Nicholas Hewer
Hewer at the BAFTAs in 2009.
Born	Nicholas Radbourn Hewer[1] (1944-02-17) 17 February 1944 (age 68)[1] Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Residence	Northamptonshire, England
Nationality	British/Irish[2]
Education	Clongowes Wood College
Occupation	Public relations consultant (retired) Television personality
Years active	1966–98 (Amstrad/Business career) 2005–present (Television career)
Employer	Amstrad plc.
Known for	Advisor to Lord Sugar in UK version of the The Apprentice
Home town	Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Political party	Labour Party
Religion	Roman Catholic [3]
Spouse	Margo Spindler (divorced)
Partner	Catherine (present)
Children	2
Parents	Patricia and John Hewer

Nicholas Radbourn "Nick" Hewer (born 17 February 1944) is a British former public relations consultant turned television personality, who lives in Northamptonshire, England. He is probably best known for his role as Alan Sugar's advisor on the UK version of the BBC television show The Apprentice. In January 2012, he replaced Jeff Stelling as the host of the Channel 4 television programme, Countdown.

Early life[link]

Hewer was born in Swindon on 17 February 1944. He lived in Old Town, and was educated at Clongowes Wood College, an exclusive Jesuit boarding school, located in County Kildare, Ireland.^[4] Hewer moved to London in the 1960s^[5] His Irish Catholic mother, Patricia Hewer née Jamison^[6] and English Protestant father, John David Radbourn Hewer (who studied veterinary medicine) had met as students at University College Dublin. He has two sisters and two brothers. His grandfather, John, began as a vet in Swindon on Drove Road in 1912.

Career[link]

He started his own PR company in 1966. He spent 21 years in the Amstrad management group. His PR company was hired by Amstrad to represent them in 1983. He sold his PR agency in 1998.

The Apprentice[link]

Hewer and ex-Amstrad owner Alan Sugar became friends through their working relationship;^[5] he is one of Sugar's advisers in each episode of The Apprentice television show.

Television career[link]

Hewer has appeared on panel shows Would I Lie to You?, Ask Rhod Gilbert, Have I Got News for You and Room 101.

On 16 November 2011, it was announced that Hewer would be the new host of Channel 4 show Countdown.^[7] His first show was broadcast on 9 January 2012.

Personal life[link]

Hewer has a house in south-west France and one in Northamptonshire where he lives with his partner Catherine. He has two children from a former marriage.^[8]

In July 2008, Hewer took part in the charity drive event, the Mongol Rally, in a Renault 4, driving from London to Ulan Bator. He raised over £12,000 for Hope and Homes for Children.^[9] He wrote a series of blogs about his journey for the online travel section of the Daily Telegraph.

Hewer is a supporter of the Labour Party,^[10] but has expressed reservations about Ed Miliband's suitability as its leader.^[11]

See also[link]

• Margaret Mountford
• Karren Brady
• Lord Sugar

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nick Hewer at the Internet Movie Database
• Profile at BBC Online
• Invicta FM interview
• Interview with Nick Hewer (video)

News items[link]

• Article in The Guardian
• Hewer on the highway: Mongol Rally, the finish line (Daily Telegraph)
• Summary of Nick Hewer's Mongal Rally (Daily Telegraph)
• Family history - Daily Telegraph - March 2009
• Nick's father in May 2006
• Telegraph interview March 2009

Karren Brady
As guest speaker at the University of Wolverhampton, March 2008.
Born	(1969-04-04) 4 April 1969 (age 43)[1] Edmonton, London, England
Residence	Birmingham, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Businesswoman, journalist, broadcaster, media personality, author, novelist
Years active	1993–present
Known for	Former Managing director of Birmingham City F.C., Advisor to Lord Sugar on The Apprentice Vice-chairman of West Ham United
Spouse	Paul Peschisolido (m. 1995) «start: (1995)»"Marriage: Paul Peschisolido to Karren Brady" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Karren_Brady)
Children	2[1]
Website
Official website

Karren Rita^[2] Brady (born 4 April 1969) is an English sporting executive, television broadcaster, newspaper columnist, author and novelist. She is the former managing director of Birmingham City Football Club and current vice-chairman of West Ham United. Her appointment with Birmingham City began in March 1993, when only 23 years old, and in 2002 became the first woman to hold such a post in the top flight of English football when the team was promoted. She was responsible for the company's flotation in 1997, thus becoming the youngest managing director of a UK plc. She left the club in October 2009 after it was sold for £82,000,000.^[3] In January 2010 she was appointed vice-chairman of West Ham United following a change of ownership of the club.^[4] She is currently Lord Sugar's aide on the BBC 1's TV show The Apprentice and writes regular columns for Woman & Home magazine and The Sun.^[5] She has also published four books including two novels.^[6]

Early life[link]

Brady was brought up in Edmonton, London,^[7] and the family house was near to the Tottenham Hotspur football ground.^[8] Her father, Terry Brady, was once chairman of Swindon Town and a director of Portsmouth.^[9] He made his fortune in printing and property development. Her mother is Italian,^[7][8] and she has an older brother, Darren.^[1] She attended Poles Convent, a boarding school in Ware, Hertfordshire^[10] and Aldenham School, Elstree, a boys' school which accepted girls in the sixth form.^[11].

Career[link]

Early career and Birmingham City[link]

Brady's first job was working at Saatchi & Saatchi the advertising agency as a graduate trainee, even though she did not have a degree. In a Sunday Times Business Section profile she admitted that she had lied in her job application by stating that she did have a degree. Although she had started a degree course after A levels, she left without completing the degree. She left that job to join the London Broadcasting Company (LBC) where she managed an account for radio advertising with several clients, who initially did not spend much money; one of the clients, publisher David Sullivan, encouraged by Brady, spent more than £2,000,000 on advertising in six months, which earned Brady more commission than the rest of the sales team put together.^[12] Sullivan offered her a job with Sport Newspapers,^[13] and she became one of the directors at the age of 20. While in Sullivan's employ, Brady spotted an advert for the sale of Birmingham City F.C. in the Financial Times, when the club was in receivership,^[14] and persuaded Sullivan to buy it and let her run it. Sullivan later commented that he agreed to the deal because such a young, female director would attract publicity to the club, and also because Brady was a "sacker".^[12] Brady was 23 when she started work as managing director of Birmingham City F.C. in March 1993.^[12][15] She is also chairman of Bauer's Kerrang!, and has a seat on the board of Sport England. She is a non-executive director of Channel 4 television. In September 2010 she joined the board of Arcadia with Sir Philip Green, resigning from a non-executive position with Mothercare where she had been for seven years.

In 2008, Sullivan and Brady were arrested by City of London Police, interviewed and released on bail, as part of the investigation into the 2006 allegations of corruption in English football, which also involved similar actions against players and officials from other clubs; club chairman David Gold was interviewed as a witness.^[16] the club stated that no charges had been brought, that Brady denied any wrongdoing. The investigation involved only tax and national insurance offences relating to two players. Gold said that it was "utterly wrong that this highly professional businesswoman has been made a victim in a witch-hunt against football".^[17] In August 2009 it was confirmed that no further action would be taken.^[18] She left Birmingham City two months later, after the club was taken over by Carson Yeung.^[19] The same month she was appointed Chairman to the England 2018 World Cup bid advisory board. ^[20]

West Ham United[link]

In January 2010 she was appointed vice-chairman of West Ham United by new joint chairmen, David Sullivan and David Gold. Writing in her newspaper column Brady said "To West Ham fans I'll make a single pledge - while we are on the board, we will hang in the Tower of London before your club again goes through the financial turmoil which so nearly brought it down". Brady said she liked the idea of changing the club's name to West Ham Olympic.^[21][22] David Gold subsequently said that the club shall always be West Ham United under his chairmanship but "What you might do is call the stadium West Ham Olympic stadium. I can make a case for that."^[23]

[edit] The Apprentice

In March 2007, Brady appeared as a celebrity contestant on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice and was team leader for the girls' team, winning £1,000,000 for Comic Relief. In June 2008, Brady was a guest interviewer in series four of The Apprentice – interviewing the final five. After the show, it was revealed that Brady had fulfilled a promise she made to Alan Sugar on screen, and offered a job to Claire Young, who finished as runner-up in the series, after being impressed by her interview. In 2009 she interviewed candidates again in The Apprentice Season 5, as seen on BBC 1.^[24] On 30 August 2009, she was revealed as Alan Sugar's new assistant in the sixth series of The Apprentice,^[25] replacing Margaret Mountford, who had left the series (and who returned in series 6 and 7 as a guest interviewer, the same role that Brady had fulfilled in her first appearance in the main UK apprentice series).

Personal life[link]

In 1995 Brady married Canadian footballer Paul Peschisolido, who played for Birmingham City for two seasons, 1992–93 and 1993–94. About one year later, she had her first child, a girl named Sophia. She had about six weeks off work after the birth of her second child, a boy named Paolo.^[12] Karren lives in Birmingham with her husband and children and they also own a holiday home in Canada.^[26]

In 2006, Brady underwent a full-body MRI scan as part of a medical screen, which unexpectedly discovered a potentially fatal cerebral aneurysm.^[27] In February 2006, at the age of 36, at very short notice, she underwent neurosurgery to prevent the aneurysm from rupturing, and was back at work about one month later, fully recovered.^[12][28]

Awards[link]

• In 1995, she was voted the 98th sexiest woman in the world by the readers of FHM magazine.^[29]
• In 2006 Brady was Cosmopolitan magazine's Woman of the Year, and named in the category of 'Woman Who Has Changed The World'.^[30]
• In 2006 when she attended The Queen’s lunch for Women Achievers and Business Leaders.^[30]
• Brady was named as Business Woman of the Year 2007.^[30]
• In December 2008 she won the NatWest Spirit of Everywoman Award for services to women in business.^[30]
• In November 2010 she was listed in the business category of The Sunday Telegraph's ‘100 Most Powerful Women in Britain’ and was included in the Evening Standard’s list of ‘London's 1000 Most Influential People 2010’.^[30]
• She was awarded an honorary doctorate in business from the University of Birmingham in December 2010.^[31]
• In 2011 she was awarded Britain's Most Inspirational Women by the Breakthrough for Breast Cancer Inspiration Awards.^[32]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Daily sport first advertising manager, Karren Brady
• Karren Brady's official website

Me, Myself & Irene is a 2000 American comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers, and starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, Richard Jenkins, Daniel Greene, Anthony Anderson, Jerod Mixon, and Mongo Brownlee co-star. The film is about a Rhode Island state trooper named Charlie who, after years of continuously suppressing his rage and feelings, suffers a psychotic breakdown which results in a second personality, Hank.

Plot[link]

Charlie Baileygates (Jim Carrey) is an 18-year veteran Rhode Island State Police trooper who has been taken advantage of by people throughout most of his life. Immediately after his marriage, his wife, Layla (Traylor Howard), cheats on him with a dwarf African-American limousine driver, named Shonté (Tony Cox), who, like Layla, is a member of the high IQ group Mensa. Although Charlie's friends try informing him of his wife's infidelity, he still denies the possibility. One year later, Layla abandons Charlie and runs off with Shonté; leaving Charlie to raise three biracial sons who are the products of Layla's adulterous affair with the limo driver. Charlie never sees his wife again. Charlie raises his illegitimate triplet sons using very vulgar language and spoiling them with sweets and unbalanced diets. Charlie's three sons become obese and foul-mouthed young adults, but they are also highly intelligent (like their real father) and they treat Charlie much better than anyone else. His wife's affair and abandonment leaves Charlie so emotionally damaged that he lets himself be abused and taken advantage of by others. Despite his friendliness and his being a police officer, the townspeople reject Charlie's authority with open scorn.

After many years of continuous abuse by the people around him, his anger builds up and Charlie develops a rude and violent split personality named Hank, caused by "advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage". As Hank, he goes around retaliating against anyone who has accosted him — and even harms those who really haven't. A psychiatrist prescribes a medicine to keep Hank suppressed.

Believing that Charlie needs a vacation, his commanding officer (Robert Forster), orders him to escort a woman named Irene Waters (Renée Zellweger) from Rhode Island to Massena, New York, because she reportedly committed a hit-and-run. Irene insists the hit-and-run accusation was created by Dickie, Irene's mob-connected ex-boyfriend, and corrupt police officers in his employ. When some hit men arrive with a contract on Irene's life, Charlie agrees to help her escape, while a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent is killed by the hit men. Charlie leaves his medicine behind, causing his alter ego, Hank, to surface any time he wants.

The FBI suspects that Charlie is responsible for assassinating the EPA agent. The FBI joins Charlie's commander in pursuing Charlie and Irene. Charlie's sons pretend to work with the police to find their father, but throw the police off his trail and even steal a police helicopter to get to Charlie before the police do.

Along the way, Irene and Charlie grow close. However, Hank's random appearances both disgust and frighten Irene. Hank's aggression and resourcefulness aid in their survival, but Irene finds herself attracted to Charlie. Hank tells Irene the truth about Charlie's life, and how years of humiliation have destroyed Charlie's confidence as a man and a police officer. Hank has plastic surgery performed on Charlie's face, and uses hours of careful cunning to trick Irene into sleeping with him by posing as the good-natured Charlie. They meet a mild-mannered but mysterious young man named Whitey (who has pale skin and white-blonde hair). They continue their journey as a trio, until Whitey calmly tells Charlie the (fictional) story of how he brutally murdered his entire family. Charlie and Irene, frightened by this, sneak away in the night.