on the third series of the British version of The Apprentice. ...
Kristina Grimes (born October 31, 1970) is a 36-year-old businesswoman from Julianstown, County Meath, Ireland. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
Two candidates, Katie Hopkins and Paul Callaghan, started a romance while competing on the programme.[22] This received much coverage from the tabloid press.[23][22][24][25] This was one of the reasons that Callaghan was fired from the competition, as other candidates complained about the situation, saying that the relationship affected the performance of the team during the tasks.[24] Katie Hopkins (born 1976) is a Reality TV participant who appeared on the third series of the British version of The Apprentice. ...
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The 16 candidates for Series Three were as follows (ages are as of 2007).
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Challenges
Week 1: Coffee To Go - Project managers: Jadine (Eclipse) and Andy (Stealth).[33]
- Task: Sell coffee in Islington. The team that makes the most profit wins.[33]
- Result: Both teams decided to split up into two, with one half maintaining a fixed coffee stand and the other half staffing a mobile coffee van.[21] Eclipse made a good start despite some initial purchasing blunders whilst Stealth struggled to sell by placing their van in an area already served by many low price coffee outlets.[21] Whilst both teams sold well, Stealth failed to make a large profit as a result of buying too much stock, milk in particular.[21] As a result, Eclipse made the larger overall profit.[21]
- Winner: Eclipse.[33]
- Reward: A trip to the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden.[21]
- Brought into the boardroom: Andy, Gerri and Sophie.[33]
- Who gets fired: Andy, for failing as a leader and not keeping control of the group.[21]
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Week 2: Doggy Designs - Project managers: Rory (Eclipse) and Katie (Stealth).[34]
- Task: Design an innovative product for dogs and pitch it to three stores: Pets at Home, Harrods and Pets and the City.[35] The team that makes the most profit wins.[35]
- Result: Stealth decided to focus their efforts on pitching their dog wardrobe to the largest store, Pets at Home.[35] In Eclipse, Rory went against his team members' advice and chose to design a dog-owner utility belt.[35] Despite not selling any units to two of the pet stores, Stealth created a £5000 profit by selling in bulk to the largest store, Pets at Home. Eclipse only managed a profit of £500.[34]
- Winner: Stealth.[34]
- Reward: A luxury meal at The Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair.[35]
- Brought into the boardroom: Rory, Tre and Ifti.[34]
- Who gets fired: Ifti and Rory; Ifti for his self-confessed lack of input (which he put down to missing his family) and, in a surprise second firing, Rory for failing as a leader.[35] While multiple firings have been commonly seen in the US version of the show,[36] this marked the first time that Sir Alan dismissed two people outside the final interviews.[35]
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Week 3: Start-up Service - Project managers: Tre (Eclipse) and Naomi (Stealth).[37]
- Task: Starting with £200, generate the maximum possible profit through whatever means. The team that makes the most profit wins.
- Result: Eclipse started a gardening business in the day and a pub-singing service in the evening whilst Stealth set up a face painting service for children in the day and a kiss-o-gram service in the evening, with a kiss and a hug for £1.[29][38] Both teams got off to a slow start, though Stealth lost a lot of custom by not managing their location properly[38] Back in the boardroom, Stealth were effectively accused of prostitution by Sir Alan after selling kisses on the streets of London, which he described as being like "another old profession I've heard about".[38] Eclipse made £189 profit whilst Stealth made £65.[38]
- Winner: Eclipse.[37]
- Reward: A night out in a Cuban bar and restaurant in London.[37]
- Brought into the boardroom: Naomi, Jadine and Gerri.[37]
- Who gets fired: Gerri, for failing to find suitable locations on two out of three tasks and for not contributing anything of value to any of the tasks.[29]
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Week 4: Sugar Rush - Project managers: Adam (Eclipse) and Ghazal (Stealth).[39]
- Task: Manufacture sweets and sell them at London Zoo.[39] The team that makes the most profit wins.[40]
- Result: Both teams went for similar ideas in terms of their product; Stealth opted for chocolate lollies (with an animal design) and bags of fudge, while Eclipse went for chocolate lollies (with a paw design) and orange flavoured lollies.[40] Stealth struggled to manufacture enough of their product and so ran out of stock by 4pm, an hour before the task finished.[40] In comparison, Eclipse had plenty to sell but struggled to offload their orange lollies which were mistakenly labelled as 'natural'.[40] With limited time left they had to resort to reducing their prices and eventually gave their remaining sweets away for free.[40] Stealth created a profit of £994, marginally higher than Eclipse's £983.[40]
- Winner: Stealth.[39]
- Reward: A night out Bowling.[39]
- Brought into the boardroom: Adam, Sophie and Natalie.[39]
- Who gets fired: Sophie, for her unenthusiastic selling.[41]
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Week 5: Fish, Lips and Horses - Project managers: Natalie (Eclipse) and Kristina (Stealth).[42]
- Task: Choose photographs from two different artists and then sell them in a fashionable east London gallery, making as much money as possible.[42]
- Result: Stealth showcased artists with the themes of horses and fish, whilst Eclipse chose artists whose work related to lips and Morocco and Colombia.[42] In Stealth, Tre was uncomfortable around the pictures, some of which depicted nipples, and claimed they "belong in a fetish gallery”.[43] The teams took very different approaches to selling, with Eclipse going for a softer approach and Stealth opting for the hard-sell.[43] At the end of the task, Eclipse had made £1,599.78 from the sale of four photographs, but Stealth sold 14 pieces to make a profit of £4,702.[42]
- Winner: Stealth.[42]
- Reward: A pampering session at a Champneys, a spa.[43]
- Brought into the boardroom: Natalie, Adam and Lohit.[42]
- Who gets fired: Natalie (with regret), in tears for being "out of her depth" as the project manager.[43]
- Notes: This task also featured in the first series of The Apprentice.[44]
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Week 6: The Sausage Saga - Project managers: Lohit (Eclipse) and Paul (Stealth).[45]
- Task: Buy and sell British produce at a French farmers' market.[45] The team which makes the most profit wins.[46]
- Result: Eclipse chose to sell smoked fish, tea and marmalade whilst Stealth opted for sausages, chutney, and cheap processed cheese bought at the last minute from Makro, a cash and carry.[45] After a communication error with the printers, Stealth ended up having to pay £85 for an incorrectly translated banner, far more than the £40 bunting which Eclipse purchased.[46] Stealth planned to make up their advertising costs by trying to cook their sausages with a tin filled with lighter fuel instead of a camping stove; unfortunately it failed disastrously and left them unable to cook any sausages for customers to sample, losing them precious sales.[46] Eclipse had trouble selling tea in a predominantly coffee-drinking nation.[46] Whilst neither team managed to sell all their produce, Stealth made a loss of £225, partly due to excessive spending on marketing, whilst Eclipse made a profit of £410.[46][45]
- Winner: Eclipse.[45]
- Reward: Indoor skydiving in a vertical wind tunnel.[46]
- Brought into the boardroom: Paul, Kristina and Adam.[45]
- Who gets fired: Paul, for poor decision-making, losing Sir Alan's money, and not bringing Katie back into the boardroom.[45]
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Week 7: The 97 Pence Victory - Project managers: Simon (Eclipse) and Adam (Stealth).[47]
- Task: Purchase a set list of ten items for prices lower than those asked by the vendors.[47] The team which spends the least wins.[48]
- Result: Simon's erratic style of leadership caused tension amongst Eclipse, with deals being rushed without enough time for negotiation.[48] Over in Stealth, Katie and Kristina put aside personal differences and managed to negotiate a number of items successfully.[48] Both teams were initially confused as to what nigella seeds were, with Adam even suggesting they may be a form of AstroTurf.[48] Eclipse were fined £50 for buying one item at retail price without haggling the price down as required by the rules, however Stealth were also fined for failing to purchase the nigella seeds.[47] The teams' final balances were separated by only 97p, with Eclipse bringing back £459.68 and Stealth £458.71.[47]
- Winner: Eclipse.[47]
- Reward: A racing car driving day at the Bedford Autodrome.[48]
- Brought into the boardroom: Adam, Ghazal and Katie.[47]
- Who gets fired: Adam, for poor management and leadership skills, for choosing not to buy all items on the list despite the fact it would earn a larger fine than being late (without which Stealth would have won by £29.03), and for appearing in the boardroom showdown once too often.[48]
- Notes: The items that teams were required to buy were: a car battery, 3kg of nigella seeds, a square metre of marble tiling, hair-removal wax, a house plant, leather trousers, a bin, a wetsuit, a white rabbit and a unicycle.[48] This task had previously featured on the first and second series of The Apprentice.[49][50]
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Week 8: Brand-a-trainer - Project managers: Jadine (Eclipse) and Ghazal (Stealth).[51]
- Task: Create a brand logo, poster and video advertisement for a new style of trainers.[52]
- Result: Eclipse created "Street" trainers with a "reclaim the street" slogan and a promise to donate 10% of the sale price to youth charities.[53] Stealth built the campaign for their "Jam" trainers around an urban music theme.[51] Stealth's TV ad, though well made, was heavily criticised for lacking a message and failing to make it clear what was being advertised.[51] A group of advertising executives decided which team won the task.[51]
- Winner: Eclipse.[51]
- Reward: A lesson at "Cocktail school" in the The Savoy Hotel in London.[51]
- Brought into the boardroom: Ghazal, Katie and Naomi.[51]
- Who gets fired: Ghazal, not because of her age but for being "all talk and no do".[52]
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Week 9: Feeling the Strain - Project managers: Tre (Eclipse) and Katie (Stealth).[54]
- Task: Interview representatives from five nations and choose three items from that nation and sell them to the trade.[54]
- Result: Stealth chose to market Canadian goods, including a "Rug in a Box" set, a portable light therapy device and a set of sport shoe insoles.[54] Eclipse chose a set of Swedish products, a lamp with a built in air purifier, vacuum cleaner heads and a set of microwavable soft toys.[54] At the end of the first day Jadine suffered a minor emotional breakdown, leaving Lohit able to set up only one appointment with a potential buyer.[54] Similarly, Stealth failed to make any appointments due to spending too long being briefed by the Canadian Trade Commissioner, Michelle Gartland, and so both teams were left to make their appointments the following morning.[55] The teams performed similarly, but Stealth's products proved to have a higher market value, resulting in them making £2,226.59, while Eclipse managed only £1,344.29 (which was reduced by 10% to £1,209.86 after the team was delayed in traffic on the way back to the boardroom).[55]
- Winner: Stealth.[54]
- Reward: A £500 voucher to spend, with the aid of a personal shopper, at Selfridges.[54]
- Brought into the boardroom: Tre, Jadine and Lohit.[54]
- Who gets fired: Jadine (with regret), who was judged not to be the "final product" for Sir Alan to work with.[55]
- Notes: This programme featured the Cutty Sark. The ship was badly damaged in a fire just two days before the episode aired.[56]
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Week 10: Selling on TV - Project managers: Simon (Eclipse) and Kristina (Stealth).[57]
- Task: Select and sell a variety of items on the Ideal World teleshopping channel.[57]
- Result: Stealth chose good items but Kristina's vacuum cleaner demonstration went badly wrong, and it succeeded only in spreading the dirt around.[58] Lohit was given the awkward task of trying to help sell ladies' slimming pants along with Katie.[59] Eclipse manager Simon gave very few instructions to team-mates Tre and Naomi and thus they struggled.[59] Simon's choice of a foldable wheelchair was questioned but ended up being the most profitable item.[59] Simon also made a spectacle of himself by bouncing on a trampoline and then unwittingly appearing to be masturbating when screwing in its legs.[60] By the end of the task, Eclipse had made £921.79, but Stealth managed to sell £1,339.10 of goods.[57]
- Winner: Stealth.[57]
- Reward: Trip to a Turkish Bath.[57]
- Brought into the boardroom: Simon, Tre and Naomi (i.e. every member of Eclipse).[57]
- Who gets fired: Naomi, for poor product selection and because Sir Alan felt that of the three she had the least to offer.[57] A majority of the You're Fired studio audience disagreed with the decision.
- Notes: Despite much boardroom hilarity at the on-screen antics, Sir Alan was not pleased with either team and was reluctant to tell Stealth their reward.[59] Complaints from Ideal World viewers described the candidates as 'rubbish' and 'a waste of time'.[59] Eclipse chose to sell foldable wheelchairs, decoupage pads, trampolines and leg shavers.[59] Stealth chose chocolate fountains, foot spas, slimming pants and steam mops.[59] This task originally featured in the first series of The Apprentice.[61]
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Week 11: Interviews - Task: The five remaining candidates are individually interviewed by three of Sir Alan Sugar's business colleagues. The interviewers then report their impressions of the candidates back to Sir Alan to help him choose the two finalists.[16]
- Result: After the round of 25-minute interviews, three candidates – Katie, Simon and Kristina – stood out.[16] The only candidate with positive reports from all three interviewers was Kristina.[16] Conversely, very few positive comments were made about Lohit, who was quickly fired after being deemed "nice," but too "boring."[16] Tre was next to go, after Sir Alan told him that, while he was a strong candidate, he lacked the required maturity.[16] He was also described as argumentative and difficult. While doubts were expressed over Katie's motives for entering the show, Sir Alan nonetheless made her the first finalist.[16] While he was deliberating over whether to make Simon or Kristina the other finalist, Katie was clearly beset by doubts.[16] After Sir Alan advised her that she would have to make an absolute commitment to the job should she get it, she suggested she "stand down".[8] This allowed Simon and Kristina to proceed to the final.[8]
- Who gets fired: Lohit, for being too nice and Tre, for performing poorly in the interviews.[16] Katie resigned, citing potential difficulties in making childcare arrangements should she be offered the job.[8]
- Finalists: Kristina and Simon.[15]
- Notes: In a one-off special, The Apprentice: Why I Fired Them, broadcast a few days later, Sir Alan Sugar expressed his opinion that Katie had never really been interested in working for him but had entered the competition merely for the kudos.[11] He said that he felt he had been hoodwinked, and that if Katie had not voluntarily stood down he would have reversed his decision and fired her after all.[11] After the airing of the episode, internet conspiracists believed that Katie's exit from the show was fixed and the segments were re-filmed and edited in later.[8] Although, Simon Ambrose denied that this was the case and that nothing was changed.[62] This task was also used in the eleventh week of the first and second series.[63][64]
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Week 12: The Grand Finale - Task: Each of the two finalists, Simon and Kristina, must put together a proposal for the redevelopment of a site currently occupied by the IBM Building on London's South Bank.[26] This site was purchased for £120m by Sir Alan Sugar.[26] The task involves the designing of a major landmark building that is both profit-making and has an iconic design.[65] After each enlisting the help of four of the previously fired candidates, the finalists must then present their ideas to an audience of 100 property, finance and architectural experts, along with Sir Alan Sugar and his assistants Margaret Mountford and Nick Hewer.[65]
- Teams: Kristina's team consisted of former candidates Naomi, Paul, Natalie and Adam, while Simon's worked with Tre, Lohit, Jadine and Rory.[15]
- Result: Simon proposed "The Wave",[15] an ambitious building with an "organic" design.[65] Pre-show favourite Kristina offered "The Phoenix",[66][15] whose name symbolised the regeneration of the site.[65] Both presentations were well received by the experts.[65] In his final boardroom evaluation, Sir Alan contrasted Kristina's experience with Simon's creativity, and said that both candidates were very employable.[15]
- Who is hired: Simon, although Sir Alan admitted that he was "taking a risk".[67]
- Notes: A maximum of 7.4 million people watched this episode, achieving more ratings than an episode of Big Brother on Channel 4, but less than Britain's Got Talent on ITV1.[68] The final boardroom scene was a pretence. Two different boardroom showdowns, one for each possible result, were filmed and Sir Alan then took the two finalists to lunch to tell them who had actually won.[69]
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Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Series Three of The Apprentice is a television series which aired in the UK on BBC One. ...
Criticism and controversy This series was described as "the most controversial" out of all three series that had been made at the time.[7]
Candidate Gerri Blackwood claimed that the allocation of showers in the house where the candidates stay appeared to have been manipulated in such a way as to force the female contestants to shower together. She told the Daily Star "One of the bathrooms was used by the film crew, but two of the others were closed off with 'Out of Order' signs on them. That left two bathrooms to share between 16 people. I am not sure whether it was deliberate or not but you can imagine they wanted us to share showers".[70] In her interview, she also claimed that Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford fed the candidates misleading information so that they would fail the tasks, and that Sir Alan Sugar's boardroom diatribes were re-filmed to make them look better.[71] Fellow candidate Tre Azam also criticised the editing of the programme, claiming he was worried that his portrayal "might have been dumbed down because I made some of the other characters look too weak".[72] The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
The Daily Star is a British tabloid newspaper. ...
The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice. ...
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