Jack Dee is to replace Dara Ó Briain as host on The Apprentice sister show, The Apprentice: You're Fired.
The English comedian replaces the Wicklow wit on the BBC Two companion show, which airs directly after the main episode and features business experts and celebrities discussing the week's events with the eliminated candidate.
Dee, a winner of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001, has some relative experience in this field as he appeared on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2009.
"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," he said.
Meanwhile, occasional The Apprentice: You're Fired contributor Romesh Ranganathan will become a regular panellist this autumn.
"As a massive fan of The Apprentice this is very exciting for me," he said. "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.."
Claude Littner joins the panel for the new series. Pic: BBC
This news follows the recent announcement that businessman Claude Littner - who gives candidates hell during the interview stage - has replaced Nick Hewer as one of Alan Sugar's advisers on the series.
The Apprentice and The Apprentice: You're Fired will return later this Autumn.
