The field has been narrowed down to two contenders, Pascha Myhill and Karishma Vijay, who will now battle it out in next week’s series finale.<\/p>\n
Their selection followed a gruelling interview stage<\/a> in tonight\u2019s episode, where Lord Sugar<\/a>\u2019s business associates scrutinised their plans. <\/p>\n Dan Miller, Lawrence Rosenberg, and Priyesh Bathia were eliminated after their products were tested and business proposals pulled apart during the tense broadcast.<\/p>\n 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 \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 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 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":"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":522289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-522288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522288","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=522288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01KNSQQ1SZWFWV76MSMH5C234D.jpeg\")
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 (BBC\/Naked)<\/p>\n