in task 7 she wasnt even PM but she said dean should be sub pm over anisa, and when anisa clarified that it was the project manager's decision, according to Mia that comment was 'inappropriate' - how r more people not talking about this that was literally soooo rude of mia

it's also clear there's a clique going on in the house which involved Mia and the boys. its so odd how liam n jordan said mia should be pm and only emma vouched for anisa. when anisa was the more obvious choice. and liam and jordan were sucking up to mia soooo much after the pitch.

Also notice how liam n jordan placed all the blame on Anisa alone, as did Mia, but because Emma said the fault lies with both Jordan and Anisa, and because Emma wasnt licking up to mia like the boys were, mia saw her as public enemy no.2 and threw her under the bus

Mia was the ringleader of an all boys clique involving dean liam and jordan. max too probably bc her and max are extremelyyyyy close thats why during the turkey task they woke up early and had coffee alone together

Why are people acting like she should be gone by now ? Newsflash shes never lost until last episode. And even then she wasnt brought into the boardroom. Why are people trying to change the rules of the game just to see her gone ?

Whether its luck or shes contributed behind the camera, shes there because she doesnt lose. So until she starts losing more consitently and is the major cause for the losses, then can you guys be complaining why she is still there. There is no prejudice at all for her still being there..in fact im seeing more predjudice here for coming after someone that keeps on winning.

My personal opinion of Noor is that she isnt shown as very bright, but thats the same as most people in this season. If she survives by being carried by her teamates then lucky her.

No eye candy. Nobody’s even entertainingly dim.

He was a poor candidate and poor throughout the whole thing. Dude played the whole family man angle to paper over being a poor candidate.

That is all, thanks for attending my TED talk.

I don't know if anyone remembers young enterprise from school but in my head that's what I call the apprentice. I think GCSE and A Level students would have more clue than some of these.

Catching up from last night (TV selling) and the way they select products just reminds me of a Y.E project we did at school. They just pick what they like and don't think about profit or sales pitches until it's time to sell.

Also my gripe so far this season is: Does Mia have a background in catering? Because I've not heard her mention it once....

I'm fed up of her. I hope her smug look gets knocked off her in the episode.

Young Enterprise was a school scheme and I think it still exists. Teams were given like £5 and did tasks like buying and selling to turn it into £50 for example. It was commonly used by Business Studies students.

Edit: sentence structure tweaked. Info on Y.E. added.

Was fucking stupid. I said it from Day 1. I said it in every task she fucked up. I said it when she made that stupid eco video game. I said it when she inexplicably reached the final four, a feat only achieved because every single other candidate that series was useless except Francesca that was robbed.

Alcoholic protein shakes are a really fucking stupid idea. Protein shakes are consumed primarily as a bodybuilding supplement, however alcohol hampers the bodies ability to build muscle. They are the antithesis of each other. There is sometimes a reason nobody has invented something. This is a prime example.

Today she posts this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CocqmuGoVlL/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

No mention alcoholic protein shakes anywhere. Just a poor, bog standard, depressing energy drink.

I am FUCKING vindicated.

Fuck you Britt. One of the least deserved final four ever except the guy who brought Claude pictures of sailboats.

Anisa was never really special to me. Just consistently 7/10. If she really was amazing and deserved to win she should've won more than 2 tasks. Dean had bigger highs and lows but feels more memorable to me in the future

I know Carlo was vain, deluded and certainly lacking in contribution the first two weeks. He also wasn't blameless tonight going against Max's instructions and could have put forward more ideas than he did.

However, Carlo was backed into a no win corner by being relegated to a lower position than all his other teammates. He effectively got made a dogsbody and then suppressed from providing any input in that role. Despite this he was reported as a disruptor but yet bone idle too.

In a real life working environment Max could have had a bullying complaint lodged against him as a manager. Anisa would deserve reporting to HR as well for blatantly setting colleagues against Carlo.

I've been uncomfortable with his scapegoating and now he's gone but the bullies have stayed I'm out of this series!

As if he was going to win the buisness deal from Lord Sugar 😂

I gave up after episode 1 but thought I’d try and give it another go , watched through the episodes and the final and for me it’s the worst season I’ve ever season, worst finalists, and also possibly the worst TV in general I’ve ever seen.

More scripted bullshit, and seeing each candidate post on Instagram about how badly they have been edited as they have been fired especially about the interview stages makes the whole show a farce although it seems the BBC are editing even more and making them look even more incompetent than they already are. They know who’s going to be in the final 2 simply on their business plan from the start before they even air the first episode, meaning the “process” is completely redundant. Hence why Phil got through despite being on the losing team almost weekly

Also, 250k in 2026? For 50% , yet at the start “ my company is going to make billions” yet you’re being made to look a fool for 250k.

Sugar is also even more deluded than ever , “if I was young and around today I’d still be successful”, no you wouldn’t , the majority of your money comes from property, which you wouldn’t be able to own in today’s market. This is the same guy who shared a video of the moon on his X account being about the same size as Jupiter and believing it was real.

Contrary to what some of the incredibly experienced, qualified and unbiased Psychology graduates have said about Mia being "pSyKoPAtHik!1!11!!1!!!" in the past week, I honestly think that Mia is going to win, and I have other reasons for believing that the others will lose.

Why I think Mia will win framed as concise as possible: -She's confident to put herself up and good in managerial positions -She has demonstrated a variety of skills outside of strictly food, such as during the advert (improvising/thinking on the spot to deal with no hot sauce) and being a good presenter on live TV (She didn't sell many air fryer but I think Liam fucked her up tbh) -She hasn't truly fucked up in the past 9 weeks (the one fuck up was in the hot sauce ad, and I blame that mostly on Anisa, given it was her own industry and her own themes she would be working with, and Jordan to some extent for non contributing). I also found the verdict on her dog in Week 7 to be pretty unfair and needlessly presumptuous about what a kid of the age group liked.

Here's why I think the others won't win...

Liam: Besides Melica I honestly view Liam as the most carried contestant ever. He was actively bad last week and did basically nothing for the other 8 weeks, coasting by never actually doing something bad enough to be brought back. I think he's a cool guy on a personal level, but he is just out of sight out of mind for me. Reminds me of Michael Sophocles who massively overstayed his welcome and should've gone Week 7 in Marrakesh, as much as I was happy to see Jenny C/M get double fired.

Jordan: His constant negativism is truly quite grating to watch, and it's been a pretty constant trait of him the whole way through the season, from week 4 with Fred to last week when he was bragging how he could do a better job presenting (I don't disagree there per se however), and even now when he's complaining about editing (again I don't disagree there). Overall I think he hasn't demonstrated too many good skills through the course to justify being winner material. Maybe interviews based on this partnership he has with Mike?

Anisa: Though people seem to like her (and I don't disagree necessarily) I've found her to be pretty overrated at times. Her performance on the hot sauce task was pretty terrible and if it weren't for Emma I feel she would have gone, and she also was kind of bad in Turkey and the shovelware Subway Surfers game (I don't have a clue how bankruptcy would work there besides some barrier mechanic lmao). Generally I think she is good but doesn't deserve the amount of clout some give her.

Dean: Although he has been brought back twice in a row I honestly don't think he's messed up majorly outside week 7. The Bangin branding was fair and did the job, if simplistic, and his input in editing that weird ass pornlike scene from the ad was a pretty positive contribution. Some of his product choices last week were wack but I feel like that is down to Max as well or more if anything.

Chisola: Finding a flaw in Chisola is sort of tough outside Week 6 where she really bottled it and that maths blunder because otherwise she's done great overall. Given how Lord Sugar feels about WFH I doubt she wins however, given her business plan is apparently quite similar to that.

Amber Rose: Despite a good win:loss ratio I honestly found that AR has mostly been carried quite hard by other members of her team, and I've noticed that with exception of Week 7 she has generally messed up in a management position (*evil eyes at Choco Lux's advert*). Granted this is heavily influenced by disruption from people like Melica at times but even then I found that she doesn't particularly stand out, even if she has improved more recently.

That's my opinion based off what I've seen for 9 weeks. Might piss the YouTube PHD Psychologists off to see that I am praising "narcissistic" Mia.

Anyone else think that just as Karishma started crying that she was going to start talking about herself being in the final 5?

I really thought she was gonna give a backstory of how she got there and what she went through while they were talking about Rothna but faur play she did say something nice about Rothna rather than changing the whole topic. If she did what I thought I would have hated her for it despite her being the best candidate so far lol.

And, one over Anisa? Definitely not. From the You’re Fired interviews what will Mia be doing now? Not moving on with her business plan in any way because she didn’t get Lord Sugar’s investment. By contrast, the likes of Amber Rose have continued to steam roll their business plans.

Mia is entitled with no real gumption and Lord Sugar knew it.

I personally think, based on the push to show female success and gender diversity in the BBC, Karen Brady will most likely take over.

However I think it should be James Dyson or even Richard Branson. There are not many uk business people that have achieved their level of real commercial success. But they are way more qualified than even Alan Sugar

check this link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4szRxtYjH2C7VPn6MgYq7s4/the-workings-of-the-apprentice

both of them are filmed winning and are only today on Wednesday if they won for real. entire ending and their reactions are therefore fake as they don’t know if they won since it’s filmed twice. can’t believe I only just found this out. was this common knowledge?

I have just finished watching last week’s episode and You’re Fired, and reading all of the comments on this sub.

And I have to say, the pile-on on Noor simply isn’t fair.

Sure, she wasn’t the best candidate, and she wasn’t my favourite but many people on here did not even give her a chance. Remember she offered input but was shunned many times early on in the process, for those who say she just coasted without doing anything - clearly she wanted to contribute. And the sub’s angel, Flo, did not give her that chance at all in the week she was PM. This is not Noor’s fault.

Once Noor became project manager, it was like throwing her to the wolves in this sub.

Many people on this sub should take a long, hard look at the things they’ve written about this young girl.

Now if she was someone older and more established in their career like Asif, who had genuinely said controversial things, then it’s fairer game - by that stage in life you should know better.

But cut her some slack. She’s 22. She’s got a lot of growing to do, and all we can hope for is that this experience has taught her many lessons.

If anything, I respected her more after her firing episode simply because she showed a different version of a woman of her demographic than what we are used to seeing on this show. She was very fiery, didn’t back down and had a lot of self-belief in herself and her own vision - even if it was to her detriment, it’s still commendable that someone so young can back themselves like that.

You can tell she’s not a bad person by the comments the other contestants made about her at the end of You’re Fired. Those weren’t generic comments, they said some pretty nice things.

She simply wasn’t right for this show but I don’t think she should be punished for that as much as she has been. If she was your sister or younger cousin would you want her to read this subreddit? No.

So let’s remember that she’s still very young and has a lot to learn in terms of accountability and delegation. Sure she didn’t produce the best ideas in the task, but she’s not done a Dr. Asif and tweeted some questionable things that warrant this level of criticism that’s been aimed at her.

That’s all.

I loved Melica, she had an amazing character, one I can admire, though I do believe that firing was fair. I dislike Amber-Rose and would've much preferred to see her go, but alas, we cannot have everything!

The thing with Anisa.... huh?? Now, I'm an Anisa fan, she's been pretty decent, except for the corporate day, which I think was a completely unfair firing, but this episode was so off to me. They kept praising her, more than I've seen them do anyone before. The whole thing about ignoring her mistake seemed a bit childish too. People have been fired for less.

It's just becoming more and more obvious how scripted and staged this is. Anisa is 100% making it to the finals, as well as Mia. My opinion is that Anisa having her own established business, whereas Emma does not, is a leading factor in the decision to keep her around. It's exactly what happened last season, where Phil the pie man was pretty much set up to win that last task.

Before y'all comment, 'yeah, this is obvious, this has always happened', I'd like to mention that I watch this with my family as a silly little time pass show, it's not that deep 😭

I like Phil. I like his business. I don't think he was the weakest on the team any of the times his team lost, and I don't think he was responsible for the failure of the tasks.

I'm glad he's in the final.

After she managed to buy some doughnuts last week and send them to another shop, everyone thought she could walk on water, it was bizarre. She was rubbish in the TV selling task. She failed to speak at all from the control room (the only thing you have to do there) and then completely ignored advice when trying to sell that blue ring. She seems almost as inept as the rest of them, but just because she can talk somewhat normally compared to most Apprentice candidates people think she’s amazing. Like when she managed to describe the basic mechanics of a computer game during the VR fitness task, people here lost their minds, but the game was crap. She’s likeable but I don’t get this idea she’s hugely impressive.

So my first attempt at Chat Gpt and I decided to go with an infamous candidate.

No idea if the chickens are Kosher or Halal.

Slightly dramatic but ...

On the Kishkin website (her business) for her rose hip oil in the past there has always been 2 sizes a smaller one and the larger one. Now on the website there is only the larger £35 one. I had been waiting for maybe a month for the smaller size to be in stock as is a smaller commitment in case it does not work for me. I just think its a bit suspicious that the week she talks about her business on tv she removes the cheaper product when lots of people are probably going to want to try it.

Still love karishma though.

Edit: because clearly nobody can tell the selling her soul bit was sarcasm...

Catches on quickly and could describe any person who refuses to accept they are wrong, sulks and can't take criticism.

"Oh mate, stop being such a Pash!"

Misspelling of Pash from Pascha on purpose of course!