{"id":10096,"date":"2013-07-17T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2013-07-17T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:54:29","slug":"leah-totton-crowned-winner-of-the-apprentice-2013-with-her-niks-medical-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/10096\/leah-totton-crowned-winner-of-the-apprentice-2013-with-her-niks-medical-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah Totton crowned winner of The Apprentice 2013 with her NIKS Medical brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Lord Sugar\u2019s search for his business partner came to an end when he selected Dr. Leah Totton as his business partner and winner of the Apprentice 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/leah-apprentice-2013-winner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/leah-apprentice-2013-winner.png\" alt=\"leah apprentice 2013 winner\" title=\"leah apprentice 2013 winner\" width=\"459\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10099\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/leah-apprentice-2013-winner.png 459w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/leah-apprentice-2013-winner-300x232.png 300w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/leah-apprentice-2013-winner-452x350.png 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leah Totton entered this year\u2019s competition along with 15 other candidates and after 12 weeks of tough and rigorous test of her abilities, the 24-year-old landed the prestigious prize of a business partnership with Lord Sugar, along with an investment of up to \u00a3250,000.<\/p>\n<p>In tonight\u2019s final episode, Leah battled it out with her finalist rival Lusia Zissman in a task where they had to bring their business plan to life in order for Lord Sugar to make his final judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Luisa developed her baking supplies online wholesale business, Baker\u2019s Toolkit, while Leah did the same with her NIKS Medical business idea.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of some of the other previously fired contestants, Lusia and Leah had to develop their brand, a website and a marketing campaign to convenience Lord Sugar, his aids and invited industry professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Deciding on his winner Lord Sugar said: \u201cSo, I think I\u2019ve made my mind up now. At the end of the day, the devil in me is wanting to take a risk. Leah, you\u2019re going to be my new business partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about her success, Leah said: \u201cTo have Lord Sugar show this faith in me is absolutely unbelievable, it\u2019s amazing. I had much less experience than the other candidates in business coming in to the process and I really can\u2019t believe that I have got this far and that I\u2019ve actually won it! I can\u2019t believe it. I\u2019m really going to do everything that I can to prove that he has made the right decision and I won\u2019t let him down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight Lord Sugar\u2019s search for his business partner came to an end when he selected Dr. Leah Totton as his business partner and \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/10096\/leah-totton-crowned-winner-of-the-apprentice-2013-with-her-niks-medical-brand\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-apprentice","tag-apprentice-2013-candidate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/leah-apprentice-2013-winner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}