{"id":391096,"date":"2026-04-10T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:16:12","slug":"latest-candidates-fired-and-finalists-revealed-in-the-apprentice-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391096\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest candidates fired and finalists revealed in The Apprentice \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest candidates have been fired from The Apprentice, meaning only the two finalists remain in the BBC business show.<\/p>\n

Pascha Myhill will battle it out against Karishma Vijay in the series finale next week, after surviving gruelling interviews with Lord Sugar\u2019s business associates in tonight\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n

Dan Miller, Lawrence Rosenberg and Priyesh Bathia were the latest candidates to leave the show, after a tense episode during which viewers saw their products tested and their business plans pulled apart.<\/p>\n

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Student recruitment company owner Miller said he feels \u201cimmensely proud\u201d to have made it to the final five, adding: \u201cMy interviews went so well, and it was a fantastic validation for me to know the business I have built up over the years is really good.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI made the right decision for myself and my business in that moment and I\u2019m really happy Karishma and Pascha are the two finalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entrepreneur, from London, said that he would not have done anything differently throughout the process, adding: \u201cI\u2019m just me, and what you saw is how I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that since leaving the show, he is still growing his business and that he implemented the feedback from Lord Sugar\u2019s advisers, and joked: \u201cIt probably saved me about \u00a3100k in consulting fees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Public relations specialist Rosenberg hailed his time on the show as \u201ca once-in-a-lifetime experience\u201d, and said: \u201cNobody will ever be able to take away that I made it to the final five of one of the most competitive processes on television.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added that he wishes he pushed back on the accusations that his business plans were written by AI during the interviews with Lord Sugar\u2019s associates, and said: \u201cMy business plan was written by a human, and I have over 100 hours\u2019 worth of logs to prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bathia, a global account manager from London, described it as \u201cdisappointing\u201d to miss out on the final and said being fired \u201cstings\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThat said, I\u2019m incredibly proud of how far I got. It\u2019s a huge milestone and a massive achievement for me, and something I\u2019ll always look back on with pride.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learned a huge amount about business, about resilience and about myself and I\u2019ll take that forward. I\u2019m leaving with my head held high and a lot of momentum for whatever comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bathia called finalist Vijay a \u201cstandout candidate\u201d, and said: \u201cShe has just been amazing throughout the process with all her creative ideas and business acumen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The winner of the latest series of The Apprentice will be awarded \u00a3250,000 of investment into their company and the opportunity to go into business with Lord Sugar.<\/p>\n

Myhill, a recruitment consultant from Berkshire, hopes to use Lord Sugar\u2019s investment to create a recruitment company within private healthcare if she wins the programme.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, beauty brand owner Vijay, from Surrey, is seeking an investment from the business mogul so she can expand her company.<\/p>\n

The Apprentice returns for its series finale on BBC One next Thursday at 9pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest candidates have been fired from The Apprentice, meaning only the two finalists remain in the BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,140941,1576,23321,282,1577],"class_list":["post-391096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lord-sugar","tag-showbiz","tag-the-apprentice","tag-tv","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}