October 18 2005
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LORNA MacLAREN
REMEMBER Craig Phillips? How about Steve Brookstein? Try Googling them. All high-profile winners of reality television shows, they expected glittering fortune and public adulation. Instead came the inevitable crumble into obscurity.
"Who?" smiles a dapper Tim Campbell, when I mention the names to him. He is also a reality-television winner – of the business angled reality show The Apprentice – but his fortunes have been a little different.
It is a year since the former London Underground manager beat 13 other contestants and took the £100,000 salary and top job with multi-millionaire Sir Alan Sugar's company Amstrad.