In the inaugural episode of the highly anticipated 18th series of “The Apprentice,” Karren Brady, one of Lord Sugar’s trusted aides, encountered what she described as the “worst tasting food” in the history of the show.

The quest to unearth Lord Sugar’s next business partner, who will receive a hefty £250,000 investment, kicks off tonight. Karren, along with her fellow aide, Tim Campbell, will be overseeing two teams as they compete to impress the formidable Lord Sugar. The challenge set for the two new teams involves hosting a corporate away day. However, it doesn’t take long for chaos to erupt in the kitchen, with one team disastrously losing track of time. To top it all off, one unfortunate candidate is sent packing in the boardroom.

In an interview with the Mirror, Karren Brady candidly shared her thoughts on what she deemed as one of the biggest disasters she’s ever witnessed during her tenure as Lord Sugar’s aide on the BBC show. Reflecting on a glaring mistake made by one of the teams in the first episode, Karren expressed her astonishment, saying, “Sometimes you just can’t believe your eyes, you just can’t believe how chaotic it is and how unnecessarily unorganised it is.”

She went on to describe the culinary catastrophe, stating, “It was the worst tasting food I’d ever had. Sometimes it doesn’t look pretty but actually tastes quite good. This looked okay, but tasted terrible. [The mistake] was so self-inflicted. And it’s so frustrating because a little bit more organisation, and it would have been so much better.”

Both Karren and Tim, who won the very first series of “The Apprentice,” admitted that they empathise with the candidates when they make genuine mistakes, acknowledging that no one intentionally sabotages themselves. Karren elaborated on this, saying, “If they make a mistake, they haven’t made a deliberate mistake; no one is a self-saboteur. But often they make a mistake because they’re not organised enough. They may make a mistake because it’s gotten chaotic, they may make a very simple mathematical error where they can’t divide 1000 by 100.”

She continued, “And they overorder or underorder something, and that has a massive impact. They could think they’re doing a good thing [for their client], which massively impacts the rest of the service. You feel for them, but mistakes happen in life, and what Alan is really looking out for is how do you turn those things around? How do you make up for those mistakes?”

Tim added his perspective, saying, “We genuinely care about the candidates doing the best they can, and if something’s going catastrophically wrong, both Karen and I have said, ‘Have you thought about this?’ Just to give them an indication. But our role is to be in the background, to let them get on and then see how they perform. Sometimes our facial expressions tell the story in much better ways than anything else.”