Former Apprentice candidate Lottie Lion has taken to TikTok to spill secrets about how the show works behind-the-scenes as series 16 of The Apprentice continues on BBC One.
Lottie appeared in the 2019 series when she was just 19 and made it to the final five and the gruelling interview stage.
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Now Lottie has been revealing behind-the-scenes secrets about the show on TikTok, from how the teams have to choose a colour palette for the tasks to filming two finals with two different winners.
Lottie revealed that the candidates filmed two final scenes - where Lord Sugar points his finger and hires both of the final two - in case the candidate he chooses turns out not to be suitable.
As the show is filmed a while before the episodes are aired to the public, it means Lord Sugar has a backup winner in case any "bad press" comes out about his winner.
In another video, Lottie explains that the teams are given a choice of colour palettes ahead of the tasks that will then be used on the products/businesses they are designing - but it's first-come, first-served.
Lottie explained this might be why the boys in the latest series have always been developing products in shades of green and brown - a colour choice that has not worked well for them as they lost both tasks.
But was that because the girls beat them to the best colour palette?
She said: "I saw the boys' team for the first two episodes of this new series get so much slack because they kept on choosing the colours green and brown. They had no choice.
"At the beginning of each challenge you are given a dossier... it gives you certain options, so the producers have organised everything in advance, nothing is actually original or your own decision.
"You choose which theme you want and which colour scheme you want, you lock it in with Karren (Brady) and Claude (Littner - who's replaced in this series by Tim Campbell) and whichever team gets there first gets the first option."
Lottie also explained that if any candidates made a sale during a task which was not caught on camera then the sale was wiped and did not go towards the team's total or the candidate's personal total.
Location-wise the boardroom is not a real office in a skyscraper, it is actually filmed in a warehouse on the outskirts of London and the candidates only have one phone call a week to someone who is not in the show.
The candidates are also shielded from real-world news and Lottie said an example was not knowing that former Prime Minister Theresa May had resigned when she was in the show in 2019.
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