Apprentice 2015: With added Claude

[Ian]

Start Date: Wednesday 14th October, Thursday 15th October

Changes:

Down to 18 candidates this year
Claude Littner (:cool:) replaces Nick Hewer (:()
Jack Dee will host You're Fired and Romesh Ranganathan will be a regular panelist


The Bastards:
http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2015/10/06/10/apprentice-2015-candidates.jpg
(back row, left to right) Richard Woods, Vana Koutsomitis, David Stevenson, Selina Waterman-Smith, Mergim Butaja
(second row left to right) Dan Callaghan, Sam Curry, Ella Stevenson, Natalie Dean, Jenny Garbis, Ruth Whiteley, Aisha Kasim
(front row left to right) April Jackson, Scott Saunders, Gary Poulton, Charleine Wain, Joseph Valente

Quotes from the Bastards.

“I am the definition of success, I’m a godfather of business and I’m here to make Lord Sugar a lot of money.”

“Me and Lord Sugar will work together because you’ve got age and beauty and those two go hand in hand all the time. Sugar’s got the age and I certainly am beautiful.”

“You will see my name in lights – Jenny Garbis, don’t forget that. That’s going to be a global name. I’m going to be an entrepreneur everyone looks up to.”


All the profiles on here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2PZbM0Y4ZmlxcsMxxHPN8r7/meet-the-candidates

In Taz's absence I'll leave it to somebody else to dish out the :drool:s and :sick:s for the ladies.

Joseph Valente looks like Vincent whatsisname from a few series ago's dickhead kid brother.

[Byron]

Ah Threshing Machine. How I've missed you.

Okay Ian, chief bastard looks like Ruth. Thoughts?

[Giggles]

Nothing tidy. I'm out.

[Ian]

Okay Ian, chief bastard looks like Ruth. Thoughts?

Has anybody older ever not been shit on this? She's going to be too hopeless to be any real bother.

I'm going for Dubai-dwelling Selina and David 'Beautiful' Stevenson as king and queen of the cunts in the early going.

[Yevrah]

I'm amazed the one on the bottom left isn't in porn.

[QE Harold Flair]

The average of the women is probably higher but there's no stand-out there.

[John]

The one at the back, Vana, looks like Morticia Addams.

[Raoul Duke]

The 'social media entrepreneur' has fewer Twitter followers than I do.

It's a toss-up in the ridiculous job title competition between 'Inventor and hair extensions specialist' and 'Private tutor'.

[ScousePig]

The 'social media entrepreneur' has fewer Twitter followers than I do.

It's a toss-up in the ridiculous job title competition between 'Inventor and hair extensions specialist' and 'Private tutor'.

She only has a third of the followers I do, and she's following nearly as many.

I should be on this show.

[simon]

Ella and Jenny are the early winners for me.

They're no Luisa though. Oh, how we peaked with her. :drool:

[ScousePig]

Aye, if you use Luisa as a benchmark you might as well go home now.

Jenny and Ella look like they have potential to me too, but not much more stands out.

[simon]

Luisa will always be the benchmark.

[randomlegend]

Third in from the right on the second row looks like a Nazi death-camp operative.

[Yevrah]

An All Star version may be in the offing.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s108/the-apprentice/news/a673248/the-apprentice-bbc-is-planning-an-all-stars-edition-claims-last-series-winner-mark-wright.html#~pqXhGy6CL8ldxt

[Ian]

Watching winners still make the same idiot mistakes would be amusing but at risk of doing that they'd probably end up being mega-cautious and a bit dull.

[Byron]

Luisa will always be the benchmark.

Good looking? Yes. Awful personality however and a voice that would make me want to lodge a crowbar in her skull within 10 seconds.

[Vim]

'Good looking' may be a slight understatement.

[simon]

Good looking? Yes. Awful personality however and a voice that would make me want to lodge a crowbar in her skull within 10 seconds.

Personality. :baz:

[Benny]

Luisa wasn't the highlight, it was clearly Leah Totton.

http://static.tellymix.co.uk/ts/800/450/www.tellymix.co.uk/files/2014/06/leah-totton.jpg

[Davgooner]

There's only one Claude.

[Elbastido]

It's going to be strange without Nick on the program, but at least they replaced him with Claude :cheer:

I do wonder how they manage to get such a massive selection of useless wankers on the show each year, and then I go and work with a few Marketing and B&M departments and my question is answered. Still it makes good television!

[igor_balis]

I might give the first couple of episodes a go, but it felt really played out the last time I watched it, and i'm sure that was a good couple of seasons ago.

[P_3]

Just over an hour to go. I'm going to say the lasses pick the worse name again. Decadence. :drool:

[Ian]

I was trying to remember earlier what hilariously shit name they'd gone for last year.

Fucking Decadence.

[simon]

The justificiation for it was even better.

[Ian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBkGAgWAuvw

:face:

And just in memory of one of the great moments and great heroes of the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEa3zUO2V8

It's still, so, so good. Nick. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The multi-coloured suit thing :face:

[Byron]

Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude! Claude!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dan looks so out of place.

[Byron]

I think that paragraph just captured every aspect of corporate speak that I hate.

[Giggles]

The stumpy blonde looks so fucking filthy.

EDIT: And a 'podium' dancer :drool:

Seen more prickends than weekends.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Sugarbabes? :D

Although what they lumped for isn't much better.

[P_3]

Because you can cook, you'll be project manager. :face:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lobster mac and cheese? :sick:

[Byron]

'I was a podium dancer, not a pole dancer'

No, you're a twat love.

[Browning]

Fish Finger Sandwiches. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They should have gone for salmon with Asian flavours.

City players would lap that shit up.

[Giggles]

Because you can cook, you'll be project manager. :face:

Not to mention food intolerances :cab:

[Browning]

£9 for a fucking salad?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Guaranteed that they cock the cooking of the tuna up for every single salad.

[Browning]

Every single one of those Calamari are going to come back.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They could have at least bought some fucking sourdough for the fish finger sandwiches :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

£6.50 for a jumbo fishcake? Fuck me.

[Toby]

Much like squid's tentacles, Ella's lower lip appears to function entirely independently from her body.

[P_3]

Fishfingers should win, the others are too far behind.

[Byron]

£6.50 for a fucking fishcake?

[Browning]

Yea, the fishfinger lot have to win. Even though the Calamari is a disgrace, at least they didn't miss the lunch time trade.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Going into a vegan restaurant to sell fish? :D

Fucking hell.

[Browning]

Trying to flog fish in a vegan restaurant when there's hundreds of people outside. :D

[Toby]

How do they still get stupider every year?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That squid looks absolutely rank.

[Browning]

Oh good, it's power hour, they'll sell it now.

[Toby]

Squid that needs to be kept at five degrees, left in an iceless cool box in London summer sunlight. Gosh, who'd have thought it'd get too hot.

[Giggles]

In fairness, the packed street shown after is most likely just some editing. They didn't exactly have to push their way through crowds to get through the cafe.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

£1.87 profit? Amazing.

[P_3]

Ha, £1 profit. :D

[Byron]

That's incredible.

[Browning]

What did the other team lose?

[Browning]

Oh I thought the £1.87 was the winning score. :D

What did the other team make then?

[Giggles]

Oh I thought the £1.87 was the winning score. :D

What did the other team make then?

£200.

[Toby]

Bye Dan.

[Browning]

So they made 20p each?

Quality.

[P_3]

I like Dan. He's just like me when he starts rattling on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dan is gone but I love him.

'I sliced the olives, I did the pans. Someone had to do the pans'.

[Browning]

He's well good at maths though.

[Browning]

He's so pissed. :D

[Toby]

I don't understand why people like Dan apply to this and not just Dragon's Den. It's not like he can be surprised that his lack of sales ability was going to be exposed. He's on to the business plan defence already and it's only week one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Advertising campaign next week :drool:

Yes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't like the new set on You're Fired.

[Davgooner]

Harsh on Dan. That ex-Navy guy should have gone. Was spouting such shit in the boardroom I nearly whipped out the bullshit bingo card.

[Vim]

Dan was basically Jason from a couple of years back minus the ability to pull old ladies. He had to go.

Mind you, I think that Vana (?) one on the end had as much responsibility as Dan. "I was selling them for £6.50 ... well I sold one."

[Pleb]

I would of fired all three of the fishy cunts.

[SvN]

PM should've gone. To make a snap decision on what to sell without even considering the complexity of making them, the costings, what's popular in the area, etc is absolutely absurd. What makes it worse is she doesn't even realise it, and kept going on about how she was "quick and decisive" as if it was a positive.

[Reg]

I liked Dan. :D He'd have been good telly, and taking a guess his business plan would have been better than the others'.

Navy guy is gonna be boring.

[P_3]

I want Dara back. Jack Dee is shit.

[Ian]

Dan just had me thinking of Chris Addison.

I think he could have justified binning any of them three off there.

You're Fired will have to wait until tomorrow seeing as I fell asleep and started this late. :moop:

[Toby]

Dan just had me thinking of Chris Addison.


Yep, or more specifically Ollie Reeder in his first encounters with the Malcolm Tucker / Jamie double team.

[CJay]

Aye, Bianca 2.0 should have gone tonight. All her 'decisiveness' and 'quick thinking' basically blew up in her face immediately when it was obvious none of it and actually been thought through.

[Weaver]

The fish to vegan store reminded me of the postcode exclusivity of last year. Both equally dumb.


Advertising campaign next week :drool:

Yes.

Just to note, it's back on TOMORROW on BBC at 9pm.

[SvN]

Highlight of the show had to be this

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/12144921_925270910894366_7097971518926011873_n.jpg ?oh=770b66323dc6cc8d1efb4b8855a13e7d&oe=5692B787

[Davgooner]

:D

At that point you had him darting around like he'd just done a line of coke and that mentalist in the suit stalking people; it was a dangerous time for passers-by.

[Ian]

It's a real shame nobody was even shitter than him or enough of a colossal dickhead to override it because he'd have been great value.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shot down for her team name and now can't get voted as PM in the task 'suited for her'.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Manly moist :D

Jesus fucking christ.

[P_3]

Poor Charleine, can't even lead a pitch about a hair product. :(

[The Merse]

Not handling it in the best way, mind.

[Browning]

The girls will win this because the boy's campaign just doesn't seem to get across the benefits of the product.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This presentation is amazing.

'We have a secret to share with you, desert secret from the desert'

'It's green because a cactus is green'

[Byron]

That's quite possibly the worst pitch I've ever seen.

They'll probably win though, because they've remembered to keep that consistent theme. That PM is an absolute twat however.

[Byron]

Hang on. Hang the fuck on.

The lads have somehow managed to fuck it up even more

[Browning]

The girl in the middle of the panel they are presenting to.... :drool:

[P_3]

They are all piss poor but I'd be just as bad if put under pressure to perform in front of a bunch of market experts.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

tbh, the product looks so much better from the guys.

[QE Harold Flair]

"It's Lord Sugar here"

Cringeworthy.

[Browning]

It's swinging towards the guys a little. However the brief clearly stated they had to get across the benefit of the cactus. The boys didn't even come close to that.

[Reg]

Think the men should win, the bottle looks way better. But Alan often chooses crap and outdated products and adverts, so he'll go for the women.

[Byron]

I want the lads to win this. The product packaging actually looks decent and if I saw that I'd take a look.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I want the lads to win this. The product packaging actually looks decent and if I saw that I'd take a look.

Indeed, which is probably the first time I've thought that about an Apprentice product.

[Browning]

It's swinging towards the guys a little. However the brief clearly stated they had to get across the benefit of the cactus. The boys didn't even come close to that.

Guess their TV ad did actually. Hope they win now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Right decision that.

[Browning]

Yea, I hadn't seen the ads previously, but they smashed the girls with that. Their billboard was still shite.

Hope the PM goes really. I think she'll try and blame the hairdresser girl.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The PM should go.

Also, they're idiots for not using the hairdresser.

In this show, if someone is desperate to do shit let them. They either do it well or you've got yourself a scapegoat.

[Browning]

"The grey pound" had fuck all to do with the failure, glad Lord Sugar has pointed that out. They could have targeted whoever they wanted and still been shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"The grey pound" had fuck all to do with the failure, glad Lord Sugar has pointed that out. They could have targeted whoever they wanted and still been shit.

It does but not in terms of it being a shit market or whatever.

It added to the failure because they were so muddled in the advertising.

'Over 50's but here are loads of young women...'

[Byron]

Oooooosh.

[Browning]

It does but not in terms of it being a shit market or whatever.

It added to the failure because they were so muddled in the advertising.

'Over 50's but here are loads of young women...'

But that's their fault for not picking older models.

They could have targeted over 50s and done it well. Similarly they could have targeted their own age group and still been shit. Simply suggesting over 50s doesn't make her responsible at all.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

But that's their fault for not picking older models.

They could have targeted over 50s and done it well. Similarly they could have targeted their own age group and still been shit. Simply suggesting over 50s doesn't make her responsible at all.
Yeah, I'm not saying the market was wrong, it was how they were attempting to target said market. It was completely wrong and perhaps they should have picked their own age groups as it would have been easier.

She should have brought someone else into the boardroom.

[P_3]

The most shocking thing I've learned from today's show is that Karen is 46. Looks far too tasty to be hitting 50 in four years.

[Vim]

PM not only was shite throughout, but failed to bring the one responsible for the advert into the final boardroom.

[P_3]

Looking forward to next week. Love the episodes set abroad.

[SvN]

Enjoyed tonight, right decision to fire the useless PM. The fact that she tried to blame the failure of the task on the target market did nothing but show how utterly hopeless she actually was.

[The Merse]

Abysmal show from the ladies. The lads weren't far off, aside from the billboard.

[SvN]

What? The lads' packaging was spot on. The brand name was pretty good too. The only thing that was off the mark was the advert, really.

[The Merse]

What? The lads' packaging was spot on. The brand name was pretty good too. The only thing that was off the mark was the advert, really.

Reading that back, it sounds like I'm saying the lads weren't far off being abysmal... Not what I meant at all.

I meant they weren't far off getting it all right - the only issue being the billboard. I'd also have mentioned that I really wouldn't want to see shampoo all over the eyes and face too.

[Toby]

The girls will win this because the boy's campaign just doesn't seem to get across the benefits of the product.


It's swinging towards the guys a little. However the brief clearly stated they had to get across the benefit of the cactus. The boys didn't even come close to that.

What? :cab:

The boys absolutely nailed it, it was the best ad campaign I can remember on this. The benefits of the product were, "it stops your hair getting dry", not "cactus oil is even better than argon oil", which means nothing to most people. They made the benefits extremely clear without wanking on about ingredients nobody actually cares about, and the cactus featured prominently enough while doing so to act as a convincer.

[P_3]

Oh, so that's what the cactus actually does. I thought they just made that shit up. In which case, they have indeed nailed it.

[Toby]

Well, it's what they were told the cactus does, I've no idea if it's actually true or not, which is sort of the point.

[Browning]

Yea I'm with you Toby. I missed the bit where they filmed their advert so I didn't see it until the board room. At that point all i had seen from them was their shit billboard and good (but not explanatory) bottle. I figured the advert would be as shit as their board/pitch but it was decent and made the winner obvious.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They could have put steaming piles of dump on the billboard and TV ad, they'd still have won due to the bottle (it was damn good) and the girls advert.

[Vim]

Probably the best example that you don't need to do anything incredible in the first rounds, just focus on not fucking up completely. The boys chose a cactus-related name and then showed clips of guys washing their hair. Don't really need anything else.

The name, billboard, packaging and advert of the girls were all random and not connected.

[simon]

Just caught up on this all today.

The older lass with the Willy Wonka style dress sense freaks me right out. And the chap who tried to sell fish in a vegan restaurant may just be the most stupid person they've ever had on the show. He'll be gone pretty quickly, I'd imagine.

[SvN]

The woman with the ridiculous outfits is my early frontrunner. She seems to have her head screwed on.

[simon]

There's no way Alan Sugar ends up going to business with her. She's a nutter.

[Ian]

I like Jack Dee but I'm not feeling You're Fired so far. Still, I do quite like Ranganathan and hopefully they reduce the amount of Matt Edmondson I have to tolerate.

As for the actual task, the boys rightly nailed it. I was a bit concerned that they'd lose because they missed some of the points Sugar was banging on about. Fortunately he came to his senses.

Also Joseph Valente is thick as pigshit but without the latter's several uses. As is that guy who on Wednesday talked about people not putting themselves forward and last night pitched the idea of: "There's a guy with hair a bit like me and then these women turn to look at his face in slow motion."

[SvN]

The latter guy you're on about will be gone at the first opportunity - he's genuinely dumb.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I like Jack Dee but I'm not feeling You're Fired so far. Still, I do quite like Ranganathan and hopefully they reduce the amount of Matt Edmondson I have to tolerate.

As for the actual task, the boys rightly nailed it. I was a bit concerned that they'd lose because they missed some of the points Sugar was banging on about. Fortunately he came to his senses.

Also Joseph Valente is thick as pigshit but without the latter's several uses. As is that guy who on Wednesday talked about people not putting themselves forward and last night pitched the idea of: "There's a guy with hair a bit like me and then these women turn to look at his face in slow motion."

Don't forget his, 'Is this an onion' moment.

[Ian]

Indeed. As soon as he's given any proper responsibility for a task will be when it happens.

EDIT: I had actually forgotten that. :D

[SvN]

Still the best ever candidate


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79iO3V84wAs

[Browning]

Watching it back as my partner missed it and my god the girl who got fired really was terrible. The whole team hated the idea but she pushed it through. Would have been criminal if she survived.

"A guy with hair like mine" really was spectacular.

Didn't notice that lord sugar actually said they had to use the cactus, I thought he had only said they had to mention it's benefits. The boys really did smash it. But I think most of the girls knew it was shit.

[Davgooner]

I always feel sorry for the media designers who have to sit with these twats and bring their shit ideas to life. It must be fucking infuriating.

[Browning]

Still the best ever candidate


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79iO3V84wAs

He can deliver in plus 10. :D

What's the point of a social worker in the arctic?

[Yevrah]

Was Claude good?

[Toby]

He didn't really do anything. He certainly doesn't offer any interest off screen, as Nick did with his favial expressions.

[The Merse]

I miss Nick already.

[QE Harold Flair]

Claude's nasty man, I'm so straight talking! routine will get tired very quickly, I fear. He should have been left to just the interviews.

I still think the best/worst part of the show was Alan Sugar referring to himself as 'Lord' Sugar. Twat.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I liked him telling the candidates about Brady now being Lady/Baroness Brady and her turning around to say 'Karren is fine'.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06jl9xp/the-apprentice-series-11-1-fish-food

5 minutes in.

Proper donning Sugar.

[Browning]

Karen's role seems to have diminished, and her and Claude are barely in it whatsoever.

[Ian]

The assistants (or whatever Sugar calls his two dogsbodies) have been featured less heavily in the edit for a couple of series and it's a worse show for that.

[Pleb]

Already off to a great start.

"Where's Dover? Are we going to Ireland?"

Muppets.

[Pleb]

Girls getting the wrong size cheese :baz:

[Kikó]

What the fuck is this shit and what is wrong with all the women?

[CJay]

The women have been awful so far. None of them seem even remotely likeable.

[Yevrah]

Is there added Claude yet?

[CJay]

He's hardly done anything. Just told us he can speak French.

[Yevrah]

I might not bother then.

The show spunked its load years ago and if Claude's a bystander then :moop:

[Reg]

I didn't enjoy that much. I spent a lot of it thinking how much I disliked the majority of them.

Then the firing seemed like it was based on who was better telly.

[CJay]

Claude's on You're Fired now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watching this now.

Boys not buying snails, you could probably get them at a supermarket...

And mussels, they paid £5.05 a KG and the girls got none. You can go into any supermarket and pay, a maximum, of £3.99 a KG.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=250803042

£3.75 a KG from Tesco...

[Browning]

The firing seemed a bit mental. She seemed to be trying to do things, only for the PM to stop her constantly. Then she gets fired for "not doing anything" whilst everyone who actually did something fucked it up.

[SvN]

Agreed. Firing seemed totally random. Not sure what she was meant to have done wrong.

[Giggles]

The yank really should have gone.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Does Alan Sugar actually decide himself who gets fired, or is it the producers?

[Giggles]

Does Alan Sugar actually decide himself who gets fired, or is it the producers?

I'd say he's so much less to do with it all than they'd like us to think.

That bit in the cave on the big screen when he told them he was 'on important business' like they were little kids was so cringe.

[CJay]

Good question. I'd love someone to come out and tell us exactly how much of the whole thing is staged / for the cameras.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They probably pick the top 5 or so best business plans, then over a few weeks they realise who are the best for TV people with the rest being expendable.

The Yank probably has a great business plan or they thought she'd be great value for shitting on the other girls.

[Yevrah]

By and large Sugar won't give a shit. He pays £250k for what's essentially a prime time spot on a channel watched the world over, which is probably the beginning and end of it as far as he's concerned.

I know people like to think it's more credible ("in business" etc) but it'll have exactly the same production values as all the other reality wank and large parts of it will be staged/edited within an inch of its life.

I met a (quite vile) woman who got down to the last 50 a few years ago last week and the producers were having them do all manner of wank that would have been more suitable for a Simon Cowell vehicle than IN BUSINESS.

[Giggles]

Or a really shit business plan. They'll need one of those in the final too.

[Toby]

By and large Sugar won't give a shit. He pays £250k for what's essentially a prime time spot on a channel watched the world over, which is probably the beginning and end of it as far as he's concerned.

Does he actually put his own money in to it? If he does he's presumably getting paid to balance it out. It's not like he won't be profiting from it directly as well as from the added exposure.

[simon]

Last night was such bollocks.

You can't have somebody fuck up a task to that extent, where practically everything was her fault and then fire someone else because 'all she was doing was making excuses'. Of course she was making excuses, she tried to contribute, was shot down by her own PM and was then brought into the boardroom as a result. :cab:

She was also the best looking of the lot, so it's a double blow.

[Vim]

The girls' PM must have a killer business plan because she did everything wrong and still didn't get fired.

[QE Harold Flair]

She also looks a lot like Pob. I think she might qualify as shameful lustage, though.

http://www.classickidstv.co.uk/wiki/images/7/70/Pob2.jpghttp://static.tellymix.co.uk/ts/800/450/www.tellymix.co.uk/files/2015/10/the-apprentice-2015-cast-17.jpg

[simon]

I think she might qualify as shameful lustage, though.

http://static.tellymix.co.uk/ts/800/450/www.tellymix.co.uk/files/2015/10/the-apprentice-2015-cast-17.jpg

:moop:

I hadn't seen it until now, but I think you're right.

[Yevrah]

Does he actually put his own money in to it? If he does he's presumably getting paid to balance it out. It's not like he won't be profiting from it directly as well as from the added exposure.

I suspect he does put his own money in, but yeah, you're right, they'll be paying him as well.

[Reg]

I'm sure he'll get paid loads and make a substantial profit.

BBC give huge contracts and the Apprentice must be one of the biggest shows.

[Giggles]

None tonight?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Those t-shirts are absolutely vile.

[Davgooner]

'Smash it.'

[Giggles]

Clownsuit scares the bejaysus out of me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Selina is awful, christ knows why she was put on the luxury items.

[Byron]

That'll be Ruth gone I imagine. Or possibly Selina.

[Giggles]

That'll be good luck to the only half decent looking thing in it. The way they focused on her losing interest means she's a gonner.

[CJay]

Ruth deserves to go for that suit. :sick: She reminds me of Rosie from Rosie & Jim.

[Davgooner]

That baldy pussy.

[CJay]

Scott's far too nice, he sounds like he's trying to defend the other two here. :D He should be fine, though. He sold well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Selina is gone.

[Byron]

Yeah, considering the show builds itself on backstabbing and throwing people under the bus Scott actually seems like a half decent chap.

[Byron]

Thought that was going to be a double elimination.

[Giggles]

Was full sure 2 were gone there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sugar has no balls.

What a fucking twat, he should have pulled the trigger.

Oh and the baldy wanker sounds like PC Penhale from Doc Martin.

[Ian]

Home from holiday and all caught. Joseph needs beating with a large stick.

[Reg]

Ruth deserves to go for that suit. :sick: She reminds me of Rosie from Rosie & Jim.
:D

Decent episode, Scott was never going to get fired. Think he could be the winner.

[Vim]

David and Gary are the best candidates for me so far.

[ScousePig]

Baldy wanker and lesbian have to go. I was hoping Scott would bring those two back.

Ruth was alright, and I bet Selina's filthy.

[Davgooner]

Watching this again it struck me that it's a fucking depressing representation of the real world of work. Why the fuck is a woman with two successful businesses cowering before a twat like Sugar? 'Oh thank you Mr Sugar. Thank you. Thank you. I'll take on board everything you've said. Thank you.'

Surely someone has to get to the point in there that they say 'fuck this, I'm not taking shit from this ferret-faced cunt', and tell him so before doing one.

[Giggles]

Was there never any footage of the pushing they cut?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s108/the-apprentice/news/a676137/the-apprentice-star-selina-waterman-smith-claims-shes-broken-her-contract-with-the-show.html

http://i2.cdnds.net/15/44/618x206/selina-waterman-smith-twitter-screenshot.jpg

Hmm, I hope she reveals all at a later date.

[Davgooner]

Takes criticism well, doesn't she?

[Vim]

She sounds like that Amy woman from Gordon Ramsay's show.

[ScousePig]

Attention seeking bitch.

[Ian]

You're already rambling, love.

[Ian]

Sam's plan of shouting every tiny thing that comes into his head is going well, I feel.

[Ian]

They're going to get pulled up for having 'snotty' in the name of the character, I reckon.

Or maybe just for those children being bored.

[Ian]

She looked genuinely fuming when other people on her team were getting credit even though it wasn't at her expense, the silly mare.

If he takes Natalie in I reckon she goes for general wankness so far.

EDIT: What an exchange that was. :D

Sam: "And... er.... Brett."
Sugar: "Who?"
Brett: "Me."

Brett's not going. He might bin off Sam and Brett though. He's got multi-firings up his sleeve, right?

[Byron]

Right choice there, she was a useless bint.

[Ian]

I reckon from that preview we're getting a double next week.

[Byron]

Yeah as soon as that 'I'm going to do something unusual' came up I thought it would be a double.

[Luke Emia]

Jesus how wet is Sam? Brett was ok tonight and was never going. I think him and Scott have potential to win it as well as the DavidBrentalike.

[Reg]

It's gotta be something more unusual hasn't it? He says "at least one of you will be fired" every week now. It'll be not bringing in the manager of the losing team, or firing someone from the winning team.

Natalie was crap and very dislikeable.

The winning project manager was lucky. She did everything badly.

[Luke Emia]

There's plenty of candidates to be gotten rid of. Most of the girls are dross and Sam and that other lad who was wearing the daft pyjamas at the end are both deadwood.

[SvN]

Jesus how wet is Sam? Brett was ok tonight and was never going. I think him and Scott have potential to win it as well as the DavidBrentalike.
Are you having a laugh? Brett is the thickest candidate in a few years. He's always using long words incorrectly to try and mask his monginess. I genuinely feel embarrassed for him.

[CJay]

Has anyone else noticed that Sugar states "...so I'm struggling here" every week before he makes his decision? :D

[SvN]

Yep. Every week he says "And for that reason.... I'm struggling."

[QE Harold Flair]

I'm struggling to care about any of the cast this year.

[Yevrah]

The show's had its day I suspect.

[SvN]

I found out today that Baggs died in the summer. Only 27.

[Giggles]

I found out today that Baggs died in the summer. Only 27.

Is that a contestant?

[QE Harold Flair]

It was posted on here or the old board, in fact.

[Browning]

150 copies at £4.20 becoming 50 copies at £3.50? No wonder they lost with negotiation like that.

[Ian]

Is that a contestant?

He was a whole field of ponies you twat.

[GS]

The show's had its day I suspect.

It hasn't at all. You're always going to get new candidates in every year who embarrass themselves and provide the entertainment. We need to avoid declaring that everything has "had its day".

[Yevrah]

But after a while, that ceases to be interesting viewing.

[GS]

Perhaps if it was on every week of every year. Not based on current scheduling.

[Yevrah]

Ok, I'll look forward to it running for the rest of my life then.

[Toby]

The viewing figures are pretty consistent with the last couple of series, so I think we can expect it to be around for at least a couple more years yet.

[Davgooner]

What a fucking shit task.

[Giggles]

I wouldn't let those cunts dig a hole and fill it in again.

[Ian]

If this was designed to make them all look like shit mugs it's working a treat. Was it the year of Jedi Jim they had a carwashing task?


I wouldn't let those cunts dig a hole and fill it in again.

:D

[Ian]

"How can I paint the floor with dust all over it?"
"We're gonna sweep the floor and then paint it."
"......"

Joseph is thicker than my shite and yet he's still coming off as one of the better candidates.

[Ian]

Hold the fucking phone, how much are they getting per hour for weeding?

Christ, I picked the wrong career.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm a little behind, Sam's maths at the football stadium was amazing.

[Ian]

If her team loses, watching Sugar pretend Elle is anything other than definitely, utterly and completely fired will be tragic.

Even compared to the histronics in a standard boardroom.

Should be enough to save even Mergim.

[Giggles]

PM or the gobshite that can't operate a paintbrush.

[Browning]

Isn't he supposed to do something unusual this week?

Either he's choosing the 3 that come into the board room, or he's firing all 3? Surely it's not just a boring double.

[Browning]

Oh that's it.... well... that was boring.

Edit- Wait... what?!

[Giggles]

That'll be it then.

[Ian]

Woof.

[Browning]

i thought it was just going to be "The guy who was clearly safe anyway is safe."

That's a nice twist.

[Giggles]

More interesting way of doing a double (or triple) firing.

[Toby]

"I'll never ask anybody to do anything I couldn't do myself" is about as back to front a business philosophy as I've ever heard. Also completely at odds with what Sugar has actually done, which has clearly been to surround himself with good people and let them do what they're good at.

[Davgooner]

What happened?

[Giggles]

What happened?

He sacked the PM while the 6 were there and then got Megim to pick two to bring back into the boardroom with himself.

[Browning]

Is this gonna be 4....

[Giggles]

Thought it was going to be when Brady piped up there.

[P_3]

Phwoar. Triple lynch. :drool:

[Giggles]

Was just thinking there, I can't remember specific years of this, is there interviews any more or did that go out the window with the business plan/partner thing?

[Ian]

That's him used all his multi-firings now, I think.

Still, at least the writers mixed it up a bit with that one. Thought April was going to get the "You're PM next week" treatment and then a double next week if she fucked it.

[Browning]

Was just thinking there, I can't remember specific years of this, is there interviews any more or did that go out the window with the business plan/partner thing?

Yea they still do them and they tear the business plants to shreds.

[Giggles]

Yea they still do them and they tear the business plants to shreds.

Excellent. Claude better still be involved in the tearing.

[Toby]

Yea they still do them and they tear the business plants to shreds.

You'd think one weeding task would be enough.

[Ian]

Claude's evisceration of Solomon was a glorious, tear-and-piss-stained celebrating of why the interviews are the best. I hope they've got Nick back for those.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-_34NcDTc

It's a pity Elle's mouth is such a mess.

[Reg]

That was a good'un. Best episode so far I reckon.

Elle seems quite nice, which is a turnaround because for the first couple weeks she was one of the worst.

[Browning]

You'd think one weeding task would be enough.

Fucking hell, that's why you don't post on a phone. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nice to see Sugar grow some balls.

Shame that'll be that in terms of multiple firings though.

[Ian]

It's a pity April barely ever smiled during the show because she's nice when she does.

Probably a massive pain in the arse in reality as well, mind.

[Giggles]

She's not half bad when she hasn't that stupid doorknob on top of her head.

[Vim]

Joseph looks like a complete mong, but he doesn't actually seem like an awful candidate. He won't win, that's for sure, but still.

[Toby]

Joseph is fine. They have some actual idiots on this year though. There have been people in the past who have seemed stupid relative to what you'd expect in the setting, but Mergim was genuinely thick.

[Browning]

I can't think what the blonde lady with the shampoo business is called... but I do get the feeling if she was in the board room we may have seen 4 go.