Alan Sugar
Sir Alan Sugar is in talks to do a junior version of ‘The Apprentice’.
Sir Alan - who acts as mentor on the BBC business show where hopefuls battle for the opportunity to work for him - isn’t keen on running a celebrity series of ‘The Apprentice’, preferring a version for young people.
Sir Alan said: "The Americans do a full on celebrity version of the show, and I don’t know how successful that was. What we are going to do is a junior apprentice, that’s something we’re discussing with the BBC."
Presently, a short celebrity version of the business show, ‘Comic Relief Does the Apprentice’, is produced for the BBC’s Comic Relief charity appeal, with 10 celebrities .. five male five female .. battling it out over two days.
Sir Alan added he would have loved to have included straight talking British journalist Jeremy Paxman as a contestant on the most recent show - which aired earlier this month.
He said: "I think we may have approached Jeremy but I don’t do the recruitment for these things, it would be good if we did have him on though.
"I’d like to get into a debate with him one day, without him having a day to think up the questions to make people seem awkward. I’d like to see how clever he is then."
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