Made In Chelsea star, Jamie Laing, launched his first pop-up shop, Candy Kittens, in Chelsea’s Kings Road yesterday.
The reality star, who was callously dumped by co-star, Louise Thompson for his best friend and co-star, Spencer Matthews, had expressed a desire to launch his own sweet franchise, run by sexy girls, in the E4 show last series.
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After twelve intensive weeks in competition alongside some of Britain’s top entrepreneurs, 26-year-old recruitment manager Ricky Martin has beaten fifteen other candidates to land the prestigious prize of a business partnership with Lord Sugar, along with an investment of up to £250,000.
In last night’s episode, Ricky battled it out in a four-way final against 23-year-old wine investor Tom Gearing, 29-year-old business development manager Jade Nash and 25-year-old technology entrepreneur Nick Holzherr. With Jade and Nick fired first, Ricky went up against Tom in the last two.
Ricky was declared Lord Sugar’s business partner at the end of a twelve-week process, which saw Ricky divulge the business plan in which he was hoping to secure Lord Sugar’s investment – a recruitment agency specialising in science and technology.
After 11 demanding weeks battling it out, only four candidates remain in Lord Sugar’s search for a business partner and it’s time for them to face their toughest challenge yet.
On SUNDAY 3RD JUNE, 8.30PM on BBC ONE, Lord Sugar will decide who will become his new business partner and win an investment to the value of £250,000 founded on the basis of their business idea. A special edition of The Apprentice: You’re Hired! will follow at 9.30PM, also on BBC ONE.
This year, four candidates will battle it out in the final; 23-year-old Director of a Fine Wine Investment Company Tom Gearing, 26-year-old Recruitment Team Manager Ricky Martin, 29-year-old Business Development Manager Jade Nash and 25-year-old Technology Entrepreneur Nick Holzherr will go head to head to impress Lord Sugar with their business ideas as well as facing his four advisors in the tough interview round. The wheat will be separated from the chaff as Lord Sugar prepares to offer one of them a life changing opportunity.
With one week to go, it’s the last chance for the candidates to earn themselves a place in the final. The candidates are summoned to meet Lord Sugar at Burlington Arcade, tucked away in London’s West End and home to the finest in luxury retail.
There, Lord Sugar greets them and explains their final task:
“This is a famous arcade; I suppose you would say the original shopping centre. We are in recessionary times at the moment but there’s still a great market for luxury products, the key is they have to be affordable luxury products. Your task this week is to create an affordable luxury product range and then you’ll be presenting to industry experts, and here’s the bad news, and me, what your business model is all about.”
I have to say readers that I am still in mourning after arguably my favourite Apprentice candidate of this year – Duane Bryan – in my opinion was unjustly fired during last week’s exercise task. Though it seemed on You’re Fired that Mr Bryan has now joined Blue, so I don’t think he’s that bothered, however it’s no coincidence that the first episode of this series without him is the least entertaining to date.
That’s not to say that there weren’t occasional funny moments, this is still The Apprentice after all, however it wasn’t nearly as great as past episodes in which the candidates have ventured outside of London have been. This week’s destination was Edinburgh, a place that most wouldn’t see as a foreign trip apart from Jenna, who was worried that she wouldn’t understand people if they started talking Scottish to her and was lucky that Laura would be on hand to translate.
James McCullagh has more reason than most to watch The Apprentice, because he knows exactly how it feels to face Lord Alan Sugar in that boardroom.
The 17 year old schoolboy from Northern Ireland finished as runner up – behind Zara Brownless – in the 2011 series of ‘Young Apprentice’ and during the time on the show invented his own video game “Crazy Cabinet” and produced his own Mediterranean brand of popcorn called “La Popcorn.”
Now he’s casting his eagle eye of the latest batch of candidates to put themselves up for Sugar’s scrutiny and below, he tells Unreality TV who he’s watching out for when the series starts on March 21st.
Tom Gearing
Age: 23
Occupation: Director of a Fine Wine Investment Company
Lives: London, UK
The Apprentice returns to our TV screens this month and in advance the new run, we have brought you the first official pictures of the show’s stars.
Tom Gearing, Duane Bryan, Adam Corbally, Michael Copp, Azhar Siddique, Nick Hozherr, Ricky Martin, Stephen Brady, Bilyana Apostolova, Laura Hogg, Maria O’Connor, Jenna Whittingham, Jane McEvoy, Gabrielle Omar, Katie Wright and Jade Nash will be the 16 candidates battling it it out in a series of entrepreneurial challenges, for a £250,000 investment in a business of the candidate’s creation, with Lord Alan Sugar as a 50% owner.
The Amstrad boss recently revealed that the show will be launching on the 21st March, just days before the reality TV year really kicks off with The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent on the 24th.
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