‘Trout Pouts and Duck Faces’: Lippy’s Apprentice Candidates Who Could Get Hired… For Love Island!

It’s a look more associated with Love Island than the boardroom. But more than half of the female contestants on this year’s Apprentice seem to boast cosmetically enhanced lips.

Some viewers of the hit BBC1 show have become obsessed with the “trout pouts” and “duck lips” sported by those hoping to win a £250,000 business investment from Lord Sugar.

A hair salon owner, Dani Donovan, has sparked a lot of discussion about whether she’s gotten any cosmetic help like a filler. Some fans wrote on social media that the 25-year-old, from Hertfordshire, needs to ‘deflate’ her lips.

Meanwhile, Rochelle Anthony, 35, another Bedfordshire beauty salon owner, has been compared to American reality star Kim Kardashian, who has inspired a generation of young women to pursue a fuller lip look. Ms. Anthony says: “I’m always compared to the Kim Kardashian of the business world because I do business with a touch of glamour.”

Flight attendant turned online sweets business owner Victoria Goulbourne (right), 28, has poutier lips, as does Denisha Kaur Bharj, 29 (left), a financial controller from Leicestershire

Her Instagram account also features a lot of raunchy selfies.

Flight attendant turned online sweets business owner Victoria Goulbourne, 28, also has poutier lips, as does Denisha Kaur Bharj, 29, a financial controller from Leicestershire.

Shazia Hussain’s lips also sparked discussion, though the recruiting expert’s lipstick is likely the reason behind her fuller pout. And Emma Browne, 26, who was the first to leave the show after other contestants accused her of being a troublemaker, also has the fullest bottom lip.

Hairdresser owner Dani Donovan (left) has sparked debate over whether she has received cosmetic aid as filler, while Rochelle Anthony, 35, (right), another hairdresser owner, from Bedfordshire, has compared herself with American reality star Kim Kardashian.

Many of this year’s Love Island contestants, including Tanyel Revan and Anna-May Robey, have admitted to having their lips filled with filler. However, surgeons in the UK are reporting an increase in the number of women paying to dissolve lip fillers.

Demand for artificially full lips skyrocketed after Ms. Kardashian’s half-sister, Kylie Jenner, revealed she had had the procedure at age 17. But the trend started in the 1990s with Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith and Men Behaving Badly star Leslie Ash, who suffered an allergic reaction to a filler that left her lips severely swollen.

Even Lord Sugar, 75, has admitted to having cosmetic procedures. He said he did! I have made my eyes. I have had cosmetic surgery. I did it for vanity, end of.