{"id":9450,"date":"2013-04-30T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=9450"},"modified":"2013-06-10T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:35:40","slug":"alex-mills-from-cardiff-wales-the-apprentice-2013-candidate-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/9450\/alex-mills-from-cardiff-wales-the-apprentice-2013-candidate-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Mills from Cardiff Wales The Apprentice 2013 candidate profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>22 year old Alex Mills from Cardiff in South Wales is one of this year\u2019s candidates in the race to win the \u00a3250,000 business investment from Lord Sugar in The Apprentice 2013 series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/alex-mills-the-apprentice-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/alex-mills-the-apprentice-2013.jpg\" alt=\"alex mills the apprentice 2013\" title=\"alex mills the apprentice 2013\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/alex-mills-the-apprentice-2013.jpg 580w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/alex-mills-the-apprentice-2013-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/alex-mills-the-apprentice-2013-527x350.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex, who is currently a director of a legal services company, is from a city whose football club gained promotion to the premiership this year. We will have to wait and see if any of this good fortune rubs off on him as he competes for the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Alex says his greatest strengths lie in design and calculations and he describes himself as passionate, hardworking and determined. He began his working life as a housekeeper in a hotel and started his first company at 19. He is inspired in business by brands such as Tom Ford and figures such as James Caan, and enjoys playing the guitar and sport shooting in his spare time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He says:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m an old head on young shoulders. I believe that I\u2019m the new breed of businessman that this process requires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex joins 15 other candidates all hoping to become Lord Sugar\u2019s next business partner.<\/p>\n<p>The first task for Alex and the other 15 candidates takes place at midnight with Lord Sugar asking the candidates to sell a shipping container load of goods to London\u2019s trade in just one day. From novelty items to household necessities, each team must find suitable buyers for their different product lines and the team that makes the most money from the day\u2019s sales will be declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"590\" height=\"504\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/iplayer\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playlist=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/playlist\/p018cf9z&#038;config=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/iplayer\/config.xml&#038;config_settings_showFooter=true&#038;guidance=unknown&#038;config_settings_showShareButton=true&#038;embedReferer=&#038;config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&#038;mediatorHref=http:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/5\/select\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/pc\/transferformat\/plain\/vpid\/{id}&#038;embedPageUrl=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p018cf9z&#038;uxHighlightColour=0x12384d&#038;config_settings_language=en&#038;domId=media-player-emp&#038;enable3G=true&#038;config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&#038;config_settings_autoPlay=true&#038;config_settings_suppressRelatedLinks=true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The series kicks off Tuesday 7<sup>th<\/sup> May on BBC 1.<br \/>\n<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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"22 year old Alex Mills from Cardiff in South Wales is one of this year\u2019s candidates in the race to win the \u00a3250,000 \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/9450\/alex-mills-from-cardiff-wales-the-apprentice-2013-candidate-profile\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9454,"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-9450","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\/04\/alex-mills-the-apprentice-2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9450","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=9450"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9450\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}