Katie Hopkins

...saying no to Sir Alan Sugar! I made it all the way to the final of the BBC’s The Apprentice. However, I declined a place in the final and walked out.

I have since set up my own business consultancy, assisting a variety of companies and organisations. It’s going really well!

I was about 18 when I developed epilepsy, just before I went to Exeter University. I had seizures all the way through university but somehow managed to get through it. As a champion of the British Military, my life ambition as to join up. I was accepted at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, but didn’t disclose my epilepsy. We started as 32 girls and at the end of the training there were eight. During this time I fractured my back with a grand mal seizure – which I covered up by saying I had had a bad fall. Having survived the Academy, I was not allowed to formally graduate because I had cheated the system and lied about my epilepsy.

I had to completely rethink my career. I returned to the job market and attempted to create opportunities in the business world with the skills I had learned. It’s all worked out ok though. Now I am helping others to create jobs and employment through business growth and profit.

I am a wife and mother of three under seven, and have survived a coffin full of cockroaches in the jungle during ITV’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!