Lord Alan Sugar has a list of jokes for The Apprentice
The Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar has a list of jokes ready for the boardroom and he "crosses them off every time he says them", according to contestant Dan Miller.
Lord Alan Sugar is said to have a list of jokes ready for the boardroom in The Apprentice and he "crosses them off every time he says them".
Dan Miller, who is a contestant on the new series of the hit BBC show, has claimed the business mogul is always well prepared when he faces the candidates on camera and has a piece of paper full of funny lines which he uses throughout filming.
MIller told The Sun newspaper: "When he says all of his jokes he’s got a piece of paper on the desk and he crosses them off every time he says them ...
"I mean most of his jokes I didn’t get or didn’t find very funny.
"Probably because of my Aspergers and on a few occasions I had to ask him to repeat the jokes multiple times for me to understand what it was and I think everyone in the boardroom found it quite funny."
The BBC previously issued a statement which insisted the show is not scripted, saying: "Lord Sugar is not given a script of any kind for the boardroom. He is entirely in charge of what happens there.
"He does not wear an earpiece, so the production team cannot interrupt him or feed things to him in the boardroom. Everything he says and all the decisions he makes are his own."
Previous contestant Sam Saadet has also claimed Lord Sugar had a piece of paper featuring jokes, but she insisted it was to help make sure his gags aren't too "inappropriate" for the small screen.
She told The Sun: "His inappropriate jokes are hilarious but you just can’t say certain things so production has to feed him jokes.
"They had to write down some more jokes that were more PG and after reading them from the paper he just crossed them off his list. Now that was really funny, you had to stop yourself from sniggering when that happened."
In her interview, Sam also opened up about the inner workings of the show revealing contestants really are cut off from the outside world and are paid a flat fee of £1,000 for their involvement as well as a £500 clothing allowance but all the outfits need to be vetted by the production team.
She told the publication: "You have to get all your outfits too, I must have bought 100 different ones and sent off 20, of which half were approved. Going back and forth to the shops and sending stuff back was a process in itself.
"Your clothes can’t clash with any of the other women, that’s why everyone’s outfits are so bright. I sent grey and cream suits but they told me it would look flat on TV."
