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THE Apprentice star Karren Brady has revealed exactly when she will QUIT the show for good after 15 years in the role.
Barroness Brady, 55, joined the programme as one of Lord Alan Sugar’s key advisers in the sixth series of the programme in 2010 and has remained there ever since.
However, she has now clarified exactly when she will walk away from the BBC programme after admitting her future is limited.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Karren admitted that when Alan decides to call it a day then she will follow him out of the door too.
The businesswomen said: “Look, just to be clear, I only do this show because of Alan.
“He’s been my friend for 20 plus years, probably 30.
“I do it because I like working with him, I love working with Tim and it’s a great show to be part of.”
Karren continued: “I love the fact that Alan still loves the show.
“But I have no ambitions to be on TV and certainly no ambitions to replace him.
“I’ve always said when Alan leaves, I leave and that’s it.
“There is no show without him as far as as I’m concerned.”
Eighteen fresh faces will take to the boardroom next week in a showdown as they aim to get “hired” not “fired” by Lord Sugar.
And Karren admitted that all of the candidates are in it “to win it” and no one is there purely just for the fame and exposure.
She told us: “Trust me, everyone who goes on the show wants to win.
“I mean, they make different choices once they finish, but when they’re applying and when they’re in it, every single one of them wants to win.
“They’re there to win, they think they can win, but obviously they can’t all win. So that’s just how it goes.
“I think the reason why the show is successful is the winner genuinely goes into business with Lord Sugar.
“It’s not a certificate that they win, or ‘I’ve passed the Alan Sugar business school’. I mean, they get a quarter million pounds and he’s in business with them.
“So the candidates are there all because they have investable businesses – all at various different levels.
“Some might be an idea, some may be well-established, some may be halfway between that, but they all have an investable idea and it’s down to him who he wants to go into business with, who he wants to support, who he wants to help.”
The Apprentice biggest moments
THE Apprentice has been a fan favourite ever since it burst onto the box in 2005.
Here we take a look at five of the biggest moments over the years on the hit BBC One show.
Tim Campbell – Former London Underground transport manager Tim Campbell won the first series of the reality show in 2005. He is now one of Lord Sugar’s aides on the show.
Sarah Lynn and James White – For the first and only time in the show’s history, both finalists were crowned winners in 2017.
Amy Anzel – Season 16’s fired candidate Amy Anzel was BANNED from the final celebration show, after a tit-for-tat exchange over Lord Sugar’s mocking tweets.
Michelle Dewberry – Telecoms consultant Michelle Dewberry won the second series of the show in 2006. However, after winning a six-figure job with Lord Sugar she lasted just four months before she sensationally quit.
Selena Waterman-Smith – We’re used to tensions running high in the boardroom, but in 2015 a disagreement between two candidates spilled over – for the first time – into a physical bust-up. Events manager Selina Waterman-Smith was given a verbal warning by show bosses for her role in an off-camera scrap with Charleine Wain.
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HIS candidates are asked to sign strict agreements ahead of appearing on The Apprentice that ban them from having sex behind the scenes.
But that doesn’t mean Lord Sugar isn’t prepared to shrug off the BBC One show’s latest scandal, which saw two entrepreneurial hopefuls cosying up in a hotel room during filming.
Despite the tycoon, 77, introducing the no-nookie rule in 2019 after two stars did the business in the show’s Hampstead mansion, he’s got no interest in dishing out punishments.
“I can’t have any input into it, it’s just human nature,” Lord Sugar said of Amber-Rose Badrudin and Keir Shave’s antics in the new series, which airs its first episode tonight.
The producers tell them not to, which is effectively me saying it, because they’re reading out my rules.
Lord Sugar on enforcing the show’s rules
“It’s attraction of the opposite sex.
“What can I do?
“We do keep our eyes on them, but it’s natural.
“The producers tell them not to, which is effectively me saying it, because they’re reading out my rules.”
This year marks two decades since Lord Sugar first appeared on The Apprentice, in February 2005, then alongside business associates Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford.
Particularly popular with younger viewers, last year’s show launch saw an impressive 6.6million tune in.
To keep the youth demographic hooked, Lord Sugar and the team have embraced technology and AI-based tasks, as well as traditional Apprentice favourites, the nine items challenge and the tour challenge.
‘I might go on and on’
The tycoon said: “We have to include that because it’s what our younger audiences want to see.
“The production people are a bunch of very clever people, and they come up with these tasks that include technology, and the first person they have to explain it to is me.
“Before the task, I have to understand it, and I have to make out that I understand it deeply.
“So I do spend quite a bit of time to go through it to make sure I ask the right questions.
“We have to have the up-to-date stuff and, currently, people are talking about AI.
“We’re introducing more AI and technology-related challenges because that’s what business is now.
“It’s not just door-to-door sales.
“It’s e-commerce, digital branding and AI-driven strategy.
“I must say, I think it’s working.
“Our numbers on BBC One are strong with the younger viewers because they can relate to this new tech-driven world.”
I might go on and on until the funeral director has to stop it, you never know.”
Lord Sugar on hosting The Apprentice
Keeping up with the times means Amstrad owner Lord Sugar has no worries about whether he’ll be asked by the BBC to return for a 20th-anniversary series next year, which is yet to be confirmed, or even beyond.
Nor has he considered heading into retirement as he approaches his eighties.
“I enjoy doing this, finding young people and putting them in businesses and starting from scratch with them every year,” he explained.
“It’s not been commissioned for more yet, but there’s a good chance.
“I might go on and on until the funeral director has to stop it, you never know.
“I’m certainly not going to go and smell the roses and start gardening and all that stuff.”
He’s hoping that the big celebration on the BBC will include a celebrity version, which he teased viewers could expect to be confirmed before the current series is over.
“There has been talk of it,” he confirmed.
“They’re quite fun, we all do it for charity — and I’m quite open about who takes part, as long as the production people don’t choose Boris Johnson.”
Lord Sugar remains unfazed when it comes to the healthy competition of other business shows cropping up on the BBC and big streaming networks such as Netflix and Amazon.
He says he enjoys watching Dragons’ Den, which also airs on BBC One, though that doesn’t mean he views all the dragons as equal competition.
He said: “I watch it all the time — and Shark Tank, which runs in America — and I do like it.
“Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden, they’re the old legends of the show and have done very well.
“But Steven Bartlett, he’s a mystery to me.
“I don’t know who he is really.
“He’s a very good talker and comes across a bit suave and debonair, but I’m not sure what his business is.”
Lord Sugar also appears to have settled any bad blood that existed with Donald Trump, who he has clashed with on social media a number of times throughout his telly career.
The American President formerly presented the US version of The Apprentice, which first aired across the pond in 2004, before being replaced as host by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2017.
Nonetheless, he’s got no plans to go into business with the POTUS.
Lord Sugar explained: “He will tell you that I am in business with him, because he has a little shareholding in The Apprentice format — so he always reminds people, ‘Lord Sugar works for me’.
“But would I go into business with him?
“I don’t think that opportunity would arise.”
One business deal Lord Sugar is keen to seal involves plans for a biopic about his life, after The Sun exclusively revealed talks had begun on the project last year.
Not doing anything by halves, he already has high hopes about who would be cast to play him.
He joked: “I’d like to see George Clooney as me, I like him.
“Or maybe Brad Pitt, but he’d have to dye his hair.
‘I’ve got no sympathy’
“Sadly, there’s nothing confirmed yet.
“It has gone nowhere, and I’ve got a funny feeling it’s because production companies say, ‘Sugar? Nah. Boring’.
“I’m just hoping there’s a writer out there who gets it, and sees the brilliance of my life story, because certainly there’s enough stuff over the last two decades that they can make something great.”
Last year, sources confirmed Lord Sugar had even considered a drama inspired by his life story, in a move away from conventional, fly-on-the-wall documentaries by the likes of Molly-Mae Hague.
The Apprentice has faced criticism in recent years for it’s Love Island-style candidates, who viewers slammed as overly glamorous, suggesting some were using their appearance on the show for social media clout.
And this year, a number of those vying for the businessman’s cash already have social media followings, which they use to drive business back to the product or service they sell.
However, Lord Sugar respects that, while it’s a far cry from how he started his own business six decades ago, the social media market is one of ample opportunities.
He said “When it comes to influencers, very few . . . are successful.
“But some have become relatively successful and then turned into suppliers of their own products.
“It’s different to renting a shop in Kensington High Street but, nevertheless, they still have something to sell, and it doesn’t matter if they’re doing that behind a desk or sitting in front of a screen.”
Lord Sugar appears more open-minded than ever going into this series, which features top-level sports stars, a a tutoring firm owner, a mug maker and a hair transplant consultant.
Nonetheless, he knows what he’s looking for in his next winner.
And he won’t be holding back when it comes to firing those who don’t make the cut.
“I like it when someone makes something, produces something or sells a product,” he said.
“I don’t like all this, ‘I’m bringing out a website’, because I’m into manufacturing and selling.
“Negotiating and selling is a great interest to me.”
There will be some multiple firings in the coming series — which is not just for the sake of getting rid of them and getting the numbers down, it’s for a very, very good reason.
“This year, I spice it up a bit more, put a bit more pressure on them when things go wrong.
“I’m very sympathetic with the people at week one.
“They’ve been through a very stringent audition process.
“By the time it’s week six, I’ve got no sympathy for them.
“If you haven’t got it by then, I get a little annoyed.
“It gets steamy in places, let’s put it that way.”
- The Apprentice airs Thursdays at 9pm on BBC One.
KARREN'S A BOSS LADY
Exclusive By Jess Lester and Jake Penkethman
BARONESS Karren Brady has been by Lord Sugar’s side for almost fifteen years, so there’s no surprise she’s adamant that if the boss leaves, she’s out the door beside him.
The businesswoman, 55, admitted she won’t look back and will walk away from the programme should the Amstrad owner decide it’s time to retire.
She exclusively revealed: “I only do this show because of Alan – he’s been my friend for 20 years, and I do it because I love working with him, and I love working with Tim.
“I love the fact that Alan still loves the show, but I have no ambition to be on TV and certainly no ambitions to replace him, there is no show without him as far as I’m concerned.
“I’ve always said when Alan leaves, I leave and that’s it.”
Eighteen fresh faces will take to the boardroom tomorrow night as the annual showdown to be fired or hired by Lord Sugar kickstarts with a task in the Austrian Alps.
But Karren and her co-star Tim, 47, who is a former winner of the BBC One show, admit that just because the format is now familiar, doesn’t mean the candidates have improved in getting to grips with it.
Often, Karren has to remove herself from the room to have a giggle, before dropping Tim and Lord Sugar a text to reveal whatever failures are going on under her watchful eye.
She explained: “We also have a WhatsApp group which when we’re out on task, we can send voice notes to Alan saying what they have produced is poor, and give the reasons why and who is responsible.
“Tim and I get on really well so, after the tasks, I will read his notes and he reads mine, and we have a good chat and a laugh.
“He’ll say, ‘You’ll never guess what’s happened’ and I’ll say, ‘If you think that’s bad, listen to this!’ That’s sort of how it goes.
“But outwardly we remain really neutral because it’s not my £250,000 on the line and Lord Sugar is the one in business… He doesn’t want to go into business with me!”
The Apprentice’s Karren Brady & Tim Campbell reveal the surprising star they are desperate to sign up for celeb version
THE Apprentice advisers Karren Brady and Tim Campbell have revealed the surprise star they are desperate to sign up for the upcoming celebrity version of the show.
The Sun were the first to reveal that the celeb-version of the BBC business show would be making a comeback for the programme’s 20th anniversary.
Bosses are understood to be aiming sky-high to secure A-list names after past contestants included Karren herself as well as Piers Morgan and Cheryl, in her only ever reality TV appearance as a contestant since finding fame.
But there is one name – bigger than the rest – that both Karren and Tim would love to sign up to the BBC programme.
In a surprise admission, the pair confessed it is President Donald Trump then want to see in the boardroom but as a contestant.
Trump famously hosted the US version of the programme and walked in Lord Alan Sugar’s shoes for the show before taking up office in the White House.
But could the Beeb manage to tempt Trump to the other side of the boardroom table?
Speaking to The Sun, when asked who she would want on the cast, without hesitation, Karren said: “Donald Trump! Donald Trump!”
Her admission prompted an outburst of laughter from Tim as he said: “That would be hilarious!”
Karren then revealed she would love to see Sugar get the chance to fire Trump on the programme.
The business mogul said: “It would just be to give Lord Sugar the chance to fire him.
Tim then quipped: “Talk about a viral moment, that would be it, that would be it.”
It is understood, that the celeb version is likely to go out towards the end of 2025
The celeb spin offs first began in 2007, at first for Comic Relief, featuring Piers, Cheryl and Corrie star Maureen Lipman.
The second was in 2008 for Sport Relief with a line up that included Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross, Michelle Mone and Patsy Palmer.
A third celebrity Apprentice was staged in 2019 with the likes of Amanda Holden, Alan Carr and Rylan Clark signing up.
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THE Apprentice has been a fan favourite ever since it burst onto the box in 2005.
Here we take a look at five of the biggest moments over the years on the hit BBC One show.
Tim Campbell – Former London Underground transport manager Tim Campbell won the first series of the reality show in 2005. He is now one of Lord Sugar’s aides on the show.
Sarah Lynn and James White – For the first and only time in the show’s history, both finalists were crowned winners in 2017.
Amy Anzel – Season 16’s fired candidate Amy Anzel was BANNED from the final celebration show, after a tit-for-tat exchange over Lord Sugar’s mocking tweets.
Michelle Dewberry – Telecoms consultant Michelle Dewberry won the second series of the show in 2006. However, after winning a six-figure job with Lord Sugar she lasted just four months before she sensationally quit.
Selena Waterman-Smith – We’re used to tensions running high in the boardroom, but in 2015 a disagreement between two candidates spilled over – for the first time – into a physical bust-up. Events manager Selina Waterman-Smith was given a verbal warning by show bosses for her role in an off-camera scrap with Charleine Wain.
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