The Apprentice 2025

[blueg33]

Rider007 said:

Whats with Jonny's weird eye thing , very distracting. Also Sugg's jokes getting too much now. Sorry Austria your'e not selling it to me , Yodelling, bread making and honey are the highlights people would pay for ?

Edited by Rider007 on Friday 31st January 02:22

You are Donald Trump and ICMFP

[Wacky Racer]

Let's face it, most people watch it for the comedy value.

I watch it 'cos Karren is very easy on the eye.

[Gladers01]

Wacky Racer said:

Let's face it, most people watch it for the comedy value.

I watch it 'cos Karren is very easy on the eye.

Its the usual predictable nonsense and the comedy value is high 'you lot are a bloody shambles'

Karren is a sight for sore eyes but is she sporting a new set of gnashers?

[Richtea1970]

mcelliott said:

Pretty certain Sugar Loaf never made so many *funny* quips or jokes in the early days, now it's every 5 minutes followed by a minute of hysterical laughter from the vegetables.

No, he never did it in earlier seasons.
The candidates are bad enough, but in the real world would you want to go into business with someone like Sur Alun? 5 minus of those excruciating puns and I'd be making my excuses and leaving.

[coppice]

We only watch it to hear those immortal words from the man himself - "What WAS you thinking ? " and " I've 'eard enough ".

And we haven't yet .

[asfault]

First time ever sugar decides it's brave for choosing to be team leader and they are saved. It's been my opinion all along. Has it? Has it? No wonder everyone takes a step back at the start they all k ow the first loser team leader gets fired up until this episode.


Felt sorry for the poor girl who was charged 100 euro hen overheard 50. It seemed like she was an actual tourist and a legit customer who got suckered in instead of others who were plants.

[daqinggregg]

Well they really are all set up to fail, so cracking entertainment then.

We already have our villain, Nadia Suliaman, (green trouser suit) Knightsbridge, salon chain owner (I doubt that) she will be there until the end regardless, entertainment value.

Carlo Brancati ‘Hair transplant consultant’ arranges dodgy treatments of questionable value, undertaken by overseas professionals.

A smattering of supposedly post totty, a few um professionals and a Del boy to round up the BS bingo, of dozy sods.

It seems quite a few of them are award winning in there chosen field. Bit like Dave from Strap-on winning ‘Ratchet Strap Salesman of the Year’.

Not sure I share, ‘Whackys’ enthusiastic desire for Aunty Karen, she still wearing last years sunnies bought from ‘Big Ron’ down the Portobello Road.

Last night’s deportee, was dull as dishwater, so no surprise.

[moffspeed]

I wonder whether anyone has noticed the similarity between businessman Dean Franklin and the F1 racing driver Zakary Brown.

I wonder whether, perchance, they are related ?



Zak Brown.




Dean Franklin.

[JimmyConwayNW]

Not as much eye candy as there usually is, that seems to have diminished year on year.

[av185]

Yep standards are Shirley slipping.

[Dbag101]

It’s a race for the floor ( again ). A bunch of chancers, who are only after some sort of ‘influencer / media career’ wasting everyone’s time. What are the odds that we will end up with someone with the outstanding ambition to have a gym, possibly a hair salon, or ( at a stretch ) a bakery / delicatessen? I actually wasted some of my life auditioning for this st show ( twice ), it ain’t sour grapes, I just could not believe what I witnessed. A fun experience / fun experiences no doubt, but eye opening nonetheless. If you haven’t got paid ‘talent management’ behind you, you don’t stand a chance. It’s the same for all of this type of show now. It is fun spending the prod companies money, but oh my word, the level of fakery / horsest is epic.

[thegreenhell]

Where do they drag these people up from that have such an inflated sense of their own abilities and then perform so dismally with seemingly no sense of embarrassment at their own obvious failures. What a shambles.

[Wacky Racer]

daqinggregg said:

Not sure I share, ‘Whackys’ enthusiastic desire for Aunty Karen, she still wearing last years sunnies bought from ‘Big Ron’ down the Portobello Road

Wacky please (No h)

[Dbag101]

thegreenhell said:

Where do they drag these people up from that have such an inflated sense of their own abilities and then perform so dismally with seemingly no sense of embarrassment at their own obvious failures. What a shambles.

They are shameless self promoting clueless morons mainly. The production company are looking for these types, because they make for good viewing numbers. Anyone who is actually any good, won’t make the cut, because that doesn’t make good T.V. The process starts well before the T.V. bit of the show. The production company are based in a building not far from Tottenham Court Road tube station. The first bit is being split into groups, and then individually standing on a spot, in a room, in front of prod company execs, telling them about yourself. You get about 20 seconds to do a good enough job. Lord Sugar, is actually very involved, and informed, right from this stage. He doesn’t just get involved in the latter stages. Once the initial ‘sift’ is done, your application is trimmed and honed, and you come back to another part of the process, where group and individual tasks are set. Pass that, and you get your the ‘screen test’ and Lord Sugar is much more involved in that bit, pass that, and you make the T.V. ready, and standby stage ( standbys are there to fall in, if anyone sts out from the ‘prime’ group).

[Mikebentley]

What sort of a puts themselves forward for this. If you have a good business idea do it yourself and have some self respect.

[Dbag101]

Mikebentley said:

What sort of a puts themselves forward for this. If you have a good business idea do it yourself and have some self respect.

Quite right. I did it for the experience mostly. After the execs decided I wasn’t suitably entertaining, I was pulled aside, and told by AMS’s main man on the prod company, that the boss was actually quite ‘tickled’ by my idea, but it wasn’t safe enough for mainstream T.V. But, they did ‘encourage me to tone it down a bit, and go for it again, as the boss saw the value in it, just not as I presented it originally ( modern world / easily offended etc etc etc)’ I think the gaffer is on my wavelength, but also no mug, and knows about keeping the easily offended on side.

[LARK F1 GTR]

How did the Green pant suit girl say that saying?

It's bitten off more than you can chew, but she said something else


LS's jokes are often just as dire as some of the contestants!

[BlueMR2]

Carlo could be working for Labour soon.

If we capture a mere 0.0% we’ll hit some very impressive numbers.

[Adam.]

Many moons ago we had a PHer on the show (Tuan something) and it was great to hear how the editing works to hide the unseen difficulties they throw in

[redrabbit29]

I have two key points to make:

1) I know editing is deliberately and cleverly done to make it entertaining. 16 hours of actual "work" in the task, reduced to 20-30 minutes, with bits patched together to make people look stupid or otherwise. However... even saying all this, it baffles me how such a group of people can be so monumentally stupid.

2) I'm not sure I can stomach more of this. It's gone from being funny and clearly entertainment, to just outrightly pissing me off. We watched on iPlayer and I had to skip pass the stupid yodelling (by the contestents) and the absolutely cringeyness of some of it. I think I watched about 70% of it feeling uncomfortable and just annoyed by them. As soon as Alan Sugar made another stupid joke, or Karen Brady's sour/bhyface appeared on screen, my stomach tensed up even further.