{"id":24485,"date":"2017-10-18T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=24485"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:08:24","slug":"meet-bushra-shaikh-apprentice-2017-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/18\/meet-bushra-shaikh-apprentice-2017-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Bushra Shaikh \u2013 The Apprentice 2017 Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Apprentice is back, and with it arrive a fresh bunch of humble and modest candidates hoping to impress Lord Alan Sugar. Just kidding \u2013 they\u2019re as obnoxious as ever.<\/h2>\n

Among the 18 hopefuls is Bushra Shaikh.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old is an owner and designer of her own modest fashion label, creating luxury apparel for Muslim women.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost, I\u2019m a mother, and I\u2019m a woman, and I\u2019m Muslim, and I\u2019m young,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Coco Chanel, she believes her skills and determination are all she needs to succeed in The Apprentice, but she\u2019s known to be pushy to get what she wants.<\/p>\n

She says, \u201cI\u2019ve been raised not to be a pushover-in the words of Destiny\u2019s Child, \u2018I\u2019m an independent woman.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m quite bossy, but that\u2019s only because I believe in what I do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really good at selling. I\u2019m so good at selling. That is what I\u2019ve been doing for 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve come across anybody that hasn\u2019t bought something from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cI have done everything. I may just be 34-years-old but being a wife and a mother with three kids, who is career-driven and the passion that I have \u2013 there\u2019s no-one that can get in my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hit reality TV show The Apprentice is now entering its thirteenth series, featuring hour-long episodes.<\/p>\n

Each series, a group of ambitious individuals aim to become the new apprentice for billionaire business mogul and Amstrad founder Lord Alan Sugar.<\/p>\n

The shows airs on Wednesday evenings at 9pm on BBC One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Apprentice is back, and with it arrive a fresh bunch of humble and modest candidates hoping to impress Lord Alan Sugar. Just kidding \u2013 they\u2019re as obnoxious as ever. Among the 18 hopefuls is Bushra Shaikh. The 34-year-old is an owner and designer of her own modest fashion label, creating luxury apparel for Muslim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":24487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,112,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desixpress","category-top-stories","category-tv-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}