The Apprentice 2024

Rachel must have a great business plan.

I thought that his 'I'm taking responsibility for my sh1t' tactic might just get him over the line. Just so unusual to hear any of them actually say this.

was deffo a task where having 4 had a massive advantage V 3. Think Sugar went on too much about the 3 person team should have put 2 on the branding. They’d have been left with only 1 on the product design then - bad move too I’d say.

Paul’s business idea was vapourware so not surprising Sugar fired him

I meant Steve’s business idea was rubbish.

Sugar deffo has his eyes on Paul, reminds me a bit of Dr Leah a few years ago. Lots of money in the private medical/dental sector

The mixing of the teams and the 4 v 3 seemed a blatant tactic to maximize Phil's chance of getting a win. "Right, I want you to create a football skills video for use in schools. I'll mix up the teams - Lionel and Erling, move over to Phils team"

Why does Rachel have horns?

Genuinely the only reason that pie guy made the final...useless

Absolutely. The Dentist is allowed to totally change his mind yet Flo isn't allowed to revise her figures. This series has been very dodgy on lots of levels.

think Sugar would have had more work to do to get the Pie business expanded etc. Rachel was a more business savvy and smart person. Think he went for the individual more so than the business idea

Have to agree. I thought the show was about investing in people. I can't see how Paul could agree to giving away 50% especially as he told Rachel that he wouldn't be giving lots of advice.

I can't remember hearing about the 50% in previous series.

Contrary view. I thought, after the interviews in previous week, it was obvious that Rachel was now going to win. If Paul had agreed to the ridiculous pressure on him to hand over half of his dental practice to Sugar he would have joined Rachel in the final week and would almost certainly have "won".

Phil was very much the backup plan, but I thought he had no realistic chance of winning - again unless he completely junked his plans.

I thought the whole thing was even more publically unscrupulous than before. Before, it was obvious that the process was rigged to faciltate candidates with better business plans. They would be protected in weeks where they conspicously underpreformed in the weekly task. Others would be randomly fired for spurious reasons.

But this approach of looking beyond their business plan to see if they have any other saleable assets - and then getting the different interviewer's board to line up and consecutively pressure the candidate to withdraw their proposal and agree to Sugar taking over half of something else entirely to their huge financial disadvantage was pretty odious.

Fair play to Paul for resisting. It must have been fairly tempting, when stuck in this weird tv silo, to go for the win.

Claude thinks Sugar should have gone with Phil.