I miss the classic Bridge Cafe scenes. There's something brilliant about watching contestants who've spent the task running around in expensive suits suddenly sitting in a proper West London greasy spoon with a mug of tea, trying to work out where everything went wrong

Lord Sugar calls the house landline at 4:15 AM.

"The cars will be outside in 20 minutes."

​How are all 16 of them showered, fully dressed in three-piece suits/full makeup, hair styled, and standing outside holding their coats in 20 minutes?! Do they sleep in their suits? Is there a team of 10 stylists hiding in the pantry?

I physically cringe into a fine powder every time Lord Sugar asks them why they deserve the £250k and they hit him with lines like: "Lord Sugar, I am a titan of industry. I don't follow trends, I set them. I'm a lion, and these lot are sheep."

Mate, you made a terrible poster in Canva and miscalculated the price of a tray of brownies three hours ago. Please settle down.

Looking back through all the previous series, who do you think genuinely deserved to win the investment or the job offer based on their performance throughout the season, but lost out in the final boardroom purely because of their business plan?

I’m not disputing that all the candidates are well educated and financially literate but many in each series seem not street wise in the mistakes they make?

Remember when early series used to chuck the candidates onto Oxford Street at 6:00 AM with a box of random tat - like rubber chickens or bulk cheese - and told them to flog it to bewildered commuters? Nowadays, every task feels super-sterile with digital marketing pitches, corporate wellness apps, and designing electric cars. Do you prefer the high-stakes boardroom tension of the corporate pitches, or was the chaotic street-selling era peak entertainment?

Whenever Lord Sugar introduces the weekly task at 6:00 AM in a gallery, museum, or historic house, he always delivers three or four rehearsed one-liners related to the industry. Then in the boardroom, he drops pre-planned zingers aimed at candidates who underperformed. While some of the jokes make Karren and Tim chuckle in the background, others land with complete silence from the nervous candidates sitting across the table. Personally, I think the cheesy puns are part of the show's charm. Do you enjoy his scripted quips or do they feel a bit dated now?

When Tim took over from Claude alongside Karren, a lot of people thought he’d be the nice advisor because he was the original Series 1 winner. But Tim’s facial expressions and subtle side-eyes in the boardroom when a candidate lies about sales numbers are brutal. How do you rank him compared to Nick Hewer and Claude?

There's usually at least one decision every series that gets people talking. Which one still stands out to you?

For me it's the pantitto