{"id":821966,"date":"2026-03-13T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/821966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:47:18","slug":"the-apprentice-fans-slam-disrespect-with-worst-pitch-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/821966\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apprentice fans slam “disrespect” with “worst pitch in history”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corporate pitches on The Apprentice<\/a> rarely end with anything other than viewers cringing, but fans have suggested this week’s videogame-making task would have gone much better if one particular candidate hadn’t seemingly been sidelined. Harry Clough was a Project Manager for the challenge, with Karishma Vijay<\/a> proving herself to be a very strong asset when it came to developing the product. <\/p>\n

Baroness Karren Brady praised her for having “bossed it”, but she was left out of making the pitch, which duly went horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

It’s safe to say people at home weren’t impressed at the way she was snubbed, with even Lord Alan Sugar questioning the decision in the boardroom.<\/p>\n

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The team ultimately won anyway, with Karishma being singled out for credit.<\/p>\n

“Justice 4 Karishma!! Watching people butcher your idea and your pitch must be horrendous,” one person wrote on X<\/a>; while another<\/a> posted: “The worst pitch in history. Karishma should’ve been there.”<\/p>\n

“They should\u2019ve just left Karishma to do the speaking, so so embarrassing smh,” someone else said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“For the disrespect to Karishma alone Harry should be fired bloody idiot,” another<\/a> viewer raged.
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“Sorry swapping Karishma out of the pitch? You mean the one person who designed and created the game, and has the gaming experience? Nah,” said yet another<\/a> fan; while one more<\/a> wrote: “Karishma actually won the task. Her team didn\u2019t do anything.”<\/p>\n

Tonight’s episode saw Rajan Gill fired, and even he said after his elimination that Karishma should be the eventual winner, explaining: “From what I’ve seen, I would hire Karishma. From watching the show, I feel like for every single task, there’s always an element of Karishma in there. I think she’s fantastic. <\/p>\n

“She always has something to do with the success of the task. She always has a speciality within a certain area of the task. I think she’s really adaptable and she’s very fair to work with. She’s a lovely girl.”<\/p>\n

Series 20 of The Apprentice<\/a> airs on BBC One on Thursdays. Spin-off The Apprentice: Unfinished Business<\/a> airs on BBC Two after the main show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more The Apprentice news on our dedicated homepage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The new edition of <\/strong>Living Legends<\/strong>, a 100-page all-colour celebration of Harry Styles, is here! <\/strong>Buy <\/strong>Harry Styles<\/strong> in newsagents or online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy<\/strong>, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro<\/a>, Attitude<\/a>, Huffington Post, The Mirror<\/a>, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online<\/a>; specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now<\/a> and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who’ll listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corporate pitches on The Apprentice rarely end with anything other than viewers cringing, but fans have suggested this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3937],"tags":[215877,226661,1380,236509,1331,77,1330,236508,216560,382,16,15],"class_list":["post-821966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-the-apprentice","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-18a03cc8-efc3-4f82-a2ff-8015366a11e9","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-the-apprentice-fans-call-out-disrespect-of-candidate","tag-subsection-reality-tv","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116219350193619690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}