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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 the only one for Sir Alan. He should fire the lot ASP
Posted by: vivien43 on Thu Mar 27 01:34PM | Report abuseWhy does he seem to look to me like a cross between David Cameron & Tim nice but dim
Posted by: frankjward on Thu Mar 27 01:34PM | Report abuseThey didn't even need to walk around the market to realise their prices where under budget - why didn't they search internet for selling price of fish? Too logical Then telephone the big hotels/restraunts to let them know they had fresh, quality fish at a good price No inititive Who pays their shopping/restraunt bills Credit Card - Easy come, Easy Go Clearly plenty of degrees and money but no idea of the "Real World Survival"
Posted by: j.s.hunter.1 on Thu Mar 27 01:35PM | Report abuseAll my years in Businees and the Military I have come into contact with people like this (Twit) they have no Idea what the real world is all about and it is very concerning to think that the likes of him will make it to the top and destroy good people on the way.
Posted by: philgrs on Thu Mar 27 01:35PM | Report abuseI cannot belive this is the best we have got. We love to sit shouting abuse at the telly and there are some truly cringe worthy charactors this year would hate to be them watching it and seeing what a complete prat I am. Nicholas deserved to be fired that was probably the first days works he has ever done.
Posted by: kenbalding on Thu Mar 27 01:36PM | Report abuseI would not trust any of the candidates to post my letter. My old Boss used to interview and select his candidates by asking them to make and light his office fire. His selection invariably proved correct.
Posted by: rstubbspowys on Thu Mar 27 01:36PM | Report abuseha
Posted by: lesleyann_betts on Thu Mar 27 01:36PM | Report abuseFor a qualified barrister he unable to defend himself in the face of straight forward thinking and logic. He also did himself no favors wearing aviator shades to the boardroom. It was a no-brainer for Sir Alan.
Posted by: nick_squire on Thu Mar 27 01:36PM | Report abuseI dont know why this article had to have a swear word printed in it!
Posted by: davidevans74 on Thu Mar 27 01:36PM | Report abuseThis gent may have an excellent academic background but i find it hard to believe that one would be so narrow minded. I think that Sr Alan made the right decision in firing this arrogant, rude, "academic" who obviously has no common sence or people skills what so ever. God help our legal/justic system!
Posted by: carlswansbury on Thu Mar 27 01:36PM | Report abuse