The new reality programme, featuring Olympic diver Tom Daley, is broadcast live from the centre every Saturday night.

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He stressed that Channel 4 was not seeking a like-for-like replacement for the reality programme, but admitted that fans of the show would be "disappointed" by its demise.

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Lord Sugar, who founded the Amstrad computing business and is now best known for his Apprentice reality TV programme, is guest editing the Radio Times.

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The email was sent on 16 November 2011 after Ms Ecclestone had starred in Billion Dollar Girl, a reality television programme exploring her life as a rich youngster.

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"The reality is this is a programme that has been working, " said Senator Debbie Stabenow.

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If anything, he has stepped up his TV commitments, with prominent roles on reality show Survivor plus makeover programme Style Challenge in the late 1990s.

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"Too often, the reality seems to be Work Programme advisers swamped by caseloads of 120-180 jobseekers and employers deluged with poorly-matched CVs and under-prepared candidates, " she said.

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The ECB has been buying sovereign bonds since May 2010 through its Securities Markets Programme (SMP), supposedly for monetary purposes but in reality to bring down yields in places like Italy and Spain.

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"But the idea that if we behaved differently, the Sri Lankan government would have behaved differently I think is not one that is easy to reconcile with the reality at the time, " he told the BBC's Newshour programme.

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