r/TheApprentice Mar 23 '23

DISCUSSION: The Apprentice UK Series 17 Final

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Well everybody, today's the day! This year's series must come to an end, and today it's up to Lord Sugar to decide who of Marnie and Rochelle will receive his investment of £250,000. Discuss all your thoughts about the final in this thread.


r/TheApprentice 23h ago

Did you think she was rude?

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r/TheApprentice 1d ago

Joke What is it with apprentice candidates getting Porsches?🤣🤣

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First Dan , now Karishma , then Megan and now Roxanne


r/TheApprentice 1d ago

Discussion What happens to the unsold stock produced during the manufacturing tasks?

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In tasks where teams create 500 units of custom soap, gin, hot sauce, or convenience food and only sell a fraction of it to the public or trade buyers, what legally/logistically happens to the leftover manufactured goods once filming finishes? Is it destroyed, donated, or kept by production?


r/TheApprentice 1d ago

Discussion I think the biggest Apprentice skill is knowing when to keep your mouth shut

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There are contestants who are perfectly capable until they start explaining their decision for five minutes and somehow turn a small mistake into a complete disaster. Sometimes the best move in the boardroom would genuinely be saying less.


r/TheApprentice 4d ago

What task would actually test business ability better?

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Some of the tasks feel more like tests of who can survive a chaotic day on TV than who would actually make a good business partner. If you could replace one recurring task with something more realistic, what would you have them do?


r/TheApprentice 5d ago

Scene Still can’t get over how she tried to gaslight the boardroom into thinking CHIC isn’t French

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r/TheApprentice 6d ago

Discussion The Bridge Cafe vs the newer losers' cafes: which one reigns supreme?

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I miss the classic Bridge Cafe scenes. There's something brilliant about watching contestants who've spent the task running around in expensive suits suddenly sitting in a proper West London greasy spoon with a mug of tea, trying to work out where everything went wrong


r/TheApprentice 8d ago

Every year we get elite business minds who can’t cook basic food items

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r/TheApprentice 9d ago

The 4:00 AM phone call logic makes zero sense

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Lord Sugar calls the house landline at 4:15 AM.

"The cars will be outside in 20 minutes."

​How are all 16 of them showered, fully dressed in three-piece suits/full makeup, hair styled, and standing outside holding their coats in 20 minutes?! Do they sleep in their suits? Is there a team of 10 stylists hiding in the pantry?


r/TheApprentice 10d ago

Joke Planning filming for the new series

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r/TheApprentice 11d ago

The "Why should you be my business partner?" boardroom speeches are pure cringe

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I physically cringe into a fine powder every time Lord Sugar asks them why they deserve the £250k and they hit him with lines like: "Lord Sugar, I am a titan of industry. I don't follow trends, I set them. I'm a lion, and these lot are sheep."

Mate, you made a terrible poster in Canva and miscalculated the price of a tray of brownies three hours ago. Please settle down.


r/TheApprentice 13d ago

Discussion Which past candidate was actually robbed of a win?

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Looking back through all the previous series, who do you think genuinely deserved to win the investment or the job offer based on their performance throughout the season, but lost out in the final boardroom purely because of their business plan?


r/TheApprentice 13d ago

He remembered HR and corporate demons

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r/TheApprentice 14d ago

Which quote made you cringe so hard you had to look away from the telly?

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r/TheApprentice 14d ago

Discussion Does the show hire as we say in wales “numptys” on purpose?

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I’m not disputing that all the candidates are well educated and financially literate but many in each series seem not street wise in the mistakes they make?


r/TheApprentice 16d ago

One of the best Apprentice episodes for sure

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r/TheApprentice 16d ago

r/PlayTheApprentice2 (first sub is gone) is casting S1 now for anyone who would like to play

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r/TheApprentice 19d ago

Discussion Do you actually enjoy the modern corporate/branding tasks, or do you miss the gritty street-selling episodes?

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Remember when early series used to chuck the candidates onto Oxford Street at 6:00 AM with a box of random tat - like rubber chickens or bulk cheese - and told them to flog it to bewildered commuters? Nowadays, every task feels super-sterile with digital marketing pitches, corporate wellness apps, and designing electric cars. Do you prefer the high-stakes boardroom tension of the corporate pitches, or was the chaotic street-selling era peak entertainment?


r/TheApprentice 19d ago

Scene Such a well deserved winner

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r/TheApprentice 20d ago

Scene He won the second she started laughing

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r/TheApprentice 22d ago

Are Lord Sugar's boardroom puns scripted well in advance or genuine off-the-cuff comedy?

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Whenever Lord Sugar introduces the weekly task at 6:00 AM in a gallery, museum, or historic house, he always delivers three or four rehearsed one-liners related to the industry. Then in the boardroom, he drops pre-planned zingers aimed at candidates who underperformed. While some of the jokes make Karren and Tim chuckle in the background, others land with complete silence from the nervous candidates sitting across the table. Personally, I think the cheesy puns are part of the show's charm. Do you enjoy his scripted quips or do they feel a bit dated now?


r/TheApprentice 26d ago

Meme Nick casually dropping that grenade and dipping out will be forever iconic

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r/TheApprentice 26d ago

Is Tim Campbell a tougher advisor than Claude Littner was?

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When Tim took over from Claude alongside Karren, a lot of people thought he’d be the nice advisor because he was the original Series 1 winner. But Tim’s facial expressions and subtle side-eyes in the boardroom when a candidate lies about sales numbers are brutal. How do you rank him compared to Nick Hewer and Claude?


r/TheApprentice 27d ago

"Konichiwa, do you remember"😭

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