She's one of the 12 remaining candidates vying for the chance to win £250,000 of investment in her business and Amy Anzel has lifted the lid on the gruelling behind-the-scenes secrets on The Apprentice.
Beauty boss Amy has told what really happens on the long-running BBC business competition with tough challenges set by Lord Alan Sugar.
New Yorker Amy decided to take part in the hope of winning investment from Lord Sugar to expand her business Hollywood Browzer Beauty, a beauty tools brand that specialises in dermaplaning, hair removal and exfoliation tools.
Filmed in July and August last year, she says it's 'nerve-wracking' to watch back her time on the show.
"I applied because I thought it would be a good time scale up and expand and I thought Lord Sugar would be a good business partner," she said.
"It's very interesting to watch it back and nerve-wracking.
"When you're doing the tasks it's like a pressure cooker.
"The time in the boardroom is the most nerve-wracking.
"It was an amazing experience."
Each task is filmed over two or three days, with contestants shooting two tasks per week and taking a day off for'downtime.'
"We would do laundry, get ready for a task and sometimes we would do workouts and watch a movie together," said Amy.
"And we would get to speak to our loved ones."
Contestants have a 4am wake-up call - or in the case of the fishing task in Cornwall 2am - and they are given just 20 minutes to get ready.
"It's like that feeling before you have to get up for an early flight and you don't really sleep, it was that feeling every time," said Amy.
"Then you hear production coming through the door.
"We had five girls in one room and three in an other and you have to figure it out.
"It was like a machine."
Asked if any of the clashes in the boardroom might have spilled over into the house that they share, she said: "Producers give you a nice talk and they say 'leave it' and you have to.
"There is no point in holding on to grudges. You have to move on quickly."
And she added: "It's a microcosm of real-life.
"Some people you feel closer to like you would in everyday life."
Amy says romance was strictly banned in the house.
"They did say beforehand it's not allowed, don't even think about it.
"I can't imagine how you would have the time or energy."
She says Baroness Karren Brady and the show's first ever winner Tim Campbell aren't there the whole time during the tasks but they act as a 'scary fly on the wall' as they make notes for Lord Sugar as his right-hand aides.
Amy, an actress and producer who has sung jingles on hundreds of commercials including for Burger King and Coca-Cola, previously crowdfunded a musical version of US comedy series Happy Days, raising £250,000 from 345 investors in just six weeks.
And she appeared on the first series of The Bachelor in 2002 in the hunt for a husband on the US reality series in which a single man dates a group of women over several weeks.
Amy, who lives in London, is proud to have been hailed a 'gay icon' with calls from fans to host Manchester Pride and become a judge on Drag Race.
She recently met with Manchester Pride bosses and hopes to be involved in this year's festival.
And she loves visiting the city where many of her friends are based.
"I love it in Manchester," she told us.
"People are so nice and it's slightly slower paced here."
