It comes after Claude gave his blunt thoughts on the latest episode of The Apprentice last week, not mincing his words as he shared<\/a>: “Another fine mess! No teamwork, expertise, commonsense, or…. functioning brain cells!!”<\/p>\n Since his initial departure, Claude returned to the show in a reduced role for the 2023 season, and has been succeeded full time by Tim Campbell as an aide.<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n A few years ago, the star admitted he almost ditched the series for rival show Dragons’ Den<\/a>, telling the Radio Times: “Some years ago they invited me to join the panel.<\/p>\n “I was very keen, but they phoned me up and said they’d had a change of heart. They wanted a woman instead. I said: ‘That’s okay, I can put on a wig! That shouldn’t inhibit me from being on the show.'”<\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n In 2022, he also reflected on a cycling accident<\/a> that led to his exit the year before, telling spin-off show You’re Fired: “I looked behind me to see who was going to run me over,” adding it was an ambulance and they “saved” his life.<\/p>\n In other Apprentice news, fans were left outraged by the firing of Georgina Newton<\/a> in the season premiere, some calling it “harsh” and suggesting she was “fired for being too nice”.<\/p>\n The Apprentice airs on BBC One, with spin-off series You’re Fired airing immediately afterwards on BBC Two.<\/p>\n The new edition of Living Legends, a 100-page all-colour celebration of Taylor Swift, is here! Buy Taylor in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99. Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former The Apprentice star Claude Littner has suggested a savage reason for the show’s big format change. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147144,160985,2115,160984,2117,156,2116,111,139,69,160983,148828,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-290237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-collection-the-apprentice","10":"tag-content-type-news","11":"tag-contentid-89683594-b72d-4a8e-a363-b16e1da67d2e","12":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-locale-gb","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-shorttitle-the-apprentice-advisor-gives-savage-reason-for-format-change","19":"tag-subsection-reality-tv","20":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"baroness](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/baroness-karren-brady-of-knightsbridge-cbe-lord-sugar-tim-campbell-the-apprentice-season-20-69957eaf.jpeg\" "\\"Baroness")
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