Opera diva Katherine Jenkins has rented her London house out to the BBC for the next series of The Apprentice.

Sixteen contestants will stay in her South-West London abode for up to two months whilst they film next year's show, it's been revealed. 

The house has eight bedrooms and four reception rooms. The neighbours include Sir Trevor McDonald and Andrew Marr, the BBC politics correspondent. 

Watch Katherine Jenkins at London's O2 perform her 'Parla Piu Piano' track from her latest album 'Believe':