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With the latest series of The Apprentice now underway, the latest batch of budding entrepreneurs are being put through their paces by Lord Alan Sugar’ s right hand woman, Baroness Karren Brady, in the hopes of securing his highly coveted investment. A seasoned businesswoman in her own right, Karren is no stranger to life in the cut-throat world of big business and regularly champions for people to follow their entrepreneurial dreams - even if it isn’t for the faint hearted.

The Apprentice star Karren Brady has opened up on becoming a grandmother at 54 - saying it was an ‘incredible feeling’. The businesswoman and TV personality appeared on Loose Women on Wednesday, 15 November, days after her daughter Sophia Peschisolido, 25, revealed she was five months pregnant. Sophia is engaged to Frankie Makin and it will be the couple’s first child.

The Apprentice star has recalled the traumatic period of her life in a new interview and how the experience made her look at life differently.Karren has two children with her husband Paul Peschisolido named Sophie and Paolo.In 2006 Karren was told by doctors she had a potentially fatal cerebral aneurysm.An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel caused by weakness in the blood vessel wall.Speaking to SheerLuxe about the experience, she said: "Back in early 2006, I got a big shock when I went for an MRI scan and doctors discovered a potentially fatal cerebral aneurysm."In fact, they told me it was a miracle I had survived the births of my two children."I underwent urgent neurosurgery to prevent the aneurysm from rupturing, made a full recovery and was back at work about a month later."KArren then discussed how she "coped" during this difficult period in her life.She continued: "In my own way, I coped by breaking it down into three component parts."The first was accepting what was happening."The second was coming up with a treatment plan and the third was finding a way to move on with my life."I didn’t tell many people what was really happening – I didn’t want to be weighed down by their sympathy – but it did make me realise life was short."Karren joined the Apprentice in 2007, replacing Margaret Munford, and has been a firm favourite on the show since.She is also known as the first woman in football, as she joined a male-dominated boardroom as the managing director of Birmingham City F.C at the age of just 23.She is now the vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and carries on to lead women in business.Speaking to The Times about her early career she said: "Women were not allowed in the boardrooms of football."I was the first