Former Apprentice bighead Tre Azam has been charged with falsely claiming housing and tax benefits.

Epping Forest Council have accused Azam of claiming more than £7,000 in benefits while all the time working for a marketing consultancy firm.

Azam has also been accused of using the bank accounts os various family members without informing them.
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Tre Azam has been criticised for being too miserable by former Apprentice contestant, Syed Ahmed.

“He’s got great business acumen but he needs to lighten up a bit,” Syed told the Daily Star Sunday. “Who would want to work with someone miserable? He’s got a long way to go to be like me, that’s for sure.”

Anyone who has been watching this series of BBC One’s Apprentice show with Sir Alan Sugar will surely be familiar with Tre Azam. That’s right, he’s the cocky one who loves himself more than anyone else ever could. Those of us are getting a little bit fed up with Tre’s mouthiness and ego will be in for a pleasant surprise tonight as Tre is left lost for words when he is given his latest task.

Sir Alan Sugar has arranged for the teams to sell pieces of modern art at an exhibition, but Tre gets cold feet when he realises that some of the pieces are rather racy, and even show bare breasts! Surely not!

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As Sir Alan Sugar’s search for an apprentice approaches the half-way point, he decides to throw the candidates completely out of their comfort zones. He calls them to Christie’s, in London’s St James’s, where works of art regularly sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds. The candidates’ task is to choose photographs and then sell them in a fashionable east London gallery.

Natalie – a housewife with a business Masters Degree – is project manager of the Eclipse team. They are split on the best approach: should they go in for the kill or do artists and their customers prefer a softly, softly approach? Over on the other team, marketing consultant Tre objects to some nude photographs which his project manager, Kristina, has chosen.

If all goes well, the teams could sell thousands of pounds’ worth of photographs. One team still has to lose, however, and after a grilling from Sir Alan in the boardroom, one person in that team will get fired.

Wednesday 25 April
9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE

Tre Azam

Age: 27
Qualifications: 2 A-Levels
Career: Marketing and Design Consultant
Home town: Loughton, Essex

Profile: Forthright, opinionated and a bit of a maverick, Tre is a tough hard worker who knows what he wants and is determined to get it. He started work aged 10, building PCs in his father’s factory. By the age of 16 he was teaching clients how to build computers and training them in electronics and software. At 17 he was working in his family’s software and hardware business in Europe and Asia before moving to America where he ran the company for over two years. In his teens he spent over a year in hospital recovering from a serious car accident which left him wheelchair bound, however he is now fully recovered. His hobbies include weights, boxing, martial arts and philosophy.

He says: “I’ve applied for The Apprentice because it will give me the opportunity to put myself up against some of the best in the country.”