Apprentice 2018

[chrisga]

How many bags of salt? Unbelievable. Loved the girl in the boardroom still telling Alan Sugar she sorted them out as they needed 40 all along.....
First one i've watched since S1 E1. Now I remember why.

[Zetec-S]

Agree with the other sentiments on here, thank fk the foghorn with the weird lips has gone. Don't think I could have put up with her for too long, especially when she started banging on about being talked down to, and being a working class "bisniss" woman. She wouldn't shut up on the Your Fired programme either.

And the other lass, Jackie(?) should also have gone, not sure what she did other than arrange a PM...

All in all, a great 1st episode, looking forward to next week.

[nicanary]

caiss4 said:

Last Visit said:

Thank goodness she went, I couldn't have put up with the voice and that ridiculous botox trout pout for another 13 weeks.

This ^^^^

Loved it when the street vendor couldn't understand that she wanted to buy a bort. Not a boat, a bort. I'm not having a dig at regional accents, the UK's all the better for them, but when you're in a foreign country you have to make some effort to be understandable.

[smithyithy]

nicanary said:

Loved it when the street vendor couldn't understand that she wanted to buy a bort. Not a boat, a bort. I'm not having a dig at regional accents, the UK's all the better for them, but when you're in a foreign country you have to make some effort to be understandable.

"Hunneh Corm? Yum Yum Yum??"

I haven't watched You're Fired yet, but she did seem to have a chip on her shoulder, having a go at Jasmine for 'talking down' to her and commenting on her being middle class..

I think that Jackie should've gone too, she seems a bit nasty and like the others said - did nothing except throw a PM under the bus and talk negative the entire task. Also is she Irish or American? I really can't place her accent at times..

[Andy 308GTB]

smithyithy said:

nicanary said:

Loved it when the street vendor couldn't understand that she wanted to buy a bort. Not a boat, a bort. I'm not having a dig at regional accents, the UK's all the better for them, but when you're in a foreign country you have to make some effort to be understandable.

"Hunneh Corm? Yum Yum Yum??"

I haven't watched You're Fired yet, but she did seem to have a chip on her shoulder, having a go at Jasmine for 'talking down' to her and commenting on her being middle class..

I think that Jackie should've gone too, she seems a bit nasty and like the others said - did nothing except throw a PM under the bus and talk negative the entire task. Also is she Irish or American? I really can't place her accent at times..

Canadian pantomime villain.
Surely nobody is that awful and there was some creative editing going on?

[Doofus]

Any Apprentice Candidate At all, Probably A Woman: I'm the fking bks, me. I own businesses all over the universe, and st rolls off me like teflon.

SerAlan: Yer all goin' to Mawta. In Yorup.

Any Apprentice Candidate At All, Probably A Woman: Ooh! Squeak Squeak! We're going to the seaside! I'm so excited!



And if SerAlan uses the phrase "The least amount of money" again, I think I'll explode.

[Eric Mc]

PurpleTurtle said:

Eric Mc said:

The fact that the abominable excrescence that is currently President of the US emerged out of the American version of this pile of TV poo does not surprise me one jot.

Whilst I understand your dislike of the programme and the orange buffoon, he hardly came to prominence because of his appearance in the US version.

Not exactly unknown before it, unless you’ve been living under a rock for 20yrs.

Not really the place to discuss Trump as he has a thread or five already allocated to him but I would argue that, whilst he was well known as a (sometimes - but usually not) successful businessman since the mid 1980s, his ability to run for President and his confidence to do so came absolutely and totally from the public profile he built up after 12 years of appearing on The Apprentice.

[Zetec-S]

smithyithy said:

"Hunneh Corm? Yum Yum Yum??"

I haven't watched You're Fired yet, but she did seem to have a chip on her shoulder, having a go at Jasmine for 'talking down' to her and commenting on her being middle class..

Get fed up with the candidates who bang on about growing up with nothing, from a working class background, started with nothing, etc etc

smithyithy said:

I think that Jackie should've gone too, she seems a bit nasty and like the others said - did nothing except throw a PM under the bus and talk negative the entire task. Also is she Irish or American? I really can't place her accent at times..

Yep, took me a while to work out she was Canadian, not Irish (I think it was Your Fired which cleared it up for me).

[spikeyhead]

How dull would this be with competent candidates?

Seems this year's lot are more than dumb enough to provide another series of entertaining stupidity.

[Shakermaker]

As a confident young man who knew everything, I considered applying for The Apprentice when it would have netted me a job, rather than investment.

Now, as a slightly older man who realises I know very little, I don't want to go on. But I think as so many of us do, we could all do so much better than many of those shown on the TV in the edited 1-hour per week we see of them spending 2-3 days on a task.

I no longer view the show for this reason, I think the last time I did was when Ruth won? However, a friend of mine who has spent his entire career so far in the police sent a Tweet to Claude Littner for advice last year about whether anyone from a non-business background would do well in the show given it is now about investment. Whether the positive response was just lip-service or not I don't know, but it could be a bit of a revival the show needs?

I seem to recall the US version did a season where half the candidates were "school smart" with degrees up to their eyeballs and half were "street smart" types with tales of making millions selling shoelaces to the homeless or similar

[FourWheelDrift]

Doofus said:

Any Apprentice Candidate At all, Probably A Woman: I'm the fking bks, me. I own businesses all over the universe, and st rolls off me like teflon.

SerAlan: Yer all goin' to Mawta. In Yorup.

Any Apprentice Candidate At All, Probably A Woman: Ooh! Squeak Squeak! We're going to the seaside! I'm so excited!

And if SerAlan uses the phrase "The least amount of money" again, I think I'll explode.

It's the same when they enter the house for the first time it's like they have never seen such wonders such as indoor toilets and curtains. Or when LordTate'nLyle talks about the £250,000 investment the eyes widen in the belief they are going to be paid a salary out of it and they will decide how much they give themselves.

There was a distinct change in wannabe Apprentice when the format changed from being an Apprentice to starting their own business. From choosing between 16 potentials with the occasional fruitloop to choosing between 2 who actually have a business worth investing in and 14 fruitloops added purely for TV entertainment value.

[Biker 1]

Its basically a gameshow/junk TV - surely these are not Britain's 'finest'??
A good laugh, although Karen Brady is past her sell-by date, even with troweled on makeup.....
They appear to speak excellent English in Malta & also drive on the left(?). I've not been there - can anybody recommend for a holiday?

[TheGuru]

HD TV certainly doesn't do the girls any favours

[Europa1]

Biker 1 said:

A good laugh, although Karen Brady is past her sell-by date, even with troweled on makeup.....

Whereas Claude is clearly still in his prime?

[Zetec-S]

Biker 1 said:

They appear to speak excellent English in Malta & also drive on the left(?). I've not been there - can anybody recommend for a holiday?

Not been (yet) but know someone who moved out a couple of years ago, so at some point plan to go as it looks pretty amazing.

English is an official language in Malta, and I believe it's a requirement to be taught at schools. They do drive on the left, but from what I understand traffic is pretty horrendous.

[dukeboy749r]

Lovely for a holiday. Yes they speak very good English and drive on the left...

[Nickp82]

For me the best bit of The Apprentice is the 'You're Fired' programme over on BBC2, the gentle ribbing is always amusing though it was far better when presented by Adrian Chiles or Dara O'Brian.

[smithyithy]

Europa1 said:

Whereas Claude is clearly still in his prime?

Claude will continue to age like a fine wine. Perfect specimen of a man.

[Zetec-S]

Nickp82 said:

For me the best bit of The Apprentice is the 'You're Fired' programme over on BBC2, the gentle ribbing is always amusing though it was far better when presented by Adrian Chiles or Dara O'Brian.

Yep, always good for a laugh. I sometimes think they could make it longer than 30 minutes as I'm sure there's plenty of extra footage to enjoy.

I don't think you could beat Dara O'Briain as the presenter, but Rhod Gilbert works pretty well. Far better than the abysmal effort from Jack Dee a few years ago.

[FunkyNige]

Nickp82 said:

For me the best bit of The Apprentice is the 'You're Fired' programme over on BBC2, the gentle ribbing is always amusing though it was far better when presented by Adrian Chiles or Dara O'Brian.

In our house The Apprentice is the bit you have to watch to understand the jokes in "You're Fired"