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Kent Contestant Taking on Boardroom in New Apprentice Series
The 20th series features 20 candidates competing in 12 episodes with tasks including live TV sales and a corporate away day in Egypt, for a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar.
- The BBC announced the 20th series launches on January 29 with 20 candidates competing for Lord Alan Sugar's advertised 250,000 investment.
- Producers say the 20th series will try something different, adding tasks like creating a children's book, selling live on television, and a corporate away day in El Gouna, Egypt, with the boardroom set in Hong Kong for episode one.
- Andrea Cooper, 46-year-old grandmother and lettings agency owner, runs two businesses while raising five children and one grandchild and earned a first-class midwifery degree at 40.
- The series' elimination format puts immediate scaling pressure on contestants with commercial aims as Lord Alan Sugar, Baroness Karren Brady and Tim Campbell whittle down candidates across 12 episodes.
- The cohort includes tech founders, pharmacists, PR specialists and mortgage brokers from across the UK and Ireland, with candidates like AI consultant Tanmay Hingorani and pharmacist-turned-beauty founder Roxanne Hamedi.
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