The Apprentice final 2014: What past winners are doing now

Bianca Miller and Mark Wright will go head to head on Sunday night

Jess Denham
Friday 19 December 2014 09:43 EST
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Past Apprentice winners Lee McQueen, Leah Totton and Ricky Martin
Past Apprentice winners Lee McQueen, Leah Totton and Ricky Martin (BBC)

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Bianca Miller and Mark Wright have made it through to this year’s Apprentice final and will battle to secure Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment on Sunday night.

Miller hopes that her business plan to make hosiery for different skin tones will triumph over top salesman Mark’s vision for a digital marketing company, but the competition is wide open at this stage.

The series is in its tenth year, so what better time to take a look back on the past decade and check up on what previous winners have been doing since Lord Sugar hired them.

None of the first six victors are currently working for the business magnate, while recent winners Leah Totton, Ricky Martin and Tom Pellereau are all benefiting from the format shake-up that sees Lord Sugar help them launch businesses.

Then of course there was Stella English, who took Lord Sugar to court for allegedly treating her like an "overpaid lackey".

It is not just the winers who have proved successful since The Apprentice - media commentator Katie Hopkins and Celebrity Big Brother contestant Luisa Zissman both rose to fame on the show.

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