I personally think it's great but blogger Adam McCulloch reckons we should all be feeling very guilty for watching it!
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come on this is the telly equivalent of superglue - once you start watching it you won't get away. I think it is self-righteous bollocks to be sniffy about sralan in a holier-than-thou type way. This irks me just as much as people who whinge on about Big Brother being about "exploitation" - get off your high horse - it's just telly! I personally can't wait to see what the old growler has in store for another lot of hapless wannabes....all of whom usually have such giant egos it would take a lot, and I mean A LOT for them to be reduced to jelly in his presence. I would certainly like to give old sugababe a run for his money! also, he puts all the bosses you thought were awful in the shade...! Anyone ever had a boss like sralan? I've had one that came close...
I like the contrast between the contestants opinions of themselves and their actual abilities - priceless!
The Apprentice is a stupid programme that represents the ultimate dumbing down of society and the individuals who watch it
I love it, love it, love it.
I love stuff likes this on tv because i can just unwind and not have to think about anything. We all need a certain amount of trash in our lives especially with our jobs!!
wilis, don't watch it if you feel so strongly about it - in the words of Why Don't You -- switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead!
I totally agree sw after a stressful day at work, I don't want to go home and watch soemthing else stressful! A glass of wine over a good bit of trashy tv sounds good to me!
Yep. i'll definately be tuning in. Nothing like watching those less fortunate than yourself getting it wrong LOL
Did anyone else notice it was the 3 guys with the dodgiest haircuts that ended up back in the boardroom?
I felt quite sorry for Alex - I'm sure I wouldn't have fared any better with so many egos and deadweights in my team. Raef is priceless - “The spoken word is my tool.” Well he got the "tool" bit right anyway.
How none of them picked up on the fact that lobsters were flying off their stall because they'd incorrectly priced them at £5 sooner was quite amusing.
Raef is definitely going to be the star of the show, although the woman in brightly-coloured clothes and red beret looks like she might be good value as well.
this year's producers seem to have had a penchant for picking people with ridiculous names to suit their obviously ridiculous ambitions -- michael sophocles (like a whiny steel-arsed bambi in last night's boardroom spat) alex wotherspoon (just to distinguish himself from that commoner's pub) Raef Bjayou (silly name, ego you would not believe) not forgetting the first out the door Lord Snooty himself (albeit with one GSCE with a b grade in his entire life) Nicholas de Lacey Brown --- that well-known barrister and "artist" - please someone make him go and live on a council estate for the next 2634562347657824658234890 years so he can get the proverbial kicked out of him. And what was that stupid smudge of bumfluff on his chin? Art with a capital F?!
Agree that lord snooty's 'beard' was most disturbing as was Raf's hair. How much of it is there? It is like he has got a full head of hair with a toupee on top!
lRafis hair ooks like a mop on top of a toupee on top of another toupee to me. I think we should send these comments about is hair to him on a postcard. it would serve him right for being so full of gas.
I started watching it last night and couldnt stop - know I should have more self control, but judgement seems to go after a long day at work!
Cant remember any of the names but just loved the ginger haired *** - project manager - wouldnt you just love to be a member of her team!
She was awful and such a bully with clear favourites in her team, I think she should have gone last night. Saying she felt she had to "breast feed" Lucinda was a bit odd too. Great tv though - loved it!
don't know who was worse last night - wobbling lady lucinda of the chiffon scarves or Janet-Street Porter/Maggie Thatcher reincarnation Jenny. Jenny needs to realise she doesn't have to go to the 1980s power women for her role models. The world would be a better place if she didn't. All she needs is a pair of whopping shoulder pads to finish the uber business *** image off to a tee. She is not the only anachronism - surely Raef would be totally at home wafting about in an Oscar Wilde play....
I do wonder what if anything he actually sees before making his decision - if he had seen the programme as we saw it last night I agree it should have been Jenny (if that was the project manager) that got the chop!
Shazia should have stuck up more for herself. She was intimidated by Jenny. I thought she had more confidence than she showed in the boardroom. Lets hope Jenny comes upstuck in a big way, so that nobody else will have to have her as a manager
I found out from the BBC website that Jenny used to be a social worker...
Who will win tonight - the men or the women? I think they have to run a pub this week
can't believe that awful cow was a social worker. probably the worst one in the world! I hope the women win tonight, although will be interested to see if there is another -- perhaps this time conclusive -- showdown between jenny and lucinda, and one of them will go? looking forward to seeing Raef again though he intrigues me now after my initial feeling he was a posh twat...
Am I right in thinking that Jenny is the red head who project led the girls team last week. I must confess i didnt have her down as a social worker - I dont think I would want her handling my case? Then again she could be perfect for Sir Alan as I dont think he would make a very good social worker either. Makes me think about other celebs/public figures - and I cant think of any that I would want as my social worker - any ideas?
yes jenny is the red head. she is a total control freak with an ego that stinks to high heaven. I would like Jade Goody as my social worker cos she is from the streets innit!
whoever it was that got voted out last night was such a nonentity I cant remember his name! a bit of a dull episode all round, apart from little britain only-gay-in-the-village Daffid lookalike in the kitchen making a dog's dinner of italian cuisine. carbonara made out of creme fraiche and mushrooms in a blender anyone (with potatoes)? The best bit though was red head jenny doing awful overenthusiastic bollywood dancing on the girl's winning pub night...she is truly ghastly...though disappointed me by being relatively quiet for once
Ian. His name was Ian. And he was not a nonentity - he had very blue eyes. I think the highlight for me - as always - was the general word-mangling that went on.Particular favourite was something along the lines of "He over-rid me"
Another dodgy haircut out the door
Simon Smith, who got fired last night, has got to be one of the nicest people ever to appear on this programme. He was a lesson in the art of self-deprecation - which is a foreign word to most contestants that walk through the door. I think he was fired for being too genuine..
Clare is a cow though. Too many of the girls are cows. Can't think of one with any redeeming factors.
Alex is just annoying me now, with his silly little girl pout. I can only wince at the thought of his face being splashed all over the media once he is out (or, God forbid, wins).
Raef last night magnificently kept himself out of the Lucinda and Helene cowfight. Good man. Looking very handsome too...
While I agree with you that all of the girls are cows, and I wouldnt want to work for any of them - I thought it was right that Simon got the chop last night, he completely failed to manage his team.
To be honest I wouldnt employ any of the current batch on a salary of 10k a year let alone 100k - Sir Alan must be mad!
I wouldn't mind if Raef was my boss...apparently one of his spare time interests is cognac...!
Sadly, you are right, Simon did have to go for failing to manage his team, but in all fairness, he was shafted by his team members, there lack of respect was staggering. Just goes to show, good guys do not win.
Also, can anybody tell me what the point of Lucinda is, to quote Edmund Blackadder, she is "wetter than a fishes wet bits".
that is a class quote to describe Lucinda, silly by name, silly by nature. She will be next to go, I think
She is wet but I think it was very devious making her do the computer bit. She must be good at something surely?
Difficult to say, I (sadly) have watched all four programmes and have yet to see her shine, of course, I could be doing her a great injustice. She may very well be the sharpest of the lot and just using a high risk strategy - somehow I doubt it though.
At least Simon had a decent haircut !