Lord Alan Sugar's enormously popular TV show The Apprentice is back for another season - and the business mogul has been quick to assure the public of the stringent Covid criteria behind the scenes.
While anti-vaxxers were technically allowed to appear on Strictly Come Dancing, anyone competing for the £250,000 business investment on The Apprentice was required to first demonstrate their status as double-jabbed.Alan proudly stated that, due to the strict combination of vaccination and testing, not a single mask was needed on his BBC One show.Strictly bosses took a different stance, explaining that they could not "force" any dancer into getting protected.In his statement to the Daily Mail, Alan clarified: "Candidates did have to be double.