Warning: This story contains spoilers on the apprentice winner
Lord Sugar hired his new trading partner in the final of the apprentice 19th series.
He had the choice between Anisa Khan, who sells Indian pizzas to food, and Dean Franklin, who runs an air conditioning company, in a battle which he presented as “Chilli against the cooler”.
The final reported the end of a 12 -week deadly process that started with 18 budding entrepreneurs in the running to become the last protégé of Lord Sugar.
In the end, Lord Sugar chose to give his £ 250,000 investment to Dean, Essex, although he noted that there had been “a few difficult times” when he had only remained in the program “by the skin of your teeth”.
“I can’t believe I just won the apprentice,” said Dean. “It will mean the world for me and my family. My children will be on the moon.”
He reached the final despite a difficult period in the penultimate episode, the interviews with the famous difficult advisers of Lord Sugar.
He frozen and started to laugh after an interviewer, Mike Soutar, challenged his absurd statements on climate change, including that there was “an increase in climate control” and “the exhausted climate zone”.
He was also questioned on the website of his company, which says that his engineers “would always treat your home as if it were theirs”. Soutar then produced a photo of Dean’s social media showing a sex toy which he had stuck to the air conditioning unit of a client.
In the final, the previously licensed candidates returned to help Dean and AISA create advertising campaigns for their companies.
Dean has instructed some of his teammates to make a television announcement – who had to be enhanced in a hurry, because it showed that someone had persuaded to buy the air conditioning to heat their house, not cool it.
During the episode, Lord Sugar said that air conditioning had made Dean an “honest life”, but he needed to show a “evolutionary proposition”.
The ownership of the company of Dean was previously divided between its existing trading partner and their two women, each with a share of 25%.
Lord Sugar will now have 50% of wives in exchange for his investment.
He asked Dean: “They will give it to me and they won’t have the bump, so, aren’t they? They won’t make you sleep in the friends room?”
Dean assured him: “They know the plan. We are still married, so what is mine is hers. So that makes no difference.”
The amount that Lord Sugar Invests has remained the same since 2011, and the previous winner Tom Pellereau – the first to receive this sum – said: “Fourteen years ago, £ 250,000 went much further than today.
“My controversial point is that I think they should double the money.
“I think that £ 500,000 or 1 million sterling pounds would be an incredible price,” Perereau at BBC Radio 5 Live told BBC.
The apprentice finish is available to look On BBC Iplayer.
