The Apprentice (UK series eleven)

Series Eleven of The Apprentice (UK), a British reality television series, began broadcasting in the UK during 2015 from 14 October to 20 December on BBC One; due to the 2015 General Election being held in Spring, which Lord Sugar had ties to, the BBC postponed the series' broadcast until the middle of Autumn. Although Claude Littner featured before as an interviewer for the process, a role he still retained, he was revealed as Nick Hewer's replacement following his departure, making this his first series as Lord Sugar's adviser. Following the previous series, the show increased the number of candidates taking part from 16 to 18, with Sugar promised that those who participated would be older and "more serious". For the 18 candidates who took part, their teams were named Versatile and Connexus, with Joseph Valente winning the series.

The show's schedule was similar to the previous series, with two specials airing alongside it towards its final weeks, both being new editions - "The Final Five" on 9 December, and "Why I Fired Them" on 16 December.

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Throughout October, the behaviour of Selina Waterman-Smith during and after filming of the show drew serious attention from several news websites. Several articles by them revealed that after filming of the third episode's task, Selina got into a physical altercation with fellow candidate Charleine Wain, with their sources pointing out that she was to be blamed for the incident, after they claimed she had been given a verbal warning from the show's producers. Following the broadcast of the fourth episode, new articles were published that revealed she had made several critical tweets against The Apprentice, criticising the show for making her out as a "pantomime villain", whilst also mocking Sugar's aides, Claude Littner and Karren Brady, for being jealous of her appearance. These articles added that one tweet she made, that she later deleted, claimed she'd "broken contract" with the show and would not appear on the spin-off, You're Fired, a claim that later proved true when the discussion show was broadcast following her departure in the ninth episode of the series.

The following year, Selina accused the BBC of starving the contestants and in a report published by Express commented:

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