The Apprentice 2026 Thread 2 - Conversate here!

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As we head towards the final stages, it's shopping TV up next - can the current bunch recreate the glory of James Max and the Wolf jacket? Will it be happy days or chuffin' hell?

The place for conversating about it all!

I thought he was impressed!

I wonder if next week will be the same ridiculous final task as always. "We know you have a large social media awareness of your brand, but create a new name and logo for no apparent reason, and all we will give you to support you is the morons who we have already decided were shit to invest in".

I thought that was great. Mike seemed quite disappointed, he'd probably prepared a whole line of questioning around "Why should anyone buy your product if you can't even tell what it is amongst its competitors?"

Bit late to this. I liked the final 2 candidates.

Might be an outlier here but I really thought Kieran could win. I was wrong.

I liked Rothna a lot fatal mistake not selling too much of the cat tree.

And I love them for it!
Plus the show has gone a bit panto really hasn't it...well Sugar's puns have been for years...

Karishma to win!

ok she wasn’t great with the figures but that’s why you hire an accountant.

she knows her product, is passionate about it and has gone across really well the entire process.

Lawrence looked like the slime ball that I’m sure he is.

i know Pascha is young, but imho she doesn’t come across as very experienced.

I didn't understand why LS seemed to rubbish Dan's business before firing him?

My guess is Dan didn't want to give him the whole business so LS needed an "out".

Do wonder if Pascha be the winner given how its been built up a little for it not to be her.Karishma looks more likely for many reasons but editing can be sneaky.. soo

Funnily enough I said that to dh last night.

Totally agree.
She comes across as particularly unintelligent. She’s obviously seen what her current employer is making in terms of margins and thought “I’d like a piece of that”.
Her personal presentation is so unprofessional.

OTOH it's a business sector with a big market.

The appeal of Pascha seemed to be that she's young and inexperienced, and Sugar could basically have all the fun of building up a new business and she will do what she's told. The question is whether he really wants to build up a new business if he has to do most of the work and educate his "business partner" in the basics, particularly given that he's been there, done that. At least with Karishma he can trust her judgment on a lot of things including in relation to the product and the market she's in and how to promote it, and she knows a lot more about the use of social media than he does.

Pascha gives me Karoline Leavitt vibes.

My DP's stepbrother in law has a business doing what Pascha proposes in her business plan. He makes a fortune, and easily. I expect Suralan knows he could make money here regardless of how good (or not) she actually is

I definitely thought Alan Sugar had a soft spot for Kieran.

I want Karishma to win.

He had a soft spot for pillow man, but still booted him. Team Karishma for me too.

Call me mad but I’ve ordered Karishma’s product! My skin is shit so I’m hoping it does what it says on the tin.

Not mad at all. In my particularly bad eczema days, I tried everything and anything, including an expensive Chinese herbalist resulting in a week's worth of tea made from twigs that nearly made me vomit.

I hope it works for you.

Late in catching up too. I hope Karishma wins too but that's just based on liking her more than Pascha!

I didn't much like the interviews either, I realise we only see the edited 'highlights' but some felt more like bullying than just an interview grilling.

Didn't like that pasha wore contacts for her interviews to turn her eyes feom brown to Hazel 😂

By and large I like both women. Im just disappointed in their businesses. Care homes? Boring. Skincare? How many more Skincare brands do we need, especially when its just rosehip oil? Go on to amazon and you'll be able to order rosehip oil from well over 20 different companies.

One thing I found interesting was the choice of outfits for the interview. I've been told all my working life never to wear red because it sends subliminal messages around anger, aggression, confrontation, etc. (Also studied consumer psychology at uni which discussed this). Yet the two candidates who got through both wore red outfits - although Pascha's was more burgundy than bright red

That wolf jacket years ago was hilarious. Was it Saira Khan? I think so.

I think Karishma will win. I like her.

Saira and James Max both laughing about the wolf coat. They were great- the glory days of the Apprentice!