The BBC’s well-liked entrepreneurial contest The Apprentice is reportedly bringing again its movie star spin-off in late 2025 to rejoice the programme’s twentieth anniversary.
Will probably be the primary time since 2009 that well-known faces compete below the steering of Lord Alan Sugar, 77, within the boardroom.
Manufacturing insiders are mentioned to be pursuing large names, together with Cheryl Tweedy and Piers Morgan, each of whom beforehand participated in The Apprentice’s movie star specials. A TV supply recommended that reserving Morgan particularly would generate “TV gold” given his longstanding rivalry with Lord Sugar, who has fronted each iteration of the franchise.
Whereas few high-profile visitors have been approached to date, executives reportedly plan to take their time securing the proper line-up with a view to maximise the present’s attraction in a particular anniversary yr. If confirmed, the movie star version will possible hit screens shortly earlier than the printed of the twentieth ‘civilian’ sequence of The Apprentice, sustaining the model’s momentum.
The unique model of The Apprentice launched within the UK on 15 February 2005, rapidly changing into a scores success. A pair of movie star fundraisers adopted quickly after, with notable contributors together with Sir (now Lord) Alan Sugar’s eventual colleague, Baroness Karren Brady, in addition to Piers Morgan, Cheryl Tweedy, and Maureen Lipman.
Morgan additional boosted his profile by showing within the US model, then hosted by Donald Trump. The present solid a private rapport between the previous Each day Mirror editor and Trump, who would go on to change into President of the USA.
In the meantime, the nineteenth sequence of The Apprentice returns to BBC One on Thursday, 30 January, with 18 new candidates competing for Lord Sugar’s £250,000 funding and mentorship. Their first process will see them promoting Alpine tour packages within the Austrian mountains, as they scramble to show their entrepreneurial mettle. All through the sequence, they are going to face a spread of tasks together with making a digital pop star, remodeling potatoes and tomatoes into revenue, and designing Easter eggs—culminating within the famously rigorous “Interviews Week”.
Tom Allen, the comic, author, and actor, resumes internet hosting duties on The Apprentice: You’re Fired, broadcast on BBC Two instantly after every fundamental present. This companion programme invitations movie star visitors and enterprise specialists to unpick every candidate’s strikes and missteps, providing deeper perception into the sequence’ quest to seek out the following nice British entrepreneur.
