{"id":394566,"date":"2026-04-12T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394566\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:22:30","slug":"the-apprentice-finalists-revealed-after-lord-sugar-tears-apart-business-plans-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394566\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apprentice finalists revealed after Lord Sugar tears apart business plans \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lord Sugar has whittled down the contestants in The Apprentice to his two finalists after tearing apart the candidates\u2019 business plans.<\/p>\n

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

The first victim of Lord Sugar\u2019s triple firing was Priyesh Bathia, who was grilled by his associates for his business plan containing two separate ventures.<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the episode, viewers saw the global account manager from London call his tense interview with entrepreneur Linda Plant a \u201cshambles\u201d as he referred to her as \u201cthe devil\u201d.<\/p>\n

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As Lord Sugar gave him the boot, he said: \u201cI admire your enthusiasm and entrepreneurism, but my advice to you is please do not give up your day job. It is with regret, you are fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his way out of the boardroom Bathia, who hoped to set up a mobile cocktail bar business, joked: \u201cIf you do need cocktails, reach out to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence Rosenberg, a public relations specialist, was the next candidate to be fired after being told his business plans were \u201cendless waffling\u201d and \u201cnonsense\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"DanDan Miller said he feels \u2018immensely proud\u2019 of far he has come in the process (BBC\/Naked) (Naked (A Freemantle Label)\/CREDIT LINE:BBC \/ Naked (A Freemantle Label)) <\/p>\n

After narrowing down to his final three, Lord Sugar said he was faced with \u201ca bit of a dilemma\u201d before eventually deciding to sack Dan Miller.<\/p>\n

He told the student recruitment company owner: \u201cI don\u2019t understand your business at all. I know it\u2019s a good one, somewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cDan, your numbers are like a jungle and I\u2019m not completely sure whether you understand them yourself. I certainly don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he left the show, Miller said: \u201cI\u2019m feeling really proud of myself, I\u2019ve learnt so much being in this process, and I couldn\u2019t wish for any two better people to be in the grand final.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following their triumph in the penultimate episode of the show, Vijay said: \u201cTwo girls in the final. It hasn\u2019t hit me that we\u2019re here. We both deserve such a solid seat at this table, and now it\u2019s me vs you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Myhill responded: \u201cLove you girl. Smash it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LordLord Sugar has found his two finalists (BBC\/Naked) (Naked (A Freemantle Label)\/CREDIT LINE:BBC\/Naked (A Freemantle Label)) <\/p>\n

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":"Lord Sugar has whittled down the contestants in The Apprentice to his two finalists after tearing apart the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394567,"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-394566","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\/394566","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=394566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}