It's official - interviewer from hell Claude Littner will replace Nick Hewer as Lord Sugar's advisor on the next series of The Apprentice. That noise you hear? It's candidates running screaming from that lavish house.
Because yes, Claude is scary. Very scary. We've lost count of the number of times we've sat on our sofa, chewing our fingernails off and sweating buckets as we watch Claude interrogate the hopefuls who've made it to the interview stage of the competition, destroying not only their CVs but also their dreams. Read on for just nine times we wanted to die watching him...
1. James McQuillan (series 5): "You're trying to defend what's frankly indefensible"
Well, James made the mistake in his CV of writing: "In a nutshell, I put a leash on people who spunk money up the wall." Claude wasn't going to have any of that kind of naughty language - goodness me no.
Because yes, Claude is scary. Very scary. We've lost count of the number of times we've sat on our sofa, chewing our fingernails off and sweating buckets as we watch Claude interrogate the hopefuls who've made it to the interview stage of the competition, destroying not only their CVs but also their dreams. Read on for just nine times we wanted to die watching him...
1. James McQuillan (series 5): "You're trying to defend what's frankly indefensible"
Well, James made the mistake in his CV of writing: "In a nutshell, I put a leash on people who spunk money up the wall." Claude wasn't going to have any of that kind of naughty language - goodness me no.
- 4/27/2015
- Digital Spy
Last night's episode of The Apprentice scored the biggest audience for the series so far, according to the latest viewing figures. The penultimate episode of the series, which saw James McQuillan, Lorraine Tighe and Debra Barr all fired by Sir Alan, averaged 9.22m (38.7%) during the 9pm hour. The previous high for the series was the opener, which took 8.11m (33.3%). The half-hour The Apprentice: You're Fired then took 3.97m (18.5%) for BBC Two at 10pm. The Apprentice attracted three times as many viewers as its nearest rival, ITV1's Cops With Cameras, which put in 2.97m (12.5%). Embarrassing Bodies was close behind, drawing 2.51m (10.5%) for Channel 4. BBC Two's Kate Adie Returns To Tiananmen Square grabbed 1.21m (5.1%), and Five came in last place during the hour, pulling in 933k (3.9%) with Extraordinary (more)...
- 6/4/2009
- by By Dan French
- Digital Spy
Nick Hewer has suggested some "creative thinking" that could have allowed Debra Barr to sell a rocking horse on last night's episode of The Apprentice. Barr was not allowed to reduce the price of the horse for a potential buyer who insisted on a £200 discount, which resulted in James McQuillan's team losing the task and Ben Clarke being fired by Sir Alan Sugar. Hewer told The Mirror: "What would have been wrong in saying: 'Pay (more)...
- 5/21/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Majid Nagra has become the third candidate to be fired from The Apprentice by Sir Alan Sugar. Sugar accused the 28-year-old of not contributing to the tasks during his time on the show. The multi-millionaire claimed that he chose to save project manager James McQuillan over Nagra because of advice from his assistants Margaret Mountford and Nick Hewer. "General feeling amongst my two colleagues here is that you just hang around on the periphery and don't actually do anything," said Sugar. He also blasted teammates McQuillan and Ben Clarke for creating and going ahead with their fitness box concept on this week's task. "You totally missed your target audience, you totally missed what the market wants," shouted Sugar. "You came up with some lump of wood and you're sitting here wondering why you didn't get any orders. "I (more)...
- 4/8/2009
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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