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Lord Alan Sugar is group to return for an 18th bid of his business tycoon show The Apprentice.
The entrepreneur, 76, will beryllium joined by business executive Karren Brady, 54, and winner of nan first bid of The Apprentice Tim Campbell, 46.
All 3 business magnates look boardroom-ready successful an caller image released up of nan upcoming season.
Tim, who appeared connected nan BBC show successful 2005, appeared successful nan past 2 bid of nan programme after Claude Littner was injured successful a cycling accident in 2021.
A full of 18 candidates will compete to triumph a occupation pinch Lord Alan arsenic they return portion successful challenges successful various locations ranging from London to nan Scottish Highlands.
Back again! Lord Alan Sugar, 76, is group to return for an 18th bid of his business tycoon show The Apprentice pinch nan thief of Karren Brady, 54, and Tim Campbell, 46
They will beryllium seen making their own children’s cereal and designing a virtual flight room.
The hopefuls will also hop complete nan transmission to Jersey for nan classical discount buying task and they will recreation to Hungary’s capital, Budapest, for a tourism challenge.
In addition, nan TV shopping transmission task will characteristic erstwhile again successful nan caller series.
Comedian and actor Tom Allen, 40, will make a comeback arsenic nan big of spin-off show The Apprentice: You’re Fired, which will aerial each week on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
Tom will beryllium joined by cardinal business players, celebrities and fans of nan show to dissect nan section and statement nan advancement of nan candidates.
Boxing gym proprietor Marnie Swindells was hired by Lord Alan astatine nan extremity of nan 17th bid pursuing an all-female final.
Court advocator and golden medal-winning boxer Marnie battled it retired pinch Rochelle Anthony to triumph Lord Sugar's finance and nan chance to spell into business pinch him.
Marnie, who owns community-focused boxing gym Bronx, said of her win: 'What an unthinkable opportunity and infinitesimal for a woman for illustration maine to get to a spot for illustration this and person go Lord Sugar’s business partner.'
On air: Comedian and character Tom Allen, 40, will make a comeback arsenic nan big of spin-off show The Apprentice: You’re Fired (pictured past week)
End of an era: It comes aft The Apprentice victor Harpreet Kaur parted ways pinch Lord Sugar conscionable 18 months aft he invested £250,000 successful her desserts business Oh So Yum!
It comes after 2022 victor Harpreet Kaur became nan latest entrepreneur to person trim ties pinch Lord Alan, announcing successful August that she had bought backmost her shares successful bakery business, Oh So Yum!, conscionable 18 months aft winning nan show.
Now, successful an exclusive question and reply pinch MailOnline, Harpreet, 32, has revealed precisely why she decided to portion ways arsenic good arsenic revealing an penetration into nan existent quality of Lord Sugar.
Speaking astir Lord Sugar's quality arsenic a personification she confessed: 'What you spot is what you get. Business is business.'
Addressing nan spiky quality of nan businessman that viewers truthful often spot connected The Apprentice she explained: 'If you want finance for your business you person to return criticism.
'You get tons of feedback because nan investor is testing you to spot if you're a reliable cooky and you tin grip these questions because if you can't grip a small spot of disapproval successful nan boardroom, you've sewage nary chance successful in nan existent world of business.
'He's conscionable asking those harsh questions that you would person to look successful reality.
'I acknowledged that nary of it is ever personal, he conscionable want to find retired a small spot much astir you and your business.'
She added that while she doesn't really speak to Lord Sugar anymore, noting that he's a 'very engaged guy', she still has a bully narration pinch his team.
'If I did request thing successful nan future, it's bully to cognize that we've sewage a bully narration and I'm judge if I needed to I could prime up nan phone,' she said of his advisers and team.
Harpreet's triumph was controversial, pinch Lord Sugar voicing concerns complete nan 'scalable' quality of her business, and that she ran her business pinch her sister - who Lord Sugar had not met.
Two of a kind: Harpreet's triumph past twelvemonth was controversial, pinch Lord Sugar voicing concerns that she ran her business pinch her sister Gurvinder (pictured) who he had not met
As a consequence her sister Gurvinder became nan joke of Internet memes during nan show's last aft viewers believed she would beryllium sacked from nan institution and replaced arsenic a shareholder by Lord Sugar.
Yet Harpreet revealed that her sister Gurvinder's engagement had nary base connected her determination to portion ways pinch Lord Sugar and she was still capable to stay a head and ain a liking successful nan company.
Discussing really nan divided came to be, she told MailOnline that nan determination was 'completely amicable and mutual' but allowed her and her sister to person much imaginative power successful nan business.
'The determination came astir done a committee discussion,' she explained. 'We are asked would we for illustration to benignant of return that ownership and bargain backmost our shares but location are decidedly nary bad feelings.'
