The Apprentice 2015: Claude Littner returns to his role as chief interviewer
HE’S become more of a regular feature on The Apprentice as Lord Sugar’s latest aide, but Claude Littner will be reprising his role as no-nonsense interviewer in the next stage of the show.
Claude will be asking tough and probing questions to the five remaining candidates in this year’s process as Lord Sugar whittles down the group to find an investor.
The stern businessman has been conducting interviews ever since the BBC series first started and is on the the toughest interviewers, most memorably lambasting candidate Solomon Akhtar last year for his investment proposal which consisted of just “pictures of boats”.
Richard Woods, Vana Koutsomitis, Joseph Valente, Charleine Wain and Gary Poulton will be given 24 hours to work on their proposals before their interviews with Lord Sugar’s team of experts, Mike Soutar, Claudine Collins, newcomer face Linda Plant and chief griller Claude.
Skeletons are set to come tumbling out of the closet as the members of the panel put in all the checks to call out any CV bluffs, including one candidate’s referee being given a phone call to find out just how man people they managed.
The telephone call uncovers an unaccounted for 597 staff when his claim he managed 600 people turns out to be a slight exaggeration.
Another person is left in foetal position and calling for his mother in his seat after he thinks his performance in the interview is a guaranteed a boardroom exit.
Once the candidates have been vetted by the panel, three will be sent home in a taxi and there will be two remaining finalists.
Next week they will be tasked with pitching their ideas with a little help from the fired candidates, with one person being given the £250,000 to invest in their scheme.
The Apprentice is on BBC One tonight at 9pm