THE Apprentice makes its grand return tonight, with 16 brand new contestants all battling it out to win Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment.
Fans have had to wait two years for the 16th series, after Covid kept it off air in 2020 and 2021, and the first episode sees the candidates challenged to design a marketing campaign for a new cruise brand.
This season's budding entrepreneurs include a dessert shop owner, a pyjama retailer and a pharmacist - while three have a reality TV background.
Lord Sugar told The Sun: “Your initial reaction to some of the candidates are, ‘Bloody hell. How useless is that one or how useless is this one’. "But, and it goes without saying, every single year, the cream rises to the top and we are wrong." Many Apprentice stars have gone on to achieve great things in the world of business - while others have remained in the limelight for different reasons.
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