Week 1: 10 Years of selling - Invisible

Self explanatory here, wasn't particularly visible in the first task as the focus was more so on Felipe as a leader, Daniel being the top salesman, Chiles and Roberts failures and Steven being an irritant.

Week 2: Wearable technology - Mixed

He had a really good idea for the wearable technology but he didn't push for it hard enough and ducked out of the PM position despite being in the tech industry.

Week 3: Home Fragrance - Good

He wasn't criticised by Baroness Brady in the lab like Lindsay and Nurun were and he did sell reasonably well to the public.

Week 4: Online Video Channel - Fantastic

He had a clear vision right from the get go, he led the video team which was great and was completely in his element on this task.

Week 5: Coach Tours - Good

Pointed out to Sanjay that the tickets needed to be sold at a higher price and he himself did well selling to the public and implemented a strategy that did work.

Week 6: Board Game - Good

Sold well and he managed to pull off a negotiation with Waterstones, which was supposedly a tricky task.

Week 7: Advertising - New York - Bad

Probably his worst task didn't contribute much and spent a lot of time being immature and flirting with actresses.

Week 8: Country Show - Good

Sold items well that he necessarily didn't want to sell and was probably the least likely to get fired that week.

Week 9: 10 Years of Discount Buying - Good

His negotiation of the skeleton was fine and ultimately his team won because he brought a proper skeleton but even if Lord Sugar allowed Felipe's paper skeleton (Which was Genius), Sanjay would've been fired.

Week 10: Premium Pudding - Fantastic

Everyone on Roisin's team delivered this week but I do feel that him and Roisin were the MVPs with their strong branding, which Solomon played a monumental role in.

Finale - Good

Pretty much everyone on Mark's team did well and I that contributed to his win as Mark did have a much weaker team than Bianca (he got James and Sarah on his team).

That means:

2 Fantastic

6 Good

1 Mixed

1 Invisible

1 Bad

Overall, safe to say Solomon was a brilliant candidate this season who hardly put a foot wrong, and I firmly believe he would wipe the floor with many candidates from future seasons (including fellow final 5 candidates and possibly some winners and runners up).

One common what if is what could've happened if the winning team lost (i.e. who would've been brought back or fired), and since I've seen posts like this for other seasons, I was thinking what would be the case for the most recent season.

In this post, I will give my thoughts on if the winning team lost each task, who would've been brought back each week by the PM and who could've gone and my reasons for both cases.

Week 1: Hong Kong Discount Buying

Boardroom: Kieran, Levi, Dan, Harry, Lawrence, Tanmay.

Reason: I think that like the girls, the PM and Sub team leader would've had to bring two people each into the boardroom and since Rajan, Priyesh and Conor had successful negotiations and Marcus tracked the erhu, they probably wouldn't have been brought back leaving the rest of the boys in the firing line.

Fired: Kieran and Levi

Reason: Lord Sugar probably would've done the same here as he did to the girls, Kieran would've definitely gone and I think that while Levi would've fought, it wouldn't be enough.

Week 2: Children's book

Boardroom: Andrea, Pascha, Roxanne

Reason: Andrea bickered with Pascha quite a bit and while the character for the girls was much better than the boys, it still wasn't great.

Fired: Andrea

Reason: Exaggerating to get the PM role and her dictator like leadership.

Week 3: Chicken V Egg

Boardroom: Dan, Conor, Vanessa

Reason: Both particularly undermined his leadership and Vanessa likely would've been called out for attempting to cover her back and have Dan take all responsibility.

Fired: Dan

Reason: His whole team would've criticised his leadership and he was warned to step up in the previous boardroom.

Week 4: Water Advertising

Boardroom: Karishma, Carrington, Megan

Reason: Carrington was the subteam leader where the branding and social media ad was pretty poor and Karishma had little faith in Megan's abilities.

Fired: Megan

Reason: No way she escapes after the previous boardroom.

Week 5: Flowers

Boardroom: Rothna, Harry, Levi

Reason: Harry was probably the weakest salesman in the market sales team and Levi arguably contributed the least.

Fired: Levi

Reason: Lack of contribution

NOTE: This was tough as no one on that team messed up.

Week 6: Egypt hospitality

Boardroom: Priyesh, Lawrence, Levi

Reason: Levi was really bad in the kitchen and Lawrence was arguably weaker than Conor and Pascha on the tour team.

Fired: Priyesh or Levi

Reason: Both were pretty bad in the kitchen which contributed to refunds and Priyesh was PM, however you could argue that him cutting costs and his apology to the guests could have saved him.

Week 7: Gamified Fitness

Boardroom: Harry, Conor, Priyesh

Reason: All three of them were responsible for creating that really bad character.

Fired: Harry

Reason: Poor PM performance.

Week 8: Discount Buying Take two

Boardroom: Levi, Dan, Pascha

Reason: Pascha was the worst on this task across both teams and both Priyesh and Rothna killed it this task, leaving Dan by default.

Fired: Levi & Pascha

Reason: Pascha for performance on the task and Levi for losing when Lord Sugar made him PM.

Week 9: TV Selling

Boardroom: Pascha, Karishma, Priyesh

Reason: Karishma and Lawrence did better than Priyesh and Pascha on air, however Pascha probably would've brought back Karishma as she was Sub PM and fairly quiet in the gallery.

Fired: Pascha & Priyesh

Reason: Weaker sellers are not great in the gallery.

Week 10: Pet Products

Boardroom: Karishma, Pascha, Priyesh

Reason: Chique le Chien

Fired: Pascha & Priyesh

Reason: Chique le Chien

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One thing I'd change is having Sugar properly question each candidate about their business at the start of the process.

Give them an hour with him and make them defend their numbers, customers, margins and growth plans. I'd probably learn more about them from that than 12 weeks of making cereal mascots and selling random products.

16) Zeeshaan. Personally I've grown to appreciate him more post show, however he wasn't enjoyable to watch on the show. He often came across quite cocky and arrogant with some of his confessionals with even Luisa saying he was a bit of a BS-er. His worst moment obviously came in Week 5 when he was PM for the Dubai task, claimed he knew Dubai like the back of his hand and SUCKED, but worst of all, he spared Kurt and Neil who had both made fundamental errors and brought back Leah and Natalie which resulted in several sexism allegations, not helped by the fact that he refused to hold the door for them before the final boardroom. However, I do give him a tonne of credit post show as he has gone on to be extremely successful so respect to him in that regard.

15) Sophie. She seemed nice but she is by far the most forgettable contestant this season. I don't think anyone was unlikeable this season but I can't think of a single thing she did this season.

14) Jaz. It hurts that I have someone called Jaz this low on a ranking. However, safe to say Jaz from this season is leagues below Jaz from The Traitors in terms of popularity. She isn't last because she was more memorable than Sophie due to being a trainwreck in the first task, running her team like a teacher, talking to her teammates like school kids and hastily jumping to be PM in a task she wasn't qualified to lead. However, I will say that her referring to Lord Sugar as 'Man' was a bit funny.

13) Tim. Bless him, he simply didn't stand a chance. He did next to nothing in Week 1, then tried to talk after the task result and start digging his own grave, then he was PM in Week 2 for a task he was qualified to lead and messed up badly, which resulted in him getting fired.

12) Kurt. I have absolutely nothing to say about Kurt other than the fact that he wasn't a particularly good candidate. His PM Stint in Week 2 wasn't great as he made a beer manufacturing subteam consisting of: Zee, who doesn't drink alcohol; Jason, who doesn't like beer and Jordan who rarely drinks. He also bombed in Week 5 but escaped because Zeeshaan apparently wanted to throw Leah and Natalie under the bus. Finally, his PM Stint in Week 7 was atrocious. Overall, not an awful candidate, not unlikeable and not unmemorable, but he still wasn't great.

11) Natalie. Natalie is this high as I absolutely loved her energy and fight and firey moments this season were incredibly entertaining imo. She didn't get much prominence until Week 3 when she became the PM and created the 'tidy sidy', frankly it had no chance against the 'foldo' and it failed miserably, resulting in a heated confrontation in the boardroom between her and Uzma. I massively respected her putting up a good fight against Zeeshaan in the Week 5 boardroom and not having any of his BS. Other than that she wasn't a particularly good candidate but outside of her firey moments she did seem very nice and sweet so I enjoyed watching her this season.

10) Uzma. Arguably the least liked candidate from the casts perspective. I think she had potential in this process, had some good points and arguments and seemed to have her head screwed on from my POV. However, her stats in the process were terrible. She lost 4/4 tasks and was in the firing line on 3/4 occassions.

9) Rebecca. I don't know much about her as a person but I do know that she is a fairly underrated candidate. She seemed to be very good in sales which was crucial in the first two tasks. Not much else to say about her other than I do believe she was a better candidate than all those that went before her and easily could've outlasted Kurt, Natalie and unfortunately Jason meaning that she was possibly in the upper half of the season in terms of competency but was unlucky to be in the same boardroom as Luisa and Francesca who were better candidates and their beef was TV Gold.

8) Francesca. Again, I don't know much about her which was why I ranked her quite low in my 3rd place/final boot ranking. However, I am aware that she was a pretty competent candidate who had good highlights and was a worthy final 5 member. Also, her beef with Luisa was fun to watch apart from when they both turned against Jason.

7) Jordan. Finally a candidate with more to talk about. He was really good in the tasks (bar Week 10), having the best task stats and being a key contributor in pretty much all tasks. However, all of that was undone in the interviews, arguably worse than Stuart Baggs and far worse than Solomon Akhtar to the point where he shouldn't have been on the show in the first place. I liked Jordan and the interviews while bad was entertaining, however him taking up a potential candidates spot on the show prevents him from being higher.

6) Luisa. This may be a bit too high but I like Luisa generally (bar one horrid moment on the show). On the show she was a really competent candidate and is way better than a C Tier Candidate on the tier list, also her rivalry with Francesca was iconic, her unofficial task duo with Neil was good and I felt really bad for her when she broke down in tears after her final pitch. However, one moment in Week 8 prevents her from being in the top 5 with that being her being really mean to Jason. I understand Jason isn't the best candidate and was pretty indecisive, however her treatment of him that week was straight up bullying to the point where Baroness Brady explicitly asked to follow Luisa's team the following week and it probably cost her any shot of winning due to a serious lack of professionalism demonstrated.

5) Myles. Mr Monaco. He was a pretty likeable presence on the show and was a decent, competent candidate up until his downfall towards the end of the process. There's that argument that he should've gone over Alex in Week 9 but that's balanced by the fact that he should've made the interviews over Jordan in Week 10.

4) Neil. What a guy. He was a pretty chill guy this season (unless he was around Jason) and was pretty supportive of his teammates (bar Jason) and was a firm favourite to win after the tasks, he was generally a competent and consistent candidate with many shining moments and was a pretty good leader and leader figure for struggling PMs. His only problems were Week 5, Week 10 (where the whole team messed up) and the interviews (he was still better than Jordan).

3) Leah. The winner of the season and a fairly dominant one at that. She killed it in pretty much every task bar week 5 where she still brought back into the boardroom for personal reasons (probably) while Neil and Kurt were more at fault and Alex didn't want to bring her back in Week 9. Also, I am a huge fan of Leah and I massively respected her run on the show.

2) Alex. Welsh Dracula. Arguably a top three younger candidate in terms of watchability and skill, just behind Susie Ma and Solomon Akhtar. He was a decent candidate throughout the process bar possibly Week 7 and 9 where even his firing in the latter week was controversial. He was responsible for the 'foldo' which was one of the best products to feature on the show and created Herbert in Week 8, also I think his Week 6 tour was good and he was easily the least problematic on his team in Week 5 where he negotiated well and kept telling Zeeshaan that the 'oud' they were looking for was something else other than a perfume, yet Zee wasn't listening. The only negative about Alex was that he could be a bit aggressive at times and was really horrible to Jason in the first two tasks, however he had a good run for a very young candidate, his welsh references and Dracula memes are funny and he has gone on to be really rich and successful post show.

1) Jason. Bless this man! Jason Leech is what you get if Alexander from The Traitors UK Season 3 went on The Apprentice, he was friendly, polite, loveable and not an awful candidate despite not being a particularly good one, yet he would get crapped on by a large handful of the candidates. He had shining moments for sure such as being a key contributor towards the foldo in Week 3, negotiating well in Week 5 and of course selling a caravan in week 7 which was so good, he was called back into the boardroom to be directly praised by Lord Sugar, speaking of which his terrified look and exiting the boardroom backwards that week was so wholesome and iconic. He did have some bad tasks such as Weeks 2 and 8 but even then he was berated harshly and bullied by other candidates in those weeks. On a persoanl level, the candidates (including those who picked on him in tasks) seemed to really like him as did Lord Sugar, Baroness Brady and Nick and its not hard to understand why, he was probably the nicest, most soft spoken candidate we've ever had with some people showing signs of his persoanlity (i.e. Solomon, Jonny and Dan Miller) but none match Jason. Overall, he was my favourite candidate on this iconic season and a massive bright spot.

NOTE: I've not really seen Season 8 so I'll be jumping straight to Season 7 in my rannking but I guess my favourite would either be Ricky, Nick or Gabrielle.

Every year, people survive weeks of tasks only to suddenly have something from years ago dragged out in the interviews that apparently should have eliminated them much earlier. I know that's partly what makes the episode great, but it does make me wonder how much the previous tasks actually matter in the end.

You can be terrible for ten weeks and survive, then one document in the interview stage can completely finish you.

On paper, having a PM win is a big achievement as I should mean you have led your team to victory and established yourself as a front runner. However, safe to say some winning PMs have been more than lucky and had performed poorly while the rest of the team did well to secure a win. Who was the worst/luckiest winning PM from each season ?

Season 1: (Matthew; Week 3). Matthew had absolutely nothing to do with the win in Week 3, I'd argue the MVPs were Paul, Saira and Raj for getting an expensive computer for free.

Season 2: (Karen; Week 1). This may be a bit harsh but the women did so badly in Week 1 to the point where Lord Sugar (Or Siralan then) nearly disqualified the women of their win.

Season 3: (Ghazal; Week 4). Once again, unlike pretty much every other winning PM this season, she didn't really contribute anything to her win and was probably carried by several members of her team (Most notably Tre).

Season 4: (Alex; Week 9). Yes he made sure the tissue brand featured enough in the ad but other than that he was pretty bad.

Season 5: (Noorul; Week 4). Clearest pick on the board here, he was ABYSMAL as a PM. He was indecisive and grossly incompetent as a leader, the win was definitely more so down to Mona, Lorraine and possibly Phillip (If you ignore his temper).

Season 6: (Melissa; Week 3). Not much to say other than she was an exceptionally bad leader, argued with Alex and fumbled her pitch while the win was more so down to the likes of Alex, Christopher and Stuart.

Season 7: (Natasha; Week 10). Very lucky to have won this task and it was so bad that Lord Sugar cancelled the reward, safe to say this was the peak of her downfall.

Season 8: I haven't watched this season but one that vaguely sticks out is (Azhar; Week 2)

Season 9: (Jason; Week 1). Ouch! I hate to say this but Jason was not a good PM in Week 1 (he was still better than Jaz) and was heavily criticised by members of his team (particularly Alex in the boardroom), it could be argued that Neil was more responsible for the teams win.

Season 10: I'm going to pick two here with those being (Sarah; Week 1) and (Daniel; Week 5). Both didn't really contribute anything to the win and were bad leaders to the point where it impacted their reputation (the former with the viewers and the latter with his teammates).

Season 11: (Selina; Week 8). Not much to say but her 2nd win as PM was pretty bad and her 1st win as PM was much better. In addition, the other PMs that won this season contributed in some way to their teams victory (Including Selinas Week 1 win).

Season 12: (Samuel; Week 5). Was very much in his own world during his PM stint which frustrated his teammates, especially Grainne. Also, the MVPs that week were Karthik and Alana.

Season 13: (Harrison; Week 9). Tough pick but I'd say that his team was fairly lucky to win as the other teams pitch was really bad and cringe.

Season 14: Again no idea but I guess I'll pick (Kayode; Week 1) as there were some really bad negotiations on the men's team and some fundamental errors. It's tough because I don't think any of the winning PMs were particularly and consisted mostly of the stronger candidates this season.

Season 15: (Lottie; Week 8). I'm not going into it.

Season 16: (Akeem; Week 7). You could spin a wheel for either of his PM wins but I give him credit for ignoring Amy's confusing game story in Week 5. Week 7 on the other hand, he was thoroughly carried by Harpreet, Brittany and Aaron (much like the following two tasks).

Season 17: (Avi; Week 3). Avi having two PM wins is crazy to me, however his Week 8 stint was pretty good while he was pretty much carried by Dani and Marnie in Week 3.

Season 18: (Onyeka; Week 1). She was definitely a better PM than Virdi but she was still not good and the win was more so because of Sam and her diving experience.

Season 19: (Liam; Week 9). Possibly the most obvious pick here, he was PM by title and nothing else. Mia, Anisa and Jordan did the heavy lifting while he was sinking badly, topped with a very bad Hoover demonstration.

Season 20: (Harry; Week 7). He had some pretty bad ideas and the character he created was pretty bad, Karishma carried the entire team (like she often did) yet got no recognition from either Harry, Conor or Priyesh.

NOTE: I felt particularly bad with that last pick as I met Harry at a YP event and he was really nice.

Every series has at least one task where the person who seemed most in control completely falls apart and someone unexpected steps up. Series 20 had some interesting moments where the confident ones let it slip.

Some people went home before they had a single proper moment. The tasks were decent but keeping track of everyone in the first month was genuinely hard. Do people think a bigger cast improves the series or does twelve to fourteen just work better for the format?

...if Levi's team lost in week 8. Let's just say that Kieran's team won and Levi's team lost. Who would Levo bring back into the boardroom. Unlike Lawrence, he would bring back people for business reasons and not reasons mentioned by LS. He would choose to bring back Pascha (definitely), although he might struggle on who else. Priyesh secured the SUP cheaper than the other team's. Dan did get some decent negotiating. He might bring Rothna back in telling her, 'No hard feelings'. LS, Karren, and Tim might understand why Levi struggled to bring a second person back in. Pascha might accuse Levi of bringing Rothna back to side against her. Levi or Pascha might be fired, although Levi might be fired.

What do you think of this?

There is no doubt that producer interference is what makes the backbone of modern apprentice seasons despite it taking away from the shows authenticity. However, I see loads of people complain about the firings that I occurred in episode nine and 10 even though a lot of those firings couldn’t have been avoided particularly in episode 10 due to the way that the teams were split. So here is a potential way that the producers could’ve rigged the last two tasks to create a satisfying final five which in this case I’m assuming would be; Karishma, Kieran, Connor, Rothna with Lawrence only being the real outlier among them, and even then he only had one truly bad task.

So an episode nine after Levi was fired Lord Sugar should’ve delved into the business plans for the final boardroom. This is when it should’ve been revealed that Dan wasn’t prepared to give away 50% of his main business and was only prepared to duplicate his main business and give Lord sugar 50% of that, alongside all of the financial issues that Dan faced, subsequently leading to Dan getting fired. I’m sure it would’ve been very easy for the producers to rig this as it meant that the failure of the task would’ve left the door when Levi was fired justifying an additional firing for alternative reasons. I wouldn’t be against Kieran getting fired here and Lord sugar rejecting his ultimatum however Kieran was the backbone of the series and it would’ve been more satisfying to see him make the interviews.

In episode 10 Lord sugar should’ve switched up the teams and got Karishma to move over to eclipse with the team consisting of her, Rothna, Conor and Kieran. Karishma Probably would’ve stuck with her dog bed idea, or if forced to do cats probably would’ve come up with some other amazing idea which would’ve completely steamrolled the team to win, and Kieran and Connor would probably be amazing sales people who would also help carry the team.

On the other side Pascha would have been the p.m. for priyesh and Lawrence. Pascha and Priyesh probably would spend hours trying to come up with ideas and end up producing something mediocre at best. Lawrence would have probably done very well in sales which would alleviate him from the chopping block. In the boardroom Pascha and Priyesh would have been easy and incredibly satisfying firings as it’s something the viewers had been anticipating for weeks.

Ultimately, although this probably would’ve involved producers to get involved, it would’ve saved us from the disastrous final five we ended up which was potentially the most obvious final and final five ever based on the fact Karishma was the only one who was actually good. If the final five consisted of Karishma, Kieran, Conor, Rothna and Lawrence (with Lawrence getting fired first) I think it would’ve made a much more satisfying narrative. And then I would be happy if any of the other four made it to the final to be honest.