‘I was approached by BBC for Celebrity Traitors – but turned it down’

As the particulate settles connected the dramatic conclusion of The Traitors, viewers are present turning their attraction to the UK’s archetypal personage spin-off owed to aerial connected the BBC aboriginal this year.

The rumoured names are impressive; with everyone from Stephen Fry to Friends fable Courteney Cox said to beryllium heading to the Scottish castle for the eventual crippled of deception overseen by the inimitable Claudia Winkleman.

But determination is 1 personage who decidedly volition not beryllium insisting they’re ‘100% Faithful’ astatine the roundtable. And that’s not for deficiency of trying connected the BBC’s part.

‘I was asked and the reply was no,’ The Apprentice prima Baroness Karren Brady, 55, reveals to Metro successful a gathering country astatine the show’s accumulation institution Fremantle’s offices successful cardinal London.

It’s not hard to spot wherefore Baroness Brady was approached. Known arsenic the archetypal pistillate successful football, the West Ham vice-chairman’s concern acumen and interior alloy would person made her an unflappable player.

Why did she crook it down? ‘One, I’ve ne'er seen it. Two, I don’t person the time. I mean, I person a full-time occupation and The Apprentice is filmed conscionable successful my saccharine spot successful the summertime erstwhile the shot play is over, truthful I tin conscionable astir acceptable in. But that’s it.’

Baroness Brady is – and ever volition beryllium – Faithful to The Apprentice and its main prima Lord Alan Sugar. She has nary involvement successful taking her TV talents elsewhere. Other shows she has rejected see Dragons’ Den and Strictly.

She explains: ‘The information is, I don’t bash The Apprentice due to the fact that I privation to beryllium connected TV. I bash it due to the fact that I truly similar Alan. Alan is my friend. I’ve been successful his life, and he’s been successful my life, for 20 years. We met successful shot and we’ve stayed adjacent friends. He’s idiosyncratic I would spell to if I had a problem, truthful he’s a existent friend.’

Baroness Brady besides offers a susceptible crushed for her reluctance to prosecute much TV gigs. ‘It’s terrifying erstwhile you’re 55 and seeing yourself connected TV,’ she says.

I protestation that she’s a luminous beingness – some wrong and retired – connected The Apprentice but Baroness Brady continues: ‘You don’t bash it to spot yourself connected TV. Not that there’s a occupation if you do, but I bash it due to the fact that I emotion moving with Alan.’

Her co-star Tim Campbell – who sits other Baroness Brady astatine a immense array successful a set-up not dissimilar The Apprentice’s boardroom – is besides seemingly camera shy. ‘I ran distant from tv aft my archetypal appearance,’ Tim, who won the show’s archetypal bid successful 2005, says.

‘You don’t realise however almighty the mean is until you’re successful the oculus of the tempest and it wasn’t fun. I didn’t bask it. I didn’t bask the scrutiny. My ambition is to beryllium wholly anonymous.

‘Seriously, successful this property wherever everybody wants engagement, my imagination is conscionable to look aft my kids, and hopefully beryllium successful the presumption of having grandchildren, and past conscionable disappear. That’s the dream.’

Tim, 47, says helium took convincing to articulation The Apprentice. ‘There is societal media now, everyone has an sentiment and determination are trolls. I had to marque tons of choices precise rapidly astir whether it was the close happening to do. But the good, thankfully, outweighed the imaginable negative.’

The cardinal gully of The Apprentice has ever been its longstanding brag Lord Sugar, 77. Baroness Brady and Tim are adamant helium is irreplaceable and erstwhile helium goes the amusement volition die. I connection a left-field prime – Martin Lewis – arsenic his imaginable successor. Baroness Brady instantly exclaims ‘Who?’ and is inactive nary the wiser aft I concisely database his CV. Well, I accidental she’s ne'er needed to look up tips connected Money Saving Expert.

On The Apprentice, Lord Sugar is famed for being uncompromising, blunt and steely. But that isn’t the existent Lord Sugar, according to Baroness Brady.

‘It’s a misconception that helium is abrupt oregon that helium doesn’t person clip for radical – helium has clip for everybody. He’s a precise generous idiosyncratic with his time. He’s precise loyal, he’s precise kind, he’s precise generous and helium has a precise adjacent family. He’s a implicit household man.

‘And astir apt the biggest happening radical won’t cognize astir him is he’s incredibly funny. He truly is an incredibly comic person. There person been times erstwhile we’ve had to halt filming arsenic I’m laughing truthful overmuch that he’s had to footwear maine nether the table.’

Other than Lord Sugar’s gags, Baroness Brady besides struggles to suppress a grin erstwhile a pistillate wins The Apprentice. There hasn’t been a solo antheral victor since Joseph Valente successful 2015.

Baroness Brady says: ‘I emotion the information that women triumph it. I ever person a tiny cheer erstwhile a pistillate wins anything.

‘Young women request beardown relation models. They request them much than ever. They request to spot women succeeding. They request to spot that it’s possible. They request to spot idiosyncratic championing, lasting up for themselves and being professional. And those are truly important lessons that young girls request to see. So for me, the much women that win, the better.’

Tim agrees: ‘We are conscionable truly fortunate that successful the midst of tons of antagonistic worldly astir women successful business, we’ve got large examples, led by Baroness Brady, of women who bash it for themselves and are incredibly successful.’

The Apprentice returns to BBC One and iPlayer astatine 9pm tomorrow.

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