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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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good viewing,he had to go he was not up to the job,or any job that meant getting his hands dirty.he thought because he had a good education he could win on that alone.alan sugars not stupid.
Posted by: paula_snk on Thu Mar 27 01:55PM | Report abuseam glad he went,Alex my fav
Posted by: bourne.sandra on Thu Mar 27 01:55PM | Report abuseI thought Nick was mostly honest about what he did wrong, until the end when he made mistakes about spouting off about himself. It certainly didnt help him get the job. Comparing himself to working class folk didnt help him at all and wont serve him in the future because people will remember his face.
Posted by: fionzm1971 on Thu Mar 27 01:55PM | Report abuseWhat a load of dribble, the lot of them. I think this program also needs to change their leader. Sir Alan is starting to bore me. As for the team, the girls were bad, pompus boys trying to out posh each other. If they are all as good as they say they are why are they going for a job for 100k. Surely an "amazing" barrister, and the best sales person in Europe would do better than 100k. Besides would you really want to work for Sir Alan. And can we stop calling him Sir. Call him Al or Big Al.
Posted by: philbedford_boa on Thu Mar 27 01:56PM | Report abuseYes he deserved it.Couldnt happen to anyone better. Pompus, arrogant, toffey-nose git. God help the legal profession!!
Posted by: patsyj9 on Thu Mar 27 01:56PM | Report abuseOh my God he was hideous! What was with his stupid reflective sunglasses when he went on to Adrian Chiles' show afterwards? "I like art and culture" Urgh!
Posted by: sophia.waters1 on Thu Mar 27 01:56PM | Report abuseIf these are the "well educated" amongst our population, and the generation coming up behind us - then god help us all!! I think it's time to seriously overhaul the education system in this country - we are turning out morons!
Posted by: laneywest1960 on Thu Mar 27 01:56PM | Report abuseIf you go looking for prats like these idiots then you wont have to look for long before you find them,the only people that should be hanging thier heads in shame is the programme makers,these wa***rs from 20,000 its all a big con just to make headlines and therefore ratings,i wont be watching another car crash episode of this @#$%,when they decide to pick real people with the common sense and attitude that the buisness world needs then i might watch the next series but that wont happen coz it wont get the ratings,,waste of my time and an hour i ll never get back,,,wish i could physically beat that cretin nick to death with my bear hands.
Posted by: marcthorpe123 on Thu Mar 27 01:57PM | Report abuseI thought he was going to get sacked because he said getting a "B in his GSCE'S was a falier" what a stuck up prat!!
Posted by: mtthwstw on Thu Mar 27 01:57PM | Report abuseI reckon hell be losing a few clients after the show last night, jumped up idiot that he was, good on Sir Alan for kicking his sorry ass of the show so we don't have to put up with him for another week!!
Posted by: lazyfairylondon on Thu Mar 27 01:57PM | Report abuse