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How fake is The Apprentice?

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IamSirAlan · 15/03/2024 19:21

I'm watching the latest episode.

How much of it is fake/edited for TV?

I don't understand how these people can make mistakes like this 😂

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familyissues12345 · 15/03/2024 21:56

Greenpolkadot · 15/03/2024 21:51

When they get that early morning phone call...' the car will pick you up in 20 minutes '. ..How the hell do they get ready to quickly..How do they get the false eyelashes on and all that makeup in such little time ???
Surely that's a fix ..

It's also always the same time, so why are you made out to be in bed? Surely you'd know it's the day, what time it is so get your backside out of bed!

Greenpolkadot · 15/03/2024 21:51

When they get that early morning phone call...' the car will pick you up in 20 minutes '. ..How the hell do they get ready to quickly..How do they get the false eyelashes on and all that makeup in such little time ???
Surely that's a fix ..

AlizeeEasy · 15/03/2024 21:47

I have a family member who was on it, it’s not fake as such, in the sense that it’s not scripted, it is heavily edited and the situations are manipulated. For example, whenever a task is to ‘invent’ something, the reality is that they are given a selection of things for them to pretend they invented one of them. So if all the options are shit, then tough! They have to pretend it’s the greatest idea

Newusername87 · 15/03/2024 21:47

The office of Lord sugar is actually a studio called Dukes Island in Acton, right next to the big B&Q. The cafe is next to it but is closed most of the time.

The car rides they do in couples/groups during the tasks was all in a studio on a green screen - or at least is was the first two years after it returned from covid break. Haven’t watched last years or this years to confirm they still do that trick.

Bogeyes · 15/03/2024 21:44

Fake as f#@k

Ifonlyiweretaller · 15/03/2024 21:25

At least one episode of every series SrAllan is "called away on urgent business".... Really?

ChimneySweepLiverpool · 15/03/2024 21:10

It's so fake and yet I keep watching. It's addictive fake!

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 15/03/2024 19:27

I am friends with a previous contestant winner. The Lord appears as often as he does in the programme, apparently (i.e. not actually that often). Apart from the investment when you win (which you are expected and pressured to pay back) there's not a huge amount of support, either...

Wenttomowameadow · 15/03/2024 19:26

He definitely looks at all the proposals first, picks a winner and then starts the show.

TheLeadbetterLife · 15/03/2024 19:25

It’s not fake, they just set them up to fail by giving them tasks to do that are impossible in the time. They make them look stupid for our entertainment. In the end, Sugar will just pick the one who has the most viable business idea, the rest of it is a trial by humiliation.

Throwitontheground · 15/03/2024 19:23

My husband is adamant that Lord Sugee is never actually in the same room as the contestants as they are never in the same shot 😆 I think it is because he is short and has a complex

Thriving30 · 15/03/2024 19:22

I'd like to know too because tbh most of the contestants don't have any common sense