{"id":397401,"date":"2026-01-29T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397401\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:46:09","slug":"readings-former-apprentice-yasmina-siadatan-reviews-2009-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397401\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8217;s Former Apprentice Yasmina Siadatan reviews 2009 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A member of the show&#8217;s &#8220;old generation&#8221;, when Sugar&#8217;s investment went into employing his new apprentice within his business empire rather than investing in a contestant&#8217;s business, Siadatan now works in fintech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I won a job and I worked with him for a couple of years and then I stopped working with him and I don&#8217;t have any contact with him now,&#8221; she said of Sugar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know if I reached out, he would absolutely respond. It was brilliant but we don&#8217;t see each other for beers at the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her experience of the show was that it was &#8220;not as finger-pointy as it looks&#8221; but said it had altered her life&#8217;s direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just been a whirlwind. Now I work in tech, I work in fintech. I had a restaurant before I went on The Apprentice so it completely changed the direction of my life,&#8221; Siadatan added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I always said that I wanted a proper job and I much prefer being on the other side of the bar now when it comes to a restaurant,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of the show&#8217;s &#8220;old generation&#8221;, when Sugar&#8217;s investment went into employing his new apprentice within his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-397401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}