The 18 - yes, 18! - brand new candidates battling it out on this year’s series of ‘The Apprentice’ have been unveiled.
Over the course of the new series, the hopefuls will be taking part in a series of business-related tasks (or, y’know, tasks very loosely linked with business), in the hopes of impressing Lord Alan Sugar, and winning his £250K investment.
The 18 competitors have backgrounds as diverse as hairdressing, the military, sports marketing and circus performing, while their combined role models include Hugh Hefner, Emma Watson, and Victoria Beckham.
In other words, yeah. It’s a pretty mixed bag.
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'The Apprentice' 2015: Meet The Candidates
Aisha Kasim(01 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 26Business inspiration: Victoria BeckhamSample quote: "Pressure makes diamonds. It's something I respond well to, I think it's go hard or go home." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
April Jackson(02 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 26Business inspiration: Skinny Girl Cocktails' Bethenny FrankelSample quote: "I'm Jamaican. We come first, we win on the track and we will win in the boardroom." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Brett Butler-Smythe(03 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 28Sample quote: "I pride myself on not having any negative or bad traits about myself, they're all good, they're all positive." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Charleine Wain(04 of18)
Open Image ModalAge 31:Sample quote: "I would describe myself as very determined, ambitious, and I always want to show that women can succeed in business." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Dan Callaghan(05 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 23Business inspiration: Amazon's Jeff BezosSample quote: "I'm just a generally all round quite entertaining person, I think. A lot of people laugh at me." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
David Stevenson(06 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 25Business inspiration: Elon MuskSample quote: "Me and Lord Sugar will work together because you've got age and beauty and those two go hand in hand all the time. Sugar's got the age and I certainly am beautiful." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Elle Stevenson(07 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 21Business inspiration: Taylor SwiftSample quote: "I hate anything mediocre - I can't be middle. I hate being the person that comes second... I've never been the person that comes second. I'd rather be the one who fell over at the start of the race and never make it to the finish line." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Gary Poulton(08 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 34Sample quote: "I look like the nice, easy going, laidback Brummie but once I start doing my business, people know I'm the real deal." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Jenny Garbis(09 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 23Business inspiration: Emma Watson's 'He For She' campaignSample quote: "You will see my name in lights - Jenny Garbis, don't forget that. That's going to be a global name. That's going to be an entrepreneur everyone looks up to." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Joseph Valente(10 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 25Role model: Hugh HefnerSample quote: "I am the definition of success, I'm a godfather of business and I'm here to make Lord Sugar a lot of money." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Mergim Butaja(11 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 23Sample quote: "Why am I a worthy business partner for Lord Sugar? I'd be a challenge to him. Everyone he's met probably sucks up to him. I won't. I'll tell him like it is." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Natalie Dean(12 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 25Business inspiration: Liv Garfield, the CEO of Severn TrentSample quote: "If I set my mind to something, I won't quit until I have done it." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Richard Woods(13 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 31Business inspiration: Richard BransonSample quote: "I'm a Swiss army knife of bouncy skills, business skills, enthusiasm, I've got everything highly-tuned and highly-chiselled." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Ruth Whiteley(14 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 47Sample quote: "Lord Sugar might think I'm a bit gushing, he might find me over-zealous, but I think he'll think I'm great." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Sam Curry(15 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 23Business inspiration: Richard BransonSample quote: "I'm an interesting mix between happy go lucky and adventurous and then quite logical and sensible. It's a strange combination." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Scott Saunders(16 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 27Sample quote: "People do say to me they've never met anyone like me." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Selina Waterman-Smith(17 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 31Sample quote: "I am strong-minded; I do like to be the leader." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Vana Koutsomitis(18 of18)
Open Image ModalAge: 27Business inspiration: Ashton KutcherSample quote: "I believe this is a marathon and if you have stamina and if you do things with integrity, morals and direction, you can get where you want to go." (credit:Jim Marks/Boundless)
Speaking about the forthcoming series, Lord Sugar admitted: “It sometimes gets a bit underestimated because this is an incredible opportunity. A new company will be formed and £250,000 will be injected in there, no strings attached. The bottom line is, this process works.
“I’ve invested one million pounds in all four winners and all four of those people are doing fantastically well and I’m expecting the winner of this particular process to carry on that trend. £250,000, it’s an acorn which we want grown into a great oak tree.”
Helping him make his decisions this year will be Karren Brady and Claude Littner, who replaces Nick Hewer, following his departure from the show.
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