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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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Shame Sir Alan did not fire them both Raef as well.
Posted by: simonlbrown on Thu Mar 27 02:34PM | Report abusegive that job to the cleaner. overrated idiots
Posted by: leeuwen on Thu Mar 27 02:34PM | Report abuse"What a load of rubish, a very poor copy of the Original American verison of this show"!!
Posted by: mail4_johnson on Thu Mar 27 02:35PM | Report abuseI found it absoutely hilarious that a bunch of adults could not organise a fish stall, even when they had all they needed to do so. Then they argued like kids, with no one showing any people skills whatsoever. I think the person that annoyed me most was Nicolas, because near the end his attitude to people he felt were beneath him was both appaling and offending to be quite honest. Out of the remaining would be apprentices, I mostly dislike Raef, because I believe he shares similar views to Nicolas, but is more subtle in the way he hides them. He is @#$%y now and will definately become more arrogant the longer he lasts there.
Posted by: andrew.valentine4 on Thu Mar 27 02:35PM | Report abuseLook, everyone needs to get over this obsession with class. The guy was an idiot, regardless of his class. He could have been a born-and-bred working class lad and he'd still be an idiot. This perception that people like Nick are representative of all privately-educated people is completely wrong.
Posted by: christopher_binnie on Thu Mar 27 02:35PM | Report abuseThis little boy doesn't live in the real world. As with many of his ilk he has brains but lacks basic commonsense. They really don't know what life's about. Someone should have told him that those sunglasses(sorry shades) made him look a first degree prat. Don't you think he looked a bit like David Cameron? Enough said.
Posted by: frankrogerscranford on Thu Mar 27 02:37PM | Report abuseIn answer to no.7 - Peter.Harris.310 You're quite right, it's blatantly obvious that the prat Nick hadn't researched Sir Allen & his past. Cause if he had done his homework he wouldn't have mentioned that cringworthy phrase about not liking people who talk about football, seeing as Sir Allen used to own one of the biggest clubs in English football. What a BLEEEEEEEEEEEP !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: graemewwilson on Thu Mar 27 02:37PM | Report abuseNo i think Raef he's to stuck up
Posted by: surpyb on Thu Mar 27 02:37PM | Report abusehe is a stuck up idiot and deserved to lose, i mean he messed up the prices so his loss!!!
Posted by: aodhant on Thu Mar 27 02:38PM | Report abuseWhat a jumped up idiot.....I would hate him to defend me in court, but then I guess I would be too working class for the likes of him....Lets hope after his performance no one will employ him
Posted by: mawlin95 on Thu Mar 27 02:38PM | Report abuse