Apprentice star Karen Brady, 54, says she feels too old to be Lord Alan Sugar’s right-hand woman
Karen Brady has revealed that at 54 she is ‘getting too old’ to be Alan Sugar’s right-hand man on The Apprentice – despite the fact he is still going strong at 76.
“I’m getting too old for it, TV is a young people’s game,” said Baroness Brady, who has appeared on the BBC show for 15 years.
She added: “The days are very long, we film for seven weeks straight without a break, from five in the morning to eleven at night. When I started I was thirty, now I’m fifty.’
The Tory peer also revealed she is undergoing a painful facial laser treatment to maintain her youthful glow for fans of the show which returned this week.
Karen Brady says she feels she’s getting too old to be Lord Sugar’s right-hand man on The Apprentice
Brady sat next to Lord Sugar in the boardroom for fifteen years
The 40-minute treatment in London’s Knightsbridge costs up to £3,000, with clients advised to take painkillers while the skin is heated to stimulate collagen production.
‘I’m not a big fan of fillers and Botox, but I do love a good facial. “I’m addicted to laser treatment because as you get older, parts of your body start to sag and need to be lifted a little,” he says. the vice-chairman of West Ham United.
She and ex-footballer Paul Pescholido, 52, are holidaying with Lord Sugar and wife Lady Ann on his yacht in the Mediterranean.
“He decides where we go because it’s his boat,” she said. ‘He’s also got the best chef I’ve ever come across – so put on three stone!’