The Apprentice star left 'reeling' over 'rigorous' process viewers don't see

The Apprentice prima Tre Lowe has opened up astir the BBC show's challenging audition process

The Apprentice prima Tre Lowe has elaborate the show's "rigorous" audition process that viewers don't get to see.

The wellness entrepreneur and instrumentalist appeared arsenic a contestant connected the deed BBC bid past year, wherever helium made it to the last 5 candidates earlier getting fired alongside Paul Midha and Flo Edwards.

If you've ever wondered what it's similar to get onto the show, Tre has revealed that the exertion process is "very intense" - mode much than helium expected.

Speaking to The Mirror connected behalf of 10bet, the prima said: "It's the astir rigorous process I've ever gone done successful my life, and I've gone done immoderate trials and tribulations successful my life.

"I mean, you've gone down from thousands and thousands of people, whittled down to 18 people. You're virtually conscionable enactment through, it's astir similar a distillery oregon thing similar that, you conscionable commencement disconnected similar large blocks of rock, and by the clip it's done, you're conscionable similar this good soil - lone 18 particles of soil are left. That's what it feels like."

Tre went connected to explicate that prospective candidates are enactment done respective evaluations, including a intelligence test, to find who would beryllium champion for the amusement - and it's not ever the champion concern minds that marque the cut.

"It's truthful rigorous, it's crazy. It's mode much aggravated than I expected, and you're being evaluated from truthful galore antithetic angles that you don't afloat cognize what you're being evaluated from. It's not conscionable purely concern acumen, I'm definite there's immoderate large concern radical but they mightiness beryllium boring for TV, for instance," helium explained.

"There's each these antithetic evaluations, there's intelligence evaluations, there's tons of worldly that goes on, and each signifier you've got to support believing successful yourself, judge that you've fixed the champion that you can, but not knowing if it's enough, you know."

Tre concluded: "Yeah, it's a large process, again precise intense. Almost arsenic aggravated arsenic the last five. If anyone beats Linda Plant staring astatine you, I deliberation that's the scariest happening successful the world."

Tre is acceptable to marque an anticipated instrumentality to the satellite of The Apprentice contiguous (February 6), arsenic helium helps the remaining candidates marque a deed song.

The prima took to Instagram past week to stock a sneak peek of the episode, posting a video of himself astatine the keyboard alongside the caller contestants.

"Buzzing for this episode! This clip past year, I was successful the boardroom arsenic a contestant. Now I'm backmost mentoring the adjacent question of entrepreneurs, showing them however to trade a deed opus and measurement up nether pressure," the caption read.

"To travel afloat circle, sharing my euphony cognition and mentoring these candidates arsenic they navigate the competition, is an implicit privilege."

The Apprentice is disposable to watercourse connected BBC iPlayer