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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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Nick, you got what you deserved sunshine, for you to think that you were superior to someone just because you enjoy art and culture and because they have a Northern accent shows just how hopelessly out of touch with reality you are boy. You have a lot of growing up to do matey, as the saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover, regardless if they are Black, White, Yellow or Green, if a mans a fool he's a fool, judge the person for what they do, not from where they come, Alan Sugar is living proof of that. Raef, you're next mate, don't bother unpacking your suitcase.
Posted by: thenameiwantedhadgone on Thu Mar 27 04:58PM | Report abuseAdditional thought - Alex is typical of the 'Mini-Nazi's' you will find bossing the poor souls of Britains call centres, good at dishing out badly organised work, bad at taking the blame and surprisingly equally bad at defending himself. That stupid class comment from Nick was such a golden ticket, and funnily enough Alan Sugar grabbed it like a 'fish snatching a fly'!!!! As a mobile network engineer who visits call centres, I can at least leave again while all the other poor sods are stuck in their air conditioned concentration camp...not that all call centres are this way! I'm definately going to recommend to my 4 year old son that he should aspire to becoming a London based Barrister...NOT!!!
Posted by: graham_r_smith on Thu Mar 27 04:59PM | Report abuseto right kick him out i can belive that there are snobs like this , i hope his money runs out one day , and he has got to live life the hard way with lots of hard work just like most of us in the uk . it made me mad that snob last night.
Posted by: carltarry1828 on Thu Mar 27 05:02PM | Report abuseGod help us from this continuing mega @#$% of all soaps,these scurge of todays tele started in the 60s please bury this trash or throw it into the atlantic just off the continental shelf,pppppppppppppllllllllleeeeeeeeeaaaaaasssssssssss,ho and deal or no deal,
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Posted by: timgbell99 on Thu Mar 27 05:12PM | Report abuseIf this group of so called 'high fliers' are the best that we can offer then God help the British industries. They don't have an ounce of common sense, no business a@#$%en and no idea of what it takes to be successful in business. I come across many hundreds of people who are better qualified to be the winning apprentice. From what was seen last night, well done to Alex for standing up for himself and as for Raef.....what a plonker...gutless, pompous, false sense of his own ability..and if he had brains, he'd be dangerous. If what he gave was '110%' and that's what he could achieve then what would his 100% effort achieve...Answer: Failure!
Posted by: rabsy7 on Thu Mar 27 05:14PM | Report abuseOne of the candidates 'Kevin' should have gone 1st. He was on a management course that I attended last year, he is a foul self absorbed creature lets hope he is Fired next time!
Posted by: lisacarson745 on Thu Mar 27 06:58PM | Report abuseat nearly 100%thinking the same ,that people like that lot end up running the country .They also end up in very important jobs that controls not only the legal profesion,but all our very hard errand so.called looked down upon wage's hope and pray that governmental persons have seen the prograhem,and move over and let proper civil servants make this country what it should be.
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