What do The Apprentices have in common with chocolate teapots?

[dillite]

Both are utterly useless!

dillite I was thinking almond and hazelnut milk but perhaps I was thinking of the wrong sort of nuts

Noo disagree with that

Yep. As I said before, the chocolate was irrelevant to the failure of the task It could have been the most incredible chocolate ever and they STILL wouldn’t have bought it

You'd think they'd have learned after the 'sexy air hostess' uniform debacle ...

That interview woman has so much botox that she looks like she's struggling to move

SA looks good

That You're Fired gift is absolutely brilliant

There was a real missed opportunity to fire the lot of them. If he had to keep one it should have been the one who was fired.

Khaidja and Sian for the final. On the basis of least worse.

Have to admit I found it a bit creepy this year to have a boss coming round to see perspective employees in their night wear. Good job none off the girls wear a nightie.

You can’t have a ‘Final Five’ if you fire 3/6 🤣

He’s always surprised them at least once in the night/early morning. Happens in Master Chef too.

Sabrina & any one of the other 3

Good job none of them sleep in the nude

I went on a chocolate making team building day once. I was so drunk!

The chocolates can't be in the shops-surely they wouldn't manufacture 7000 boxes of crap chocolates just too fulfil a fake order?

That ‘sexy’ was packaging for edible pants or lube. Maybe both.

Is Sian the one who said she won the task because she did all the branding and packaging? Despite the fact that she was completely set against it all?

My husband has just told me he likes her. I am rethinking the last 25 years.

Khaidja Is going to be MAGNIFICENT next week. Can already hear her arguing.

I'm just watching it on catch-up now, and I'm up to the utterly shite branding of "high end" chocolates . How do these people survive in the real world?

You can have a final three - doesn't have to be final five.

I know they always have him wake them up. Just felt creepy this year. Maybe because I'm more aware of power imbalances and that all but one was female. Plus the unicorn onesy.

Why are they all so absolutely dreadful at pitching? Public speaking/presenting has been big in schools for years and years and lots of job interview processes involve presenting. They all look like complete idiots.

Why would you see them in the shops? Do people think the shoes they made in a previous task actually went into production too? Funded by the BBC and Sir Alan.

Did anybody else notice that on the after-task "treat", one of them said that they'd all been eating chocolate "all week"?

It just made me wonder whether the candidates actually get more time than we are led to believe

Isn’t it the camera crews that wake them up first?

I reckon there was a behind the scenes rule that only one person on each team could do the manufacturing. Seems odd they both decided to do this otherwise. I commented to DH that when they do a food task at this stage, there's always someone on their own in the kitchen going bonkers. Guess it makes good TV.

Also suspect they had to include a little performance at the start of their pitch, hence the cringy dance and awkward acted sketch. Why else were the actors and elf school all set up for them?

Doesn't excuse the other horrific decisions!

I liked the Christmas tree branding just me then

Sarah Anne hadn't really done anything the whole series so not surprised she went but the entire concept and brand was naff

Looking forward to next week

I think this series is lacking Lord Shug he's just not in it enough

I used to think that the producers gave up on actual talented candidates a while back in favour of telegenic personalities to make for good entertainment.

But there's not a fun or engaging personality here between them!

The show has really dropped in both business acumen and entertainment quality.

Yeah it's not been a vintage year this year

Think Lord S just wanted rid of Sarah Ann. She was crap at making the chocolates, but Camilla should not have survived that awful branding. It's a shame, the naughty and nice theme could have been really good. Camilla does come up with some good ideas, but like someone said last night, the execution of her ideas through branding is just terrible.

The pitch was bad but tbf the co-op panel were a bit... buttoned up.