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Paul T Smith

Who is Reece Donnelly? Meet the new Apprentice candidate from Glasgow

The new season of The Apprentice starts later this week, and one candidate hoping to impress Sir Alan Sugar is a Glasgow entrepreneur who you might already recognise.

Reece Donnelly runs his own as theatre school, has popped up on stage and screen, as well as having a massive Instagram following.

The 25 year-old has been acting since the age of just six, with appearances in BBC drama Waterloo Road, adverts for S1 Jobs and T-Mobile, as well as a series of Nickelodeon voiceovers.

Now the South Lanarkshire entrepreneur is one of the 18 Apprentice candidates, as the new series launches on 5 January.

In 2017, Donnelly founded the Theatre School of Scotland and Theatre College of Scotland, making him the youngest college owner in the UK.

Since then, many of his students have landed roles with Disney, Netflix, the BBC, CBeebies, CBBC.

In 2018, Donnelly made The Sunday Mail's Young Scot Awards final.

His work as an actor has seen him do various community drama projects with organisations such as Barlinne Prison in partnership with The Citizens Theatre and Kibble Secure Centre in partnership with West College Scotland.

Donnelly, who is also the director of KR Management, has almost 9,000 followers on Instagram, where he posts about both his work and personal life.

Originally from Cambuslang, he attended Trinity High School and appeared in the Britain's Got Talent audition stages at the age of 15.

Donnelly graduated from the University of Sunderland with a BA(Hons) in Drama and at 20 years-old he set up the theatre school based in Glasgow city centre.

Gayle Telfer Stevens as Nanny McSmee, director Reece Donnelly, and Ty McPhee as Peter Pan (Instagram / theatreschoolscotland)

The latest series of the BBC show will see more candidates and tasks overseas.

Joining Lord Sugar will be his advisors Baroness Karren Brady, Tim Campbell MBE and Claude Littner; who returns for two episodes.

Click here to find out more about all the new contestants.

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