The Apprentice - catch up: Contestants head to Malta and first candidate gets fired by Lord Sugar
New series kicks off with fan-favourite shopping challenge
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Your support makes all the difference.The Apprentice returned with another crop of 16 candidates hoping to become Lord Sugar’s next business partner.
The first episode of series 14 saw the newcomers travel to Malta for the fan favourite shopping task, something we usually have to wait until later in the series for.
As ever our main host was Lord Alan Sugar, with ever-faithful Karren Brady and Claude Littner by his side.
Follow along with the first episode as it happened.
Flick through all the new candidates below.
The Apprentice will air every Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One from 3 October.
Lord Sugar laying out the rules to the newbies. The winner will get a 50/50 split and a £250,000 investment.
Camilla is first up, property manager and estate agent who wants to sell nut milk. Insert lame jokes about nuts here...oh, Lord Sugar beat me to it.
And we're rattling through introductions for the 16 contestants. It's like an even more awkward speed-dating.
Lord Sugar has announced it early doors, the contestants are off abroad to Malta in the first episode. Let's see how many of the contestants ask where Malta is...
The contestants have been split into boys and girls, shoved in some black vans and are getting to know each other. Plenty of showing off, but no arguing yet. How disappointing.
DING DING. And we called it, folks. Already two contestants have asked where Malta is.
If you want to see all of the contestants and their names, scroll down through the liveblog to have a look through our gallery.
Jackie throwing Jasmine under the bus already, pushing her into the doomed position of project manager for week one. Gutted Jasmine.
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