GLADIATOR Sheli McCoy, daytime TV hunk Gethin Jones and influencer Maddie Grace Jepson have signed for The Celebrity Apprentice.
They’ll join soap star , Sky news diva , Diversity star and , who’ve already been revealed this week by The Sun.
Gladiator Sheli McCoy, daytime TV hunk Gethin Jones and influencer Maddie Grace Jepson have signed for The Celebrity Apprentice Credit: Getty
Gethin, 48, is now known for hosting Morning Live on BBC One Credit: Getty
Sheli, 37, is better known as Sabre on the hit BBC One Saturday night show Credit: BBC
– the first full spin-off of – has started today and it’s expected to air later this year on BBC One.
A TV insider: “The have assembled quite an impressive array of stars to make sure the debut is as sensational as possible.
“The variety of stars is what is so striking, and it’s guaranteed to make for an interesting dynamic when the cameras start rolling and the tasks kick off.”
Gladiator Sheli, 37, is better known as Sabre on the hit BBC One Saturday night show, in real life she’s a CrossFit athlete and weightlifter.
Hunky Gethin, 48, is now known for hosting on , but shot to fame fronting in 2005.
Meanwhile, glamorous Maddie, 26, is one of the biggest influencers in the country and is guaranteed to bring a much younger audience to The Celebrity Apprentice.
Danny, 35, better known as Aaron Dingle on soap , was the first star to be revealed as being on the show this year.
In total seven different versions of The Celebrity Apprentice have appeared on the BBC since 2007, including
This is the first time a full series has been broadcast.
The full list of stars taking part in the show is expected to be revealed soon.
This comes after this year’s ‘civilian’ version of the contest proved hugely popular and it live, and that figures expected to more than double with iPlayer views added to the mix.
Business tycoon Lord Sugar made his decision after putting the contestants through 12 gruelling weeks of tasks and boardrooms in an effort to win his .
In the long-awaited finale, Karishma Vijay took on , with Karishma’s skincare brand bagging the win over her opponent’s health care employment consultancy.
Speaking about winning the show , Karishma said: “I can’t believe it.
“I feel like I’m going to be calling Lord Sugar every other day, saying ‘what do I do now? I don’t know what I’m doing’.
“Because when I was doing it by myself, I was going at my own pace.
“Now, there’s a bit more pressure, because I have to really convince him that he made the right decision to have picked me.”
Maddie Grace Jepson is one of the biggest influencers on TikTok Credit: Instagram
Sheli is a CrossFit athlete and weightlifter in her real life Credit: Tom Farmer
Gethin shot to fame fronting Blue Peter in 2005 Credit: Getty
Filming for the upcoming series – the first full spin-off of The Apprentice – has started today
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