Margaret to return to The Apprentice... briefly

Margaret to return to The Apprentice... briefly
Margaret to return to The Apprentice... briefly (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

The Apprentice's Margaret Mountford is to return to the boardroom to help Lord Sugar choose his final candidate. The matronly lawyer, who kept a beady eye over The Apprentice hopefuls along with fellow henchman Nick Hewer, bowed out of the show last year and has been replaced in the new series by Karren Brady. But Margaret will return to interrogate this year's applicants in the final interview stages of the BBC One reality show, reports The Sun. A source said: "It's great to have her back and I think she has missed being on the show. "It's a nice cameo for her because the interviews are a notoriously tough part of the show and she is one tough cookie. "They will not be able to pull the wool over her eyes." After five series, Margaret decided to quit the show last year to concentrate on a PhD study of ancient manuscripts at University College London (UCL).

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.