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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 loved Sir Alan when he said well you have got an F, your fired,
Posted by: allen365 on Thu Mar 27 01:38PM | Report abuseWhy is everyone missing the point?! The Apprentice isn't about finding someone half-decent to work for Sir Alan; it is purely about getting ratings for the BBC; hence they cast the mos contentious, arrogant idiots they can find (plus a handful of bonafide applicants). They didn't just pick ANY lawyer; they chose a barrister with the most pompus name and attitude they could find to instigate a class rift both in the team and the viewing public and give ammunition for evryone including the media to moan about. Everyone knows that Sir Alan would never hire Raef in a million years, but I bet you he has been "instructed" to keep Raef in the series until the last 5. If they actually chose the right people for the job to compete for it, the series would be dead boring and you're a mug if you don't know that. What I want to know is if Nick still has his job this morning. I do have limited sympathy for him as he served a purpose, but he doesn't live in the real world and probably has a large enough trust fund so he never has to work again anyway.
Posted by: pierretchan on Thu Mar 27 01:38PM | Report abuseI pity any poor secretary who gets to work for Nick. Mind you, he'll probably never work in an office now as the beeb will probably give him his own chat show. What a twit.
Posted by: lesleyann_betts on Thu Mar 27 01:38PM | Report abusenow i known why this country is in sutch a bloody mess with people like that dimwit leaving uni: and getting jobs in law and goverment
Posted by: f12farrell on Thu Mar 27 01:39PM | Report abuseWhen the Revolution comes they will all be lined up against a wall and shot. That includes Sir (Tosser) Alan Sugar and his two minions who are clearly modelled on gargoyles..
Posted by: patrickakavanagh on Thu Mar 27 01:39PM | Report abuseOD
Posted by: etonhurst on Thu Mar 27 01:39PM | Report abuseHe is an academic not a salesman
Posted by: nicholas_beken on Thu Mar 27 01:39PM | Report abuseyes he was the right one to go, being a barrister you expect him to have a good arguement. however, his debating skills were, well, crap. all the learning and qualifications cannot give you life skills or prepare you for a good down to earth arguement. sorry nick but you are s..t. ...... from nathan in hereford.
Posted by: nathastrong on Thu Mar 27 01:39PM | Report abuseRaef is a bit up his own. I do hope Sir Alan has some fun with him before firing him! I wonder if he will notice everyone else has left the board room as he continues to explain to Sir Alan why he has just fired the wrong candidate?
Posted by: k.e.matthews on Thu Mar 27 01:39PM | Report abuseAs a retired professional person,I certainly would not hire any of the group assembled last night.I doubt that,between them,they could make a real profit & would probably have frightened my clients off.Whether or not you have a degree is less relevant than your business ability & people with 1sts are generally too clever by half & generally lack any form of normality.The double-barrelled twit deserved to go.Despite having had a private education ,I have no sympathy with people like him.He's another sponging lawyer,if he ever make it.
Posted by: tedbellamy on Thu Mar 27 01:40PM | Report abuse