Lewis Ellis

Lewis was born in Manchester, He had his BA and MSc from the University of Chester.^[8]

In 2019, Lewis joined the 15th season of BBC One Television Series “The Apprentice” to win a £250,000 investment from Alan Sugar,^[9] his business idea during the show was to go into a Travel business with Alan Sugar, the show host. He was evicted from the house in week eleven, he got to the interview stage of the show and came fourth.^[1]

Lewis also appeared as a guest on the BBC Two spin-off show "The Apprentice: You're Fired!" with BGT star Daliso Chaponda and comedian Tom Allen in Episode Eight.^[2] He was also invited to participate in the filming of BBC Two's ‘You’re Hired!’, which is the spin-off show for The Final.

Before appearing on The Apprentice, Lewis was a YouTube Prankster most notable for jumping into a pool at the Manchester's Trafford Centre food court in 2016.^[10] He went into entrepreneurship^[11] and started a Travel company after his stay in the house.^[12]

In 2022 he appeared in 6 episodes of Open House, the Great Sex Experiment' Channel 4 series.^[13] He founded Hiddn Travel Ltd in 2019 and Hussel Marketing Ltd. In 2020.^[14]

During Lewis's tenure on The Apprentice, there were allegations of a romantic encounter with fellow contestant Lottie Lion while they were in Finland for a task.^[15] The pair reportedly grew closer while staying in the show's house.^[16][17]

Lewis also faced criticism from British businessman Alan Sugar for his tattoo, which Sugar described as “horrific,” after Lewis stripped down to his swimming shorts for a campaign promoting summertime in Finland.^[18] In response, Lewis defended his tattoo and even got another tattoo of the businessman holding a gun.^[19] He was further criticised for creating a disruptive marketing campaign in Liverpool using a faux Elton John.^[20][21][22]

Lewis went viral when he flew 4000 miles to Qatar to reunite his Airpod. He found his lost Airpod with Find my device.^{[26][27][28][29][30][31]}