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In the format used at that time, contestants in The Apprentice competed for a £100,000-a-year job working for the businessman Alan Sugar.

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In late 2006 Hopkins was allowed to take unpaid leave from her Met Office job as part of her probationary period of employment to take part in series three of the reality TV show The Apprentice. In September 2006 she joined the Met Office as a global brand consultant. Instead, she joined a business consultancy and moved to Manhattan, New York City, before returning to the UK in 2005. Hopkins said she kept her epilepsy secret while attending Sandhurst, as this would have prevented her from being commissioned. She completed her military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but suffered an epileptic seizure during the final passing-out ceremony, and as a result was unable to take up her commission. She spent weekends with the Officers' Training Corps. She instead studied economics at the University of Exeter, receiving sponsorship from the British Army's Intelligence Corps. I loved the discipline, the rigour, the big shouty men.' As a child she believed she was 'going to be the colonel of the forces. She was brought up in Bideford, attended a private convent school from age three to 16, played sports and learned to play the piano and violin. Her father was an electrical engineer for the local Electricity Board, and her mother was a bank teller. Katie Olivia Hopkins was born on 13 February 1975, in Barnstaple, England. 3.15 Refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean.3.13 Racism, racial profiling, and Black Lives Matter.Hopkins was permanently suspended from Twitter in June 2020 for what the company described as 'violations of our hateful conduct policy'. Her role at LBC was terminated in May 2017 following her comments on Twitter about the Manchester Arena bombing. In the 2017 libel case Monroe v Hopkins, Hopkins was required to pay damages and legal costs to Jack Monroe after making defamatory remarks on Twitter. In 2016, Mail Online was forced to pay significant damages to a Muslim family whom Hopkins had falsely accused of extremist links. She has been accused of racism by journalists, advocacy groups and politicians for her comments about migrants.

Hopkins' social media presence and outspoken views, especially on UK politics, social class, migrants and race, have attracted controversy, media scrutiny, legal issues, protests and petitions.

In 2021, she joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

The following year, Hopkins became a presenter for the talk radio station LBC and underwent major brain surgery to treat her epilepsy. In 2015, she hosted her own television talk show If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World, and appeared on the fifteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, finishing as runner-up. She was a contestant on the third series of The Apprentice in 2007 following further appearances in the media, she became a columnist for British national newspapers, including The Sun and MailOnline. Katie Olivia Hopkins (born 13 February 1975) is an English media personality, columnist, far-right political commentator, and former businesswoman.