The Apprentice 2026 - starts tonight - first stop Hong Kong!

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Anyone else looking forward to the new series?

First task is the classic buying task, but it's taking place in Hong Kong.

There's also a new companion show - 'Unfinished Business' - let's hope it's a return to form after several years of the 'All About Tom Allen' show 😆

3 firings. Omg

Yes you are right

It had to be done, they were so bad

Andrea looks like she has seen a ghost lol

I'm sure I remember a triple once previously.

A quick search provided this.
So not the first triple firing - but maybe the second?
www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/the-apprentice-2017-lord-sugar-sends-home-andrew-brady-anisa-topan-and-charles-burns-in-dramatic-triple-firing-a3699061.html

At least she can go back to the day job fighting He Man.

That often seems to happen to the (rare) nice guy contestants. Tom Pellereau (nerdy inventor) was one of the few that was successful.

lol

I remember it happening once before, some years ago. It came as a shock then, too.

To be fair, he could have just kept the whole team in and fired the lot of them.

Rubbish tour followed by rubbish food.

Anyone good with voices know which of the men* said at the end "he's getting rid of the deadwood".

*My super sleuth skill are good enough to know it was a man 😜. Also it wasn't Penfold (I've still not figured out their names) unless he's a ventriloquist or my eyesight has really deteriated!

😂

He was incredibly lucky that his super niche skill in canon firing happened to come up!

I think Andreas negativity was a strategy for covering her backside most of the time, her 'told you so' for if it went wrong instead of putting forward constructive suggestions in the first place.

Although the buggy tour looked quite fun.

I think the guy also over promised with the luxury food so he should have come back to the boardroom

Absolutely!

On the basis of that task, the entire team deserved to go, but none of the three in the boardroom had made much of a showing previously so there was nothing to save them.

It's struck me that the teams are getting much less autonomy this series - e.g. with the flowers last week, their corporate clients were predetermined; this week they were told what activity they would be doing rather than being able to choose between boat trip, buggies or something else. Their team names were pre-picked too. I wonder why this is?

It's detrimental to the show in my opinion - it feels as though they are playing out pre-packed scenarios rather than standing or falling by their own decisions. It's like judging them on how well they put together a flat-packed cupboard instead of designing and building their own cupboard.

we are only being shown what the producers of the show want us to see at this stage

Dan, I believe.

If by Penfold you mean Dan, it was him. It's his voice. I think they had no footage of him saying it so cut in his face immediately afterwards to indicate he said it. It was clumsy editing. I justvrewatched with DS and he said Dan too. None of the rest of them speak like him and it's exactly in his wheelhouse to say that.

I’d have fired the lot. How can you try the food you are sending out.

My 12 year old called Andrea and Megan to go. He said 'undercooked potatoes isn't a crime'. True. A business partner does not routinely need to cook potatoes.

No, it isn’t a crime, your DS is right. But who really would serve uncooked potatoes at a corporate event? It’s the easiest thing in the world to check. Just try one yourself!