This programme contains some strong language
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!
Alana will be Lord Sugar's next business partner,
which means I can say for the first time this series,
"I'm Rhod Gilbert, welcome to The Apprentice: You're Hired."
A titanic struggle right to the end, then, and at last,
after spending 12 weeks together, Frances can now finally
tell the difference between Alana and a cake stand.
That is not Alana.
In the studio tonight...
Actually, I'm feeling a bit lacklustre this evening.
Is Karthik around? Karthik, can I borrow you?
Can you try that technique out that you used on Courtney in the pitch,
just to put a bit of energy into this?
I'm just feeling like I haven't got the... That's better, go on.
OK, that's... In the studio tonight, Claude joins me, Courtney will be
here later on, winner Alana and Lord Sugar himself will be dropping by.
And of course, we're joined by this year's candidates.
Take a bow, you lot. There they are.
CHEERING
Karthik, you can get off me now.
You can leave me now. I'm in the zone. Thanks very much.
Karthik, ladies and gentlemen! You can go and sit with them.
CHEERING
But first, for the last time this series, let's see
what made The Apprentice News.
BONG!
Jessica accidentally drinks 19 double espressos.
SHE SHRIEKS
Oliver shows Alana one of his capable hands.
I'm going to leave it in Oliver's capable hands. Thank you very much.
Paul describes the full range of emotions he's experienced
on this series of The Apprentice.
I'm just pissed off.
Bottom line, I'm pissed off.
Karren gives a damning assessment of Karthik's monobrow reduction pills.
He's relied on them, and I think in some respects they've let him down.
And that is tonight's Apprentice News.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Let's meet our panel, ready to bask in the reflected glow of
this year's finalists until their noses peel.
Aide to Lord Sugar, our very own Claude Littner,
TV presenter and Apprentice fan Myleene Klass
and comedian Hal Cruttenden, welcome to You're Hired.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Well, he streaked ahead on the winning team
on eight out of ten tasks and made it through the interview stage,
only to fall yards from the line.
- LORD SUGAR: - It's a tough one.
But I've got to make a decision, and I've got to go with my gut feeling,
so...
..Alana,
you're going to be my business partner.
- (Well done.) - (Thanks.)
Please welcome the runner-up of The Apprentice 2016, Courtney Wood!
CHEERING
How you doing? Good to see you, mate.
Cheers, fella.
CHEERING
Soak it up, mate, soak it up! Soak it up!
Not a bad response, is it?
Soak it up! Yeah. How does it feel, watching that back?
- Yeah, it's mixed emotions... - Yeah. - ..really.
Obviously disappointed,
but at the same time really pleased for Alana. I think she deserves it.
She's come a long way in the process and she's done really well
and she's got a great business plan so, yeah, I'm pleased for her.
Can I just say, just straight off the bat,
that I think you've acquitted yourself incredibly well
through 12 weeks in really tough, testing conditions?
I think you've come across as a really, really, really decent bloke.
Don't you? All the way through. Start to finish.
So close, though.
Eight out of ten wins, as you've never stopped reminding us.
- Er, yeah. - All the way through, banging on,
"I'm a winner, I've won every week," all of that.
Did you feel like you had it in the bag, or were you messing about?
No, it was all just a bit of banter, really, with the other candidates.
But for me, it was... I felt like I played a key part in every task.
There wasn't any luck involved with it.
I made sure I placed myself in the team
so I could help contribute and get that team to that winning line.
- Yeah. - So, yeah, for me, it was all about playing
a team game and getting the team to work together and win.
Let's see what the guys here thought.
Hal, did you have Courtney down to win this?
No, I thought he was rubbish. No, sorry, no!
Honestly, I thought you had the thing where you...
You are obviously really smart and you weren't good at pitching,
but then got really good at pitching by the end.
And I think as long as you've got somebody behind you holding on
to your waist, being dragged along...
I've got to say one thing. I was at drama school for three years
and I've never seen that technique.
So are you sure that guy wasn't just somebody passing...RADA and went,
"Oh, I'll have a go on this"? But it works, obviously.
It was brilliant. I thought you really transformed. Really good.
Claude, you've followed Courtney from day one.
Well, I think that Courtney really did well on every single task,
as he said, he tried his best, and actually, he persevered,
and you were the star of every single programme in terms of
applying yourself, understanding what the task was about
and succeeding. There's no doubt about that.
I think that your business plan did strike a chord with everybody.
Also, it's a business that Lord Sugar understands,
and so it must have been pretty close,
and I suspect that Alana got the nod simply because Alan decided to be
a bit adventurous and go for something he knows nothing about.
Damn it!
You should have gone for cakes!
Alana did get the nod. Were you surprised that that was the result?
Did you think Courtney was in with a shout?
I thought that Courtney had a really strong chance,
especially after your pitch.
I think everyone was cheering you on
because you'd progressed so much.
It was almost, like, unrecognisable from the Courtney
that we'd first been introduced to. You should be super proud of that.
But I think something that's really worth remembering in business -
there are so many disappointments at so many different phases
along the way, and this could just potentially...
Well, this SHOULD just potentially be a phase...
You've had a fantastic opportunity to show what you can create,
and this platform is just the beginning.
- Yeah, I agree. - You're both winners. You're both winners.
She's a bigger winner, but you're both winners.
Well, Courtney, you didn't quite get there
with your novelty gifts business plan,
but let's see what happened on this final task.
Courtney, you're going to need to convince me
that you can design and sell novelty stuff in very big volume.
The brand name needs to be fun, cheeky.
- What's your favourite animal? - Whale. - And what's your favourite colour?
Purple. There we go. Purple Whale.
I'd want to put Jessica in charge,
and then Paul and Sofiane will be with you.
- You go... - Sofiane, look, you're distracting. It's going off-course.
We've got limited time. Let's just get on with it.
- He wants it to be cheeky, remember. - I tell you what...
He wants it to be cheeky.
When put in the limelight, I get a bit nervous.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Courtney Wood.
I'm here today to present to you a new brand of novelty gifts,
Purple Whale.
I think he's a really exciting talent.
What we have here is a trophy baby beaker.
He needs a guiding hand.
- Thank you. - APPLAUSE
20 million people in the UK do buy novelty items, so I believe
the market's there, and I think this new product I've created
has the potential to be a killer product.
CHEERING
- All right, innit? - All right, innit? It's all right.
Let's talk about that pitch you did, though, because the pitch...
I think anybody watching would have been going,
"Oh, God, the pitch. How is Courtney...?"
- It hasn't been your strongest... - No.
..thing, as you've freely admitted throughout the series.
And you did turn it around there, totally.
But I think collectively, as a nation, we were bricking it for you.
- So was I! - You were as well? - Course I was!
As soon as I got to the final and I realised I had to pitch
in front of 250 people, I was like,
"How the hell am I going to do that?"
- Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. - "I'm going to muck it up."
So... Yeah, luckily, I went and did the drama course training,
which helped, but at the same time, I was talking about my business,
which I've been running for the last four years, so I know it
inside out, and so I'm not nervous or worried talking about that,
whereas when I've created a brand of Giin or an Astro Badger
over 24 hours, yeah...
So you were feeling more confident anyway?
- Yeah. - Even without the training, you were feeling on home ground?
The training helped,
because it helped push you outside your comfort zone
before you go on and pitch, and so you don't feel stupid.
- Yeah. - So, yeah, I think it'd be a combination of the two.
Yeah. It was still low-energy... But it was a different...
You said it was a different Courtney.
It was a different Courtney. Still low-energy.
As Claude says, I'm incredibly boring, so...
LAUGHTER
Yeah, Claude, you said Courtney was incredibly boring!
- Are you sure about that? - Twice, I think.
My friends like to remind me of it!
That kind of thing sticks in a young man's head, that.
In that case, I'd like to retract that.
- Thank you. - AUDIENCE: - Awwww!
First retraction from Claude Littner on The Apprentice - official.
I mean, I'll go further,
I would say you were bordering on entertaining in that pitch.
- I wouldn't go that far. - No, let's not go that far.
Why novelty gifts, though?
This was your...sippy cup, I think you were calling it.
Yeah, the baby beaker. You know what? When I was a kid,
I used to love flicking through the Argos book,
and you'd find, like, the gift pages, and they sell, like,
lava lamps and stuff like that.
And I would always ask for them kind of presents for Christmas
and loved, like, having these little stocking-fillers on your desk.
Painting quite a sad childhood picture of you alone.
They just threw the whole catalogue at you and went, "He'll be happy.
"Doesn't need proper toys." You were obviously broody. I can tell.
- LAUGHTER - No, cos...
- Hasn't he got loads of stuff for kids?! - They're all kids' things.
His kid is going to be so spoilt, yeah.
- What was the last novelty gift you bought? - I bought a...
I was on tour with Rob Bryden, who I happen to think
is the greatest comedian to ever come out of Wales. Um... He...
I'll go further. He's the only comedian...
And I was on tour with him, and I bought him...
It was the end of the tour,
and we're sort of men and we didn't think you'd buy stuff,
big stuff, for the end of the tour.
And I bought him a little sort of fun golf set thing that you
could have on your table and build a little golf course.
A really silly little thing.
And he bought me a complete CD set of classic Beatles albums.
It was a collector's item. And I've never worked for him since.
So, yeah, I got the golf course...
- There are other Welsh acts you can come and work for. - Yes.
- Yes, there are. I would! - Just bring better gifts. - I would!
Lord Sugar was saying that Courtney was going to have to prove
that he could sell these kind of novelty gifts in large numbers,
that Lord Sugar was interested in. Did he do that in the final?
Well, he certainly came out of his shell in the final,
so I think you did really well, and no doubt it was my helping you
in the interview phase that did that,
so I'll take some credit for it.
But you did show a certain amount of confidence, and that's right,
when you're talking about something that you're passionate about,
you know about, you do actually produce
and present yourself pretty well.
It's just a shame that you didn't do it kind of every single week.
But that's completely understandable.
Yeah. Myleene, would you buy something like this for your kids?
I've got two children, and I know that...
I mean, they're past the weaning stage and they're on their
second set of teeth, but they like to put things in there already.
But I actually have a children's range where I manufacture clothes
and goods, and I think what's so special about Courtney, actually,
is that he's unique. He IS the ideas.
So this is something, again, that you can certainly grow with.
You'll have a company that can maybe come in and help you with
the heath and safety elements of it and anything that is to do
with children's production, but ultimately,
what you have is something that so many people actually just don't.
Courtney may have felt that he'd given his all during this process,
but there was one man who clearly felt he was keeping something back
and seemed determined to squeeze more juice out of Courtney's lemon.
Seriously, I look in your eyes and I think, "Where's the energy?
- "Where's the passion?" - What makes you think that?
- IMITATES HIM: - "What makes you think that?" Your demeanour.
- Come on! - I personally do feel
that my company is underperforming.
- Why's it underperforming? - It's not due to my demeanour, I can tell you.
I work my bollocks off, to be honest with you.
I haven't paid myself a proper wage. I've given up everything.
I could have had a nice house.
I didn't. I wanted to spend my money on setting up my own business.
- Come on, Courtney, yes! - I've worked for everything that I've got.
I've built the foundations and I feel like I'm on the cusp of
- something good. - Yes! Yes!
- Come on, Courtney! - Come on! - Come on! Yes! Yes!
Claude, I mean, I realise what you were trying to do.
You were trying to get Courtney to show a bit more oomph,
but that was an unconventional technique.
As opposed to what, putting electrodes on him or something?
That would have been more unconventional.
Claude, with Courtney, it was almost like a father figure,
the way you were sort of... Do you see something of yourself in him?
I did almost expect you to be going, "And I'm your father!"
Star Wars sort of..
Yeah, you did get that feeling that you were really rooting for him.
Let me tell you, Hal, before you admit to being Courtney's father...
But what a bombshell that would be!
- It would be for Courtney's bloody father. He's up there! - Oh, sorry.
Mother's looking worried!
- Years ago... - "I hate to break it to you, Dad...!"
Steve and Maureen, who claimed to be your parents, Courtney,
before this shocking revelation exclusive here on You're Hired.
Steve and Maureen...
A big round of applause, ladies and gentlemen, for Courtney's parents.
See you later, Maureen.
Stop hitting on my mum, Claude.
- Did you expect him to get this far? - Yes.
- Definitely. - Dad took a bit longer there to think about it.
From the moment he came home from the first audition,
we discussed it and I thought, "He's going to go all the way."
"We discussed it, we decided he was going to win. That was it."
- Did you really? Honestly, you thought right from the...? - Yes.
- There was no doubt in my mind. - Right.
Where does he get his business acumen from?
It beats me.
- Maureen? - From me! The mother!
My father.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
And it's the end of the series, so throughout this evening,
we'll be presenting a host of awards to candidates who have
shown extraordinary pluck and endeavour, the You're Fired
Excellence In Business Awards, or YFEBAs, for short.
Our first award tonight recognises that the workplace can be
a minefield of social etiquette,
so this YFEBA is for Awkward Hug Of The Series.
And the nominations are...
FANFARE
Mukai and his reluctant one-armed bandit on Grainne.
The "I don't like you enough to bother lifting my other arm" hug.
Sorry, dude.
Let's see that again. The full hug looks on.
"Oh, no, I can't be arsed."
Our next nominees are Paul and Oliver
for their thumping collider hug.
Part collision, part hug. A wrestling smackdown in hug form.
Take care. It's been wonderful.
Let's see that again. Ooh!
Right in the mush.
And the final nomination is Dillon and his incredible
disappearing hug trick, a breathtaking switcheroo,
the old "now you hug me, now you don't", on Alana.
SHE GIGGLES
Here it is again. Oh, hug cancelled!
- Hal, you have the envelope there. Could you tell us...? - I do.
Could you tell us who the winner is, please?
The YFEBA goes to, for their collide-o-hug...
It's Paul and Oliver!
CHEERING
Come on down, Paul and Oliver, come and join us on stage.
Well done.
Congratulations, Paul and Oliver. Oliver, did that hurt? Did it hurt?
Literally, Rhod, I didn't feel a thing.
I mean, the boardroom was more brutal than anything like that,
Paul. No. And we're great pals.
- Paul, have you ever hospitalised anyone with a hug before? - No.
No, a first? Ladies and gentlemen, Paul and Oliver.
Give it up! APPLAUSE
Now, in case you haven't noticed, it's Christmas,
and I thought it'd be nice for each of our panel to get
a small thank you for coming on the show.
I've got your gifts here, Hal, Myleene, Claude.
I'm going to give them out. Claude, that's for you.
Myleene, that's yours.
- Thanks for coming on the show. - Thank you. - Merry Christmas.
Hal, perhaps if you'd like to open yours first.
- See what you've got. - OK. - A very merry Christmas. - Ooh.
This is exciting, isn't it, eh?
It looks like it's... Is that...whisky, brandy?
- No, it's Colony Gin! - It is!
A bottle of beautiful Colony Gin.
Are you a gin drinker, Hal?
I am.
I do like gin. When it's the right colour and doesn't remind me
of our dodgy colonial past, I'm fine with it.
- Should have gave him a Giin. - I should have given you a Giin!
I know, but that was quite a decent brand. It wouldn't have been funny.
Trishna, you were responsible, really,
for the creation of this nightmare brand.
- What have you got to say for yourself? - Orange is the new black.
- That would only work if gin was black. - Yeah!
Claude, what have you got, I wonder?
- Tension. - Claude, happy memories from Brighton and the candy task?
- Memories. - Yeah.
Myleene, merry Christmas to you. What have you got?
- Yeah, thank you very much. - Pleasure. What have you got, Myleene?
How exciting!
What's going on? It's a tin of soup. I clearly ordered soap!
I clearly, clearly stated...
I mean...
I clearly asked for some black African soap.
I didn't do it myself, obviously.
I asked Rebecca to get the gift for me.
Ladies and gentleman, a big round of applause for our panel
and their Christmas treats.
APPLAUSE Thanks for coming on the show!
- Courtney, an interesting choice of team you picked for the final. - Yeah.
- Talk us through it. - I wanted strong team members that
would all contribute to help me win,
so Jessica's an expert in branding,
Karthik, I knew he could help me with the pitching,
Sofiane and Paul, great guys,
I knew they'd contribute loads to the task.
So, yeah, that's why I chose them.
Claude, I mean, just hearing that list of names together in one list
- of names... - Frightening, isn't it? - Sofiane, Paul, Karthik, Jessica.
Was that wise or totally mad?
Well, individually, they're all great, but put together
and I think you've got an explosive situation.
- So I think it's probably... - Mad?
Yeah. Well, I didn't win, did I? So maybe it was.
- Shall we blame the team? It was all their fault! - Yes.
- It was a high-risk strategy, that's for sure. - Yeah.
You guys are all up there.
I'm not sure if you've been seated together tonight. I imagine not.
- We've got more sense than you, Courtney. - No, you haven't.
- They're all together. - Are they all together? Oh, not again!
Did you manage to pull it together as a team for the final, though?
- Yeah. - Yeah. - Oh, sorry! - Yeah, yeah.
I think Courtney was the focus for all of us,
even if we didn't get along doing it.
- But, yeah, we all wanted Courtney to win. - I think we delivered all right.
I think Courtney's done well as well.
But, yeah, sorry for letting you down, Court.
No-one let me down on that team, to be honest.
- Like, I couldn't have been happier. - Aww! That's really sweet.
Now, across the series, Karren has been keeping an eye
on our candidates, offering up her pithy one-liners.
Always harsh, but always fair.
But it took the Apprentice final for her to deliver her best.
A one-word withering Karren-slam to end the series in style.
UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS
I thought Courtney's business was an online shop,
not a phone-up mail order business.
Why isn't he ordering it online?
I think the thought process behind it, a lot of people,
they order things now on the phone rather than the laptop.
Really?
LAUGHTER
Really?
Are you going to miss having Karren, and Claude,
- following your every move? - No.
You know what? They're two people I hugely respect.
What they've achieved in business is amazing.
But they're standing there and they're, like, breathing over you.
They're like meerkats, just, like, looking at you, just ready to...
You know they're going to take down notes and they're going to hit you
with something in the boardroom
that's going to completely destroy you.
So, yeah, it's kind of...
It's hard having him watch over your every move.
- Yeah. - Almost like a father.
Sorry. Stop it. Stop it.
So, 12 weeks, Courtney. 12 long weeks.
A long process. Did you manage to enjoy it?
- I loved every moment of it. - Did you? - Yeah, I absolutely loved it.
There's not a single day I didn't like.
Well, the interviews was tough.
But, yeah, if I could just do tasks for the rest of my life,
every week, I'd happily do it. I loved it.
- Just Monday to Friday, do a task, treat on the weekend. Yeah. - Yeah?
- Definitely. - And how was it sharing with everyone in the house?
Because it must be weird as it dwindles down, and by the end,
it's just two of you rattling around in there.
Yeah, it is strange to lose someone each week.
With a few weeks to go, I had a whole floor to myself so, yeah,
I could walk around naked and do some lunges on the balcony and...
Hang on a minute, mate, that doesn't quite work.
You had the whole place to yourself, I understand,
you can walk around naked, I understand.
But once you're on the balcony,
you do know you're kind of in public view?
Time now for another YFEBA.
FANFARE
The Apprentice is a long, tiring process,
and candidates can often struggle to summon the necessary oomph
required to carry off a task.
So our second award is for Half-arsed Commitment To A Task.
And our first nomination is Aleksandra
and her half-arsed commitment to winning The Apprentice series 12.
Guys, I just have to say something. I...
- I'm going to leave the process. Good luck, guys. - Good luck. - Sorry.
Our next nomination is Courtney, channelling more Hugh Grant
than Blackbeard, and failing to curdle any blood whatsoever.
Oh-hoy there.
You needed Karthik round your waist, mate.
And the final nomination is JD and his worrying lack of
commitment to personal hygiene in a food preparation area.
Pretty sure I've got a massive sweat patch on my bum right now.
Well, Courtney, I'm going to give you the envelope.
I'm going to let you read who the winner is.
The YFEBA for the Half-arsed Commitment To A Role goes to...
- Yes, Courtney, yes! - I've had drama training.
Yes! A bit more oomph, give it a bit more. Come on, Courtney!
- ..is... - Come on!
..me for my Hugh Grant pirate.
Congratulations!
Does that make up for not winning the 250 grand investment?
That's got to make up for it in some small part.
- Yeah. - LAUGHTER
Courtney, thanks for coming on the show.
Massive congratulations for being runner-up.
Thanks for being a good sport. Let's have a look at your highlights.
I've never been fired in my life
and it's not going to start happening now.
Oh-hoy there.
China and glassware, everything must go today!
It's hard work making things look easy.
Do I look cool?
Courtney's very talented at what he does,
really easy to work with,
gives out really good decisions and ideas.
- Do you like the badger now? - Yeah, I do!
Cats are on trend. Cats are cool.
This might be the first-ever meeting
I've done in my dressing gown.
You cheeky little bastard.
He's showing that he's very, very smart.
He's very creative.
So, Giin, the double 'i', to represent two people.
We should be done by 3am at this rate.
You model yourself on Leonardo DiCaprio...
as an Oscar winner.
Well, Courtney, unfortunately,
Lord Sugar won't be investing in you, didn't choose you
as his business partner, but nobody goes away empty-handed.
You've already got your YFEBA. "What? Can there be more?" you ask.
Yes, there is. You've dressed up a lot on this series.
- A few times. - Haven't you? You've dressed up a few times.
Spaceman. Pirate was my favourite,
I have to say, your bloodcurdling pirate with his terrifying cries.
I thought I would get you something to remind you of that event.
This is... We have made
a Courtney pirate doll.
- Aww. - That is yours.
Have you taken a member of One Direction?
May have.
That is yours, Courtney, to keep, to take with you. That is yours.
Enjoy it at your leisure.
Ladies and gentlemen, Courtney Wood, the runner-up!
Hal and Myleene, you're going to stay with us
but, Claude, unfortunately, is leaving us, ladies and gentlemen.
That can only mean one thing,
because Claude does not give up his seat easily, I tell you that.
He's going to be making way for Lord Sugar himself.
- AUDIENCE: - Ooh!
Please give it up for our very own Claude Littner!
CHEERING
And so to our winner, this is the moment they discovered
who's going to be Lord Sugar's new business partner.
It's a tough one.
But I've got to make a decision. I've got to go with my gut feeling.
So...
..Alana, you're going to be my business partner.
Oh, my God, I will work so hard.
(Well done.)
Thank you.
Please welcome the winner of The Apprentice 2016, Alana Spencer.
CHEERING
APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH
Congratulations!
The first Welsh winner of The Apprentice, ladies and gentlemen.
HE SPEAKS WELSH
We're celebrating in Wales.
You've done us all so proud, us Welsh, Alana.
- Has it sunk in yet? - No.
I... I'm in shock. I'm in shock. It's amazing, yeah.
- I think it's going to take... - Take a moment. Take a moment.
I think it's going to take a while.
- Yeah. We haven't got that long, but... - No.
At what point did you think, though, "I could win this"?
- When I applied, I thought I had a good chance. - Yeah.
Um... I'd say...
week one, I thought, "OK, this is looking a little bit less likely."
- Yeah. - Week two, I mean, I've got no chance.
Are you going to take us through every single week, like that?
- No, no. - "On week nine, I felt a little less than week eight."
Week three onwards, I think I thought I could.
Because I think you've been a massively sort of quiet
voice of reason and real sense...
People haven't listened often, have they?
No, maybe not, but I understand everyone's trying to get their
voice heard and I think, you know, maybe if I'd done it differently,
then I wouldn't be sat here
so, you know, I wouldn't change a thing.
- Don't change anything now, for God's sake. - No. - No.
Did you enjoy the whole process or was it just the ending?
- No, I did enjoy it all. - Did you?
I don't think my face looked like I was enjoying it at all.
- Oh, God, your face looked like all sorts of things. - I know.
- I need to work on that. - What a face. - What a face. - What a wonderful face.
Myleene, did you see this coming? Did you see Alana winning?
- When did you...? - I think the beauty of Alana's win is that nobody...
And please, I don't mean this in any other way other than
nobody necessarily saw it coming.
- No. - You just surprised everyone,
but it was wonderful to watch you blossom,
so every single week, you grew in your confidence,
and then to see how you spoke so eloquently in the boardroom,
you had that confidence. Suddenly, we saw a different Alana,
and by the time that you stood up and you pitched,
it felt like YOU actually believed what you were saying
and so we all believed it, and hence you're sitting there now.
- Hal... - Yeah... - Did you see Alana winning?
No, not at the beginning, because it was
a dreadful first couple of weeks,
and they all underestimated her a bit,
because even... I think it was week five when Karthik forgot her name.
Do you remember that? You should go and stand over him now,
going, "What's my name, bitch?!"
Because... He actually forgot. You know.
It was week five and people were still sort of forgetting about her.
But I think... You just did that thing, you know, you were quiet,
you were quiet when you needed to be, but you stood up for yourself
when you needed to be and you didn't say silly things,
you backed up everything, you didn't say stuff like, you know,
"I'm an emperor and a leader and give me a laptop and I'll make you
"a billion-dollar company." Sorry, Karthik.
They're classics, you should market those.
But they say that in business
there's two different kind of characters, if you like.
You get your creative and you get the more sort of structured
business mind, and I think you learnt to be more of the latter
towards the end, so to marry the two has been - urgh! -
perfect ingredients.
I didn't plan that! No, but I feel like you did...
I feel like we were able to watch you learn so much.
Well, Alana, let's meet your new business partner.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Lord Sugar.
CHEERING
Welcome. Welcome to the show.
Lord Sugar, ladies and gents. Lord Sugar.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Thank you. Thank you.
Great to have you here. Straight in,
I'm going to ask you why you chose Alana.
Well, I chose her because she went on a great journey.
I've heard you refer already to the fact that, you know, week one,
week two, it looked like she was dead meat.
But this is what The Apprentice is about,
people pick it up as they go along, yeah?
And she did pick it up as we went along,
and also her determination
and her business plan turned out to be the best,
and she's a very bubbly young lady, very intelligent young lady,
and I know that she got little bit intimidated when Lord Sugar here
spoke to her a few times in the boardroom,
but she came through very, very well, yeah.
I have to ask you, now that you're business partners, are you going to
be sticking a pinny on, heading to Wales and doing the baking?
No, no, they're thinking of...
Channel 4's thinking of taking me instead of Mary Berry, actually.
- You've got a good baking name, Lord Sugar. - Yeah.
And you are ridiculously rich.
APPLAUSE
You're made for it. Perfect for each other.
So what's the plan?
In all seriousness, what's the plan now? You two, business partners -
everybody at home, I guess, wants to know what happens now.
Well, I heard... I mean, Claude picked up on something that I said
at the tail end of the boardroom, that I should stick to what I know.
Obviously, I don't know much about cakes, that's for sure.
What I've done all of my life is manufacture.
And he's right...
in the sense that this is a challenge, a new challenge,
I like a challenge, and it occurred to me...
You heard me use the terminology scaling up, right, quite a lot.
This £250,000 investment is no joke, as some of the winners over there
will tell you, because they make a lot of money,
a lot of money, and we're in this for the money, OK?
And what she was doing initially was making a nice living for herself
and the key was how we're going to take that and scale it up.
Can I just rewind up a little bit?
Because you did say quite a few times
that Courtney's business model, that kind of paradigm,
you understood that very well, and when you were saying that,
- I was kind of thinking maybe you were going to go that way. - Right.
My background is manufacturing.
Courtney designed something, which is what I used to do,
he then gets it tooled up, he then makes it,
he then goes and sells it, and so it was very much in line with what
I had done, and I mentioned that in the end of the programme.
The issue with Courtney at the moment is that the items
in question that he makes at the moment,
at this particular time, are very low-cost, and I couldn't see
a kind of a scaling-up version of it at the moment,
and that's really it, so I decided to be a little bit adventurous
and come into the Mr Kipling area, you know?
Well, Lord Sugar clearly felt Alana's baking business plan
had risen to the top, so let's have a look at how she won.
Alana, well, I will need convincing that your new business can grow
into a giant brand.
- The peanut butter's quite rich, isn't it? - It's ridiculously rich, yeah.
When you said it, it sounded really cute.
The problem about the name they've chosen
- is it has no unique selling point. - That is not Alana.
What are you feeling that you are going to achieve
by digging something out that we've already created?
We just wanted to tell you.
All I'm suggesting is just about what is, yeah,
the uniqueness of you.
You could have on the box my signature.
It's your seal of approval.
Get rid of the cake stand and put in a bit of ownership.
Hello, everyone.
I'd like to introduce you to my brand, Ridiculously Rich.
I think, you know, small, artisan,
handmade, luxury, Wales -
I think it's a terrific story.
You were brilliant.
I turn over, a year, less than you do,
however, my profits are much higher, and business,
in my opinion, is all about
making as much profit as you can.
Cakes are something that people buy as a treat,
possibly every day.
CHEERING
You got quite cut-throat there, didn't you? Cut-throat Alana.
- It is there. - Yeah, it is there, it is. You were fighting there. - Deep down, it's there, yeah.
All about profit... I want to talk to you about the pitch, though, because that's the bit...
I guess it's because I'm a stand-up and I, every night, go out in front
of... Hal will recognise this. You go out in front of people and, you know, you perform,
public speaking, but that pitch, nonetheless, even to us, looks terrifying.
Yeah, petrifying. Walk down the longest staircase ever as well,
- just to make it that little bit worse. - Ramp it up. - Yeah.
- What was going through your mind on that long walk down?
I think mainly, "Don't trip,"
because that just would've been awful.
But just everything that you've prepared is going round
and round in your head, and I think you get down there and then
- everything you've prepared just goes. - You're going round and round,
- that's going round and round in your head. - Both different ways, cancels each other out.
Grainne was right, though, you totally nailed it.
- Her prediction that you'd nail it came true. - Yes, yes. (Love Grainne.)
What Courtney says is interesting, though, about the fact that
it's easier to do that pitch
when it was for something that you cared about.
- Yes, definitely. - Because what amazed me... I was almost more impressed
when you all used to pitch to people when you knew it was rubbish.
Well, you did, you were sort of going, "No, it's going to be great,"
but you knew you just wanted to go, "Oh, it's Colony Gin.
"I know it shouldn't be orange." But you just gave it your all.
- I truly, truly believed in Giin. - Oh, did you? - Yeah, I did.
- You were Giin, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Silly name, though.
Let's have a look at your product just quickly.
This is luxury handmade cakes, Ridiculously Rich by Alana.
Lord Sugar, you...
There was a lot of talk at the pitch and other places about Alana putting
herself in the brand and that she is the brand and what makes the brand
special is her, but we can kind of all say that.
We're all unique, what's special about me is me and you is you
and Myleene is Myleene and Hal not so much, but you know...
But you know what I mean?
Everybody's unique, so what is it about her that makes...
that goes into this, that makes this special?
Well, it's her business, right, and her name should be on it
and we will go forward promoting this product.
So it's Ridiculously Rich by Alana
is the brand name that she has chosen, and I think it's a great brand name.
You've got to have a brand name.
You can't just put on there "Cake", can you?
"Cake. Buy a cake.
"Have a cake. Black cake, brown cake, green cake."
You've got to have a name.
Lord Sugar won't be doing any baking.
Myleene, this was Alana's vision,
but it was a team effort in that final, wasn't it?
I think her team served her very well.
I think you should take the credit. You did lead from the front
and you are right to take ownership of your brand
and it's interesting what you talk about...
or what makes you unique is that Alana is leading from the front.
Often there is so much substance behind a brand
that the person who is at the forefront doesn't necessarily
even know about what's going on behind the scenes.
I think it's very much a different set of rules with Alana.
She is leading and I think some of the group went renegade
and I think, normally, if you go rogue when you've been given
a set of instructions, like Oliver...
Well, let's talk about that, Myleene,
because I was going to ask you about the handmade in Wales thing,
you said it was so, so important in the pitch,
- but it was all Oliver's idea. - Mm-hm.
- He made me see that it was so, so important. - I see. - Yeah.
And I think this is a great day for Wales also, because...
No, no, seriously, because, you know, Alana's from Wales,
the product is branded in Wales,
the business model is going to be based in Wales.
I mean, it is a proud moment for Wales, really, it really is,
and let's not play that down.
I'm not saying that because of you.
LAUGHTER
In the interviews last week,
Alana very thoughtfully wrapped up
some samples of her cakes for all the interviewers,
but they were too busy being mean to taste them.
But eventually, she managed to crack even the toughest nut.
Claude, would you like to try a cake?
Oh, no, definitely not.
- Yeah, I'll try all of them. - THEY LAUGH
- Better than Giin. - Sorry, what are those...?
This one? Sorry.
Claude's going to eat them all!
- OK, so I'm going to start... - It's all right, we'll share this.
I want that back. OK.
The pressure.
- Not bad. - Delish?
Mm.
You tried to bribe Claude with cakes at the interview stage,
- that didn't go quite so well. - No, that one didn't, no.
He wasn't quite so receptive at that stage.
No, I think he told me to take them with me.
How did that feel when you'd brought them?
Yeah, I was just like, "OK, I'll try again at the end," and I went,
"Do you want me to leave them?"
He was like, "No, take them with you."
- "And sit back, would you?" - Yeah.
So, your family are here, I understand, Alana.
Where are your family? Have they managed to all come along?
How many have we got there? Blimey!
I know we've got Mum and Dad, James. Sarah, James, are you up there?
- Yeah. - Boyfriend Bart, are you there?
You've just found out she's won.
- Just, yeah. It's incredible. - How does that feel?
Oh, it's surreal, it's like it's a dream.
- It's not. - I know. - It's real. - It's fantastic.
- Wake up. Wake up. - Yeah!
How long is it going to take for this to sink in, do you think?
Well, I think we're very pleased to hear about this outsourcing.
We're finally going to get our kitchen back after six years.
- Is that Dad, James? - Yeah. - Hello. - Hello. - Hiya.
So did it all start in your kitchen? Is that what happened?
It started originally in our kitchen.
After coming home from work every day and finding every surface
coated in chocolate, every pan coated in chocolate, the floor
and ceiling coated in chocolate,
we decided we'd build her a kitchen of her own.
Oompa Loompas everywhere.
- That's a bit harsh. - LAUGHTER
So how quickly did it turn from that into a business?
She'd grown the business steadily and, you know,
she's shown amazing tenacity to get it to where it is now,
and we're just so excited to see what happens next
with this fantastic opportunity that she's been given.
- Did you think she would win? - Of course we did. - Really?
- Yeah. - Oh.
- Cocky. - Sorry.
Bart, was that the way to your heart, through your stomach?
- Absolutely. - Was it? - Yeah, quickest way. - OK.
Ladies and gentlemen, Alana's family, Sarah, James,
boyfriend Bart and all the rest...
all the rest of the Spencers.
Thanks for coming.
Right, it's YFEBA time once again. FANFARE
Now, throughout this 12th series,
Karren's been in fine slam-down form,
dropping verbal truth bombs left, right and centre,
and our candidates' silent reactions have been a joy to behold.
So our next award is Best Facial Response To A Karren Slam.
And the nominations are...
Dillon, for his confused haddock face.
In Samuel's defence, I have seen him sell,
and he is always passionate, he's always engaging.
What are you, his spokesperson?
No, I just thought I would give my input.
Why don't you talk about yourself?
RHOD LAUGHS
Our second nominee is JD,
with his classic, old school, "you've got me bang to rights" face.
We tried to, but they said they didn't want us there.
So what? You're project manager, go and check.
That's what you do when you run a business.
And the final nomination is Natalie and her "What?! Sod off!" face.
Basically, I done the models' hair. Like, cleaned up and...
Cleaning and hairdressing?
Not skills Lord Sugar's looking for, Natalie.
Myleene, you have the envelope there.
Could you tell us who the winner is, please?
OK, the YFEBA for Best Facial Response To A Karren Slam goes to...
..for his classic, old school, "you've got me bang to rights" face,
- it's JD. - CHEERING
JD, come and join me on stage.
A punch of the air in celebration!
He's a happy man.
JD.
CHEERING
A popular winner. A popular winner.
- Take your award. - That's amazing, thank you.
Karren, sometimes a good cop, sometimes a bad cop,
but that was a FAIR cop.
Yeah, it was a bad cop, but fair cop, yeah.
Congratulations, JD. Ladies and gentlemen, JD O'Brien.
CHEERING
Winner of the Best Facial Response To A Karren Slam.
The team that you put together, what were you looking for in your team?
I had organisation, branding, food
and Grainne.
LAUGHTER
And Grainne is just incredible. That was by no means a criticism.
The dream team were back together, Frances and Grainne.
Frances, you dressed up as a cupcake there, I think.
Yeah, it screamed luxury, right?
Yeah, Alana wasn't too sure about that initially.
No, no. I hope she's forgiven us now.
It worked, though. It really did work.
- No, I loved it. - Yeah, it really worked.
We thought the food fight would bring in attention
in the middle of Westfield.
What, for the digital advert, the throwing flour in Frances' face?
- Yeah. I quite enjoyed it. - I wasn't sure about that at first.
I quite enjoyed doing it to her,
cos I honestly had to do it about three or four times.
I was like...
"Yes! Frances!"
I wasn't sure about that at first, Alana.
- You weren't sure about that at first either. - No, not initially.
I think I lost my temper a little, didn't I?
Only a little.
- Only a little, but it was a lot of pressure. - Yes, exactly.
But that's a huge responsibility, because you're doing things
on behalf of the finalist, and their investment is relying on it.
- And it's left to you. - I think it's a really good lesson in business,
cos that's essentially how a business works.
You know, you're not playing at it any more, you're actually doing it.
- So when you then... - I guess not every day
there's 250 grand for somebody else relying on it.
Well, I think Lord Sugar's actually hoping
there's going to be more than that, so...
The issue is, of course,
is that part of the skill of the process is that having worked
with those people the 12 weeks, it's selecting the people...
that you think are going to be best for your business.
And that is... In general, that's what you do in business -
you select the right kind of employees.
So I think that she chose her team,
and that's also part of learning in the process,
learning about the people,
and I say from day one that you need to deploy the people
that have a skill in that particular subject.
I think so many people pay such strong attention to,
"Well, The Apprentice, they choose these characters."
No, actually, what they're doing is they're hand-picking people
who've got a certain skill set and strength in different places,
and that's what you see come to the forefront.
So what all looks like a bit of a game...
Actually, in the world of business, you want your creative team,
you want your administrative,
you want the people who are going to be able to delegate well,
and you want the striker who's going to lead from the front.
- The striker! - I like that.
I suppose in a team, Paul is the manager,
shouting on the sidelines, going, "Your rubbish!"
- It's just a joke, Paul. You're massive. - Oi!
Well, Alana heads back to her Welsh kitchen
with a £250,000 investment,
ridiculously rich in confidence and a whole wealth of experience.
A far cry from the frightened rabbit who stepped up nervously
to project manage a candy task just a few short weeks ago.
Now, Alana, you need to be the project manager on this task.
MUSIC: Theme from Ironside by Quincy Jones
Your machine seems to be broken.
We can't use this batch. It's come out too light.
SHE SNIFFS
MUSIC CONTINUES
We need you here, it's mad busy.
I need to go back to the hotel and grab the last box of toffee.
No! We need you here.
Let's not go to the hotel, that's a waste of time.
MUSIC CONTINUES
Being project manager is so stressful.
Claude, perhaps you'd like to rattle off Titan's figures.
Total profit, £785.66.
Titans, you've done it.
It was a really amazing task, and I'm super happy.
CORK POPS
CHEERING
So expressive, your face, even when you didn't say much.
The first few weeks, you didn't say a hell of a lot but, my God,
did you communicate it through that... Such an expressive face.
We have felt every...
- I'm guessing you're not a poker player? - No! - No. - No.
Let's talk to some of the previous winners up there.
- Joseph, how are you doing? - I'm very well, thanks. Yourself?
I'm very well, mate.
What's Lord Sugar really like as a business partner?
Well, he's not gone out and fitted any boilers
like he promised me at the start, but...
I think that's just as well, mate, to be honest.
I think you've got to be registered in some capacity.
It's the mentorship and the advice that is very, very important,
and I've gained a wealth of knowledge and experience this year.
And, for me, having Lord Sugar associated to the business
and the brand is more valuable than the £250,000 investment
and, yeah, it's been a great, great experience.
- Mark. - Hello. - So you've been working together for a couple of years?
- Just gone two years today, yeah. - What's...? I've always wondered,
what's the Christmas party like with you and Lord Sugar?
- Is it any good? - It is. It's a bit of a rave, really.
LAUGHTER
But to echo what Joe has said,
I think we get carried away talking about the £250,000,
but the mentorship from Lord Sugar and the team he places around you
teaches you how to make a successful business,
no matter what you're going to go off and do.
And, you know, in two years...
My company's opening its third office last week.
And I was walking around the offices and I saw all the staff
and all the customers,
and I couldn't believe that I was the Apprentice winner,
that I was business partners with Lord Sugar.
And I'm two years after you, Alana,
and it's just a life-changing, incredible experience,
and you're going to have an amazing time, and we'll look after you.
Aww. Deserves a round of applause, I think.
Lord Sugar, good advice for your new business partner
- from existing business partners, people who've been there. - Yeah.
Well, you know, those guys there, they're like a family, really.
They do, they all help each other.
The easiest way to describe it is that...
She's just going to concentrate on doing what she knows best -
baking, making the product, marketing.
We don't expect them to make money in the first year.
- No? - No, not really, no. - Nice. Chill out.
No, no, no. It's quite normal. I say "we don't expect", but you will!
LAUGHTER
And... And they have.
And, yeah, we've got to scale up her business, that's the point.
And that scaling-up period is going to take quite a while
in development of the infrastructure,
on how we're going to ship out stuff to her customers
and all that type of stuff.
I don't want a bore you, cos it's all boring stuff.
But it's going to take three or four months to get the thing going.
- Exciting, though? - So exciting! So exciting! - So exciting!
Well, it's time for another YFEBA.
FANFARE
This next award recognises that
while our candidates are mere mortals,
sometimes they seem to possess special powers.
Yes, this YFEBA is for Underwhelming Superpower Of The Series.
And the nominations are...
Rebecca and her uncanny ability
to identify the front of someone's head.
- Wow! I can see your face! - Look at me.
Our next nominee is Michelle and her almost supernatural ability
to project her thoughts onto a T-shirt 20 metres away.
- 25. - Lovely.
Guys, you've just been going through this for ten minutes,
going through every piece,
and then you've just come in and said, "25 quid."
- What would you have charged? - I'd have got it at 50.
Our next nominee is Natalie and her superhuman ability
to drop the F-bomb in the boardroom and get away with it.
- Who sold those green vases? - Me.
- You did? And you sold them for...? - £15. - £15? - Mm-hm.
- Do you know how much they were valued for? - No.
300.
(Fuck.)
Sorry.
Hal, you have the envelope there.
- Could you tell us who the winner is, please? - I will, yes.
Good luck, everyone.
Oh, it's this way.
The YFEBA for Underwhelming Superpower Of The Series goes to...
for her face-spotting superpower, it's Rebecca!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Rebecca, come and join me. Rebecca, ladies and gentlemen!
CHEERING
- Thank you! Can I get a hug? - Well done, congratulations.
Wow, I'm really excited. Thank you.
Have you always been able to spot
the front of someone's head like that, instantly? Instantly?
I've always been able to see people's faces, yes. Always.
You're a very talented lady.
Superpower Of The Series - ladies and gentlemen, it's Rebecca!
CHEERING
So it's the final, and everyone gets a highlights reel,
and Lord Sugar is no different.
- So, Lord Sugar, here are your highlights. - Mm.
MUSIC: Here Comes The Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze
- Good morning. - ALL: - Good morning, Lord Sugar.
Well, they say that sugar is bad for you,
and this Sugar's going to be very bad
for one of you today, that's for sure.
- Can I ask you something, Lord Sugar? - No.
If you want to moan,
you can send me an e-mail at LordSugar@IDon'tCare.com.
Now we're going to mix the teams up a little bit.
And I want you to tell me who's going to be project manager
for this task.
At least one of you will be fired.
Or...hung out to dry.
Anything can happen.
The process is not personal, it's business.
You can call me K.
I might be calling you something else, actually.
- Did you know what all the items were? - We didn't know rambutan.
It's spiky and hard on the outside, but soft and sweet on the inside.
Does it sound like someone you know?
There's only one you.
Thanks a lot and, well, good luck to you all.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
So, Alana, Alana, Alana, Alana,
we've loved watching you on the show.
Even though you've now got a £250,000 investment,
- you still have to have a gift. - Yeah? - Nobody can leave here empty-handed.
I know you're going to keep in touch with many of the other candidates,
but we did think...
Well, you're obviously going to see Lord Sugar.
But we did think, "What about Karren and Claude?
"Aren't you going to miss them?"
I have got for you possibly the best gift we've ever got anyone.
So that you don't need...
You never need to miss Karren and Claude again,
peering over your shoulder.
This is quite unique.
I have got you... What we have made you...
- This is the called the portable KarreClaude. - Wow.
- This is so that... - Shall I put it on now? - Yeah, if you'd like to stand up
and I will slip it over your shoulders, Alana.
This is so you can have them peering over your shoulder,
- scrutinising your every move from now on. - I can't get it on.
- You can't get it on? It is quite difficult. - It's on.
It's the only one... LAUGHTER
That is the portable KarreClaude.
It's the Karren and Claude observation yoke.
Absolutely lovely. It's absolutely lovely.
And you can wear that at home, you can wear it in meetings,
so that you can feel that slight tension you have constantly
as they look over your shoulder.
It's the observation yoke.
If you'd like to take a seat and we will have a look at your highlights.
All I've ever been interested in
is having as much money and as much power as I can.
- Do a bag, mix it. Do a bag, mix it. - No worries.
I think it's really cool.
Sweet!
They look like particularly good cigars.
I love this woman.
When she came into this process
and I first met her, you know,
she was very quiet, very timid.
Then you could see this woman,
this girl changing into this WOMAN.
I could see the confidence and the personality,
everything coming out.
I think I'm, like, really
underestimated in this process.
She's young, she's accomplished a lot
in such a short space of time.
She's done really well for herself, and I hope...
I wish her all the best in the rest of her career.
I think we should stick at what we've just written down,
but be very happy to take lower offers.
Don't change the price.
That was a bloody waffle-off.
I'm super happy.
Alana, you're going to be my business partner.
Thank you.
- AUDIENCE: - Aww.
Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of The Apprentice 2016, Alana Spencer!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
So that's it for this year, and if you think you have
what it takes to be Lord Sugar's business partner,
applications are still open to take part in next year's series.
Head over to...
..for more details.
Thank you to my guests, Claude Littner, Myleene Klass,
Hal Cruttenden and, of course, Lord Sugar.
And congratulations to all of this year's candidates,
to our runner-up, Courtney Wood,
and finally, Lord Sugar's new business partner, Alana Spencer.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, have a merry Christmas, happy New Year.
Goodnight!