The Apprentice UK 2023

It's a particularly left-field idea, so I think it was led by the production company.

The team seemed to be handed a folder with various options on it as we saw one of them flicking through it at the start. It's possible that insects was actually the best choice of what they were allowed do. Otherwise, on a task where pricing wasn't mentioned once, chucking 10oz of fillet steak in a tin would have been a no-brainer.

Yeah, I wouldn't disagree with any of that.

I just feel within these tasks there is something we aren't being told. Gourmet product with decent cheapish meat cuts was a no-brainer as you say but maybe when the other team chose that (first choice perhaps) then the second team was left with fruit, insects or vegetarian? It's noticeable to me on these tasks they always have the two teams doing slightly different things (e.g., recently one team picked the over 50s market for the beauty product, and we get told the other picked the 30something market). Law of averages would suggest they should occasionally land on the same idea, but they never do. So I suspect they have to choose from a limited set, and must choose differently. Would actually be fairer tasks if they were both doing identical things, but maybe it would make the episode repetitive.

It's some house in fairness, there was reports earlier in the season of 2 contestants caught getting stuck into each other in the gym, wonder who they were.

Thats a rumour they put out every year that a few of them start shagging, it probably has happened over the years but I doubt its as common as they say it is.

Are they dumbing down on purpose or really that thick.

They wouldn't pass an interview for Aldi let alone an investment for 250 k

Great to see Claude back.

But on the downside I can't stand that Brady bitch

It’s a bit late for this lass with the bright red lipstick to be trying to sell hair extensions to Claude!!

I thought what he said to Victoria on her way out was just a bit uncalled for really "keep it as a hobby, it's a good hobby". Yes, it wasn't a great idea. You did have her in the semi final though!

Every one of the final 5's business plans were a mess. What is going on? This isn't a serious show anymore, mind you it hasn't been for a few years i suppose.

Interesting they have Dragons Den on just before this, the people that get rejected on it for their business ideas are streets ahead of anyone that has been on this show for years.

I know where I'd be telling Brady to shove her Baroness title, of course she had to let everyone know she lives in Belgravia as well.

If the girls business plans were this much of a mess what must the boys plans have been like?

The apprentice has lost what it's about. Candidates are not selected based on their business ideas or accumen anymore. They are just there to increase their profile. It seems to be more about their looks now than their business idea. (Their looks are even questionable).

All of the business ideas were pathetic - not one is a money maker. Nothing unique there at all. None of them have business brains at all or are investible. Sugar could not add anything to those businesss at all.

It's a shame - I used to love this show. If it's on for as another series I couldn't be bothered watching.

An Irish contender could have said "Yeah Karen, I'll apologize for not saying Baroness when you apologize for 800 years of oppression" lol

This is it.

If you've a legitimate business, you're more likely than not going to avoid being demeaned for 12 weeks and having to live and work with utter bell-ends who think they're the second coming of Warren Buffet. The recent winners seem to have fairly solid businesses but I'd put that down to the management of Lord Sugar's teams who manage his investment.

I imagine if you tracked back to the 'growth plans' from the winners' interviews, they're nowhere near the nonsense that they promised and are enjoying relatively modest success (which in itself is not to be sniffed at mind).

The business plans were a mess. I guess that they are created as part of their original application to the show and contestants are not allowed to modify them after that point.

Most applicants dont believe they will get to appear on the show. So their focus is probably in putting as much bravado in to their application with little focus on their business plan. And then they get to the interview show and suprise suprise ...their business plan is muck.

In theory it makes for more dramatic tv but it really is poor. A bunch of shopkeepers. If they had people with original entrepreneurial ideas the show would likely be less dramatic but much more interesting to watch.

The Irish ones didn’t come back.

Marine wearing a cape. Hoping for a superhero performance ?

Seemed to be genuinely good natured between all participants, even stony faced Karen smiled and laughed.

Same here. I thought it was fairly obvious last night that Marnie would win. Not a great season even judging by the number of comments on here!

I think she lost because she was showing too much boobies at the presentation and Lord Sugar was not a big fan of her under-boobies tattoo.

It's all down to the edits. There could have been moments like that during the season but they wouldn't be shown.

Yep, every year people say Sugar looks at the business plans and then plans his firings around that, this and every other year has proven that this clearly isn't true.