The Apprentice 2025

Yep it's real.

Cynical prediction.

The winner of the next (and final) task will be decided solely by Sugar, rather than any sales figures. The team of 3 will almost certainly be declared the winners unless it's beyond obvious that the team of 4 should win. The teams will be changed before the task such that the team of 4 have two candidates who are 'firing fodder'.

Does any one know Amber Rose's business proposal? I wouldn't have thought a pizza business would massively interest Lord Sugar.

Oh jesus. Another ship that has well and truly sailed.

I'm not "against" Anisa's pizza idea, or a bubble tea idea, but if the year was 1981, and Dominos, Apache, Four Star Pizza and Papa Johns(and the hundreds of other pizza related businesses) were not already in the UK, then making a business proposal to Lord Sugar would be a great idea. The reality is, it's 2025. I live in a town in the midlands(in Ireland), and a quick count on Just Eat shows 11 places doing pizza and 3 places down bubble tea. I'm pretty sure there are a few more places doing pizza but they just aren't on Just Eat, or don't deliver to my area.

Hopefully someone else has some kind of a unique idea.

Hmmm, interesting, a friend of mine had a similar business plan. Make the dough out of naan bread, and make the topping to be 2-3 different kinds of Indian dish. Target Indian officer workers. He got as far as doing market research. Only problem was he was aiming for a price of about £6 pounds per dish out of the food truck to cover his costs, but the feedback was it was way more than his target market were willing to pay for lunch.

I think Jordan might be the longest lasting Irish contestant since Jennifer Maguire.

Apparently he's also the youngest to ever appear on it.

Sugar likes 'products' he never really goes for service type ideas

Makes no sense Jordan being the PM when Liam was the person who worked in the fashion industry.

Jordan in the final, seems quite emotional !

What's the name of the character from the Inbetweeners who was the pathological liar? Liam reminded me of him. Sounds like him, accent wise.

Others: do you have an idea for a story?

Liam: the story is it's eco friendly fashion.

Others: that's the brief, what's your story?

She was responsible, but Jordan was also responsible for letting her walk all over him. He stood up to Liam on the team roles, but seemed unable to stand up to Mia going way off the wall.

Still, nice to have an Irish interest for the interviews.

I say this as the owner of not one but two kilts, Mia's idea was terrible. They often seem to forget in tasks like this that the goal is not to sell a couple, but to sell lots. A trendy place might place an order for 10 mens, recycled skirts and 20 mens crop tops but thats going to be it.

The other teams approach was safe, with terrible logo, and I'd never heard of a scrum bum before, but I'd imagine only a certain figure would pull it off, but at the end of the day, people do like leggings and so will buy them.

I definitely think the right people were fired last night.

Mia was very surprised to be fired & it carried over into her appearance on Your Fired

I don't know if it was intentional sabotage, but certainly she felt she was immune from a firing. There's no denying she browbeat Jordan into going her way. I wish he had stood up to her. Hopefully thats a lesson he has learnt.

I think part of the skill in approaching each task is carefully listening to how the task will be 'marked' and keeping that at the forefront of your decision making.

Is it a profit & loss task like the various food-selling tasks? Is it volume of sale units regardless of cost/price like the task you are discussing? Or is it purely value of sales regardless of cost like the live TV selling? All different concepts and whilst the flaws you raise about this task are correct I don't particularly mind it (hell, all the tasks are flawed) as it shows whether the candidates are able to think clearly about what is being asked of them.

The niche route they went down in this task would likely have been a winner under the 'value of sales' or 'profit and loss' marking system. That the candidates completely failed to take the marking system into account is purely on them, and not a sign of any unfairness of the task imo.