Derry Apprentice Star third most successful winner ever from series

Derry's Dr Leah Totton has been listed the third-most successful winner across 16 series of TV competition, The Apprentice, research has found.

UK financial services provider CMC Markets said net assets across Dr Totton’s cosmetic procedure clinic company had put her in third place out of all previous winners.

The 34-year-old Derry native won season nine of the BBC show in 2013, before opening her first non-surgical cosmetic clinic in central London in 2014. She  now has three with a fourth also set to open next year.

In November, she revealed turnover in her business with Lord Sugar is up £1m over the last year after earning £250,000 worth of investment from the British billionaire when she initially won the hit show.

The data also revealed that series eight winner Ricky Martin is the most successful winner of The Apprentice, with his business, Hyper Recruitment Solutions, boasting net assets of £2.26 million.  

Series seven winner Tom Pellereau is in second place, with his beauty business Stylideas boasting net assets of £1.37 million. 

Series seven was the first to offer a £250,000 investment as the grand prize, with the previous six winners all being granted a job with Lord Sugar instead.  

The research used the latest financial reports from Endole to discover the latest report of net assets in each of The Apprentice winners’ businesses, to determine which of them are the most successful.

A spokesperson for CMC Markets commented on the research: “As a new series of The Apprentice gets underway, it is interesting to look back at past winners and their businesses to see how Lord Sugar’s investment made a difference. 

"Not only can the investment from Lord Sugar be transformative for many contestants’ business but the brand recognition from being featured on the show can also greatly increase the winner’s chances of successfully running their business, even many years after appearing on the series.”