The final is here: it's Air Conditioning vs Pizza in the ultimate showdown, as the last two candidates launch their brands. Familiar faces return, bringing plenty of laughs during the video production and branding tasks! 🥶🍕
With one last chance to impress Lord Sugar, Greer and James deliver their pitches for the finalists’ brands and reveal the results of their predictions. Who will win the infamous Hour Challenge? 🫵🏻⏳
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It’s the penultimate episode, and you know what that means — the legendary interviews are back! The final five candidates face the heat as Claudine, Claude, Mike, and Linda put their business plans to the test. 👩🏻💼👨💼
Greer and James take the hot seat themselves, pitching their own business ideas to the listeners. But first, they break down the standout moments from the episode — with Mike stealing the spotlight more than once! In Apprentice News, Greer shares fresh insights from Mia about last week's outfit choices. 🫵🏻🦸🏻♂️
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It’s a stylish shake-up this week as the remaining candidates dive into the world of fashion design, tasked with creating their own environmentally conscious clothing brand. From athleisure to avant-garde, the teams present their creations — but not without turning a few heads on the catwalk! 🩱👗
The independent adjudicator is back for a runway-ready elevator pitch, James gives us the lowdown on ruching, and both he and Greer have some harsh critique for the branding choices. ❌📝
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It is another Apprentice favourite this week, the shopping channel challenge, and it does not disappoint. The remaining candidates pick out items from air fryers to picnic blankets as they take on presenting these to the public audience. 📺🧾
Greer and James are tasked with a stressful presenting-style elevator pitch, where James tells Greer how unbearable it would be to do longer! Our duo find out that Liam cannot operate a hoover, and that Lord Sugar does have casual clothes in his wardrobe. 🎤👖
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Ep 8. Hot Sauce Havoc
What a week! Given the task of making and branding their own hot sauce, the candidates look to impress Lord Sugar. Fast forward through ‘GCSE drama’, rose petals and a horrifying prison experience for Karen, Lord Sugar is left unamused. 🌹🥵
Greer and James bring in ChatGPT for the elevator pitch, discuss Levi Roots and the interesting adverts that the teams produced. James is, of course, unimpressed with the lack of a treat. 🤖🌯
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This week’s task focuses on bringing financial education to children, or at least trying to improve their knowledge of money. In doing so the contestants come up with some interesting ideas, ranging from a toy dog to a cyber security champion! 💻💷
Will James redeem himself this week, as our duo take on an app-solutely energetic elevator pitch? Tune in to find out their ideas and decide whether they would make the cut or not! 📲🧐
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It is time for away day, so off to Turkey we go, greeted at the airport by Tim and Karen. Once again, water is a huge discussion point and refunds cause an upset in the boardroom. ✈️💰
James fumbles the elevator pitch leaving Greer the clear winner this week, before the Apprentice News hands over to some external correspondents Tim and Adam, who have reported in with some updates! 🤦🏻♂️📰
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This week the candidates have a decision: whether to do a kids-themed or luxury Easter egg! A space-themed egg goes against a candle-shaped matcha egg to secure the most ‘orders’ from selected retailers. 🍫🍵
Greer and James pitch their own creations, discuss the ‘drama’ in the boardroom and analyse the secretary’s Gantt chart! Which one are you looking forward to the most?! 🥚 🤵♂️
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Would you prefer potatoes or tomatoes? This week the contestants start with a coin toss to see who gets what! Fast forward to the meat of the challenge, we end up with a battle of Pizza vs Sausage & Mash. Which one will cut the mustard? 🍅🥔
The independent adjudicator returns to give Greer and James another tricky elevator pitch, while they assess what seems to have been one of the easiest boardroom decisions yet. 🥦🫵🏻
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To buy or not to buy, that is the question! It is off to Stratford-upon-Avon for the infamous scavenger hunt, where the contestants have to figure out what sweet avalanches are and how to improvise a boat hook! 🌹⛵️
Greer and James take on their own sourcing challenge in the elevator pitch, before getting into the best moments of the challenge, along with harsh criticism of Lord Sugar’s Shakespeare recital. 🛠️📚
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This week the contestants are challenged with creating a virtual popstar, right after being serenaded by Lord Sugar performing some Tiësto, much to the dismay of James! 🎶👨🎤
James looks into the data behind the 4am wake up, while Greer asks if Nadia can sing Jazz after her flex. The pair also discuss why Karen and Tim were dressed like characters from Tron, the infamous "BAMI" and whether it was fair that Aoibheann was fired?! 👩🎤🌅
They also talk Apprentice news, pitch their own pop stars and find out where "Pie Man Paul" from Season 18 is now. 🐑🥧
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For the first challenge, the candidates head to Innsbruck, armed with their GCSE German skills! Greer and James explore the questionable sales strategies, including the use of Rock Paper Scissors, and dish out some much-needed praise for the yodelling skills on display. 🏔️🌳
With the first task completed, James has even more predictions to share, while Greer uncovers some intriguing details about the mattresses in the house.
Don’t forget to join the fun by sending in your predictions on Instagram! 📊🛏️
The elevator pitch continues with a tasty twist, and as anticipated, the first treat is put under scrutiny for being rubbish! 🍿🏡
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It’s 2025, and you know what that means — season 2 of Back to the Boardroom is here! Greer and James are back for another round of The Apprentice, ready to dive into the drama with 18 fresh candidates vying for Lord Sugar’s investment. Will AI and social media be the buzzwords of the season? 🤖💸
James has already kicked things off with some surprise predictions, and all your favourite segments are making a return, including the infamous hour predictions and elevator pitch. 🛗⌚️
Will the apprentice house get a new phone? Is Claude making a return? And what’s the latest with last season’s candidates? Tune in as Greer and James guide you through the next 12 weeks of business as they go Back to the Boardroom.
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The past 3 months have been and gone, leading up to this one moment - the final! Greer and James are back with a bumper final edition, discussing the improper use of the metaverse, a cartoon pie logo, and some suspect video billboards 🤦🏻♀️📹
Greer and James go through some of your messages, give awards for this season's highlights, and tuck into those eagerly anticipated pies from “pie man Phil”, giving you their verdict on the taste 🥧🏆
Never mind the actual result, the all-important result of the narrator hours challenge is here too. Listen in to find out if Greer or James were victorious, and if one was spot on!
Thanks for listening to the last 12 weeks of Back To The Boardroom!
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It is the penultimate episode of this year’s season, which means only one thing, interviews! Greer and James delve into the interview stage, looking at each interview's brutal moments, including many highlights from Mike and even a ‘domain deal’ made on the day! 🫵🏻🧐
Taking you back to the boardroom, Greer highlights some of the awful jokes, in addition to Paul’s body-popping claim before giving you the behind-the-scene lowdown with Apprentice News.
Our duo take a break from the elevator pitch this week to focus on pies and predictions, giving one final narrator update before the winner is crowned next week! 🕰️🕜
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Say cheese! It is the final team task of the series, and this week Phil’s losing streak ends with his Truffle spread coming out on top. In this episode, Greer and James once again dissect the branding choices of the two teams, highlight Lord Sugar's bad jokes, and pick apart the flavours. 🧀🍔
Our duo face a cheese-infused elevator pitch while James reveals his recent delivery of pies, before giving us the latest secretary update and rounding off some predictions that Greer may have (actually) won! 🥧👩🏻💼
Brandwatch returns with more sightings from James, and Greer gets us prepared for the interviews with her latest in Apprentice news.
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Pick up the phone now, final price! Just like the (now infamous) resistance walking machine, you don’t want to miss out on this week’s Back to the Boardroom! In this episode our duo discuss taking accountability, decide whether it was unfair Raj was fired and try their hand at Shopping Channel selling with household items - wait until you see what James brings to the table 📺🤑
James goes all out with graphs and in-depth analysis for the narrator and Secretary Segment, while Greer reveals more inside information from behind-the-scenes of the show including why past contestant Noor didn’t enjoy the process.
Phil returns for the ninth time to the losers cafe (surely he has filled up the loyalty card by now), and Raj faces a fall from grace in the boardroom for both the first and last time. ☕️🪪
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Another task, another chance for the candidates to create a brand! This week, it was focused on the ‘XBUS’ electric van, where the teams were to pitch to different target markets - business owners and the leisure market. In episode 8 of Back To The Boardroom, our hosts dissect badly chosen fonts, ask why on earth you’d take a hula hoop on holiday and discuss whether the Project Manager’s job is to make all the decisions 🚚 🚐
The elevator pitch returns in a surprise 30-second format for maximum pressure (James loves the competition) and The Apprentice news reveals some more odd issues about the process - is it really worth the hassle?
While Team Nexus are running away with the wins, Phil continues his losing streak and Raj continues her unbeaten record. Lord Sugar is noted for his good attendance this week, however, that doesn’t make up for the mediocre treat. 🍃🫵🏻
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This week the candidates were sent off to Hungary, and boy are we in need of some wine after that debacle! Back to the Boardroom episode 7 is filled with anger at the outcome, and some punches thrown at our so-called ‘wine experts’, and at the consumers who didn’t request a refund! 💶🍷🍇
The duo get a well-deserved break from the elevator pitch this week, to summarise how their predictions have gone so far, while James surprises Greer with an extra 3 predictions to make!
Phil becomes the leading Apprentice candidate for consecutive losses, Greer has news on his pies, James surprises us with some Hungarian knowledge, and we laugh at the several dances on the ‘boat tour’. 🚤🕺🏻
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It is time for episode 6 of Back to the Boardroom and we have yet another food-related task. This time the candidates are creating cereal aimed at children between 6-8 years old. There’s bad branding and a technology-themed twist - an augmented reality feature hopefully made to entertain the youngsters 🥣🥛
James has a lot to say on Virdi and Phil’s losing streak, alongside highlighting the ‘power-4’ who have yet to lose. Greer shares her ‘recipe’ for Dalmatians cereal in this week’s elevator pitch 🍫
We also discuss Maura creating a polar bear mascot with an added extra, how on earth Phil has escaped the boardroom again, and decide whether accepting an Exclusivity Deal in the pitches was the right way to go.
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