Margaret Mountford has explained her absence from last night's (December 17) episode of The Apprentice.
Lord Alan Sugar's former aide on the show was not present at the interviews stage of the process, despite featuring as one of the interviewers in the previous four series.
She told What's On TV that she hadn't been invited to return.
"They didn't ask me back," Mountford said. "I suppose I was fired!
"No, obviously they weren't going to want me to carry on doing interviews forever, and nor did I want to do them forever."
Series eight Apprentice winner Ricky Martin took Mountford's spot alongside Claude Littner, Mike Soutar and Claudine Collins.
Solomon Akhtar, Roisin Hogan and Daniel Lassman were fired following the interviews, leaving Bianca Miller and Mark Wright as this year's finalists.
The Apprentice final airs on Sunday, December 21 at 9pm on BBC One.
Lord Alan Sugar's former aide on the show was not present at the interviews stage of the process, despite featuring as one of the interviewers in the previous four series.
She told What's On TV that she hadn't been invited to return.
"They didn't ask me back," Mountford said. "I suppose I was fired!
"No, obviously they weren't going to want me to carry on doing interviews forever, and nor did I want to do them forever."
Series eight Apprentice winner Ricky Martin took Mountford's spot alongside Claude Littner, Mike Soutar and Claudine Collins.
Solomon Akhtar, Roisin Hogan and Daniel Lassman were fired following the interviews, leaving Bianca Miller and Mark Wright as this year's finalists.
The Apprentice final airs on Sunday, December 21 at 9pm on BBC One.
- 12/18/2014
- Digital Spy
It's week eleven on The Apprentice, and while we're perturbed by how quickly the show has slashed its candidates from 20 to five, it really means just one thing - interviews.
The interviews have become a notorious stage of the process, obviously, and while eyebrows were raised about the fact that we would be losing Margaret Mountford's very eyebrow-based criticism and gaining instead Ricky Martin (not that one), our expectations were still high. And, yes, they were largely met.
It's a credit to the team that works on The Apprentice that a series of job interviews in a boring City building can be watchable, but my goodness, they are. It must partly be luck; it's also thanks to the fact that even ten years in the candidates are still often utterly clueless. Of course that's not all - the interview panel are always deliciously harsh.
We knew that this would...
The interviews have become a notorious stage of the process, obviously, and while eyebrows were raised about the fact that we would be losing Margaret Mountford's very eyebrow-based criticism and gaining instead Ricky Martin (not that one), our expectations were still high. And, yes, they were largely met.
It's a credit to the team that works on The Apprentice that a series of job interviews in a boring City building can be watchable, but my goodness, they are. It must partly be luck; it's also thanks to the fact that even ten years in the candidates are still often utterly clueless. Of course that's not all - the interview panel are always deliciously harsh.
We knew that this would...
- 12/17/2014
- Digital Spy
The Apprentice interviews have lost Margaret Mountford... and gained previous winner Ricky Martin.
Martin - who won the show in 2012 - will join Claude Littner, Claudine Collins and Mike Soutar to grill the top five candidates in the famously tough round of the competition.
After the interviews, just two hopefuls will still be in the process and will go on to battle it out in the final.
Martin is the co-founder of Hyper Recruitment Solutions and recently moved out of Lord Sugar's premises into his own office after a profitable first full year.
"The last two years have been a rollercoaster but I couldn't be happier with how things have turned out," he said. "I'm sure it will be strange to be on the other side of that desk this time, but I can't wait to get started.
"I wouldn't be where I am now without Lord Sugar and...
Martin - who won the show in 2012 - will join Claude Littner, Claudine Collins and Mike Soutar to grill the top five candidates in the famously tough round of the competition.
After the interviews, just two hopefuls will still be in the process and will go on to battle it out in the final.
Martin is the co-founder of Hyper Recruitment Solutions and recently moved out of Lord Sugar's premises into his own office after a profitable first full year.
"The last two years have been a rollercoaster but I couldn't be happier with how things have turned out," he said. "I'm sure it will be strange to be on the other side of that desk this time, but I can't wait to get started.
"I wouldn't be where I am now without Lord Sugar and...
- 12/5/2014
- Digital Spy
Jordan Poulton is branded a "parasite" during an assessment of his business plan in tonight's episode of The Apprentice.
Poulton's pitch - an online platform which enables hobbyists or big brands to develop mobile games - comes under intense scrutiny from Lord Sugar's panel of advisors when it emerges that he already has a business partner involved.
> 'The Apprentice' interviews round: 10 teasers for tonight's episode
"Isn't your business partner the brains behind it?" asks Mike Soutar. "It sounds like he brings the real value to the business."
Poulton replies: "He makes the product, but without Steve Jobs there wouldn't have been Steve Wozniak."
Tough-talking Viglen chairman Claude Littner is unimpressed when it emerges that Poulton will only offer an equity stake in the business which is smaller than the 50% required.
"You've got no right to be here because you are feeding on somebody else's idea, somebody else's business,...
Poulton's pitch - an online platform which enables hobbyists or big brands to develop mobile games - comes under intense scrutiny from Lord Sugar's panel of advisors when it emerges that he already has a business partner involved.
> 'The Apprentice' interviews round: 10 teasers for tonight's episode
"Isn't your business partner the brains behind it?" asks Mike Soutar. "It sounds like he brings the real value to the business."
Poulton replies: "He makes the product, but without Steve Jobs there wouldn't have been Steve Wozniak."
Tough-talking Viglen chairman Claude Littner is unimpressed when it emerges that Poulton will only offer an equity stake in the business which is smaller than the 50% required.
"You've got no right to be here because you are feeding on somebody else's idea, somebody else's business,...
- 7/10/2013
- Digital Spy
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