{"id":49420,"date":"2024-04-11T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2023491"},"modified":"2024-04-12T00:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:17:40","slug":"the-apprentices-tre-lowe-wanted-to-champion-male-mental-health-on-show","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-apprentices-tre-lowe-wanted-to-champion-male-mental-health-on-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apprentice\u2019s Tre Lowe wanted to champion male mental health on show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: spoilers ahead for this week’s episode on who got fired and who went through to the final. <\/p>

By Katelyn Mensah\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 11 April 2024 at 21:01 PM<\/p>

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Tre Lowe\u2019s time on The Apprentice<\/a> came to an end in tonight\u2019s episode as Lord Sugar made the decision to take Phil Turner<\/a> and Rachel Woolford<\/a> into the final.<\/p>\n

In the penultimate episode, the five remaining candidates went head-to-head with Lord Sugar\u2019s most truster advisors in a series of one-to-one interviews and had their business plans interrogated and CVs picked apart, and ultimately for Tre, his time in the competition was over.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Tre opened up about what he wanted to get out of The Apprentice and his main aim for taking part in the reality series.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter losing my brother, I know that men are particularly vulnerable,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Viewers saw Tre get emotional during the interview with Claudine Collins, in which he opened up about his late brother, who Collins noted would have been so proud.<\/p>\n

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Foluso, Rachel, Steve and Tre in The Apprentice.<\/span><\/figcaption> FremantleMedia Ltd<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Tre continued: \u201cThe way my brother passed away was through COVID, he wouldn\u2019t have known it at the time because it was in January when he first got ill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is something about the way a lot of men behave when it comes to wellness. They\u2019re very blas\u00e9 about it and not as serious as they could be, and that was one of the reasons why I wanted a product to be aimed at men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tre added that the opportunity to be able to speak about a lot of issues affecting men, himself included, was \u201cincredible\u201d. He noted that men showing their vulnerable side on national TV isn\u2019t regularly seen, and by taking part on The Apprentice he was able to demonstrate what it was like to be \u201cauthentic and a model\u201d of what he teaches as a coach and mentor.<\/p>\n

He explained: \u201cTalking about my own issues, things like Crohn\u2019s disease, which I was diagnosed with and beat a couple of years ago, was incredible, but also to talk about things like the grief of losing my brother and as a man to be able to express myself on national TV, I think there\u2019s a lot of things that men don\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I really wanted to demonstrate, especially with some of the more toxic elements of masculinity that we see, I wanted to demonstrate what it was like, as an older guy, as a middle aged guy, to be on a show like that, to be authentic and be myself and really be a model of what I personally teach others as a coach and mentor, that it\u2019s possible to go into a process like this with the scrutiny of the nation, and still hold yourself up and still do really well.\u201d<\/p>

Tre found himself on the winning team multiple times in the series, including breaking a record<\/a> with the biggest winning sale ever in the history of the competition.<\/p>\n

During the Formula-E task, Tre and his team managed to secure a huge \u00a338.7 million in sponsorship, smashing the previous record of \u00a31.2 million.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his time on The Apprentice, Tre told RadioTimes.com\u00a0<\/strong>that he is \u201cproud\u201d of how he has held himself throughout the competition.<\/p>\n

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Raj, Foluso, Rachael, Tre, Steve and Noor in The Apprentice.<\/span><\/figcaption> FremantleMedia Ltd<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

He said: \u201cI think the one thing I\u2019m proud of is the ability to really go for a win. I wasn\u2019t someone that was able to survive on being in a boardroom, I was never once brought into the boardroom and that was just through sheer determination of performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I gave it my all. So overall, I\u2019m glad that those qualities and those values have been showcased and I think for me, that\u2019s a victory in and of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n