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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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Raef what an ingororant sod he is
Posted by: simonec.stocks on Thu Mar 27 07:18PM | Report abuseHard luck ?
Posted by: tonyrycyk on Thu Mar 27 08:04PM | Report abuseWhat a w****r! calling his colleague illetrate. I am just glad to see the back of him. Raef is next on the line, i hope he gets too what he deserves.
Posted by: mazadi on Thu Mar 27 08:37PM | Report abuseI hav bin redin the comants cince lunch tim, it sems that most are in agree mant the blokes a complit dihk ( french ) neva went to scol but rite wel dunt I - hav not laft so much for yers. Grat program wel dun evry one - speling no god sory GOOD wat is univety ani one plese ?
Posted by: john.powell8cu on Thu Mar 27 08:50PM | Report abusewell what can you say about the lads team??? I thought the fact that a dead fish with it's mouth open threw them as it wasn't the same as it's picture of one that was of an alive. well if sir Allan is going to take on one of these idiots he must be mad. My daughter has an old toy, you have to push the shapes into the same shaped hole (you know what i mean) if the lads would like to have it to pratice on before they move upto matching a picture of a fish to the real thing then they can have it. I might have an old V-Tech calculator for them to work out prices, it's worth about 135 quid but being as good at business as they are can have it for 50 quid. (85 quid p+p)
Posted by: p.whorton on Thu Mar 27 10:07PM | Report abuseq
Posted by: calmcfad on Fri Mar 28 06:57AM | Report abuseGET ME A PLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: calmcfad on Fri Mar 28 06:58AM | Report abuseThe programme idea is good, but who the helll selects such a load of jumped up drips. Eat them all upp, Ala, then spit them out.
Posted by: davidwilliams337 on Fri Mar 28 08:14AM | Report abusenonoe of worth the 100k a year, they all seemed out of touch with common sense & business knowledge. I will employ them for a fifth of the amount. ASM from London
Posted by: as.majlessi on Fri Mar 28 08:19AM | Report abuseActually lobsters are on sale at any branch of Lidl for £4.99 EACH
Posted by: pipandmarkadams on Fri Mar 28 08:39AM | Report abuse