Alan Sugar
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The Right Honourable The Lord Sugar Kt |
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Sugar at the 2009 BAFTAs
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Alan Michael Sugar 24 March 1947 Hackney, East London, England |
| Residence | Chigwell, Essex, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, celebrity, author, politician |
| Political party | Independent (2015-) Labour(1997–2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Simons, Lady Sugar (m. 1968) |
| Children | The Hon. Simon Sugar The Hon. Daniel Sugar The Hon. Louise Sugar |
| HM Government Enterprise Advisor | |
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Assumed office 25 May 2016 |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 20 July 2009 Life Peerage |
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Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar, Kt (born 24 March 1947) is an English business magnate, media personality, politician and political adviser. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Sugar joined the “billionaire’s club" in 2015 and in 2016 they estimated his fortune at £1.15bn, and ranked him as the 95th richest person in the UK. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the consumer electronics company Amstrad, his largest and best-known business venture.
Sugar was chairman of Tottenham Hotspur from 1991 to 2001. Sugar appears in the BBC TV series The Apprentice, which has been broadcast annually since 2005 and is based upon the popular US television show of the same name.
Sugar was born in Hackney, east London, into a Jewish family. He is the youngest of four children of Fay (1907–1994) and Nathan Sugar (1907–1987). His father was a tailor in the garment industry of the East End.
When Sugar was young, his family lived in a council flat. Because of his profuse, curly hair, he was nicknamed "Mop head", a name that he still goes by in the present day. He attended Northwold Primary School and then Brooke House Secondary School in Upper Clapton, Hackney, and made extra money by working at a greengrocers. After leaving school at 16, he worked briefly for the civil service as a statistician at the Ministry of Education. He started selling car antennas ("aerials") and other electrical goods out of a van which he had bought for £50 and insured for £8. To afford this, he withdrew all of his postal savings which totaled just £100.
Lord Sugar is an atheist, but remains "proud" of his Jewish heritage. Sugar and his wife Ann (née Simons) married on 28 April 1968; they have two sons and a daughter. Sugar and his wife live in Chigwell, Essex. They celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on 11 May 2008 with a party at their home, where Sir Bruce Forsyth was the compere, Jackie Mason the comic and Sir Elton John played a set. His niece through marriage is actress Rita Simons, best known for playing Roxy Mitchell on the popular UK soap opera EastEnders.
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