For those curious as to how involved Lord Sugar actually gets with his new investments, a former winner of The Apprentice has shed some light on what happens after the show is over.
Mark Wright won Series 10 of the show in 2014 with his idea for digital marketing agency Climb Online, which the Daily Express reports has gone from strength to strength after an initial investment from Lord Sugar.
Wright has now lifted the lid on what Apprentice winners can expect after the show. Watch below:
He said: 'When I won the show I had the same questions as probably the general public.
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'What happens now? Do you talk to his minions, are you part of an investment team, do you never see him again?
'The answer was a resounding no. He was on the phone, particularly in the early days, constantly. He WhatsApps, he voice notes, he rings relentlessly.
'Once my company got reasonably profitable and successful, he leaves me to it. We have a board meeting once a month which he spends a day with me once a month and we still do that to this day.
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'He is a workaholic and he is on emails from 6.30am every morning to 6.30pm every night, Monday to Friday. If I send him an email now, seven days a week, he'll reply in 10 minutes.'
The format of The Apprentice changed after the first six series with the original prize of a job in one of Lord Sugar's companies with a salary of £100,000 ditched in favour of the business plan funding, for which Sugar received a 50% stake in the company.
Since changing formats the show has spawned a number of successful business ventures from the winners.
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Meanwhile on the current series of The Apprentice, the final four have been cut down to two after Brittany Carter and Stephanie Affleck were fired from the process as their business plans failed to impress Lord Sugar's panel of expert advisors.
According to Digital Spy, Carter's business plan for a high-protein alcoholic beverage was denounced as 'nothing more than a glorified brochure' by advisor Linda Plant, while Claude Littner pointed out she hadn't included projections for profit and loss.
Meanwhile, Affleck's idea to grow her business for pre-loved designer childrensware was slated for being 'a pipe dream with no substance' and she had chosen an authentication company which didn't work with childrensware.
That just leaves Harpreet Kaur and Kathryn Louise Burn left to vie for the prize of a £250,000 investment in their business idea and help from Lord Sugar to get it off the ground.
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Joe Harker