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Lord Alan Sugar's rags to riches story set to become a must-watch television series - but who will play him?


The businessman's rags-to-riches life story is to be made into a drama series after he got a writer on board to pen his life story for the small screen.

Lord Sugar, 77, became inspired to share his life through a television series after watching the films Tetris and Blackberry which are both based on real-life stories about iconic tech products and their creators. Lord Sugar, 77, became inspired to share his life through a television series after watching the films Tetris and Blackberry which are both based on real-life stories about iconic tech products and their creators The first was a 2023 thriller film based on the events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Russia in the late 1980s and followed Henk Rogers of Bullet-Proof Software who was at the helm.

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