The Apprentice: You're Fired! host explains about the content of the upcoming programme, and often uses at least one humorous highlight taken from the recent episode of "The Apprentice". Initially, the format of this segment during Adrian Chiles' tenure was to conduct the introduction within the audience before making his way to his seat on the main stage, but this was later changed early into Dara O'Briain's tenure, who simply made the introduction from the main stage; only rarely did he revert to using the previous format for introducing the show. After his departure, the format was altered for Jack Dee's short tenure on
The Apprentice: You're Fired! panel, candidate(s) and host are joined by Lord Sugar, who sits beside the host and acts in a similar manner as a panellist, though with a greater degree of attention during a candidate's interview. After the introduction is completed, the candidate fired from that week's episode of "The Apprentice" (or the runner-up/winner, in the case of the series finale) is brought forth for their interview by the host and panel, following a clip of the moment they were fired (or hired); in the event of a multiple firing, each fired candidate is shown in the respective order they fired, with