The interviews are a perfect place for constructive criticism and pointing out errors, but most of the comments were below the belt. The remaining Apprentice candidates Victoria, Rochelle, Dani, Megan and Marnie (Photo: BBC/Fremantle/Ray Burmiston) Tigers don’t eat cornflakes, but Kellogg’s seems to be doing alright. Well, sure, but I’d argue it’s a well-known fact that mermaids, did they exist, would have beautiful hair. “Because they don’t exist!” Linda retorted triumphantly. Suitably dumbfounded, Dani was forced to admit that no, she never had seen a mermaid.
“Have you ever seen a mermaid?” asked Linda Plant of Dani, whose hair extensions brand Mermane claims to give customers “a mane even mermaids will envy”. Rather, it was the interviewers themselves. But while there’s little excuse for not knowing your numbers or – in Megan’s case – presenting a 14-page leaflet instead of a well thought out business plan, it wasn’t the candidates who came off badly.
Marnie was forced to admit the finances for her boxing gym idea rested on the idea of not paying its employed trainers, Rochelle was mocked for wanting to open a salon in the swish area of Belgravia and Dani became the latest in a long line of candidates to commit the cardinal sin of mixing up the meanings of profit and turnover. Candidates Victoria Goulbourne, Rochelle Raye Anthony, Dani Donovan, Megan Hornby and Marnie Swindells sat in the lobby of a skyscraper like ASOS-clad lambs waiting for the slaughter, knowing they – and their business plans – were about to be ridiculed and belittled on national TV.
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TV gold.īut this year’s interviews felt different: more cruel, less substantial and, crucially, less fun than ever.
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Who can forget the time Claude Littner lost his rag with Solomon Akhtar in series 10, ripping up his plan for a logistics business and asking if he was “taking the piss” by even entering the competition? And what about Pamela Laird’s embarrassing moment in 2019, when interviewer Mike Soutar revealed he had ordered products from her beauty brand over a week previously and they still hadn’t arrived? Last year, Mike surprised pyjama entrepreneur Kathryn Burn by buying all of the website domains her business could use. The penultimate episode, in which the remaining candidates present their (often woeful) business plans to Sugar’s henchmen and women, is usually a highlight of every series. Those who do make it through the quests to make dog food or men’s skincare or a lunchbox (with an accompanying app, for some reason) get closer and closer to the series’ most terrifying task: the dreaded interviews. I don’t know what a desert rose is either, Denisha! From being sent to Antigua to become tour guides to creating cartoons for preschoolers and sourcing the increasingly bizarre items in the annual shopping task, the candidates have all manner of tasks chucked their way. Describing themselves as hard working rats and promising Lord Alan Sugar a life-changing business to invest in, their hope is quashed pretty quickly when faced with a mammoth task and next to no resources. The odds are stacked against the Apprentice candidates from the moment they drag their suitcases through the streets of London.
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