BURY businessman Samuel Boateng is hoping to get into Lord Sugar’s good books again tonight — when he appears on The Apprentice.

The former Castlebrook High School and Holy Cross College student will star in the show after a winning start in the first of the new series last week.

Tonight, the candidates will be summoned to the fashion and design school, Istituto Marangoni – and Lord Sugar tells them they must create an advertising campaign for jeans made from Japanese denim.

As part of the challenge, teams need to design packaging, film a TV advert and create an attention-grabbing bus shelter advert, all before pitching the whole campaign to industry experts.

In the first task, the contestants were sent to a lock up containing several bona fide antiques and collectables among a stack of assorted items.

Split into teams of boys and girls reporting back to Lord Sugar’s assistants, Karen Brady and Claude Littner, they had to sift the valuables from the junk to sell.

Mr Boateng made a low-key start to the show compared to other contestants such as art director, Dillon St Paul, who described himself as the ‘king of the truth bomb’ when it came to his honesty in letting colleagues know what he thought of them.

Mr Boateng made his first proper on screen appearance while attempting to sell a mid-century drinks trolley to an antiques dealer in Chelsea.

He complained of a ‘lack of leadership’ among the boys’ and later delivered a pep talk after a deal on a leather chair fell through at the last minute due to the buyer not having cash.

As the losing team, the girls faced a fierce debriefing from Lord Sugar and the first person to be fired from this year’s series was team leader of the first challenge, Michelle Niziol.