It seemed that the BBC One reality TV show is losing its touch as it is losing a lot of viewers. The show only manages to pull in an average of just 6.4 million viewers.
Though, the number can still be considered good, but this is a drop from the numbers that the show gets last year. The number of viewers had dropped to 1.4 million. The drop raises some about whether the public is tiring of the format.
The bosses of ‘The Apprentice’ hopes that the ratings will improve as Lord Sugar host the programme.
This year line-up are like brats as they can be compared to the contestants of the Big Brother.
This is the second time wherein Lord Sugar hopes to find someone, who will help him to create his business empire.
However, the producers of the show have opted for entertainment over serious business acumen with a string of over-the-top characters better suited to Channel Five’s dumbed down reality show.
During the first episode, audiences gazed at professional wrestler and recruitment manager Ricky Martin, 26, boasting to be doing good both in wrestling and business.
However, he is not alone in boasting as his fellow hopeful Katie Wright, a research director, billing herself as “the blonde assassin”. She first lets people underestimate her so that she could give them a blow when least expected.
Lord Sugar got mixed results with past winner of the reality show; he is even facing a lawsuit from one of the previous contestants.
Stella English was the last lucky candidate who got a job from the business tycoon.
However, some insiders believe that Estella was unhappy with her job and got transferred after six months. She got a new job as an assistant to Lord Sugar in his role as chair of YouView.
However, she believes that the new work does not need enough work, so she is suing the tycoon for constructive dismissal.
Last year’s victor, Tom Pellareau has gotten off with his first product – an s-shaped nail file – this is not his idea.
The 2009 winner Yasmina Siadatan took a £100,000-a-year job working for Lord Sugar’s company Amscreen Health Care, which sells digital signage to the NHS.
However, she got pregnant with her boyfriend who also works in the same company. She left the company because of her pregnancy.
Tim Campbell is the only winner that makes the Tycoon proud since he is very successful now.
