The Apprentice 2025

Nice little dig at Piers Morgan by Sugar there 😂

Deans interview. Oh my God.

"Climate control is changing…the weather…zone is depleting…The summers are getting longer"

That was possibly the worst interview I have ever seen.

Presumably he was nervous and his mind went blank. It happens. It's happened to me for sure. I was in an interview recently and was talking about a course I am doing, and for the life of me could not remember the 4 letter acronym of the course. Me: "It's B……S……."

The interviewer was probably thinking, "Yeah that is BS".

To be fair to Dean, he's the only one asking for an investment for an already profitable business. All that stands in his way now is he has to get the help of 4 or 5 numpties who already got fired.

bit of an anticlimax last night.

Chisola had nothing at all.

Amber Rose had zero either.

Jordan made 20k (supposedly) doing stuff he learned from YouTube.

Deano has a business and Anisa a product and a fledgling business. I see a repeat of last year (Phils pies and the other guys dental practice being most attractive) if getting half of Deans business is a steal for 250k Lord Suge will go for it. Otherwise it’s the pizza in dark kitchens.

I’ve said it repeatedly but it morphs into dragons den in the last two episodes where the investment and equity are fixed, which is a nonsense really.

I would assume someone has a look at the business plans at the very start and highlights anyone with a good idea.

Last year there was the dentist with a successful Dentistry practice and his business plan was to start selling scrubs.

Lord Sugar was like: No, I don't want no scrubs!

He got into the final two, and then was told, why don't you have a rethink about your idea, and maybe pitch your dentistry practice instead? He was a smart and capable candidate so himself was investable.

I seriously doubt anyone with a really good business ideas has already been fired.

Like the Irish lady who's idea was a utility belt for hairdressers. I doubt AMS read about that after firing her and thought "Oh what an opportunity I have missed".

I also wonder, if from time to time they get a business idea in from an applicant and the person is told, "we are so interested in your business idea, you will bypass the process and go direct to a sit down with Claude and Tim".

The problem with the pizza business is if it takes off all the big boys like Pizza Hut and Dominos are just going to rip her recipes off or else buy Anisa out and start making them as cheaply as possible and lower the quality of them which she didn't want to see happening.

I can't believe Dean chose the muppet Liam as his first pick. The same Liam who initially went in the wrong direction with the advert, and I suspect if that was a normal episode, not the final, they wouldnt have been allowed re-shoot the advert.

It always astonishes me that they get to the final and have no idea what to call it, and spent two hours(or whatever) brain storming with others coming up with a name.

I get that, I am still saying, would you not have a few ideas in your head already? If it was me I'd be up all night the previous day coming up with a list of possible names, not leave it to the brain storming session when time is already tight to come up with one.

I really don't know about scalability, that seemed like the fatal flaw of his plan for me. How many houses will really want A/C to be installed? And how many man-with-van can he put out on the road?

The pizza side seemed much more scalable to me, with franchising as the obvious option.

South of UK has a different climate to us here in Ireland. I spent a summer in London a good few years ago and it was sweltering. Have a sister living just west of London and its deffo warmer than here in the summer. Alot of people living in apartments and flats in and around London; there would be way more demand for AC than there is here

Highest temp for a very short period. It killed my dog who was ill before the rise started.I do not remember it continuing into August from mid July

The more AC systems that we install, the faster the world will continue to warm.

Just watched the final last night. I was really surprised that he went with Dean. The pizza idea was so much more interesting and she defended it really well. I was looking forward to trying a zaal pizza next time I’m in London. Maybe I still can, I suppose.

But in terms of the original idea of the show and focusing on the individual, she was so much more impressive and investable.

A disappointing end, but I’ll still watch next time!