The Apprentice: You're Fired! on 11 September 2015 that comedian Jack Dee would be the new host for the tenth series, it was also revealed that the show would feature only two guest panellists, with the third being filled by comedian Romesh Ranganathan, who would act as a regular, recurring panellist on each episode. Dee left after the tenth series had finished, due to work commitments he had made towards other comedies and a radio show, while Ranganathan was forced to drop out after his work schedule for the following year made it unlikely for him to appear in the next series. As a
Dara Ó Briain voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's "100 Greatest Stand-Ups". Ó Briain was born in 1972 in Bray, County Wicklow, and attended Coláiste Eoin secondary school, a "Gaelcholáiste" (Irish-speaking medium school) on Dublin's southside. He attended University College, Dublin (UCD), where he studied mathematics, chemistry and theoretical physics. In 2008, he remarked: "I haven't written it into my act, but it occasionally comes through. I could come on with a chalkboard and say: 'Now you're all going to pay attention. While a student at UCD, he was both the auditor of the Literary and Historical Society (the university's