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Karren Brady showed off her slim figure in a glamorous blue co-ord as she posed for stunning Instagram snaps ahead of The Apprentice final on Thursday night.
The businesswoman, 57, showcased her toned arms in a sleeveless blouse by Julia Amory which she tucked into a pair of coordianted linen wide legged trousers.
Karren cinched in her waist with a chunky silver Chanel belt and elevated her frame in a pair of towering brown Zara sandals.
Styling her long tresses in voluminous curls, the BBC star wore a glamorous palette of makeup as she posed for photos on set.
The final episode of The Apprentice will see Pascha Myhill and Karishma Vijay battle it out to win Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment.
She wrote: ‘Final showdown. After 12 weeks of tough tasks and boardroom battles, it all comes down to this. Two candidates. One life-changing investment.
‘The ultimate pitch begins – familiar faces return to help sharpen ideas and support the finalists as they prepare to launch their businesses in front of a room full of industry experts.
‘Let’s find out who’s got what it takes to win Lord Sugar’s £250,000 investment…’
Karren has addressed the speculation surrounding her newly slimmed-down figure, after being hit by accusations that it was the result of weight loss medications.
She denied using the jabs and insisted her body transformation was achieved the old-fashioned way, through a controlled diet and regular exercise.
Speaking to The Sun about her weight loss, she claimed that asking questions about how she’d shed the pounds was an effort to ‘belittle’ her or ‘make her feel insecure’.
‘I’m not on Ozempic, but questions about women’s weight come up far more often than they should,’ she said. ‘I’d much prefer the conversation to be focused around my work.’
Karren went on: ‘Anyone can do anything they want to their own body. I have no problem with it at all. But people think they know something they don’t know, or they just presume.
‘And so what if I was? And what if I wasn’t? It would be my choice. I think the way people talk about women’s bodies is certainly an effort to belittle them or make them feel insecure.
‘I’ve been called too fat, too thin and everything in between. I’ve had a lifetime of it. All I want is to feel strong, physically and mentally.’
She previously admitted to losing as much as five kilograms before every Apprentice launch, ‘so I look my normal weight and I don’t look huge next to Alan [Sugar] as he’s so fit and healthy’.
But Karren, who is the vice chairman of West Ham United, says Lord Sugar has been something of a health kick buddy.
‘He is great, he is very fit. He and my husband cycle when we go away on holiday. He is super fit himself, so if anyone is giving tips, it is him to me.’
‘We went around Italy, which was lovely, on Lord Sugar’s boat. It was incredible. He is really lovely and has a wonderful family.’
A regular gym-goer, the mother of two insists she’s worked hard to incorporate frequent exercise into her hectic lifestyle.
‘You have to find the time to go, particularly as you get older,’ she said. ‘I have a very set routine that I do, but it’s mainly cardiovascular and weights, and I don’t mind the odd swim.
‘I go three or four times a week. I never have set days, because I’ve got a full-time job, then I have to go to the House of Lords often to vote, so I fit it in where I can.’
The businesswoman recently revealed that her weight loss was triggered by becoming a grandmother, after her daughter, Sophia Peschisolido welcomed sons, Leo, 22 months, and George, four months.
Karren said: ‘I have been on a health kick, I became a grandma, and I wanted to be a fit, healthy grandma, so I started eating healthy and exercising.
‘I haven’t joined [the Ozempic Club] – bloody hard work. It is okay losing it, it is keeping it off.
‘I have lost quite a bit – I don’t know, though, as I don’t weigh myself. I feel better for it. It is good because everything you put on fits.’
