List of The Apprentice candidates (UK series twelve)

The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice.

Candidates are listed alphabetically by series; individual candidate information is accessed by clicking on their name below.

Table of contents
Series One[1][2]	Lindsay Bogaard Timothy Campbell Raj Dhonota Rachel Groves Saira Khan Ben Leary Adele Lock James Max Adenike Ogundoyin Matthew Palmer Miranda Rose Sebastian Schrimpff Miriam Staley Paul Torrisi
Series Two[3][4]	Syed Ahmed Nargis Ara Ruth Badger Karen Bremner Jo Cameron Michelle Dewberry Ansell Henry Samuel Judah Tuan Le Sharon McAllister Mani Sandher Ben Stanberry Alexa Tilley Paul Tulip
Series Three[5][6]	Simon Ambrose Ghazal Asif Tre Azam Gerri Blackwood Paul Callaghan Ifti Chaudhri Kristina Grimes Katie Hopkins Adam Hosker Andy Jackson Jadine Johnson Sophie Kain Lohit Kalburgi Rory Laing Naomi Lay Natalie Wood
Series Four[7][8]	Raef Bjayou Jenny Celerier Nicholas de Lacy-Brown Sara Dhada Lucinda Ledgerwood Jennifer Maguire Lee McQueen Lindi Mngaza Kevin Shaw Simon Smith Michael Sophocles Helene Speight Ian Stringer Shazia Wahab Alex Wotherspoon Claire Young
Series Five[9]	Rocky Andrews Debra Barr Noorul Choudhury Ben Clarke Kimberly Davis Howard Ebison Adam Freeman Paula Jones Mona Lewis James McQuillan Majid Nagra Anita Shah Yasmina Siadatan Philip Taylor Lorraine Tighe Kate Walsh
Series Six[10]	Raleigh Addington Stuart Baggs Chris Bates Melissa Cohen Stella English Alex Epstein Christopher Farrell Dan Harris Jamie Lester Elizabeth Locke Laura Moore Joanna Riley Shibby Robati Sandeesh Samra Shibby Robati Joy Stefanicki Paloma Vivanco
Series Seven[11]	Edna Agbarha Zoe Beresford Alex Britez Cabral Vincent Disneur Leon Doyle Jim Eastwood Melody Hossaini Edward Hunter Felicity Jackson Susan Ma Helen Louise Milligan Tom Pellereau Ellie Reed Natasha Scribbins Glenn Ward Gavin Winstanley
Series Eight[12]	Bilyana Apostolova Stephen Brady Duane Bryan Michael Copp Adam Corbally Tom Gearing Laura Hogg Nick Holzherr Ricky Martin Jane McEvoy Jade Nash Maria O'Connor Gabrielle Omar Azhar Siddique Jenna Whittingham Katie Wright
Series Nine[13]	Jaz Ampaw-Farr Neil Clough Sophie Lau Jason Leech Francesca MacDuff-Varley Alex Mills Myles Mordaunt Natalie Panayi Jordan Poulton Zeeshaan Shah Rebecca Slater Tim Stillwell Leah Totton Kurt Wilson Uzma Yakoob Luisa Zissman
Series Ten[14]	Nurun Ahmed Solomon Akhtar Felipe Alviar-Baquero Jemma Bird Ella Jade Bitton Lindsay Booth Chiles Cartwright Sarah Dales Robert Goodwin James Hill Roisin Hogan Daniel Lassman Scott McCulloch Bianca Miller Lauren Riley Sanjay Sood-Smith Pamela Uddin Steven Ugoalah Mark Wright
Series Eleven[15]	Mergim Butaja Brett Butler-Smythe Dan Callaghan Sam Curry Natalie Dean Jenny Garbis April Jackson Aisha Kasim Vana Koutsomitis Gary Poulton Scott Saunders David Stevenson Elle Stevenson Joseph Valente Charleine Wain Selina Waterman-Smith Ruth Whiteley Richard Woods
Series Twelve[16]	Frances Bishop Samuel Boateng Jessica Cunningham Natalie Hughes Rebecca Jeffery Sofiane Khelfa Aleksandra King Grainne McCoy Karthik Nagesan Michelle Niziol Oliver Nohl-Oser Mukai Noiri JD O'Brien Alana Spencer Dillon St. Paul Paul Sullivan Trishna Thakrar Courtney Wood
References

Where a date of birth is not provided, the age given is as of the time the relevant series aired.

Frances Bishop

Age: 25; Owner of a children's clothing company.

Samuel Boateng

Age: 27; Sales manager for a major car brand. He was fired in Week 7 for ignoring the PM and selling little.^[17]

Jessica Cunningham

Age: 29; Online fashion entrepreneur.

Natalie Hughes

Age: 30; Owner of a hair and beauty salon. She was Fired in Week 2 after she was accused of barely contributing to tasks.^[18]

Rebecca Jeffery

Age: 31; Owner of a design and marketing agency. She was fired in Week 6 having never been on a winning team.

Sofiane Khelfa

Age: 32; Senior sales executive, technology. He was fired in Week 9 for his 'disregard of authority' throughout the process; he was one of two to be fired that week.

Aleksandra King

Age: 38; Owner of a business consultancy. She quit in Week 4 because she found the process 'overwhelming', missed her family and because she felt the process and future partnership would not be in line with her values.^[19]

Grainne McCoy

Age: 31; Owner of a make-up studio.

Karthik Nagesan

Age: 33; Owner of an IT consultancy. He was fired in Week 7 for selling nothing and leading his team to one of the worst defeats in the show's history. Like Elle Stevenson from Series 11, he was fired before he even got to the final boardroom.^[20]

During his time on the show, he was nicknamed "The Big K."

Michelle Niziol

Age: 35; Owner of a property consultancy. Niziol was project manager in week 1 and went on to be fired with Lord Sugar saying "Michelle, it's very easy for the finger to be pointed at you as the project manager. But having said that, I do think that there's a lot of stuff that you are responsible for… Michelle, You're Fired" ^[21]

Oliver Nohl-Oser

Age: 33; Owner of a food distribution company. He was fired in Week 3 after failing in a task related to his working industry.^[22] On the show, Lord Sugar nicknamed him "Porkos, Greek god of sausages." because he ran a business manufacturing sausages. When firing him, Lord Sugar told him "your best hope for £250,000 is to buy yourself a scratch card."

Mukai Noiri

Age: 36; Digital marketing manager, fashion. He was fired in Week 4 for being responsible for his team's failure of the task, as well as failing to deliver on any of his promises.^[23]

JD O'Brien

Age: 37; Owner of a beachwear company. He was fired in Week 5 for a consistent lack of contribution in the tasks, his hands off leadership in and because Lord Sugar felt he was too nice.^[24] JD was the only candidate that Grainne McCoy never worked with during the series.

Alana Spencer

Age: 24; Owner of a cake company.

Dillon St. Paul

Age: 37; Art director at a fashion magazine. He was fired in Week 9 for have a 'too nice' personality for Lord Sugar's liking. However, he was fired with regret.

Paul Sullivan

Age: 38; Owner of a marketing agency. Sullivan was Project Manager in Week 1 and won; this was followed by a five week losing streak. When he took the project manager role again in Week 8, he lost and was fired for losing his cool with fellow candidate Jessica Cunningham.

Trishna Thakrar

Age: 28; Recruitment agent.

Courtney Wood

Age: 29; Owner of a novelty gifts company. During his time on the show, Courtney had the most successful track record of any of the candidates, with 7 wins (excluding Week 2). Thus far, he hasn't been in a final boardroom and following the dismissals of Dillon St. Paul and Sofiane Khelfa in Week 9, Grainne McCoy described him as the "Last man standing."

References

1. "The Apprentice Contestant profiles — the men". BBC. 8 February 2005.
2. "The Apprentice Contestant profiles — the women". BBC. 8 February 2005.
3. "The Apprentice Series Two: Meet the Boys". BBC. 7 February 2006.
4. "The Apprentice Series Two: Meet the Girls". BBC. 7 February 2006.
5. "The Apprentice Series Three: Meet the Boys". BBC. 20 March 2007.
6. "The Apprentice Series Three: Meet the Girls". BBC. 20 March 2007.
7. "The Apprentice Series Four: Meet the Boys". BBC. 18 March 2008.
8. "The Apprentice Series Four: Meet the Girls". BBC. 18 March 2008.
9. "The Apprentice Series 5: Candidates". BBC.
10. "The Apprentice 2010: Candidates". BBC.
11. "The Apprentice 2011: Candidates". BBC.
12. "The Apprentice, Series 8: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2012.
13. "The Apprentice, Series 9: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2013.
14. "The Apprentice, Series 10: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2014.
15. "The Apprentice, Series 11: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2015.
16. "The Apprentice, Series 12: Meet the candidates". BBC One. 2016.
17. "Furious Lord Sugar fires Karthik Nagesan AND Samuel Boateng on The Apprentice after 'diabolical' performance". Daily Mirror. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
18. "Karren Brady is forced to step in and comfort hysterical team leader Jessica Cunningham... as Natalie Hughes winds up fired on The Apprentice". Daily Mail. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
19. "Aleksandra King reveals the real reasons why she walked off The Apprentice". Daily Telegraph. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
20. "'There is no excuse, you have been diabolical!' Lord Sugar shocks The Apprentice candidates with on the spot firing of Karthik Nagesan...before sacking Samuel Boateng for crushing loss in the boat show task". Daily Mail. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
21. "The Apprentice 2016: 'Workaholic' Michelle Niziol is the first contestant to be fired as she leaves Team Nebula scrambling in sales challenge". Daily Mail. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
22. "'It's excruciating to watch!': Viewers brand this year's Apprentice candidates the 'worst ever' after cringe-worthy performances sweet-making task". Daily Mail. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
23. "The Apprentice loses two candidates as Mukai Noiri is fired after Aleksandra King quits". Daily Mirror. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
24. "'We needed Jay-Z and we got JD.' Lord Sugar fired the 'titan leader of men' with the croaky voice when Samuel was saved – amazingly". Daily Mail. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2016.