July 17th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Margaret Mountford will make her return on The Apprentice final tonight and one person glad to have her back was her former co-worker Nick Hewer.
The pair acted as joint advisors to Lord Alan Sugar in previous series’ of the BBC One reality TV show, until she decided to step down and concentrate on her phD and was replaced by younger businesswoman Karren Brady.
Speaking to The Daily Mail, PR expert Nick admitted that he misses Margaret and hasn’t managed to build such a close relationship with her replacement.
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July 13th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Nick Hewer has admitted that his famous boss Lord Alan Sugar likes to beat him on a regular basis.
The PR guru has worked with the Apprentice star for decades but admitted that despite their long running business relationship, the Amstrad boss takes “absolutely no notice” of what he and Karren Brady tell him about the contestants hoping to land a chance to go into business with Sugar.
Nick explained: “He wants to know every single b****y thing. When we brief him, he won’t have seen anything and we’ll have to know all the answers otherwise he gets out his rolled up newspaper and beats us up. And then he takes absolutely no notice anyway.
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July 12th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
With The Apprentice final just days away, heat magazine caught up with Lord Sugar’s right-hand man Nick Hewer.
Speaking about the amount of hard work that goes into producing the show, Nick said : “The production team know what they’re doing. You ask why contestants make such t*ts of themselves? Well, exhaustion leads to mistakes. For last year’s sausage task we started at 7pm, went through the night, through the next day and finished at 11pm. It’s relentless. Also, they’re locked up in that house, that sweaty cauldron, with no contact with their families and are constantly worrying who’s creeping up behind them with a bread knife.”
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June 21st, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Nick Hewer has given his honest (and they are brutally honest!) views on the remaining ‘Apprentice’ hopefuls.
Lord Alan Sugar’s right hand man has confessed that he doesn’t like ‘creepy’ Jim Eastwood, has a problem with Natasha Scribbins’ thighs and thinks Ma is a liar.
On County Tyrone man Jim, Nick confessed that he doesn’t know why the public are warming to him. He said:
“I wish he would stop talking about his Irish charm because I’m finding it a bit spooky.
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June 21st, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Jim Eastwood
Nick Hewer has admitted that he doesn’t know why viewers find Apprentice hopeful Jim Eastwood so charming.
Lord Alan Sugar’s right hand man has insisted that he finds the Northern Irish entrepreneur ‘creepy’ and ‘spooky’ and a bit of a handful on recent tasks.
The PR expert told The Radio Times:
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May 16th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
It’s a later life love story!
Nick Hewer has admitted that although he is happily married, he would quite like to get hitched to his former Apprentice co-star Margaret Mountford in the future.
The former PR guru has shot to fame while assisting his boss Lord Alan Sugar on the BBC One reality TV show and confessed that he will always have a soft spot for Margaret, who worked alongside him on the show until 2009.
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May 8th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Nick Hewer has showed that behind that austere exterior, he does have a keen sense of humour.
The PR mogul, who appears on The Apprentice as Lord Alan Sugar’s right hand man, has described the multi millionaire as a “super-absorbent little Buddha”. We can’t imagine he’ll be too flattered by the description!
Nick said: “Lord Sugar and I have been friends for 25 years and the man is extraordinary.
“He’s like some sort of super-absorbent little Buddha who takes everything in and then makes decisions accordingly.”
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May 5th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry.
Nick Hewer hit back at critics who say ‘The Apprentice’ is unrealistic and admitted that while the show has to be credible, ‘the whole point is to make it entertaining.’
The PR executive is Lord Sugar’s right hand man and sits alongside fellow advisor Karren Brady on the BBC One show and although people have criticised the reality series claiming it doesn’t reflect the real world, Nick believes contestants can learn more on the programme than they would in business school.
He said: “Stuffed suits may say, ‘It’s not really business’, but if you went to business schools in Yale or Oxford and got the most brilliant people to star in the show, no one would have a clue what they were talking about.
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June 5th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.
Sir Alan Sugar’s right hand man, Nick Hewer has been sharing his thoughts on the shows latest reject, Debra Barr.
Hewer agreed with Sugar’s decision to fire Debra despite her obvious business skills, saying that she would be hard to ‘contain.’
“Debra comforted Lorraine as she was telling everyone how nervous she was,” he told The Mirror. “Would Debra’s arm around you comfort or terrify you?”
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May 29th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry.
Sir Alan Sugar’s helper Nick Hewer has blasted Apprentice reject Howard Ebison for lacking in “courage and flair”.
“When I asked if he thought he was a ‘brave warrior’ his face betrayed, I thought, the realisation that he is, in fact, lacking in ambition and courage – something Sir Alan has in spades,” the former PR boss told The Mirror.
“He’s a decent young man but is destined for now to remain in middle management because he lacks that vital entrepreneurial flair.”
