The Apprentice boardroom scenes actually last five hours, Lord Sugar reveals – The Sun

LORD Alan Sugar has revealed that The Apprentice's tense boardroom scenes actually film for a bum-numbing five hours.

While the scenes at Lord Sugar's HQ play out for around fifteen minutes on screen, the mogul has explained that most of the action – in fact, 95 percent of it – never makes it to air.

The 72 year-old tycoon told Metro: "What you get is an edited version of a five-hour session in the boardroom.

"If you saw the other four hours and 30 minutes, you’d see that I don’t have much patience.

He added: "We don’t have much tolerance and we do get a little bit excited ourselves. We’re quite used to it now."

Alan's right-hand woman, Baroness Karren Brady, who observes the teams alongside Claude Littner, also told the publication what gets left on the cutting room floor.

"You don’t see a lot of long-winded explanations because it’s for Alan’s benefit as he’s not there [for the task]," she revealed.

"You’ve seen how it all unravels, from him setting the task right the way through to the task finishing."

The Sun columnist and businesswoman went on: "He [Lord Sugar] hasn’t been there so he has to run through every element of the task with everybody and they tell him everything they did.

"[This] is then condensed because what you wouldn’t want to see the task and then a running commentary of what you’ve just seen."

The new series of The Apprentice – the show's 15th run – begins tonight on BBC One.

This year's line-up includes sixteen contestants, with an even number of men and women in the mix.

The hopefuls' jobs include an events manager and a chartered engineer.

The winner of the series will win a £250,000 investment for their business, but first they must impress Lord Sugar every week.

In this week's first episode, the business brains will be sent to Cape Town in South Africa to crate, set up and run tours in the capital city.

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