The Apprentice's Tim Campbell and Baroness Karren Brady swap post-task horror stories
The Apprentice aides Tim Campbell and Karren Brady admit they call each other to debrief on candidates’ task meltdowns before feeding the chaos back to show's boss Lord Alan Sugar.
The Apprentice's Tim Campbell and Baroness Karren Brady compare candidates’ task disasters.
The duo accompany the entrepreneurs on each mission and report the day's chaos and successes to the BBC show's boss, Lord Alan Sugar, 78, but Tim, 48, and Karren, 56, do like to swap post-task horror stories first.
Tim - The first winner of The Apprentice, which began in 2005 - said: "Baroness Brady and I are constantly in contact, and sometimes I'm reading her notes on what's happening, and I'm like, 'What? Did that happen?' And she reads mine and says, 'Oh my God, I must be having a better day than you because of this...'
"So we'll keep constant contact and can share the horrors of the day! "
He added: "Sometimes we don't get much time to because there are schedules which can be long.
"But the thing is, we all keep in constant contact with each other and Lord Sugar because obviously our responsibility as aides is to feed him what's happening on the ground.
"So in Hong Kong or Egypt or when we're running around doing amazing things on fitness, taking technology to the next generation, or going back to old fan favourites when I was on the series of selling to the public."
The Apprentice returns on January 2 with its milestone 20th season, and the first episode sees Lord Sugar's tense boardroom move to Hong Kong after the 20 candidates complete a task in one of the world’s most vibrant trading hubs.
And the business magnate admits that the show is likely to define his legacy despite his decades of experience in the business world.
Lord Sugar said: "Well, I mean, it's obviously something that I will remember forever, and I suppose I will be remembered for it forever.
"Although Donald Trump will tell you that he gave me the job (which he did not). But to be fair, he was the first one to do it in America.
"But, yeah, I might be remembered for it? I don't know. I mean, that is a great achievement, I guess, to have helped so many businesses and inspired so many young people to consider business."
Lord Sugar says it is "amazing" that The Apprentice has made it to a 20th series and believes that the continued interest of viewers is behind the programme's longevity.
The presenter said: "Well, it is an amazing milestone. When we started recording this series, you start to think to yourself, 'Wow, this is 20 years now.' What’s amazing, of course, is Tim Campbell is now one of my advisors, and he was the one that won it in the very first series, so it's full circle, in a great way."
Lord Sugar added: "I think the programme itself brings in a new audience every year, because 20 years ago, I had nine-year-olds watching it who are now 29. And the new generation of 16-year-olds are coming in and loving it. So the audience is growing. The audience is holding up, and that's why the BBC keeps doing it."
