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

[IHeartMyTissues]

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 😆

Knew someone would get second hand kit and save money.

I want to drive a hovercraft

Tim laughing at Sugar’s dinosaur joke 👀

They did well with that I thought

Still dislike Lawrence

To be fair, the chateau smurf du pape was quite good, for Lord Sugar. That dinosaur one wasn't....

I wonder if another task fell through.

Not unlike Walker in Dads Army in his 40s style double breasted suit

Yayyy shopping channel next week

I LOVE the shopping channel task. So much room for idiocy.

Please let there be a repeat of The Wolf Jacket!

I knew Kieron would weasel his way through. He’s Suralan’s type of wide boy geezer.

do they know in advance how much they’ll be penalised for missing items? If so, surely it’s pointless negotiating for anything over £100

Harry is too nice for this process.

I’m still struggling with the names—even now that there are fewer of them left. I’ve got Karishma down (because she’s actually competent, which is practically a plot twist on The Apprentice), and I know Kieron and Levi—mainly because they’re so relentlessly irritating. Overconfidence is standard issue on this show, but they’ve elevated it into a kind of performance art.

That said, I will give Kieron credit: his ability to bend his neck so his chin leads the conversation is genuinely impressive. It’s matched only by his compulsive jacket-flicking, which he seems to treat as a key leadership skill. (In case it's not clear, those are two behaviors I find irritating!)

Lord Shugs absolutely loves a greasy wide boy doesn't he...fsakes...

Ain’t that the truth! 😂

Sadly nothing will quite ever reach the heady heights 😂

Of course he does, because he was one originally himself, he probably still is one at heart.

Re The Wolf Jacket - it was James Max in the first series. I still think he took part for a bit of a laugh as he already had a successful and lucrative career and SurAlan’s £100k job would have been a pay cut.

I knew 6 of the items!
I didn't know the Something Blue, the Birds nest doughnuts,or that the black cassette was bicycle related.
It's been decades since I last went to the IOW.
They should have got the sweets!
Looking forward to next week 🤗

The donut was very disappointing...looked nothing like a bird nest 🤣

I know @TitsInAbsentia !
I was half expecting them to wander into a Chinese restaurant and ask for the soup! 😃

I knew it was a bakery item but assumed it was a meringue item (as there’s one that exists called that).

I've just looked it up, it actually sounds quite nice!
https://gracesbakery.uk/product/isle-of-wight-doughnut/

And how ace was Karishma thinking ahead to order it to collect from the departure branch! Bloody love her.

I thought it was a bakery or sweet item but imagined it was a 'nest' made of chocolate like a flake roughly made into a 'nest' with mini eggs in.

Karishma is brilliant. She's the only one with common sense.