The Apprentice - Londonderry’s Leah Totton reaches finale

WATERSIDE doctor, Leah Totton is just a step away from winning the 2013 series of The Apprentice.
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BBC handout photos of Leah Totton (left) and Luisa Zissman, the two final candidates in this year's BBC1 programme, The Apprentice.  PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday July 11, 2013. See PA story SHOWBIZ Appentice. Photo credit should read: Jim Marks/BBC/PA Wire 

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BBC handout photos of Leah Totton (left) and Luisa Zissman, the two final candidates in this year's BBC1 programme, The Apprentice.  PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday July 11, 2013. See PA story SHOWBIZ Appentice. Photo credit should read: Jim Marks/BBC/PA Wire 

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For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only. BBC handout photos of Leah Totton (left) and Luisa Zissman, the two final candidates in this year's BBC1 programme, The Apprentice. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday July 11, 2013. See PA story SHOWBIZ Appentice. Photo credit should read: Jim Marks/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

Leah and Luisa Zissman were put through last night (Wednesday) to make it an all-girl finale.

Ms Zissman is a 25-year-old cake shop owner, and former Foyle College student Leah is a 24-year-old doctor; the pair will now compete to win a £250,000 investment and the chance to be Lord Sugar’s business partner.

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Ms Zissman is proposing a branded baking ingredients website, while Leah - who currently works in A&E - wants to launch her own non-surgical cosmetic treatments clinic, offering lunchtime injections of Botox and facial fillers.

London-based Dr Totton, who is also an ex-model, was the bookies’ favourite to win from the start of the series.

Earlier this year the Sentinel told how her business was expanding and even before it emerged she was to appear on The Apprentice, it quickly became one of our most popular web stories.

Dr Leah set up a medical aesthetics company after completing training at Harley Street in London and her clinics in England have been so successful that she flies home twice a month to hold clinics across Northern Ireland. And her base here is expected to be expanded later this year.

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Leah grew up in Londonderry attending Lisnagelvin primary school and then Foyle and Londonderry College, where she was an outstanding student, achieving straight A’s /A* at GSCE and A level and obtaining various academic prizes throughout her schooling.

Leah then moved to England where she studied medicine; she completed her degree top of her medical school, resulting in her being awarded an academic distinction in medicine.

As an ex model she knows all too well the importance of appearance and this aspect of medicine has always interested her. Upon qualifying as a doctor she immediately embarked upon her training in Medical Aesthetics, completed at the world famous Harley Street.