The Apprentice star Amy Anzel dazzled as she returned to her theatre roots in Manchester. Amy, a fan favourite from last year's series of the BBC business contest, hit the town with her manager Lee Bennett as they headed to see actor and singer-somgwriter Will Young in his one-man-show Song From Far Away.
Amy looked sensational in a blush pink jacket and black leather-look trousers with matching top. The glam entrepreneur completed her outfit with sparkling heels as she beamed for the cameras on arrival at HOME arts centre.
Amy shared a snap on her Instagram of herself with the leading man as she heaped praised on the Pop Idol winner, who. "Incredible piece! Incredible performance! Incredble actor!" she wrote.
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It was Amy's background in entertainment, spending hours in make-up trailers and backstage dressing rooms around the world, that led her to launching her beauty business Hollywood Browzer Beauty in 2017. The American singer, actress, dancer and former theatre producer started performing in local productions and from the age of 10 she sang jingles for hundreds of commercials including for McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.
She starred in the European tour of Grease and the US national tour of Annie and played Mrs Zane in the Hollywood film Kick Ass 2. I In 2014 she was followed by the Channel Four docuseries The Sound of Musicals as she embarked on producing a UK national tour of Happy Days A New Musical based on the much-loved American sitcom.
At Christmas Amy put the boardroom behind her as she took to the stage again in the pantomime Aladdin in Carlisle. Amy, who appeared in the first series of the US reality dating show The Bachelor in 2003, was 'fired' by Lord Alan Sugar halfway through the 16th series of the contest.
New Yorker Amy, whose dermaplaning tools are stocked by the likes of Boots, River Island, Amazon and Argos, was fired halfway through the process of last year's The Apprentice, and she recently slammed this year's series as "car crash TV." "It's very hard to watch the show. I feel so sorry for the candidates," she told us.
"They never celebrate the small wins. In business you have bad days but it's always so negative and it's getting worse and worse. These are the young entrepreneurs of the future and they are making fun of them all the time."
The Apprentice sees a batch of ambitious entrepreneurs seeking to demonstrate their business sense as they compete to win £250,000 investment and the chance to go into a business partnership with Lord Alan Sugar. Amy believes the show should be more celebratory of the achievements, saying: "I believe it's making fools of people and no-one takes it seriously anymore. People think the candidates are jokes and it's a set-up, but they have to look dumb to make for car crash TV."
Amy was fired by Lord Sugar with a scathing dig about her not becoming a project manager, despite her being sub team leader in four out of six tasks. He referenced how she had lived in Los Angeles and asked her if she was an 'LA Dodger'
He sniped: "You dodged the project management side of things, you've been here six weeks to show that you can do something, and you haven't shown me you can do something. And so it is with regret that you're fired. Thank you."
Amy, who launched her brand in 2017 starting with just a £5,000 budget, says this was an unfair decision, but is proud to be celebrating success without the billionaire tycoon having a stake in her business. "If that was a big problem make me PM," she said about her firing. "I wasn't hiding from the role of leader."
This year she is backing restaurant owner Megan Hornby to win. Megan amazed viewers last week when she acted as a loud-mouthed prison guard in an immersive jail experience, with one jokingly calling for her to win an Oscar.
"Megan to win," tweeted Amy in support. "Megan is legit the only candidate that could possibly win this series," she said. And she wrote: "I am LIVING for Megan’s acting skills 10/10."
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