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THE NEW APPRENTICES

KATE Middleton’s former boss is one of the hopefuls due to take part in the new series of The Apprentice.

Others include a quantum physicist, a housewife, a former Army lieutenant and a woman who was offered a job as a secret agent with MI5, but turned it down to appear on the programme.

All 16 lambs-to-the-slaughter are hoping for a £100,000 a year job with business tycoon Sir Alan Sugar but each week one will be booted off with the now infamous words “You’re fired”.

One of the group includes bankrupt waiter Rory Laing. He has fallen on hard times after once running a catering firm which supplied the Henley Regatta with posh public-school bar staff.

Prince William’s girlfriend Kate was one of his employees.

Having beaten over 10,000 applicants to appear on the show, the contestants face a much tougher job – winning over the stern Sir Alan.

He said: “This is the job interview from hell.”

Some of this year’s tasks involve selling sweets at London Zoo and designing accessories for pet pooches.

Two separate teams will live together in a mansion in Notting Hill, west London.

The third series will be shown on BBC1 rather than BBC2, thanks to its enormous success.

Source: The Mirror