Alan Sugar, host
I was contacted by the BBC in 2003 to consider doing The Apprentice. I’d heard Donald Trump had been very successful in the American version, so I was up for it. They asked me to find a couple of advisers: Margaret Mountford, my lawyer for many years, and Nick Hewer, my publicity man. It was really an excuse to get across my business acumen, as well as to become a TV personality. It was very exciting.
