List of The Apprentice candidates (UK series two)

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.

Syed Ahmed (born 17 September 1974, Bangladesh) is an entrepreneur and a former restaurant manager. His family moved to London at an early age and he grew up in East London. He came close to being fired in week 4 after overspending on ingredients in the catering task, but later impressed Sir Alan by successfully negotiating a large sale of fuel cans in week 8. He was dismissed in week 10 in his fifth appearance in the boardroom.

Nargis Ara (born 1967, Bangladesh) has an honours degree in pharmacy and is a PhD student. She was the most highly educated of all the contestants, although her experience lay mainly in pharmaceutical research. She was fired in week 2 after deciding to use cats as the theme for a children's charity calendar and displaying poor sales skills during the task. It has since been revealed by contestant Alexa Tilley that the team were given no choice in this matter, a fact that was not revealed to the television audience.

Ruth Badger (born 1978) had previously been employed as a Sales Manager and a senior management executive for Compass Finance prior to appearing on the Apprentice. She implied that she had only 3 GCSEs (in week 11 she stated that she and Michelle had 5 GCSEs and no degrees between them). Badger was on the losing team for 7 of the 10 tasks. She eventually finished as the runner-up, reaching the final. Since her appearance, Badger has presented her own programme called Badger or Bust.

Karen Bremner (born 6 November 1971, Canada) obtained a diploma in legal practice and a Bachelor of Laws degree and was previously employed as a lawyer. She won as project manager in the first week, but Sir Alan unexpectedly dismissed her in Episode 3, telling her "I don't need another corporate lawyer." In all other series of the Apprentice, the winning project manager has survived until at least Week 8. Bremner had a number of radio and television appearances and was the business correspondent for Scottish talk radio station Talk107. Bremner now owns a boutique, karenB, based in Broughty Ferry in Scotland, for which she has won a Young Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award.

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