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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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its a shame he went 1st episode..we will have to find someone else to take an instant dislike to!!!!
Posted by: cherylanne.gregg on Thu Mar 27 01:12PM | Report abuseAs usual a bit like a great deal of army officers, good brains but no common sense or man management skills.
Posted by: colin.hepburn on Thu Mar 27 01:17PM | Report abuseYou have to say none of them looked like they had done a days honest graft in their whole lives, it was a bunch of toffs trying to be common, and they were useless at it. No one could possibly think that Sir Alan is going to employ any of them on that showing, if they can't even sell a few fish with the hard work already done then we are in for some classic blunders this series, and the nick was the worst of the lot, come on there is a real world out there you know.
Posted by: garymcmahon67 on Thu Mar 27 01:17PM | Report abuseyou bunch of jealous idiots if you do go to court i hope you get over you narrow minded prejudices because it is some one like nick who will save your bacon! wake up and smell the roses it takes all typoes to make the world work even those you dont like.
Posted by: christian.lawrence on Thu Mar 27 01:18PM | Report abuseImagine being repesented by this bloke in court - say no more......
Posted by: kieranosully on Thu Mar 27 01:18PM | Report abuseit was he right choice ....
Posted by: alfiegordonquartley on Thu Mar 27 01:18PM | Report abuseat first i thought maybe not...but then i looked at the task at hand and if you can't do your sums or use some plain common sense then you deserved to be fired!
Posted by: jtmediaknight on Thu Mar 27 01:19PM | Report abuseam glad he got sacked, the Apprentice is not about what level of academic a@#$%vement u have reached etc and besides it shows that common sense is not so common especially among people like Nick.....................as the saying goes "Knowledge without wisdom is nothing"
Posted by: moira_ny on Thu Mar 27 01:20PM | Report abuseYes, he was definitely teh right person to go - what a prat. Raef should be next on the list. Bunch of muppets.
Posted by: emmastclare on Thu Mar 27 01:21PM | Report abuseOD
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