I doubt he'd do that again. He did it once on Young Apprentice, came under massive criticism for it (quite rightly so, as it was entirely unfair) and as a result changed the format of the semi-finals the following year.

The cream guy is definitely a producer - someone who was there said so. He us someone who fulfils Karen or Nicks roles on the sub team which they're not on.

It certainly would seem as tpough there aren't any duplicates across the two male sub teams... Eighteen I think... Do you think lord Sugar would be allowed to tell me if I asked him on twitter?

It's worth a try!

Could someone else ask him?

I don't mind, but why? You're the one who wants to know...

Cos I tweet Lord Sugar quite often - he never replies... I probably look like I'm obsessed with him or something!

I would appreciate it if you'd do it

Sure

Thanks, let us know if he tweets back

Here are pictures of the nine female candidates for anyone who CAN'T be bothered to wade through this thread...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/iumg37


Now, I am absolutely in despair over the male candidates... There are eleven people who look like candidates, and none of them are duplicates!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tlw5o6

One piece of evidence that points to there only being EIGHT male candidates is that there's only three candidates on one of the male subteams in this photo from task 2...

https://twitter.com/dtheophanides/st...641984/photo/1

The tall guy is the producer guy...

The guys are confusing me so much



With the girls on the other hand, we pretty much know the candidates...
There are nine of them (or eight, if those two women with the black hair are the same person)

They'll do a Big Brother style thing, and have two people as one candidate! (Okay, that's a joke... that would be awful! )

In all seriousness, I have always wondered what would happen if The Apprentice, quite by chance, happened to feature two people who knew one another in their own lives. It would definitely bring a new dynamic to it.

That would be interesting! If I knew someone else I would try and form an alliance with them, and get everyone else out!

That's a good strategy, but it could backfire, because if Lord Sugar got wind of that he'd probably fire you straight out.

Absolutely he would, but if you had someone who was a friend of yours, you'd naturally be drawn towards keeping them as well as yourself in the game

By the way, did you tweet LS?

Missed this at the time...

Can you post the link as to who said that please?

Yes. Although it could also cause difficulties. If you were on a team and your friend had done really badly, you might hesitate to point the finger.

I might actually be in that situation soon, because I'm considering doing DSA again, and I've been talking to a real-life friend about it as well. That could be fun! (At least it would mean I'd have someone other than Carlisle defending me this time )


I did, he hasn't replied yet.

TBH, the likelihood is that he won't reply, but it was worth a try!

In fairness, he does use Twitter a great deal. But it doesn't matter anyway, does it? We'll all find out soon.

5 months ain't very soon haha, I'm very impatient!

I'm pretty sure the tall guy/white suit is a candidate otherwise they wouldn't be filming him with the team

I'll come back here and crow about it once the candidates are announced

Oh, I don't know... It's all so confusing, because your point is valid - he can be seen in a photo from Task 2, being filmed again... So if you're right, there are TWELVE different male candidates in the mix... Oh, why does it have to be so confusing

boab34, what did you say about there being twelve candidates earlier on in the thread? And can you post a link to the tweet which says that?

What if this is the last series, and they have decided to have thirty candidates, and a quadruple firing every episode?!

difficult for me to scroll back tweets as lots to wade thru

don't overthink it - at the start there were 5 boys on the street incl cream suit + 5 boys from van so = 10 boys = 20 candidates, simples

anyway it doesn't matter how many candidates they start with, it's who's the winner that matters

See Post #59.

In the Male Candidates one, I compiled a document of the pictures of every possible candidate - there were 11, and none of them were the same person - include the so calledd 'producer' and that's twelve candidates!!

I am just so confused because I genuinely never thought they'd increase the number of candidates any further than 16... Think of the logistics of having 20 candidates.. Nightmare!
They'd need bigger people carriers, bigger boardroom table, undoubtedly bigger waiting room, more cameras for the boardroom...

I just hope Lord Sugar replies to George's tweet...

Did the person on twitter say there were 12 candidates in total, or twelve MALE candidates?