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OK, now we're confused. Only last week we were saying that it seemed Sir Alan had a soft spot for Simon and that the ex-squaddie could do no wrong - and now just one week later he's been fired!
To make matters worse, Sir Alan fired Simon over Alex and Claire (more about those two in a moment) - what is going on?
To be fair, it was a disastrous task for Simon with his team managing to lose money - their photography business having to turn customers away after a mix-up over order numbers. But just how big a part did Alex and Claire play in his downfall?
Last night saw those two - favourites of ours earlier in the series - show their true colours as total snakes. Alex was shirking responsibility right from the start of the task when Simon wanted to appoint him as deputy. This is despite his own declaration that he is the strongest person in the contest! If Alex really is that talented, he's been hiding it well. It was also interesting to see Alex turn on Claire in the boardroom when he thought his own position was in danger. Sir Alan, please see through the sad eyes and pretty boy looks and fire him!
Like Alex, Claire was obstructive throughout the task and seemed to be enjoying it when everything started to go wrong for Simon. Margaret (who appeared to be in a foul mood last night - go Margaret!) got it spot on when she commented that Claire had treated Simon like dirt. So why would Sir Alan want someone like that working for him? It will be interesting to see how she copes next week as team-leader. The others looked less than thrilled at this news.
The Lucinda bullying continued last night with Helene taking her turn to pick on the softly spoken, beret-wearing one. Is anyone going to step in and defend her? And what's wrong with Raef? He spoke about two words last night. We're heard of keeping your head down in the early stages but this is ridiculous.
Are you as shocked as we are to see Simon out of the contest? How did Alex and Claire manage to escape this time? And with Simon gone, who is your favourite to win now?
Let us know your thoughts...
- Watch Simon's reaction to the show
- See the moment Simon is fired
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Sir Alan is losing his integrity here by NOT FIRING THE RIGHT PERSON. We thought he was an honest bloke..if this show is now about RATINGS we might as well watch big brother which I hate...
Posted by: elisasciar on Thu Apr 17 08:12PM | Report abuseFunny that Sir Alan considers the qualities of being self-obsessed, ruthless, back-stabbing and unmanageable as preferable to being honest, hardworking, creative and generally nice. Or maybe he sees more of himself in Claire, Alex and Jenny?
Posted by: julianpugsley on Thu Apr 17 08:12PM | Report abusesimon should not have been sacked claire should have gone she is THE bitch from hell she wanted Simon to FAIL
Posted by: tonyelton on Thu Apr 17 08:14PM | Report abuseForget these losers and vote for the chiki chiki in the next Eurovision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_NFpzAtJcg
Posted by: lia.white on Thu Apr 17 08:23PM | Report abuseHe is well out of the poisonous snake felow contestants. Hopefully Sir Alan may give him a job elsewhere as he was the only decent one of them.
Posted by: dnh on Thu Apr 17 08:29PM | Report abusefrom all the comments that have been posted why do so many people that think the show is C--- continue to watch it???????????
Posted by: tonyelton on Thu Apr 17 08:29PM | Report abusesimon should have stayed!
Posted by: caziverson on Thu Apr 17 08:32PM | Report abuseshould have been claire, definately obstructive and arguementative
Posted by: thisisalison on Thu Apr 17 08:45PM | Report abuseraef
Posted by: s.patel55 on Thu Apr 17 08:52PM | Report abuseI think it's a shame Sugar's gone for viewing figures instead of quality personnel, keeping in the "Katie" type characters may make good telly but the eventual winner of the show won't have had to beat much. There's very little quality in this year's show, it's got to the stage this series where there's not much of a difference between the candidates of The Apprentice and the contestants of other reality shows such as Big Brother. For example, Claire wouldn't look out of place in Fat Teens Can't Hunt!!! Get some talented people on the show, even I could piss all over this lot!!!
Posted by: sonieyoe on Thu Apr 17 09:39PM | Report abuse