Has anyone ever actually witnessed/been part of an Apprentice task?

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I have always wondered this. Anyone ever been offered crap street food? Seen them running around shops looking for obscure items?

Wonder if they really do get 20 mins to get ready
at 4am.I very much doubt it.

I always wonder this. No time for a shower. Gross.

I do love this programme though. It's one of my few "must sees", until it gets serious and boring towards the end.

Yes, I saw them all running around Canterbury once. For a "put on a tour" task. They went to The Canterbury Tales.

Re the “the cars will be here in 20 minutes”.

The cars sit and wait (apparently).

Nope, but the daughter of the interior designer we used won it several years ago!

*Re the “the cars will be here in 20 minutes”.

The cars sit and wait (apparently).*

This really offends me that they start with several cars when they have 16 (or however many "candidates" ) but by the time the interview stage comes, they seem to have a car each, not to mention Lord Sugar arriving in his helicopter. So un-eco. And for loads of tasks they are stuck in traffic and would prob be loads quicker using the tube.

@WineIsMyCarb there’s a few at my office that do

Also, I know it’s very funny on the ‘find items’ task when they have no idea what the items are (remember that candidate who claimed to be Jewish but had never heard the word ‘kosher’?)

But in reality, of course, they would google it and have the answers in seconds. For some reason in the Apprentice world that isn’t allowed, and it makes it all extremely artificial in my opinion.

No, but I know one of the Final Five interviewers (used to be my boss!)

My DH worked for a company that hosted one of the challenges years ago. He said it seemed like a horrid way to spend time - they were deliberately woken up crazily early and treated badly to make them tired and more likely to make bad decisions. They're also not allowed to see their families and phone calls are rationed. He said there's no way he would ever go near it.

The baby faced twat on the current show who wears his coat over his shoulders like some pound shop Godfather or Bugsey Malone extra needs to fall under a bus as well. The obnoxious cunt.

I call him Business Pig.

I've got that tool in our sweepstake. 🔧

I knew a contestant from a series ages ago. She was nice in person but became a bit of a hate figure on the show.

I loved Baggs the Brand but Tre is my all-time favourite. ‘It’s not a home office, as such’.

Not part of a task, but I used to babysit one of the Apprentice contestants.....he did reasonably well the year he was on, but didn't win.

I was in the audience on a task at an agency a few years ago when they had to make an online dating ad (I was a client of the agency) To be entirely fair to the contestants they have zero time and almost no support to make things like tv ads and ice lollies - things that people spend years working at to specialise in.

Karen wasn't very nice. Nick was lovely.

Cringe @onemorerose

I always wonder if their street customers get some sort of explanation leaflet or a refund.

If a gang of twits hoofed it across the street all yelling at me to buy their random food out of a box, I'd run away fast!

And all that shit where everyone buying a single cake gets a receipt for it, or 17 team members all shake the shopkeepers hand after they "negotiate" a 30p discount.

No, I haven't encountered any Apprentice activity in the wild. I just wanted to say that being woken super early in a communal house with 20 minutes to get ready must play havoc with their bowels. No wonder they get so testy.

Oh thanks to pp for the Tom Allen tip. Rhod Gilbert was annoying as fuck, especially with that stupid paper shuffling news thing.

Tom Allen does have a tendency to over-camp everything but his snark is top rate.

I went to school with one of the awful women that was on a few years ago, she was awful at school and hadn’t improved!

I always hope it’s apprentices when I see awful sales people in shopping centres but I’ve never been lucky enough to witness one yet!

Honestly can’t pick a decent one among them this year.

Single funniest apprentice thing - Cassette Boy vs The Apprentice:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi6QDwQyLU

Yes! The one with Louisa Zissman. They had to pitch to me at the HQ of an online retailer. The contestants were lovely but Karen Brady moaned and said the tea someone made her was vile. It probably was but she was rude. Nick was so sweet.

Meant to say it is just 20 mins. They are quite strict. If it's food you can't actually sell it as there are so many hygiene checks and standards. Can't comment on other products though.

I had to deal with Stuart baggs professionally, he was funny, pushed boundaries slightly in terms of rules, but was a decent committed driven guy who really was trying to build a business, he was v funny and kind.

Sad loss.

@PanGalaticGargleBlaster I agree tbh, the novelty wore off ages ago and the contestants just get more and more unlikeable.

I love this programme. I do miss Margaret and Nick though. Nick's eyebrows deserved a programme all of their own!

My favourite bit was them both discussing the stupidity of a candidate who didn't know what a Kosher chicken was, despite putting on his CV that he was half Jewish

Nick said that the candidate couldn't be that stupid as he had a First from Edinburgh. Margaret replies that "Edinburgh isn't quite what it was". Incredibly funny!