List of The Apprentice candidates (UK series twelve)

The following is a list of candidates from the British reality television series The Apprentice.

Candidates are listed alphabetically by series; individual candidate information is accessed by clicking on their name below.

Where a date of birth is not provided, the age given is as of the time the relevant series aired.

Frances Bishop, aged 25, is the owner of a children's clothing company. She lives in Doncaster with her husband, Scunthorpe United midfielder Neal Bishop. They have one child together, Oscar. Bishop also competed in several beauty pageants, including Miss Nottingham and Miss Great Britain. Despite dropping out of university, she managed to open up her own boutique that specializes in children's apparel. She describes herself as a "pocket rocket", talkative with a feisty personality, but extremely unorganized. She also describes herself as anti-WAG, a woman who should be independent and successful without the help of a boyfriend/husband who is a professional athlete.

Bishop was on the Nebula team for most of the tasks, which lost the first six in a row, tying the record for most tasks lost consecutively with fellow teammate Rebecca Jeffrey and Elle Stevenson from last year's series. She was appointed project manager for the boat show task, and led Nebula to its first victory in a landslide result. Despite the change in fortunes, Bishop only won just one other task in the process, and appeared twice in the final boardroom. Bishop's eight losses also tied with Series 7 winner Tom Pellereau for the most amount of tasks lost in a series. This worked against her in the interviews stage, with Claude Littner even asking how she lasted so long in the process.

Her business plan was to expand her clothing shops across the United Kingdom. However, Lord Sugar was concerned over how her business could be scaled into a nationwide brand, along with serious concerns over her organizational skills. These glaring issues were ultimately fatal and she was fired once she reached the final three.

Samuel Boateng, aged 27, is an area sales manager in London. He is also responsible for managing and generating new business for over 700 companies across the London area.

Despite top selling throughout the tasks, Boateng came under fire from Lord Sugar and his advisor, Claude Littner, for not listening to his teammates on two occasions.

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