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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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Is it just me or are the candidates getting weaker! The people with good manners and good business heads appear to be few and far between and I have always believed that every person on a team is valuable and play to their strengths! Sara had a brilliant idea to make Ede cards 'have you ever' tried to get one! But the steamroller the JENNY IS WAS SO FOCUSSED AND SELF CENTRED SHE HAD FORGOTTEN IT WAS A TEAM Challenge!!! It is all about the team! The only candidate I have seen who is capable of listening and has some presence is Raef.
Posted by: whammela on Thu May 01 11:28AM | Report abuseI think Sara came up with the best ideas for the card, but those incompetent fools chose to ignore her contributions and one of them paid the price! If I was in Sir Alan's shoes then I would have sacked everyone in the house that contributed towards the discrimination, harassement & victimisation directed towards Sara. I my professional opinion as a scientist, lawyer and businessman, I though even offering those incompetent individual jobs as a shelf stacker would be an insult to the hard working men and women out there. I would personally never employe them and would not suggest other either.
Posted by: nuruz_jaman on Thu May 01 11:28AM | Report abuseJenny should of gone in - Sara did say some ideas - Kevin is an idiot, learn to talk properly, no one will take him seriously when he cant even speak well - Sara needs to stand up for herself, if she thinks she can go play with the bigboys that Alan plays with she needs to get a back bone - if someone was shouting at me like Alex did I wouldnt just sit there and take it!
Posted by: misskt57 on Thu May 01 11:28AM | Report abuseOh my god why does everyone keep saying that all the contestants who aired their views last night about sara are racist??? what a load of cack just because she is asian and they had a go at her for being useless and not providing any ideas. So does that mean that because someone is asian and they are sh*t and deserve to be fired that we can't actually say it because we are racism. Political correctness gone mad. I dnt think none of the other contestants actually said anything racist to her just the truth!! But yeah I agree they did all gang up on her and was bullying a little bit but it wasn't RACE related!!!!
Posted by: michelle.blunden on Thu May 01 11:29AM | Report abuseFor supposedly talented people,they dont impress,all far too busy trying to score points, over each other,instead of forming a workable team,who ever is chosen as the leader ,they should give him or her ,there best shot
Posted by: petvic1 on Thu May 01 11:29AM | Report abuseLet's not make this a race row again. If someone of an ethnic minority gets picked on, for whatever reason, then immediately the race issue is brought up. If it had been different and a white candidate had been attacked in the way Sara was there would be nothing said about it. I'm not condoning the treatment of Sara in any way, and I think the behaviour of some of the candidates in the house was awful, but let's not pull out the race card again.
Posted by: rlaignel on Thu May 01 11:29AM | Report abuseHow was anything said last night racist? People are way too quick to throw that word around especially when its not applicable! No one would claim it was racist when they were all picking on Lucinda, so why now when its pretty much the same situation?! Agree it would be better if a nice person won but Sara's too lame. The rest are way too arrogant and ridiculously stupid...Fire the lot!
Posted by: karina6and3 on Thu May 01 11:29AM | Report abuseThe gangup against Sara was unprofessional and did look like racism.....but then Sir Alan could see through it...
Posted by: emirfeisal on Thu May 01 11:29AM | Report abuseIt was unfair the way that they all 'ganged up' on Sara - it really was a blatant case of bullying - at least Raef tried to stop Alexs' rant. - Lets hope that next week she can show them all that she is made of sterner stuff and make them eat their bloody words! - Although I think that whatever she trys to do the rest will overrule her - unfair!
Posted by: spiffzog on Thu May 01 11:29AM | Report abuseIf the team had listened in the first place when Sara suggested that they target events like Eid, Vaishaki, Divalli then they would have made millions, 4 million people in the ethnic minority, in Britain and their religious days are not promoted in big retail shops. come on Kevin if you couldn't see the market that's your fault, jenny should have gone, she knew sara had come up with a great idea yet to belittle her she went agaisnt it. Come on ,grow up..................
Posted by: shnzpatel on Thu May 01 11:29AM | Report abuse