WATCH: BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’ candidates head to Malta for their first ‘octopus’ negotiations
‘The Apprentice’ is a business-styled reality game show where aspiring business people compete against each other in a series of business related challenges in order to win a prize offered by British business magnate Lord Sugar.
Kicking off season 14 of The Apprentice which aired in the UK last night, the first episode showed the candidates’ first task: heading to the Maltese Islands to negotiate for nine Maltese items. An easy enough task for businessmen, right? We beg to differ. The candidates were given a map, a local business directory and a list of nine local Maltese items, including a breathing device for scuba divers. Here’s where things got a little fishy.
The device is called an ‘octopus regulator’, and the team were asked to negotiate for ‘an octopus with a 40-inch hose’. This is where confusion masked the team’s faces, posing questions like, “we’re not looking for an actual octopus here, are we?”, “could a hose potentially be like, if you stretched an octopus out, is the hose maybe the whole length?” and “the main question is, how stretchy is an octopus?” - such gems!
After much deliberation, the team headed to Rita’s Fish Shop where they asked for an ’40-inch octopus hose’, only to end up buying a WHOLE octopus.
Let’s just say Lord Sugar wasn’t very impressed!
Watch the video below. You'll be laughing 'til your belly hurts... or shaking your head in disbelief. Either way, it's sure to brighten up your day!