WARNING! Contains spoilers 16 candidates, but only one winner. After 11 weeks of challenging and often hysterically bad task performances, the four finalists face their toughest challenge: the interviews. Four gruelling interrogations which make the Spanish Inquisition look like a Daybreak interview, as the finalists face the kind of questions which no right-thinking HR manager … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers A week before the final was a little late for a bromance to develop, but develop it did as The Apprentice crossed paths with Brokeback Mountain to bring us the story of a touching relationship between Ricky Martin and Tom Gearing as they combined to win the last weekly task. Meanwhile market trader Adam … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers Mathematically, a double firing had to occur at some point in this season of The Apprentice to ensure a four-way final, and this turned out to be the week. First architect Gabrielle Omar found herself on the receiving end of Lord Sugar‘s Digit of Doom™ and then, in one of the biggest non-surprises in … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers There are times on the The Apprentice – all too many of them – when watching the teams make a mess of the most basic business decisions is enough to drive you to drink. This week, however, it was the candidates themselves who partook of some English sparkling wine in an attempt … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers It’s week eight on the The Apprentice and the candidates finally got a break from the hard-nosed business of making meatballs and flogging fake tan as they were asked to show their artistic side, dahhling, selecting urban art to push to both private and corporate customers. But fundamentally the task came down … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers In another reality TV mash-up, The Apprentice crossed swords with The Only Way Is Essex as the teams were given seed money to buy, sell and reinvest in the home of TOWIE, the show famous for bringing the art of vajazzle to a wider audience. (If you have to ask, just don’t.) Strategy – … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers We may be halfway through this year’s Apprentice, but still the teams continue to make a right (meat)balls-up of familiar tasks, leaving themselves in a stew. In a closely fought contest selling gourmet food in Edinburgh in which both teams made tasty profits, Phoenix’s meatballs proved slightly less appetising than Sterling’s Scottish-themed … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers The candidates worked up a sweat this week as they were tasked with devising a new fitness programme. While Sterling’s Beat Battle mixed martial arts and dance class seemed more fit for purpose, they were knocked out by Phoenix’s retro Groove Train. In the boardroom it was every man for himself, and … Continue reading »
WARNING! Contains spoilers! After three weeks of getting used to selling rubbish and other cheap tat, the remaining 13 candidates on The Apprentice should have been well prepared for this week’s task of, well, buying rubbish and other cheap tat and then selling it as really expensive tat via the phenomenon known as ‘upcycling’ or, … Continue reading »
For their third assignment, the remaining 14 candidates on The Apprentice were given the task of creating a new condiment. Both teams attacked this with relish but soon ended up in a pickle as production problems left them playing ketchup. In the end, it was Phoenix who bottled it, and in the boardroom Lord Sugar … Continue reading »
