Yahoo News The Apprentice reveals cast for Comic Relief celebrity series
The Apprentice's Lord Sugar is ready to welcome ten of the biggest stars in TV into his boardroom - and then fire all but one of them like the meany he is!
That's right, the long-awaited Celebrity Apprentice for Comic Relief will finally be hitting screens next month after more than six months of anticipation.
The two-part special will be airing in advance of Red Nose Day next month, as an all-star team of famous women battle five famous male celebrities for boardroom supremacy.
#CelebrityApprentice for #ComicRelief is back! Doing something businessy (but funny) for #money, @Lord_Sugar will be aiming his firing finger at @Rylan @kellyhoppen @russell_kane @Tameka_Empson @omid9 @RachelSJohnson @RichardAArnold, @AmandaHolden, Ayda Williams & Sam Allardyce! pic.twitter.com/7mURgGzUR2
- The Apprentice (@bbcapprentice) February 22, 2019
Representing the women will be a trio reality TV judges: Amanda Holden from Britain's Got Talent, Ayda Field from The X Factor and Kelly Hoppen from Dragons' Den. Rounding out their squad will be EastEnders mainstay Tameka Empson as well as ex-Celebrity Big Brother housemate and amateur rapper Rachel Johnson.
Over on the men's team, ex-Big Brother presenter Rylan Clark-Neal, Good Morning Britain's Richard Arnold and comedians Omid Djalili and Russell Kane will be led by former England manager 'Big Sam' Allardyce.
Meet the 2019 #CelebrityApprentice teams. @Rylan, #SamAllardyce, @russell_kane, @omid9, @RichardAArnold, @kellyhoppen, @Tameka_Empson, #AydaWilliams, @RachelSJohnson and @AmandaHolden.
- BBC One (@BBCOne) February 22, 2019
One person conspicuously absent from the male team is Lord Sugar's arch-nemesis Piers Morgan, who was fired during his last go-round of Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007.
Lord Sugar recently told Digital Spy that Piers wouldn't be allowed back on The Celebrity Apprentice because he "wouldn't last two minutes" with the current cast.
The Celebrity Apprentice will air over two nights soon on BBC One. Red Nose Day airs across BBC One and BBC Two on Friday, March 15 - but you don't have to wait until then to donate!
Click here to help people right here in the UK by making a contribution to Comic Relief.
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