Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unknown individuals rather than professional actors. Reality television came to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the global successes of the series Survivor, Idols, and Big Brother, all of which became global franchises. Reality television shows tend to be interspersed with "confessionals", short interview segments in which cast members reflect on or provide context for the events being depicted on-screen. Competition-based reality shows typically feature gradual elimination of participants, either by a panel of judges or by the viewership of the show.
The Apprentice is a British business-styled reality game show, created by Mark Burnett, distributed by Fremantle and broadcast by the BBC. Based upon the American original of the same name and billed as the "job interview from hell", the programme focuses on a group of aspiring businesspeople competing against each other in a series of business related challenges, in order to win a prize offered by British business magnate Alan Sugar. Produced by a number of companies over the course of the show's history, including Talkback Thames and United Artists Media Group, each series consists of around twelve episodes, and were initially aired either around early/late Spring, before later series began their broadcasts around Autumn. The show initially was aired on BBC Two, before the programme's success led the BBC to move the show to BBC One from the start of the third series in 2007.
Following the show, Nick gave an interview, speaking about his time on the show and his company Whisk, the product of which was pitched during the Apprentice final. Nick studied International Business and spent a year placement working as an investment analyst for Deutsche Bank in Germany.
Ricky Martin
Age: 26; Occupation: Recruitment Entrepreneur - Managing Director of Hyper Recruitment Solutions (HRS)[38] Eventual Winner of series 8. He also won (Season 2 episode 3) BBC's Total Wipeout under the nickname 'Unassuming Ricky' - Witness the fitness!
After being announced the winner of The Apprentice Series 8 Ricky set up Hyper Recruitment Solutions (HRS) alongside Lord Alan Sugar out of Loughton, Essex. This is a specialist science and technology recruitment consultancy supporting companies across the EU. Ricky is a qualified biochemist from Cardiff University[40], a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry[41], and a certified professional recruiter. Whilst running HRS, Ricky has taken part in a number of public events as a speaker supporting careers in apprenticeships, science and the life of an entrepreneur. This includes talks at the Royal Veterinary College, University of Oxford, Veolia Environnement and is also an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s & Dementia society regularly taking part and talking at their key events.
Before The Apprentice Ricky was also known for being a professional wrestling performing under the ring name Ricky Hype. He has been a UK Heavyweight and an International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom tag team champion as 'Ricky Hype', with Joel Redman, Doug Basham a Mark Haskins, and a RPW Undisputed British Tag Team Championship with Basham & Haskins. Ricky performed across the UK and EU, wrestling against the likes of Wade Barrett, Sheamus, Al Snow, Billy Kidman and other well known talent from the WWE.[42] Ricky also competed on Total Wipeout where he finished in first place on his first episode. He later finished in eighth place on the final episode of the series.
Jane McEvoy
Age: 28; Occupation: Co-founder of Food Manufacturing Company[43]
Jade Nash
Age: 29; Occupation: Business Development Manager[44]
Gabrielle spoke in depth about her time on the show in an interview, as well as discussing her future plans and how she feels the format of the Apprentice TV show could be changed to produce better results.
Azhar Siddique
Age: 33; Occupation: Founder and Managing Director of Catering and Refrigeration Company[49]
Age: 26; Occupation: Editorial and Research Director[55]
An interview saw Katie speak about her time on the show, her future plans and how she responded to "lads mags" approaching her for glamour shots.
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Series eight of The Apprentice (UK), a British reality television series, was broadcast in the UK during 2012, from 21 March to 3 June on BBC One. It is the last series to be produced by Talkback Thames, before FremantleMedia assigned production towards Boundless for subsequent series. While only one minor change was made to the format of the first task, the general format of the programme remained virtually unchanged. Alongside the standard twelve episodes, two specials were aired alongside this series – "The Final Five" on 29 May, and "Why I Fired Them" on 2 June.
Series ten of The Apprentice (UK), a British reality television series, was broadcast in the UK during 2014, from 14 October to 21 December on BBC One; due to live coverage in Summer of that year for both the FIFA World Cup and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the BBC postponed the series' broadcast until Autumn to avoid clashing with these. It is the last series to feature Nick Hewer as Alan Sugar's aide, who left the programme following the series finale, with the tenth series featuring a guest appearance from Ricky Martin, winner of the eighth series, as an interviewer for the Interviews Stage for this series only.
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