http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-4226-the-apprentice/topic-rss.do The Apprentice RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23721480-battle-over-elected-peers-as-sir-alan-sugar-enters-lords.do Sir Alan Sugar takes his seat in the Lords as a fresh row erupted over whether peers should be elected 2009-07-20T07:45:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23715176-reality-tv-shows-are-aesops-fables-for-modern-times.do Among the great and good, the wise and wonderful, there is a tendency to condemn reality TV 2009-07-03T07:42:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23713147-sir-alan-sugar-faces-sexism-hearing.do 2009-06-29T09:22:18Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23706807-hugh-joins-other-chefs-with-a-beef.do Gordon Ramsay is not the only high-profile celebrity chef having a hard time of it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the old Etonian contemporary of David Cameron, is not exactly flush with cash. 2009-06-12T07:05:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23704714-yasmina-tastes-success-on-the-apprentice-after-final-chocolate-task.do Restaurant owner Yasmina Siadatan won a job with Sir Alan Sugar following a shock final of The Apprentice 2009-06-08T06:30:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23704224-women-on-top.do As Sir Alan Sugar faces an all-female Apprentice final between ice-cool Kate Walsh and fiery Yasmina Siadatan, has the tide turned? 2009-06-05T08:26:13Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23703864-youre-fired-gordon-or-is-sir-alan-a-new-no10-apprentice.do Sir Alan Sugar, the star of TV's The Apprentice, produced a swirl of rumours around Westminster today as he visited 10 Downing Street 2009-06-04T13:44:15Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23684401-sir-alan-sugar-has-found-a-new-generation-of-bstards.do Ben Clarke, the squat, brace-wearing yuppie parody of The Apprentice, is, at 22, too young to remember the film Wall Street, which was released the year he was born. But the spirit of Gordon Gekko lives on in him, as it does in almost all of this season's vile bodies 2009-05-01T07:58:10Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23676759-were-still-suckers-for-your-get-rich-quick-con-sir-alan.do We take The Apprentice as a personal insult in the Groskop family. Especially my dad, a salesman all his life 2009-04-16T08:21:34Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23667207-the-girls-are-a-washout-in-sir-alan-sugars-soap-opera-of-pure-naked-ambition.do There has never before, in the annals of television, been a programme so exquisitely tailored to our need for an exposé of the emperor's new clothes 2009-03-26T09:29:04Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23663679-sorry-sir-alan-youre-yesterdays-man.do EVEN the publicity picture of the contestants with their "me, me, me" poses, pinstripe suits and stilettos, against a backdrop of Canary Wharf, says it all. The Apprentice, the fifth series of which was launched yesterday but screens next week, is suddenly looking very dated indeed. 2009-03-18T09:58:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23663063-meet-the-apprentices-mkv.do A Tanzanian beauty queen, an award-winning restaurateur and an ex-professional footballer are among the new batch of aspiring tycoons hoping to land a job with Sir Alan Sugar 2009-03-17T08:50:10Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23610334-trump-casinos-must-revamp-debt-in-days.do <strong>Leisure:</strong> Property tycoon Donald Trump's casino empire has been given until 21 January to negotiate a debt restructuring after it missed an interest payment 2009-01-02T09:08:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-23589638-advance-to-mayfair-for-a-hotel-feast.do Avista is streets ahead of its peers, using top-quality ingredients that speak for themselves. 2008-11-19T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23544813-channel-five-scores-a-zero-as-ads-slump.do Even the cult soap Neighbours cannot save broadcaster Channel Five from slumping ad revenues 2008-08-26T13:00:58Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23544388-apprentice-star-claire-young-my-killer-high-heels-wrecked-my-spine---and-left-me-in-agony.do Apprentice finalist Claire Young strutted to television fame wearing her trademark four-inch high-heeled shoes - but the footware left her unable to move and frozen in agony. 2008-08-25T22:46:58Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23542279-oh-christine-youve-set-my-olympic-torch-aflame.do For some of us the Olympics are always painful. There are fans - and fairweather fans. And then you have those who require a meteorological explosion of Biblical proportions before they develop any kind of interest at all 2008-08-21T08:17:57Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23531009-my-fight-to-save-my-fertility-and-how-i-survived-sir-alan.do Radio shows, TV presenting - the offers have rolled in since Lucinda Ledgerwood was fired from The Apprentice. But alternative medicine is where her passion lies 2008-08-12T07:32:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23531168-lucinda-ledgerwood-fights-back.do Radio shows, TV presenting – the offers have rolled in since Lucinda Ledgerwood was fired from The Apprentice. But alternative medicine is where her passion lies. 2008-08-12T11:00:26Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23495186-revealed-apprentice-runner-up-claires-fling-with-zara-phillipss-boyfriend.do She might be disappointed to have lost out at the eleventh hour in The Apprentice, but it is not the first time star Claire Young has been second best. 2008-06-15T12:08:34Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23494826-apprentice-winner-lee-mcqueens-heartbreak-over-parents-divorce.do Apprentice winner Lee McQueen looks a typical cheeky 11-year-old as he messes around with his cousins at a family get-together. But within a few years his happy home life was torn apart when his parents split. 2008-06-14T01:46:09Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23494597-alans-theatre-of-cruelty-is-office-life-as-we-live-it.do The Apprentice has been a runaway success, says Liz Hoggard, because our relationships and lives are so shaped by the workplace 2008-06-13T11:50:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23494067-jaci-stephens-apprentice-watch-finalists-enjoy-the-last-supper.do There are so many questions Claire could have asked S'rAlan during her 12 weeks on The Apprentice, but no. She was clearly saving it all up for the final: 'Are we having three courses, S'rAlan?' 2008-06-11T22:53:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23493711-as-claire-becomes-the-bookies-favourite-are-any-of-sir-alans-finalists-really-worth-pound100000.do Today sees the conclusion of The Apprentice. Here, we get under the skin of the final four as Sir Alan is about to decide who is his Apprentice. 2008-06-10T22:28:29Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23492819-apprentice-losers-may-end-up-real-winners-as-finalists-prepare-for-boardroom-showdown.do After 11 weeks of gruelling competition, the finalists on this year's The Apprentice line up for a final time before one is crowned champion 2008-06-09T12:26:13Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23491878-william8217s-friend-the-specs-tycoon-only-has-eyes-for-apprentice-star-michelle.do She is the former supermarket checkout girl who won The Apprentice and went to work for Sir Alan Sugar. 2008-06-07T23:38:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23486775-alan-sugar-does-have-a-booster-seat-and-weve-got-the-picture-to-prove-it.do With a fortune of more than £800million, he walks tall in the business world. But in The Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar is apparently given help to take the high ground over contestants. 2008-05-22T19:07:06Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23483374-he-really-should-have-fired-the-bloody-lot.do If The Apprentice is to keep its place as the top reality show, it must sharpen up its own recruitment policy and give us contestants worthy of the Boss 2008-05-09T12:04:31Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23474958-youre-fixed-apprentice-show-caught-in-second-fixing-row.do The Apprentice has been caught in a second fixing row as it was revealed hopeful contestant Michael Sophocles worked for a firm with close ties to the show. The 25-year-old telesales worker was employed by the publisher of the TV hit's official magazine, it has been revealed 2008-04-05T14:12:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23459915-sir-alan-makes-his-apprentices-feel-at-home.do Contestants on the new series of The Apprentice have been given their coolest shared house yet - a &pound;5million converted warehouse in Battersea 2008-03-20T08:52:04Z