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BBC News
17-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
The Apprentice final: Lord Sugar picks between Anisa Khan and Dean Franklin
Warning: This story contains spoilers about the Apprentice winner Lord Sugar has hired his newest business partner in the final of the 19th series of The had a choice between Anisa Khan, who sells Indian food-flavoured pizzas, and Dean Franklin, who runs an air conditioning company, in a battle he billed as "chilli versus the chiller".The final signalled the end of a bruising 12-week process that started with 18 budding entrepreneurs vying to become Lord Sugar's latest protégé.In the end, Lord Sugar chose to give his £250,000 investment to Dean, from Essex, despite noting there had been "a few rocky moments" where he had only remained in the programme "by the skin of your teeth". "I can't believe I've just won The Apprentice," Dean said. "This is going to mean the world to me and my family. My kids are going to be over the moon."He made it through to the final despite having a difficult time in the penultimate episode, the interviews with Lord Sugar's famously tough froze and started laughing after one interviewer, Mike Soutar, challenged his nonsensical claims about climate change, including that there was "an increase in climate control" and "the climate zone is depleting".He was also asked about his company's website, which says his engineers would "always treat your home as if it were their own". Soutar then produced a picture from Dean's social media showing a sex toy that he had stuck to a customer's air conditioning unit. In the final, the show's previously fired contestants returned to help Dean and Anisa create advertising campaigns for their tasked some of his team-mates with making a TV ad - which had to be hastily reshot because it showed someone being persuaded to buy air conditioning to heat up their house, not cool it the episode, Lord Sugar said air conditioning made Dean an "honest living" but he needed to show a "scalable proposition".Ownership of Dean's company was previously split between his existing business partner and their two wives, with each having a 25% Sugar will now be given the wives' 50% in return for his asked Dean: "They'll give it to me and they won't get the hump over that then, will they? They won't make you sleep in the spare bedroom?"Dean assured him: "They know the plan. We're still married so what's mine is hers. So it makes no difference."The amount Lord Sugar invests has remained the same since 2011, and previous winner Tom Pellereau - the first to receive that sum - said: "Fourteen years ago, £250,000 went quite a lot further than it does today."My controversial point is, I do think they should double the money."I think £500,000 or £1m would be an incredible prize," Pellereau told BBC Radio 5 Apprentice final is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
BBC News
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Celebrity football match in Bognor raises funds for charity
A charity football match in West Sussex involving soap actors, reality TV stars and TikTok influencers was a "huge success", organisers have than 700 people attended the match at Bognor Regis Town FC's Nyewood Lane on Sunday, which raised funds for children's hospice Chestnut Tree those playing was Sussex-based Phil Turner, who finished runner-up in series 18 of The said he was "chuffed" so many attended and donated, adding: "The work Chestnut Tree House do is simply wonderful." A spokesperson for the charity said: "Thanks to support from the local community, children and families who know they don't have long together have the chance to live life to the full and say goodbye in the way that is right for them."The generosity of the local community makes this happen."Ex-England cricketer Monty Panesar, former EastEnders actors Ricky Groves and Dean Gaffney, and Calum Best, the son of football legend George Best, also played in the match. The charity said almost £6m was needed every year to fund Chestnut Tree House, which provides hospice care services and community support for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in East and West Sussex and spokesperson said the majority of its funds came from donations and fundraising.
