Mark Wright (GC)

Mark William Wright GC (22 April 1979 – 6 September 2006) was a soldier in the British Army and a recipient of the George Cross. He died in Helmand Province, Afghanistan after entering a minefield in an attempt to save the lives of other injured soldiers. His actions were posthumously recognised with the award of the George Cross on 14 December 2006, and gazetted the next day. Wright had served in the 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Early life

Before he joined the military, Wright lived in Edinburgh.

Military career

He joined the British Army in January 1999. After training, he joined the 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment in October 1999. He completed three tours in Northern Ireland within three years, and was Number One in a mortar detachment by 2003. He was deployed to Iraq with his battalion in May 2003. Back in the United Kingdom, he was promoted to corporal. He became a Mortar Fire Controller, and was deployed to Helmand Province with his battalion in May 2006.

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The Apprentice (UK TV series)

The Apprentice is a British reality game show in which a group of aspiring businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a £250,000 investment from British business magnate, Alan Sugar, towards a business of the candidate's creation, with Sugar as a 50% owner. Between series one to six, the prize was originally a £100,000-a-year job as an "apprentice" to Sugar, and winners went on to work at Amstrad, an electronics manufacturing company founded by Sugar (but since sold to BSkyB), or one of Sugar's other companies, Viglen,Amsprop or Amshold. The show, billed as a "job interview from hell", is very similar in format to the American series of the same name, which starred entrepreneur Donald Trump. Both the American and British versions of The Apprentice are produced by Mark Burnett.

Both the first and second series aired on BBC Two in 2005 and 2006 respectively, before the third series was aired on BBC One in early 2007, the success of which led the BBC to commission two more series. The fourth series began in March 2008, and the fifth series in March 2009. These were then followed by the sixth series in October 2010, the seventh series in May 2011, the eighth series in March 2012, the ninth series in May 2013, the tenth series in October 2014, and eleventh series in October 2015. A twelfth series has been commissioned to air in 2016.

Mark Wright (TV personality)

Mark Wright (born 20 January 1987) is an English television and radio presenter, television personality and model, who is known for appearing as a cast member on the first three series of The Only Way is Essex.

Afterwards, he appeared on the eleventh series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! where he finished as runner-up, and the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing, where he finished in fourth place. As of 2015, he is the current presenter of Take Me Out: The Gossip and Dengineers, as well as hosting "Club Classics" every Friday and Saturday night on Heart.

Family

Wright is the elder son of Carol Wright and Mark Wright, Sr. and the brother of Jess Wright, Natalya Wright and Josh Wright.

Career

Football

Before his appearances on The Only Way Is Essex, Wright was a semi-professional footballer, with a youth career at West Ham United,Arsenal, and Tottenham Hotspur.

He started his senior career with Southend United, but moved into nightclub promoting and playing only semi-professionally. In January 2012, it was reported that he rekindled his semi-professional footballing career, by signing for St Neots Town, but this was denied by Wright on his Twitter account.