Claude Littner was born on 4 May 1949 and is an American-born British business executive and the former chairman of Viglen, Powerleague, ASCO and Azzuri Communications.
16 Facts About Claude Littner
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Claude Littner is the deputy chairman of Blacks Leisure and former chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur.
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Claude Littner is known from his appearances on the British version of The Apprentice, interviewing for his former boss Alan Sugar.
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Claude Littner was born in New York City, to an American mother and an Austrian-Jewish father, who had fled the Nazis in the 1930s.
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Claude Littner served as a non-executive chairman of Azzurri Communications and was deputy chairman of Blacks Leisure Group from August 2008 to July 2009.
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Claude Littner was executive chairman of the international oilfield support services business ASCO from 2004 to 2007 and served as director of Norton Way Motors Ltd and Myeloma UK.
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Claude Littner was the chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur starting in 1993 and resigned his position in 2001.
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Claude Littner bought into Powerleague, a five-a-side football centre operator in 2001.
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Claude Littner came to wider UK public recognition through his direct and confrontational style of job interviewing on The Apprentice.
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Claude Littner is the only interviewer to have appeared in this role in every series of the programme.
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On 27 April 2015, it was announced that Claude Littner had replaced Nick Hewer as Alan Sugar's aide on the show.
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Claude Littner started when the 2015 series began on 14 October 2015, and he continues to interview the candidates.
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Claude Littner took a hiatus from the programme for its sixteenth series due to injuries sustained from a cycling accident in 2021, with series one winner Tim Campbell taking over for the sixteenth series.
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Claude Littner returned to the show for the first episode of the seventeenth series, but was not well enough to continue.
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Claude Littner's place was taken by Tim Campbell for the following 10 episodes.
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In 1997, at the age of 48, Claude Littner was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and was initially given six months to live.