Apprentice 2026

This is demonstrating why Home Economics should be a compulsory class in schools. Some youngsters haven’t a clue.

Wait…does your username point to partial redemptive self-education through mastery of lamb shank dishes?😀

(In case you thought I was being sarcastic, I have no idea of the genesis of your username🙃)

Finally a bit of drama. Lawrence proving himself to be a weasel by dodging responsibility even as PM and trying to scapegoat Rajan.

Kier being barely able to contain his rage even back at the house was great, bet it was a fun trip back to the house with Lawrence.

Only explanation got Lawrence surviving must be his business.

The sweets were the easiest thing to get. Its not a custom or bespoke item, its a thing you can get in practically any shop. No need for price negotiations just get them.

I was generally amazed kieran wasn't fired. I think maybe AMS likes him, which is what saved him.

Theres a weird kind of duality in recent years in that one challenge they are designing a VR game and then in the go fetch task they can't Google what something is.

The contestants they get are generally so poor they don't need to put in the tricks like an 8 speed cassette which is actually a bike part, even the sweets proved that!

BBC NI dropped the after-show this week to show a repeat of QI. I actually prefer this new after-show to the Tom Allen studio one - there has actually been the odd nugget of useful information about the task/process.

Interestingly some posters on Digital Spy did some digging as to why the numbers of items sold as declared by Karren/Tim was much greater than what was shown on screen during the live sales. It seems that there were other products sold which we never saw in either the item selection or sales sections. This seems an incredible deliberate bit of negative editing for the candidates involved, with Rothna and Karishma being the 2 candidates who got these unseen sales.

Does Lord Sugar know their business plans at this stage ? I recall that the interviews are where business plans are discussed. I always thought it bad that a candidate could get as far as the interviews only to have their business plan rejected.

The one thing i miss from an earlier format of the after-show is, Karen Brady being Harsh but fair. It was always what you were thinking at home as well.

Watching now. There is potential for gold in this episode.

Glad to see the back of Kieran, came across as deeply unlikeable.

I never took to him. Stereotypical estate agent to be honest. And like some of the estate or property agents Ive dealt with, clearly knows f**k all about f**k all.