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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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Yes it was. Absolutely. Bloody prig. And that Raef fella should be next. Two pompous asses!!
Posted by: peter.derek on Thu Mar 27 01:49PM | Report abusePONSE, PONSE ,PONSE, PONSE ,PONSE, PONSE ,PONSE, PONSE I can't believe how much of a ponse he really is.
Posted by: robchalk1970 on Thu Mar 27 01:49PM | Report abusedon't worry about Nick - he'll soon be running Northern Rock for us
Posted by: jmhorsburgh on Thu Mar 27 01:50PM | Report abuseh
Posted by: fionzm1971 on Thu Mar 27 01:50PM | Report abuseIt is all rather sad to see that someone with those types of views still exists. I thought that "Status Dinosaurs" had all died out – apparently not. Arthur Pint
Posted by: martinhussey_uk on Thu Mar 27 01:50PM | Report abuseI laughed out loud when Sir Alan picked up on Nick's "Outstanding" degree..."Does it mean you haven't got it yet?" he asked candidly, implying he hadn't seen any outstanding (excellent) behaviour from Nick - or any other of these "well educated" people... Glad Nick was fired. I don't think he would have turned into someone particularly annoying, but he was way too pompous to be in that show. And perhaps now he'll find out what loosing is all about. Always a first time for everything! Looking forward to an entertaining series!
Posted by: alida_tassone on Thu Mar 27 01:51PM | Report abusebrilliant television, variety of characters, i have to say i think the wrong man went, purely because he was not in charge of identifying the fish, he just priced them as they were identified to him by Raef, he may not have done a good job of it but it was @#$%ing up the different fish that cost them and a man with Nick's educational background has to be given the chance to prove himself.
Posted by: m.lomodong on Thu Mar 27 01:51PM | Report abuseNQ
Posted by: neilfsymonds1 on Thu Mar 27 01:52PM | Report abuseDoes my comment make me classist?
Posted by: robchalk1970 on Thu Mar 27 01:52PM | Report abuseWhat is wrong with young business people today. They are overly aggressive, bad team players and are arrogant, opinionated and rude. They have a toal lack of people skills. Business is done between people who empathise with each other.
Posted by: davidhavard2004 on Thu Mar 27 01:52PM | Report abuse