You're hitched! Lovebirds Akshay Thakrar and Harpreet Kaur have made TV history as the first contestants to get married. The couple met on the series in 2022 and despite being on rival teams – with Harpreet winning the show – they negotiated a romance after it finished. The partnership held firm and they got engaged in May last year.
And this month, they sealed the deal in a three-day wedding. “It’s crazy – what a story that we met on the show,” says Akshay, 31. “I said in my speech, ‘I think I’m the only man who can say I met my wife on The Apprentice’.
” Harpreet added: “We would love to start a family, but we’re going to wait. I want to appreciate each other and travel first.” Show winner Harpreet, 32, now runs three branches of her dessert parlour business, Oh So Yum, in Yorkshire – with Lord Sugar investing £250,000 in her venture.
She’s since bought back the shares from him but although the tycoon declined his wedding invitation, she insists there are no hard feelings. However, the show’s first winner, Tim Campbell, turned up along with 2022 contestants Kathryn Louise Burn, Brittany Carter, Akeem Bundu-Kamara and Nick Showering. They even played out a mock Apprentice contest during part of their ceremony featuring the show’s theme tune.
Akshay, 31, founder of betting business Tips360, said: “The only way I can describe our wedding is that it felt like a movie, it was amazing.” It began with a civil ceremony at the Wentbridge House.