The Apprentice: the best of the very worst from 18 years of the boardroom

Today it was announced that a new season of The Apprentice will return on January 4. Anyone who was feeling the lack of a gaggle of grey-clad wannabes hustling their way around the city in increasingly deranged attempts to create and sell products can breathe a sigh of relief – we'll soon be back to hearing the world’s most ridiculous business-related boasts (“My first word wasn’t mummy, it was money!” Truly dreadful).

The show has a lot to answer for – as well as being responsible for popularising in the States and introducing us all to , The Apprentice has arguably perpetuated both boardroom bad manners and the maddeningly ubiquitous hyper-glossy shots