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From the opening moments of last night's Apprentice it was clear that we had another bunch of jumped-up, arrogant, cringeworthy know-it-alls battling for a job with Sir Alan - in other words we are in for another excellent series.
Ian can't even bring himself to say the word 'loser', Jennifer rates herself as 'the best salesperson in Europe', Claire says she likes to crash through everything like her family's german shepherd dog and scary Sara doesn't like to beat her opposition, she likes to thrash them.
The first task saw the group split into male and female teams and given a load of fish to sell at a London market. Easy? Well, no. The teams struggled to tell their Monkfish from their Sea Breams and ended up selling the fish at a fraction of the actual value.
Other highlights of the first episode included sulky Ian pursing his lips and declaring that he hated losing, Lucinda's kooky dress sense (do health and safety regulations allow people to sell fish wearing a purple woollen beret?) and, of course, Raef's hair - what's that all about?
The award for best line has to go to Sir Alan's sidekick Nick who asked the boys' team "Did it strike anybody that a £5 lobster is bloody cheap?"
The boardroom showdown saw the girls triumph and drippy boys' team leader Alex chose to take Nicholas and Raef back into the boardroom with him.
Things quickly escalated into a class war with Nicholas declaring that the group had split into the educated and the non-educated. Alex was quick to point out that he also had a university degree which led Nicholas to point out more differences between the boys - he likes to talk about arts and culture and they like to talk about football apparently. The writing was really on the wall for Nicholas at that point and Sir Alan rightly fired him.
What did you think of the first episode? Who are your favourites and which of the candidates are getting on your nerves. Let us know...
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Raef is the ultimate toff. My husband was in his class at university in Exeter and couldn't be more different! Raef looks and acts like a character out of Sense and Sensibility, I genuinely can't believe he's real!! I so wish he would've been the first to go. I felt quite sorry for Nick actually - yes he was insanely arrogant but Alex needs to quit being so petty and small minded. He was just spoiling for a fight.
Posted by: stellastevens1986 on Thu Mar 27 01:40PM | Report abuseEven though it is called 'reality television' it is actually cleverly edited light entertainment,designed to create a pre-ordained response.The current desire for '15 minutes of fame' just makes these programs capable of being produced by a bunch of monkeys and editing software!I wonder if anyone knows if any of the previous winners are still employed by SIR Amstrad?Somehow I very much doubt it as they will have outlived their usefulness to the Sir Alan's P.R. machine!Still enjoy it for what it is.
Posted by: declankeane on Thu Mar 27 01:40PM | Report abuseThey are stupid as each other. They all desevered to be sacked. If 8 people cannot sell fish at profit.!!!! It proves that white collar staff are no more smarter than hard working people who are fighting with life day to day.
Posted by: jasgill2009 on Thu Mar 27 01:40PM | Report abuseGood choice of firing, and it'll be interesting to see what happens to Alex now - if he continues as he was last night then his days must be numbered, but if he learns then he could stick around. A couple of potentially good candidates but the majority seem to be so far up themselves that they've lost sight of how poor they actually are.
Posted by: spotlight_academy on Thu Mar 27 01:41PM | Report abuseYes I feel he thought he was going to stay because he has a masters degree seems his destiney got the better of him!!! Good choice sir Alan he was too soft considering he is a barrister he did not fight his corner very well.
Posted by: w_ajok on Thu Mar 27 01:42PM | Report abuseThis toff deserve what he got. Who cares whether he likes football or not and as for his taste for arts and culture, please give me a break. No wonder this sort of people havent got a clue about the real life nor the true price of a lobster because mummy and daddy hand it to them on a plate.
Posted by: yogurt1995 on Thu Mar 27 01:42PM | Report abuseDid these people actually get interviewed before the programme, or did they just stab pins at random in the 1999 Harrow Leavers' yearbook?
Posted by: satans_little_helper_2312 on Thu Mar 27 01:43PM | Report abuseRaef will stay in to the end, as nobody likes hims and that makes good telly.
Posted by: warby_g on Thu Mar 27 01:43PM | Report abusePerhaps Sir Alan should give some of us not so well educated folks a chance at least some of us have comon sense and understand how to earn a living, not like these clueless good old @#$%!!
Posted by: markmriddles on Thu Mar 27 01:43PM | Report abuseThese people were certainly not picked for their charisma. In fact what were they picked for?
Posted by: stephaniefox_uk on Thu Mar 27 01:44PM | Report abuse