The Apprentice 2019

[Pericoloso]

I had to at least watch the beginning of You're fired as I fell asleep during the hour final bit.

I had a hunch Carina would win.

I wait with baited breath for the local Lepore's to open near me.

[Second Best]

I thought Carina did pretty well and is a worthy winner, Scarlett's fisticuffs towards the end were a bit unnecessary and may have tipped the scales.

Took me 90 seconds to switch off Tom Allen's fking awful show. Really hope they bin him off, I can't find a single positive review about him presenting You're Fired.

[Driver101]

Hub said:

If Lottie is so clever, why isn't she at uni?

At 19 she had already managed 15 years in the music industry.

The other 4 years must have been Uni.

[DSLiverpool]

If you check out Carinas artisan bake house it’s more like a arches cafe that bakes a bit than artisan.
Carinas pre fame alter ego looks interesting as well, she’s achieved a huge image refresh.
Shugs will have a his work cut out here.

[Gary C]

Pericoloso said:

I wait with baited breath for the local Lepore's to open near me.

Lepore, its an odd name

Sounds like Hansen's disease

[Oakey]

DSLiverpool said:

If you check out Carinas artisan bake house it’s more like a arches cafe that bakes a bit than artisan.
Carinas pre fame alter ego looks interesting as well, she’s achieved a huge image refresh.
Shugs will have a his work cut out here.

You mean the German whips and Gucci shopping trips? Wonder how she was funding all that as her business has only been around since 2018

Her company accounts don't look all that good and her dad resigned as Director in June, wonder how much of the family connection will remain?

[Countdown]

Gary C said:

Lepore, its an odd name

Sounds like Hansen's disease

Sounds a bit too much like Lepers to me....

[Bluedot]

Is it this site ?
www . doughbakehouse . co . uk ?

I get a big warning alert from Norton when I go to it

[CharlieH89]

DSLiverpool said:

If you check out Carinas artisan bake house it’s more like a arches cafe that bakes a bit than artisan.
Carinas pre fame alter ego looks interesting as well, she’s achieved a huge image refresh.
Shugs will have a his work cut out here.

What did Carina do before the bakery?
She’s deleted her Instagram but there are photos on google of her in Gucci and named brands. Brand new car. Holidays.
Seems like she has the material stuff but a bakery cant make THAT much money to pay staff wages and mortgage/ named brands/ brand new car.
Opened Feb 2018 and within a month had the likes of Anthony Joshua and Wilfred Zaha visiting. So she knows people, the bakery had a good reputation within a month or the location is good.

Edited by CharlieH89 on Thursday 19th December 09:49

[thegreenhell]

CharlieH89 said:

What did Carina do before the bakery?

According to the Final Five programme before the interviews, she was with M&S for ten years, rising from shop floor to a quite senior management position. She then joined the family baking business after her dad's bakery suffered a major fire, and she invested a lot of her own savings into rebuilding the business.

[rdjohn]

thegreenhell said:

According to the Final Five programme before the interviews, she was with M&S for ten years, rising from shop floor to a quite senior management position. She then joined the family baking business after her dad's bakery suffered a major fire, and she invested a lot of her own savings into rebuilding the business.

I thought that both proposals seemed weak.

I suppose that if Sugar is using in-house expertise to select properties, interview shop managers, POS accounting, shop layout etc, then he can charge their time against the £250k invested.

I can’t really see it getting any bigger than perhaps 10 outlets around London. Without bigger baking infrastructure, I cant see her getting beyond the two that she was actually talking about.

[Oakey]

You'd think she'd have put that on her LinkedIn profile, that she was at M&S for ten years?

[kev1974]

thegreenhell said:

CharlieH89 said:

What did Carina do before the bakery?

According to the Final Five programme before the interviews, she was with M&S for ten years, rising from shop floor to a quite senior management position. She then joined the family baking business after her dad's bakery suffered a major fire, and she invested a lot of her own savings into rebuilding the business.

Her 10 years being trained by M&S obviously didn't include giving many presentations!

[FourWheelDrift]

Bluedot said:

Is it this site ?
www . doughbakehouse . co . uk ?

I get a big warning alert from Norton when I go to it

They bake nothing I can see that I can't buy from my local bakery, or the next local, or the next local. Except perhaps the energy balls, but then I have never gone into a bakery and asked for balls.




Site is clean here.

PS. Norton is st.

[anonymous-user]

the site is compromised.

[Vipers]

Thesprucegoose said:

the site is compromised.

Logged in OK here, no probs, I have Norton as well.

doughbakehouse.co.uk

[Bluedot]

Thesprucegoose said:

the site is compromised.

FourWheelDrift said:

Site is clean here.
PS. Norton is st.

Now seems ok, there was a problem earlier though

Edited by Bluedot on Thursday 19th December 12:03

[anonymous-user]

Bluedot said:

Now seems ok, there was a problem earlier though

Edited by Bluedot on Thursday 19th December 12:03

nope

[Bluedot]

Fine for me now using Chrome.
There was a problem earlier though.

[Vipers]

Bluedot said:

Fine for me now using Chrome.
There was a problem earlier though.

Gremlins me thinks.