The Apprentice’ star Kate Walsh might have got further in the boardroom, but her boyfriend (and fellow ‘Apprentice’ star) Phil Taylor insists he’s going to be the boss of the ballroom!

‘Strictly’ pro-dancer Karen Hardy is giving dance fans Phil, 29, and Kate, 27, a treat with some expert dance classes. The pair are tango’ing every day this week on Kate’s show, ‘Live From Studio Five’, but after witnessing his first attempt, Little Miss Showbiz wasn’t impressed!

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As if a year wasn’t long enough to wait for the next series of The Apprentice, the BBC may be forced to postpone their 2010 season due to impartiality worries.

Sir Alan Sugar has become Lord Alan Sugar after he was made a Labour peer and now takes his place as the government’s newly-appointed enterprise champion.

After Sugar’s new role was made public, the BBC were inundated with complaints that his government position could affect their political impartiality. While the BBC trust feel there has been no breach, they do admit that it may be unwise to air the next season close in the months leading up to a general election.

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Alan Carr has claimed that Sir Alan Sugar was “horrible” and “vile” when he took part in BBC’s Comic Relief Does The Apprentice.

The Channel 4 funnyman told new! magazine: “Just how scary is he? He’s horrible. I thought because we were celebrities he’d tone it down, but he was vile and laid into me.

“I used to take the mickey out of the contestants when they cried on The Apprentice, but he had me in tears. I was gulping and had a lump in my throat!”

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According to the Press Association, The Apprentice stars Philip Taylor and Kate Walsh are engaged.

Kate has apparently been showing off a £3,000 engagement ring which the pair chose together at a jewellers in London.

A source is quoted by the PA as saying, “They are very much in love and this was always more than a work fling. Neither of them wanted to split.

“Once the show aired they were reminded of how well they had got on and Phil picked up the phone. They were back in each other’s arms within days and now it looks like they will have each other for life. Read more & comment »

Ex Apprentice star James McQuillan has apparently achieved his dream to be a horse racing commentator, following in the footsteps of his hero, John McCririck.

The Sun reports that James had been offered a job by Channel 4 racing and James reckons that he can “help to boost interest in the sport”.

He told the paper, “I’m doing some screen tests now but the plan is to have a regular slot on a racing show.

“Horse racing is the biggest sleeping giant. Apart from the Derby it’s not well known.” Read more & comment »

It’s been revealed today that The Apprentice series five runner-up Kate Walsh has been offered a role on GMTV presenting a feature about “what women should wear in the office”.

The Sun reports that her presenting slot will most likely be during Lorraine Kelly’s show. A source close to Walsh told the paper, “Kate is desperate to get a career in telly… Read more & comment »

Apprentice reject Claire Young has revealed that she pulled out of appearing on a previous series of Big Brother.

Claire got through the first few rounds of BB auditions but pulled out due to some of the weird characters she met.

“I watched one series and my friends said let’s try for it, but I was the only one who got through,” she told Star magazine.

“I went through two rounds of interviews and then pulled out.”

She added: “I just thought: ‘I haven’t met one person in this audition that I’d want to have a cup of tea with.’”

Heather Mills has reportedly been lined up to star in Donald Trumps next series of Celebrity Apprentice.

Tycoon Donald Trump has confirmed to The Sun that Mills wants to go on his reality business show.

He said: “Everybody wants to be on Celebrity Apprentice. One is Heather Mills. We have tremendous people.”

Last years Apprentice winner, Simon Abrose is said to have had a “rude awakening” when he took up his post at AMSPROP, the real estate division of Alan Sugar’s group of companies.

“Simon’s doing OK…He’s working on trying to sell some places for us and I think he’s had a rude awakening,” Sugar revealed. “His naivety’s been given a whack over the head, thinking that he’s got things sold but then realising he’s amongst some real sharks out there. He’s gotta learn – he’s an apprentice.”

However, despite his bumpy start, Sugar is confident that Ambrose will grow into his role. “He hasn’t sold Canary Wharf yet, but he’ll get there,” he insisted.

The rumours were true, the b***h from BBC’s Apprentice TV show, Katie Hopkins has joined the I’m A Celebrity camp.

She has already replaced Malcolm McLaren in the Snake Rock team…….just what J needed, another outspoken female!!

Katie Hopkins has been fired for the second time this year. Katie was the villain of this years Apprentice TV show on BBC One, but soon after leaving the show, was fired from her job in the Met Office.
Now it appears she has gotten the sack again, this time from her column in the Exeter Express and Echo. The editor took a poll from the readers, and they voted overwhelmingly to get rid of Mrs Nasty. 341 people voted for her to be fired, while only 66 wanted her to stay.

She told the Daily Mail: “People are always quick to knock those who are successful. Those who are in opposition are always more ready to make their voices heard than those in support. Read more & comment »

Rumours are abounding that former Apprentice candidate, Katie Hopkins, is to be offered a place on ITV’s hit reality TV show, I’m A Celebrity.

An I’m A Celeb insider told the Daily Star: “We’d love Katie. She makes great telly and could fill the bossy toff role that the likes of Carol Thatcher and Christine Hamilton have taken in previous series.”

Kristina Grimes admittted to The Sun newspaper today that she turned to the church to help her cope with the devastation of losing BBC One’s Apprentice show.

She said: “When I lost I was in bits, I was devastated and I just wanted to get away from everybody.

“I was walking in London and people were saying ‘There’s the Apprentice’ and I thought ‘No, I’m blooming well not’. So I saw this church and decided to go in to get some peace and quiet.”

After 12 gruelling weeks battling it out against Britain’s brightest business hopefuls, Simon Ambrose, a 27-year-old internet entrepreneur from London, has been named as Sir Alan Sugar’s third Apprentice.

Simon walks away with the prize of a six-figure salaried job with the self-made multi-millionaire and boss of Amstrad, Sir Alan Sugar.

In the concluding episode, screened last night on BBC One, Simon beat off stiff competition from 36-year-old pharmaceutical sales manager Kristina Grimes, by managing a team of fired apprentices in the toughest task yet – they had to come up with ideas for a replacement building to Sir Alan’s recently acquired £120million IBM building on the South Bank. Read more & comment »

Kristina Grimes and Simon Ambrose may be going head to head tonight in the Apprentice final, but even with all that rivalry between them, there is still something they can agree on. Unsurprisingly, they both have a deep dislike of the most recent Apprentice loser, Katie Hopkins.

Kristina Grimes told the Daily Mirror “If you think intelligence is sleeping with married men and only getting to wherever you are because you have slept there, then more fool you.”

Simon added “she has got more issues than the Beano. I think she should try to find some more married men. Hats off to her if she thinks that is the route she has to take.”