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Matt Lucas-alike Kevin became the sixth candidate to be fired in last night's Apprentice. Was Kevin the right person to go?
Well, of the three candidates he took back into the boardroom - yes. He refused to listen to the other team members suggesting that they would be better to do the sales presentation and as a result his pitches were disasters.
Kevin made a catastrophic mistake in not taking Jenny back into the boardroom. Jenny should have been in there and should have been fired for her appalling 'save the earth' week idea - let's all save the planet by cutting down lots of trees to send cards to each other. Clever.
So, did the other candidates agree with Sir Alan's decision? Absolutely not. The last five minutes of the programme when the contestants return to the house are fast becoming the best in the whole show. This week saw everyone turn on Sara and tell her to her face that she deserved to be fired.
We've praised Lee in previous weeks but his behaviour last night was disgraceful as he shouted at Sara that next time if she doesn't contribute he will not accept it and will be taking her into the boardroom with him. Annoyingly Sara failed to defend herself - though possibly she was simply shocked after finding herself under attack from all sides.
Does Sara still deserve to be in the running? Well, it's difficult to tell because we haven't really seen her in action yet. Does this mean that she doesn't contribute or simply that she is not getting much screentime? We don't know. Hopefully she will get to be team leader next week and then we will finally see what she's made of.
The other memorable moment last night was Michael's triumphant - and very inappropriate - football yob yell in the boardroom. We thought poor Margaret was going to have a heart attack. Michael's team had a very narrow victory - mainly because the other team's idea was so bad. Earlier in the task he had spent several hours trying to work out where to put an apostrophe. Michael tried to find the answer by calling up the editor of the Telegraph and the British Library. Had he thought about using a dictionary? We know where we would suggest he put the apostrophe...
What did you think of last night's show? Do you think Sara was treated unfairly? Was Kevin the right person to go? Let us know what you think...
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Sara should have been more assertive. You could see Kevin did not want to pick on her but he was frightened of the other two "women". Jenny should have gone ages ago, she is such a bully and a horrible person. Suppose she is kept in as it makes good tv. Raef is such a gentleman or is he???
Posted by: lesley56k on Thu May 01 11:44AM | Report abuseSome of these contestants are real low life, bullies! Typical of how some people are in the work environment in this country!
Posted by: ado064 on Thu May 01 11:44AM | Report abuseJenny is a complete imbecile, who would employ her! and the bullying on the show is appalling.The only good guy seems to be Raef, hope he is there at the end.
Posted by: afinibrown on Thu May 01 11:44AM | Report abusesorry but eid greetings cards would have gone down SOOOOO well. there is obviously a market for her WHICH SARA WOULD CLEARLY KNOW ABOUT IT, but insteadt the idea was beated down my a ridiculous suggestion from jenny. what else was sara to do apart from assist the PM? she did about as much as alex but he got no stick....!? it was annoying that she didn't defend herself but the fact that sir alan could quite blatantly see that there was bullying going on, i can see exactly why she stayed. she always makes useful comments that noone ever listens to and i think i remember the bollywood theme she came up with in the earlier weeks went down a treat....????
Posted by: bonike_erinle on Thu May 01 11:44AM | Report abuseI think it is very hard to tell if Sara was treated fairly as we have hardly seen anything from her and programmes can be edited to give the impression of people being goodies or baddies. I think for everyone to turn on her like that there could well be a problem, they did all seem very angry with her.
Posted by: mratcl on Thu May 01 11:45AM | Report abuseIf these people are the best the BBC could find then UK industry is in big trouble. Except for Lucinda the rest are trying to impersonate strong business people but are clueless at most things. The way they present is farcical, no structure or point to what they do, just management speak and soundbites. The women seem to think they need to act like Ice Maidens to be taken seriously, they're laughable. The men are equally poor and if the winner isn't raef or Lucinda then I think it will be fixed. Who would employ Jenny or Helene for heavens sake? Kevin was right ot be sacked, he was rubbish, they picked on Sara because she wouldn't fight back and they're bullies. I'd love them to work for me for a few days, I'd have a field day!
Posted by: gelert66 on Thu May 01 11:45AM | Report abuseJenny should have went, she is so in touch with the enviroment, she wants to make more cards wrap the them in plastic, no doubt get a plastic bag when she buys a card, then the postman runs about in his diesel van delivering them and when the card has had enough display time on mantlepiece, if anyone bothered to put it up, it becomes tomorrows rubbish. for weeks i have said she is a muppet and last night she proved it. i hope she gets fired soon, but Kevin mucked up by bringing the wrong two in with him, if he had taken Jenny, i reacon he would have s@#$%ed through..
Posted by: alba_gur_brath on Thu May 01 11:45AM | Report abuseWhat a disgrace turning on Sara like that, she certainly didn't deserve it. The majority really bullied her when she got back to the house!, a decision was made by sir Alan, not her fault and maybe she just didn't want to argue on national television and at least have some dignity unlike some other people on the show!. At least she can hold her head up high at the end and when she gets her chance to be team leader show what she is made of.
Posted by: sam_majid on Thu May 01 11:46AM | Report abuseKevin was hopeless, and deserved to be fired for his arrogant bravado as much as anything else. However, it was not inconceivable that Jenny, Kevin or Sarah could have gone - they were all truly useless. As for describing the other team's victory as narrow - well, sales of 22,500 cards to 6,000 is hardly narrow, irrespective of an apostrophe!
Posted by: jerryfroggett on Thu May 01 11:46AM | Report abuseJust another example of Jennifers bullying. She had bullied Kevin into following her lead as he was unable to stand up to her
Posted by: griptonja on Thu May 01 11:46AM | Report abuse