{"id":487687,"date":"2026-03-21T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:28:10","slug":"isle-of-wight-businesses-showcased-in-the-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487687\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Wight businesses showcased in The Apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was &#8220;quite an experience&#8221; having contestants on The Apprentice visit his business for the latest series of the show, an Isle of Wight garlic farmer has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC One programme filmed at The Garlic Farm, in Newchurch, run by husband and wife Barnes and Natasha Edwards, as part of a buying challenge featured in Thursday&#8217;s episode. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The contestants were tasked with purchasing nine items associated with the island as cheaply as possible, in scenes filmed in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The whole premise of the show is around discounting,&#8221; said Barnes. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t help but say the Isle of Wight generally doesn&#8217;t do discounting, it can&#8217;t afford to &#8211; everyone needs to make a living here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was &#8220;quite an experience&#8221; having contestants on The Apprentice visit his business for the latest series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487687","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\/487687","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=487687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}