The Apprentice Bingo Cards

When and Where?

The Apprentice returned for its 20th season on 29 January 2026 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Immediately after each episode, The Apprentice: You’re Fired airs on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, featuring an interview with the candidate who has just left the process. Series 20 began with 20 contestants instead of the usual 18, and even moved the boardroom to Hong Kong for the opening task.

What Is The Apprentice?

The Apprentice is a business style reality game show that focuses on a group of people competing in a series of challenges to prove themselves worthy of a business investment from Lord Alan Sugar. He is aided by two associates, Karren Brady and Tim Campbell.

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The new series kicked off with an immediate shock double-firing in Week 1. After the Hong Kong “9 items” task went sideways, Nikki Jetha and Georgina Newton were both fired, setting the tone that Lord Sugar was not easing into Series 20.

Week 2 then moved into a children’s story and audiobook challenge, and the boardroom got messy quickly. PM Marcus Donkoh made a last-minute switch over who he brought back to face Lord Sugar, and it backfired badly: Marcus was fired.

In Week 3, it was Chicken vs Egg, with teams trying to turn their ingredient into profit through public food sales and a corporate canapés order. After a chaotic negotiation became one of the main talking points, Tanmay Hingorani was fired.

Week 4 delivered classic branding chaos. The teams had to create and market a bottled water brand, sell it on social media and produce a TV advert, with Big Zuu appearing as a guest judge. After the losing team’s branding was criticised as weak and unclear, Roxanne Hamedi was fired.

Week 5 brought a floral twist on one of the show’s earliest ever tasks: the candidates had to sell flowers to the public and create floral installations for corporate clients. Vanessa Tetteh-Squire, who stepped up as project manager despite admitting she knew little about floristry, was fired after her team lost heavily on profit.

Then Week 6 raised the stakes again with one of the most brutal boardrooms of the series so far. The candidates headed to Egypt to run corporate away days, but poor organisation, unhappy clients and serious hospitality mistakes turned the task into what Lord Sugar reportedly described as one of the worst performances of its kind. The fallout ended in a triple firing, with Megan Ruiter, Carrington Saunders and Andrea Cooper all leaving the process at once.

Outside the tasks, the biggest off-screen storyline remains the controversy around historic offensive tweets from contestant Levi Hodgetts-Hague. The BBC said it was unaware of the posts before transmission and has said vetting procedures are being reviewed. Levi’s brief absence from one episode was later reported as being due to illness rather than removal from the process.

And I’d update your Who’s been fired list to:

Who’s been fired

Week 1 (Hong Kong – “9 items” task)
Georgina Newton – fired
Nikki Jetha – fired

Week 2 (Children’s story + audiobook task)
Marcus Donkoh – fired

Week 3 (Chicken vs Egg – public food sales + corporate canapés)
Tanmay Hingorani – fired

Week 4 (Bottled water branding + live social selling + TV advert)
Roxanne Hamedi – fired

Week 5 (Flowers – public sales + corporate installations)
Vanessa Tetteh-Squire – fired

Week 6 (Egypt – corporate away days)
Megan Ruiter – fired
Carrington Saunders – fired
Andrea Cooper – fired

How To Play

Our tool for generating The Apprentice bingo cards can be used for solo play or with friends. Here’s how to create bingo cards for the Apprentice 2025.

• Select Card Size – click the grid box to activate a drop-down menu of options, or stay with the default 4 x 4 layout.
• If you like, add your own phrases in the ‘Enter Words/Emojis’ Panel.
• Click ‘Generate Bingo Card’
• You’ll Be Presented with a Preview Bingo Card
• Choose the Number of Cards You Want to Print via the Drop-Down Menu OR enter your desired number in the ‘custom number’ box. The phrases will then be jumbled up for each card.
• Click ‘Generate Printable Bingo Cards’

Kick back and watch an episode of the Apprentice with your pals in-person or virtually, marking off each item as it occurs. The first person to mark off all or most items wins!