Will Claude Littner be on The Apprentice 2024?
The aide to Lord Sugar was missing from last year's season – but will he be back for 2024?
The Apprentice 2024 has been entertaining viewers for 10 long weeks and now, for its penultimate episode, the remaining candidates will go head-to-head with Lord Sugar's most trusted advisors in order to find out who will be in the running to be the mogul's next business partner.
Those tuning into tonight's episode (Thursday 11th April) will see the return of fan favourite Claude Littner, who was noticeably missing throughout the season.
In 2022, Littner was forced to drop out of the show after a serious bike accident, and fans saw Tim Campbell join forces with Karren Brady as aides to the business magnate.
Last year, Littner had a reduced role, and it's much the same for The Apprentice 2024. Here's everything you need to know about the advisor switch-up.
Will Claude Littner be on The Apprentice 2024?
Well, there's good news and there's bad news.
The good news is that Claude Littner will be back on screen for The Apprentice 2024, but it won't be in his previous capacity as a full-time aide.
Littner confirmed last month that he would just be returning to the show for its interview process. In response to a post from a user on X (formerly Twitter), Littner wrote: "Back for the interviews."
Littner will return tonight, ready to grill the candidates and feed back to Lord Sugar on who is a worthy contender to be his next business partner.
Why has Claude Littner been missing from The Apprentice?
In 2023, it was announced that Claude Littner would be taking a step back from the show after episode 1 due to "medical issues", Lord Sugar explained ahead of the show's launch.
"Obviously it's been a great journey starting with [former aide] Nick Hewer and then Claude. Unfortunately, Claude suffered some medical issues and so I was asked to think of someone else – and who better than somebody who's actually been through the process," he said, referring to Tim Campbell, who stepped in for Claude.
"So it was a bit of a no-brainer really, because when it comes to making excuses like these candidates do, you've got Tim there, who's been there, done that, seen it and heard it all," he continued.
Claude didn't take part in the 2022 season of The Apprentice in order to recover from a serious bike accident.
Speaking about the experience, he said that he sustained serious injuries after a bike crash near Mill Hill, London. Following the incident, he was rushed to emergency surgery, as doctors feared his leg would otherwise have to be amputated.
"I was just pottering along, I must have been doing no more than 10 kilometres an hour on this sort of two-track road. The next thing I knew, I was on the left hand side of the street, my bike was in the middle of the road and I didn’t know what happened," Littner told Press Association at the time.
"I suspect I hit a pothole or something like that, but I must have blanked out at the moment of impact, because the next thing I knew, I was lying on the ground."
The Apprentice continues on Thursday 11th April at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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