{"id":31318,"date":"2023-03-21T11:42:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T10:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1803701"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:56:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:56:42","slug":"lord-alan-sugar-argues-the-apprentice-should-be-scrapped-if-he-leaves","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/lord-alan-sugar-argues-the-apprentice-should-be-scrapped-if-he-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Alan Sugar argues The Apprentice should be scrapped if he leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The business mogul has revealed that he plans on being with the show for years to come. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 21 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Lord Alan Sugar has been firing people on our screens for nearly 20 years thanks to The Apprentice, however the business mogul reckons that the competition wouldn\u2019t survive if he were to quit.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/21780238\/lord-sugar-reveals-apprentice-after-he-leaves\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Sun<\/a>, the TV personality revealed that he plans on being on <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/apprentice-season-17-air-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Apprentice<\/a> when it reaches its 25th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to sound too big headed but a lot of people underestimate me. They hear me talking like a cockney, but I know everything, I really do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/the-apprentice-lord-alan-sugar-1db4986-e1641304515738.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/the-apprentice-lord-alan-sugar-1db4986-e1641304515738.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/the-apprentice-lord-alan-sugar-1db4986-e1641304515738.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;&quot;\" title=\"&quot;&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Lord Alan Sugar on The Apprentice.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>BBC \/ Boundless \/ Ray Burmiston<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not degrading people like [Drag\u00ad\u00adons\u2019 Den star] Peter Jones, because they\u2019ve done a lot also. But none of them have done as much as I have. Who would I put in my place? I can\u2019t think of anybody. There\u2019s loads of people that would queue up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThere\u2019s no reason why I can\u2019t go on to do 25 years. I\u2019m very fit, so I don\u2019t know whether it stops at 20. But if I ever did stop, I get a feeling the BBC wouldn\u2019t stop it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/danny-dyer-scared-of-the-dark-cast-revealed-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Paul Gascoigne and more join line-up for Danny Dyer\u2019s new reality show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/dacampo-quits-gordon-gino-fred-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Gino D\u2019Acampo quits Gordon, Gino &amp; Fred<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>\u201cI think they would try to find someone new to do it and that\u2019s where it might kill itself off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old, who broke out into the business world after starting consumer electronics company Amstrad, said earlier this year that he has\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/apprentice-alan-sugar-exit-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">\u201cno plans\u201d to quit The Apprentice<\/a>.<\/p> <p>\u201cFirst of all, I publicly stated that I really wanted to make it to 20 years. So this one is 16 and I\u2019ve got four more to do to achieve that goal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 season of The Apprentice airs its big final on Thursday night, with <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-rochelle-anthony-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Rochelle Anthony<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-marnie-swindells-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Marnie Swindells<\/a> going head-to-head in one last challenge as they compete for Lord Sugar\u2019s investment.<\/p> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"&quot;6322614022112&quot;\" data-account=\"&quot;69912529001&quot;\" data-player=\"&quot;ByeOf0VZEl&quot;\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"\/><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/><p><strong>The Apprentice 2023 finale airs on BBC One and\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/b0071b63\/the-apprentice&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BBC iPlayer<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0on Thursday 23rd March at 9pm. 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