The Apprentice (UK Series Three)

Series Three of The Apprentice (UK), a British reality television, was broadcast in the UK during 2007 from 28 March to 13 June; it was the first series to be shown on BBC One, after the broadcaster moved it over from BBC Two, though it retained its usual timeslot as before. This series attracted 10,000 applicants and promised "tougher tasks and better people" than before, with Lord Alan Sugar (then Sir Alan at time of broadcast) commenting that he believed that this would prevent the show morphing into a version of "Big Brother on wheels." For this series, the number of candidates was increased to sixteen, and the two teams named Stealth and Eclipse, with Simon Ambrose winning the series.

Two 90-minute specials were aired during the series run. The first programme was titled The Apprentice: Beyond the Boardroom and featured information about the personal lives of each of the semi-finalists. The second, The Apprentice: Why I Fired Them, featured Alan Sugar revealing his reasons over why he chose to remove each candidate from the programme.

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On 8 August 2007, police questioned Adam Hosker over allegations of him being involved in a fight over a spilt drink, with 21 year old Stuart Haworth, a radio operator for the Territorial Army. It was alleged he had pushed him before being dragged away by friends, and received a formal complaint afterwards against himself, despite Haworth not requiring hospital treatment for his injuries. His exit from the show also generated controversy when it was implied that there was a "North-South rift" between other candidates; the implication was particularly noted by Adam, who said that fellow candidates, Paul Callaghan and Katie Hopkins, had felt offended that he was working class, Northern and had a background in the motor industry.

Following her appearance on the show, Gerri Blackwood claimed that the allocation of showers in the house where the candidates stayed, had appeared to been manipulated in such a way as to force the female contestants to shower together. Along with claims made during her interview with the Daily Star that both Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford fed the candidates misleading information so that they would fail the tasks, and that Alan Sugar's boardroom diatribes were re-filmed to make them look better, she noted in her claim on the shower allocation matter that:

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