According to Tellymix Claude is returning this series

Good! I suspect Karren will be back as well.

I would think so

to be really honest I didn't like him as Lord Sugar's aide. Definitely missing that light humour and personality we got with Nick.

but we don't want humour on the Apprentice its a serious Business programe

(Sorry in advance for digging up a sort of old thread)

I don't really like Claude as an advisor. His role - for me, at least - was always as the tough interviewer in the final stages of the competition. Nick was never biased against (occasionally towards, though) contestants and he reported it as he saw it. He wasn't afraid to report back to the boardroom what happened (Luisa's put-down) whereas Claude seemed a bit too sheepish to actually say it how he saw it. It sort of felt like he was telling

I don't really like Karren as an advisor either, to be honest (she seems to criticise candidates overtly harshly in the first weeks of the programme only to become much softer on them as time went on. Remember Jenny? She couldn't get the muscles. She didn't ask, Karren criticised her. Had she gone in and asked, Karren would have criticised her for wasting time.)

Margaret and Nick were the best, though I liked Nick and Karren too.