Jack Dee lands job hosting The Apprentice spin off show You’re Fired

Comedian Jack Dee has landed the presenting spot on The Apprentice spin off show, You’re Fired.

Jack takes over from Dara O'Briain who quit the series in January after five years.

Jack’s already had experience on the show – starring on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice back in 2009 and it sounds like he’s pretty excited about getting involved again.

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“I'm very much looking forward to hosting You're Fired and hope that the luckless candidates will see me as the friendly face at the end of a difficult time in their lives,’ Jack said when the news was announced.

If you’ve not caught it before, You’re Fired features the latest candidate given the boot by Lord sugar and a whole host of special guests who look back at the worst and best moments of the eliminee.

Jack will be joined by fellow comedian Romesh Ranganathan who, by the sounds of it, just wants to get started, saying: “I love You're Fired and am looking forward to putting all the questions to the candidates that people at home want to see asked. I also have a number of business proposals of my own that I think Lord Sugar will be pretty interested in.”

Romesh later tweeted: “Excited to announce that @TheRealJackDee and I will be massaging rejected candidates' egos on the next series of Apprentice're Fired.”

The next series of *The Apprentice *starts again later this year with Sir Alan, Karren Brady and Claude Littner.