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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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i am a man of 45 and taken up many rolls with companies, and to be very frank, if these people they have on these programes are the leaders of our conpanies, well no wonder our fianancial instertutions and our country are in such a mess. PS grow up and make programs that mean somthing to people
Posted by: andrewpeake395 on Thu Mar 27 01:32PM | Report abuseCompulsive viewing but -What a nob! Thoroughly deserved to have been given the push. Our legal system deserves better that closed minded stuck up fools like this........
Posted by: marcelgoga on Thu Mar 27 01:32PM | Report abuseWhat a bunch of absolute prats - are we really supposed to believe that these imbeciles are the crème de la crème of young British business? I would not employ one of them. jon.rawson, does cognitive behaviour coaching equate to a good kick up the a**e because that is what these 'entrepreneurs' really need. Monkfish Tails for dinner anyone?
Posted by: mark.p.turner on Thu Mar 27 01:33PM | Report abuseYes he was a pompos arse he needed to go. None of those guys have any idea how the real world is.
Posted by: burrage2002 on Thu Mar 27 01:33PM | Report abuseerr hang on a second, i went to school with nick ( a back street private school - not special or very expensive by private school stds) also his family house was a very average 3 bedroom detached house in worthing which is soooo not posh by any stretch.... at school he was very camp and loud and never spoke with the accent he has now ???? so all this middle-upper class crap is too wind people up and you are all lapping it up, he'll be loving the attention!!!!
Posted by: annacharles83 on Thu Mar 27 01:33PM | Report abuseI have to agree with all the comments posted it is extremely worrying that these are the people being produced by our universities. Well done Alex for sticking his neck on the block you should have stayed as for the muppet who was kicked out he fully deservrd what was the tuft under his chin all about! should make interesting watching over the coming weeks. Good Luck sir Alan choosing the winner!
Posted by: paultargett2004 on Thu Mar 27 01:33PM | Report abuseAlex is fit. Thats all I've got to say and I'll watch it until he gets fired.
Posted by: jessieket04 on Thu Mar 27 01:33PM | Report abuseOn behalf of all university students, I would like to thank Nicholas by undoing all our years of hard work by proving, once and for all, that a degree can't buy you a brain cell. Now we'll all have to work twice as hard. Cheers, Nick.
Posted by: fabalocious21 on Thu Mar 27 01:34PM | Report abuseWe cannot judge Nicholas for being born into money, but he did not help himself by saying what he did in his introduction and his argument of defense in the boardroom, that is business !!!
Posted by: ffigueiredo on Thu Mar 27 01:34PM | Report abuseAll were a bunch of no it all twats who knew nothing
Posted by: mumike1946 on Thu Mar 27 01:34PM | Report abuse