Linda was introduced to the interview process by Lord Sugar in season 15. <\/p>
Everybody\u2019s favourite Apprentice episode is back! That\u2019s right, the interview stage has returned once more, with Lord Sugar\u2019s most trusted advisors ready to pick apart the remaining candidates\u2019 CVs and business plans.<\/p>\n
Lord Sugar has recruited Mike Soutar<\/a>, Claudine Collins<\/a>, Claude Littner<\/a> and Linda Plant to give the final five candidates and their proposed business plans a thorough grilling, and to catch any white lies along the way.<\/p>\n Having joined as an interviewer in season 15, here is a refresher of everything you need to know about The Apprentice interviewer Linda Plant.<\/p>\n Linda Plant joined The Apprentice for the interviewing process in 2015 and has known Lord Sugar (Alan to her) for more than 20 years, crossing paths as she built her business from scratch.<\/p>\n She began with what she described as \u201chumble beginnings\u201d on a market stall selling clothes, before opening her own retail shops and wholesalers. This snowballed into importing clothes from Hong Kong, at which point she founded clothing brand Honeysuckle and was crowned Northern Business\u2019 Woman of the Year.<\/p>\n After initial success, Plant unveiled a range of winter knits at a show in London\u2019s Olympia and admitted: \u201cIf one could drown in success, then I would say I was nearly guilty of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Plant eventually floated Honeysuckle, retiring from the fashion business some years ago. After getting into property, the savvy businesswoman found success dressing the properties ahead of sale.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Plant has been returning to grill candidates ever since and as for why she keeps returning, she enjoys it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In a new Q&A ahead of tonight\u2019s episode, she said: \u201cIf you\u2019re passionate about something, it becomes a source of enjoyment. Hopefully, I\u2019m giving some good advice and constructive criticism on how to improve an idea and how to make their business plan work.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope I can do a little bit of good and not always be thought of as \u2018the queen of mean\u2019.\u201d<\/p> The Apprentice 2024 final premieres on Thursday 18th March at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Entertainment<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what else is on.\u00a0For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Linda was introduced to the interview process by Lord Sugar in season 15. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49366,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/who-is-linda-plant-meet-the-apprentice-interviewer-and-lord-sugars-trusted-advisor-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/who-is-linda-plant-meet-the-apprentice-interviewer-and-lord-sugars-trusted-advisor-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/who-is-linda-plant-meet-the-apprentice-interviewer-and-lord-sugars-trusted-advisor-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/who-is-linda-plant-meet-the-apprentice-interviewer-and-lord-sugars-trusted-advisor-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/who-is-linda-plant-meet-the-apprentice-interviewer-and-lord-sugars-trusted-advisor-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/who-is-linda-plant-meet-the-apprentice-interviewer-and-lord-sugars-trusted-advisor-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/who-is-linda-plant-meet-the-apprentice-interviewer-and-lord-sugars-trusted-advisor-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Linda was introduced to the interview process by Lord Sugar in season 15.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/49365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who is Linda Plant on The Apprentice?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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