Hong Kong<\/a>. There, they must race to acquire a list of items, such as a mahjong set and shrimp paste (without using Google, as anyone in real life automatically would). As is so often the case in the early rounds of this series, the teams are undone here by their own rank ineptitude. Navigating a foreign city without speaking the language is a hurdle, but hardly an absurd contrivance from the show\u2019s producers \u2013 and the teams\u2019 attempts to do so are by turns amusing and excruciating.<\/p>\nEach season of The Apprentice seems to bring with it the same familiar personalities \u2013 the young, the brash, and the vapid, by and large \u2013 thrusting them into the same old types of dispute. There\u2019s always a wildcard or two: this time round, the obvious candidate is Georgina. She\u2019s an actor and events manager who describes herself as a \u201cquadruple threat\u201d, with entrepreneurial nous supposedly sitting alongside the more conventionally razzling and dazzling musical theatre arts. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s immediately obvious that Georgina is not cut out for the savagery of this boardroom; that her competitors \u2013 performers and showpeople too, in a way \u2013 have all brought knives to what she thought was a pillow fight. So, The Apprentice\u2019s most distinctive new candidate exits stage left. The only surprise is that Georgina has someone to commiserate with: Nikki is also blamed for the women\u2019s team\u2019s dismal effort, and Sugar rounds the episode off with the earliest double firing in the show\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Anyone new to the series might assume that Lord Sugar\u2019s heart is no longer in The Apprentice \u2013 but really, that\u2019s always been the routine. He seems intent on giving the air of a man who constantly has pressing, serious, and opaque business demands just out of frame, tugging at his sleeve. But after 20 years, the former Amstrad boss\u2019s indefatigable air of jaded, savvier-than-thou, I-can\u2019t-believe-I-have-to-put-up-with-this-malarkey rigour is becoming rather preposterous. No one as rich as he is devotes 20 years of their life to something they don\u2019t want to do. He wants to be there. And what is \u201cthere\u201d, exactly? A drab meeting room in which clueless egotists argue about who made the error in the purchasing of shrimp paste.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth noting that The Apprentice begins less than a week after The Traitors ended on BBC One \u2013 the latter a reality show that, in just four series, has shown far more willingness to shake up its formula than The Apprentice has evinced over two decades. That\u2019s not just in terms of the rules, or the format, but the people chosen to star. \u201cApprentice candidate\u201d is not just a role but a whole, insufferable personality, and this series is, as ever, full of Apprentice candidates up and down. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m sick of watching them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}