British billionaire Alan Sugar has joined a growing list of the rich and famous who have been granted permission to skip the government-run hotel quarantine and wait out the 14 days of isolation privately.
British billionaire Lord Alan Sugar has joined a growing list of the rich and famous who have been granted permission to skip Australia's government-run hotel quarantine and wait out the 14 days of isolation privately., a reality show being produced by Warner Bros for Nine, owner of this masthead. He flew into Sydney last week and a Nine spokesman said filming would start soon after quarantine finished.
He arrived in Australia on an Emirates flight last week, tweeting that it was his first trip on a commercial airline in 25 years - he normally travels by private jet. "Same rules for me and a tosser like you," he said to one Twitter user. He did not directly answer questions about whether it would be regular hotel quarantine.
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