The Apprentice #5

[hehehe]

Glad Connor's gone -- yappy, pompous and overbearing.

I don't get the strong reactions to Kieran, he's just meh for me. A bit more delusional than the others, but that's it. I don't know why he'd make anyone's "skin crawl" -- that's unnecessarily personal and harsh.

Levi was useless, he had to go.

Pascha is totally useless, she scrapes by each week by being on winning teams or maybe they're keeping her around for her business plan. She should have been booted within the first 3 weeks.

 

[Sketchy]

Why did they not just fish the parsley back out of the bin? It couldn't have been there long and it was just sitting there on top of everything waiting to be rescued, it's not as if it was an outside bin, or that a load of messy junk had been poured over it. All it needed was a quick rinse under the tap!

 

[Tea&Toast]

Yeah the task was set up to fail, made good telly though. Shame blondie got fired, she would have been good for a laugh. She would have eventually collapsed into a neurotic nervous breakdown.

 

[Mark81]

Problem with the interviews is so much is staged and none look good. Then suddenly at feedback time they give positive stuff to Lord Sugar that we haven't seen in the interview stage

 

[Mark81]

I don't know I'm a first timer. Husband decides he wanted to watch it. I don't really like it but it's proper car crash tv

Its just like any reality show these days. All about the drama rather than the business side of stuff. Gets steadily worse each year

 

[Scotch Mist]

Yes. I looked this up last year. He's actually made a loss over the years. Most of them fail.

I should imagine any loss he's made is offset by his fee for doing the show. I can't imagine he'd carry on with it if he was consistently losing money.

 

[Multi-21]

Sarah keep talking directly down the camera was annoying me. I think over half have done Strictly which just goes to show these celeb specials are running out of names fast. It was the same on The Wheel on Christmas day

 

[IfTheCapFits]

“Hydrations”

I see your Hydrations,
& i raise you 'fo-li-arge'

 

[Multi-21]

I’ve just realised despite the heatwave I haven’t seen Lord Sugar advertising his new AC business. You’d think now would be the time to remind people about it

 

[Scotch Mist]

It was such a lazy idea and has nothing to do with inclusivity. If anything, it buys further into stereotyping -- i.e. that if you're not a "typical man" then you must be one who likes to wear dresses.

I don't know any men that want to wear dresses, certainly not in age group. My husband laughed himself silly over the idea that any man would want to wear that parachute monstrosity. Maybe someone like Sam Smith would wear it but most men aren't attending red carpet events where they have to dress weirdly to stand out.

 

[Rosie glow]

I thought he was gonna send himself home then

 

[forgotmyacc]

I was really disappointed for Kieran that they lost tbh.
Yes the tree was a bit mental but he put a lot of effort into the task. Rothna did nothing but moan.
Yeah he was a bit of a knob during the show but I was rooting for him this task !

 

[TigerTim]

How I’m going to miss Sir Alan’s “funnies” over the next few months.

 

[TigerTim]

I think they did the same task last year in Stratford Upon Avon. It felt like they were trying to go a bit Race Across the World with it this time around

 

[idontknowthispage]

Andrea’s pitch is dire so far

It was so embarrassing. Painful to watch.

 

[Rosie glow]

The milk carton one is for commuters so why on earth have they chosen packaging that would be really uncomfortable to hold

 

[Bidscavan]

Oh goddamn it thought Kieran was gone there

 

[TigerTim]

“Teambuilding” is one of those words like “icebreaker’ which makes me feel very uneasy

 

[Asiangirl19]

That’s the first time I’ve seen Kieran actually really nervous - I thought they did really well

 

[TravellingPants]

My favourite example of the treasure hunt task was when they phoned a library and asked them to look up the items they couldn’t identity in a dictionary. I don’t know why the girls didn’t make more use of the English tuition centre staff, unless they have been told not to.