Sam Saadet, a contestant on The Apprentice, reveals the arduous selection process, highlighting the seven stages, intense tasks, and psychological pressure candidates endure. She describes the constant scrutiny, lack of communication, and the show's efforts to deter hopefuls.
LOCKING horns with the man deciding whether she’d earn fame and fortune, Sam Saadet was told: “I’m going to give you a thousand reasons not to go on The Apprentice.”FINAL SAY“Behind the scenes, it’s so, so intense but when you watch it back it’s an hour and it’s laughable half of the time.
But she tells us even the audition process was “extremely vigorous”, revealing there were seven stages to the full-day process that saw them take on a variety of tasks.Credit: BBC Each stage was punctuated by a chaperone tapping them on the shoulder and leading them into a lobby in silence where their fate was decided.
“We had an argument because she put herself up for project manager and I thought she was doing it badly, so we had it out,” she says. “All of this is the actual truth. You’ll be exhausted, feel like you’re treated like a child, and have to do things over and over again. If you survive all that, that's when you are ready.
Sam says everyone is paid a £1,000 flat fee for the time when the show airs and only if they don’t violate their NDA, as well as a £500 clothing allowance. They are cut off from the outside world apart from a 10-minute phone call to family or a 15-minute FaceTime if they have kids. Even then producers are on the line to “stop you saying anything about the process”.Sam says she “felt like a child” for the majority of the process due to the extremely restrictive process that included being unable to go to the loo without a chaperone.
To avoid problems of previous years, Sam - who is happily married - noted that even banter was restricted to stop co-stars from getting frisky and violating their “no contact” rule. “If you are caught talking about the task at home, you will be fined time for the task; so the next day you may have half an hour less than the other team.”That wasn’t the only obstacle when it came to tasks. Sam explains that each team is given a ‘dossier’ that only allows them to make certain choices.would be like ‘Let me check… Sorry, the other team got there first’. You never know if that’s true or not.
“In your mind, you know that wasn’t an option but you can’t say that. Then you look at the other team and they had the option of using a bowl on their cereal box. So it’s clear they push a narrative.”Sam claims for the Treasure Hunt task they could only visit vendors preapproved by production and she suspects even they are instructed on how much they can sell or buy items for.
Ahead of the boardroom, Sam says they have to wait for up to three hours in silence, which she says was “almost like torture” and to build pressure, tension and anxiety. If anyone tries to talk, they are told to be quiet.Lord Sugar is renowned for his witty one-liners but she reveals most are scripted because the tycoon’s wisecracks “are inappropriate, old school and too edgy” meaning they don’t make it to TV.
“Outside, I could hear him saying, ‘Why are they not shouting and screaming at each other? Why aren’t they arguing?’
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