The Apprentice UK 2023

Enjoyed that task. Might have been the best episode so far as it had a bit of everything.

Mark seemed like a big of arrogant prat at times through the series so I'm glad he's been fired. It was easily one of the worst PM performances in recent years from somehow starting at a loss to riling up Karren Brady to significant frustration to trying to blame the sub-team despite them making the experience what it was.

I hope Avi isn't too far off being fired as his arrogance is so grating.

Just haven’t got into this series, I was going to watch last nigh, saw the phone call to the house and then the girls doing makeup and just thought nope can’t watch these people again

I would have left him pick who to bring back in and then say no. The others are coming back.

I think whoever lost the pm was going

Just stop watching it if you no longer like it. I'm happy for it to continue.

Even though I'm happy Ari is gone (an extremely arrogant but somehow nice bloke), the other the sub team leader's business was make up. How was she not more responsible than he? She even pressed to be team captain of the task on that basis.

I had to laugh at their excuse - well, we were told to present a green sirum, so....

Yeah, not a permanent one! Wouldn't that kind of be inferred?

What if it was acidic and burned people's skin? Would they give the same reply?

I heard him say that alright, but Ari had the correct answer - he said he won twice as team leader and once when sub team.

Strictly speaking, if "past performance" counted for anything, surely he was more successful than the other lady?

I think what Sugar meant was he thought

A) she was the better candidate

B) her business plan is better.

The Incredible Hulk and Frankenstein monster would probably buy it. And if they expand to women’s products I reckon the wicked witch of the west would buy it.

Going woke?

Please!!!

There's plenty of reasons to criticize firings and at this stage, as said last week, it's now probably all about business plans.

Woke is just a lazy pejorative term at this stage.

That's been explained.

The cars are outside in 20 mins. They don't say the cars will be leaving in 20 mins.

Yes plenty of criticisms equally for everyone in the losing team tonight.

If the tables were turned and it was 4 guys and 1 woman left I doubt she would have been fired.

The rot has already started, none of them were great but i think Sugar was a little quick to fire some of them.

How Resting Bitch Face has made it to the final is beyond me. Useless from start to finish and the typical complainer who does nothing but ensures she's either nowhere near the binfire or when she does get near, piles on others.

Long gone are the years where teams genuinely competed to be the better team. The last two or three years have been teams competing to be the less worse team. I mean how many times this year have there been zero sales by a team or literally one measly order. Its a bit embarassing.

And whilst I certainly wouldn't say the BBC are trying to be woke, there is no way that two of them should be anywhere near the final. Joe and Simba (and maybe Kevin) are way way stronger than Rochelle and Dani.

Doesn't matter whether you are a man or woman in this show imo.

Sugar obviously sees all of the business proposals ahead of time and plans his firings to get rid of the worst ones before the final. That's why there are so many odd firings, doesn't matter how you perform in a task anymore if your business plan is pants. Just keep the 5 'least bad' business plans in until the interviews, make sure there are a couple of car crash CVs amongst them so the interviewers can do their big reveal, put through the 2 you have been considering since the start and bobs yer uncle - you have The Apprentice 2023.

The business plans are awful because most of the contestants are awful. As far as I can see the business plans are generally extensions of the candidates current job or business. 'I work on recruitment so I'll use the £250k to start my own recruitment business' or 'I bake and sell cakes so I'll use the £250k to expand my current business and bake more cakes', that type of thing. None of them seem to be original in any way.

I much preferred the show when the prize was a job at the end.

£250K for a 50% share severely limits what the business can be though. Like it's not going to enable a contestant to buy new helicopters for their fledgling luxury executive commuting business, or purchase a 25-bed hotel in a region about to become the next big holiday location.

Almost by definition, the amount limits it to expanding a bakery, some niche online clothes retailing or a mild expansion of a recruitment business.

Make it £5M for a 50% share and you'd get a different class of contestant/plan.

I think the prize part is nearly an anchor on the formats neck. The assumption is that the business plan is the big driver may not be quite true but it has to play a part, I do think the show needs a proper shake up. Whether that’s changing the prize, Sugar, the tasks themselves or the process for picking the candidates I don’t know, maybe all 4 things but I just can’t get into it, I’ll watch this week for the interviews as that’s always top notch car crash stuff.

Those crappy tasks are made worse by the fact that the contestants who are largely useless as is, have zero experience in the product (e.g. apps for kids) and then get barrelled out of it when it's not the next Peppa Pig.

I love the interviews because it feels like the only time contestants are realistically treated.

Naturo, natural pet food. Head, shoulders, knees and nose, Naturo. Paws and ears and tails and toes, it’s Naturo. Fire a chicken leg and thigh, chopped carrots and spuds, and a few peas in a fish and mix it all up. Bish bash bosh I give u Naturo. Task won.