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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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How stupid are you to slag off so called uneducated people to the original working class Sir Alan Sugar....
Posted by: kathrynmilne on Thu Mar 27 01:29PM | Report abusespot on!
Posted by: i_tyutyunnyk on Thu Mar 27 01:29PM | Report abuseServes the stuck up muppet right
Posted by: phg4774 on Thu Mar 27 01:29PM | Report abuseWhat a great show, still some of the best viewing around. I love how unbelievably full of themselves these people are. For sure they get selected for their trouble potential as well as their actual chance of winning, but to get genuine class war in the opening episode suggests that this will be a tremendous series.
Posted by: justinklewis on Thu Mar 27 01:30PM | Report abuseYeah..I worked with a bloke who came straight from Uni to our place of work. I had worked in my organisation for 15 years straight from school. I had worked hard to get where I was but he just walked in on 15k more than me and had the common sense and people skills of a gnat...plus he was an upper class twit to boot....shoot the lot of em I say!! lol...
Posted by: illustratorhalt on Thu Mar 27 01:30PM | Report abuseI agree they are all utter pratts and God help us if they are our future....what a nasty, arrogant bunch! But why do people like bevdinsley leave such ridiculous messages that just show what a huge 'chip' she has on her shoulder. Bev, it was educated men (most from priveleged backgrounds & some self made) who made this country great; for the last 40 years we have supposedly been living in 'the age of the common man' (ie equal opportunities for all) and look at the mess the country is in; the total dumbing down of everything to suit the needs of the 'not so bright'. Society is failing; education stinks; people have very little self respect and no respect for others; everybody now thinks they are experts in everything when they really know nothing. Let's bring back excellence and respect for others rather than this go getting greedy consumer age for ignorant people we live in. To even show tv programmes like the apprentice, giving nasty, selfish, bigoted people air time, just about tells us how low & dumb we have become; we even get sadistic pleasure from watching these people go through utter humiliation and rejection. How sick; how sad!
Posted by: davidbhancock on Thu Mar 27 01:31PM | Report abuseaccademic a@#$%vements are not worth a toss compared to life experiences and common sense - good decision to get rid of him
Posted by: tridentelaine on Thu Mar 27 01:31PM | Report abuseRaef is the biggest show pony and complete moron that I have seen for a very long time. He should have gone but I suspect he is being kept in for viewing figures and to show everybody what a complete pillock he really is. Both Raef and Nicolas are the most condescending idiots that I have ever seen, both well educated but completely lacking in what it takes to get on with people and completely failing to see that other people have a valid reason for being their simply because they are so wrapped up in their own narcissistic tendancies. Nicolas was the obvious choice but really it should have been Raef.
Posted by: bs_mccollum on Thu Mar 27 01:31PM | Report abuseWith all his knowledge and degrees he can't tell the difference between pound and a kilogram and dares to point out other peoples lack of knowledge? How petty is that... It's good he went first, his attitude was just as annoying as that rabbit dropping stuck to his chin.
Posted by: blue_raven1986 on Thu Mar 27 01:31PM | Report abusehaha i thought nicholas and that raif were having a gay affair at one point
Posted by: fangdevil on Thu Mar 27 01:32PM | Report abuse