All Fired Up!

As Lord Sugar seeks his new apprentice, meet the candidates heading to South Africa…

The wheelie cases are packed, CVs submitted, and trite phrases and self-important personal statements rehearsed. It can only mean one thing… The Apprentice is back!

As the series begins this week, Lord Alan Sugar gears up to select a budding entrepreneur worthy of his £250,000 investment. But before anyone is hired, the new candidates must attempt to outdo each other in a series of tasks – and avoid being fired in the process.

Keeping Lord Sugar abreast of proceedings once again are his closest confidants – eagle-eyed Karren Brady and Claude Littner. Here, Littner, 70, shares tales from the new 12-part series…