The Apprentice: What Rubbish!

The Apprentice: Copyright BBC
Oooo I got angry last night by The Apprentice and unfortunately wasn’t able to vent, as my Twitter refused to work!

Zoe should have been fired, point blank. She’s the worst kind of bully in my view and made so many mistakes, clearly she was the obvious choice to be on the receiving end of the finger of doom.

Unfortunately Edna hung herself instead by talking qualifications at Lord Sugar and was promptly fired for waffling, leaving Zoe to slip away.

What got me so annoyed in this episode was Zoe’s treatment of Susan. She talked down to her, shouted at her and refused her credit when it was more than due.

Nick’s right, Susan does need to stick up more for herself, but that will come with time. Zoe should know better and is picking on Susan because she is the youngest, and therefore considered the weakest.

I really hope she is exposed further in the coming weeks and Lord Sugar realises what she is really like.

Anyway, rant over- onto Edna showing up on ‘You’re Fired’ wearing elbow length leather gloves and a rather fetching new hairstyle.

If ever she had a bit of a style reputation as a dominatrix, this outfit only enforced it further. I actually quite liked Edna in the interview, but on the show she came across as a wee bit arrogant and pushy.

That’s a lot like the candidates in this series- they all make complete idiots of themselves on the tasks, but when they’re grilled on You’re Fired they come across as quite likable and clearly embarrassed about how they have appeared.

Who is my current fave to win? Well it has to be Tom. His elation at finally winning a task was adorable!

Jim has done himself no favours in recent weeks, Helen is plain scary, Natasha is too David Brent like (that dancing she did was hilarious) Susan just isn’t ready, Zoe is too aggressive, Leon hasn’t done anything to stand out, Melody whinges too much and Glen looks half asleep on every task.

Till next week and a task I’ll be watching very closely… having created magazines for my degree, I’m keen to see how Britain ’s brightest business brains get on!

The Apprentice Review

The Apprentice: Week Three
For some reason they chose to do the negotiation task much earlier than previous years, and well for me, it didn't work as well.

Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Gavin thinking a dry cleaners called 'Top Hat' actually sold them and Susan paying nearly £500 for rare tea, but still it was lacking something.

More Nick time perhaps!? His King of Tonga quote was hilarious and genuinely I have no idea if he was being serious or not.

My fave moment of last night's episode has to be the reappearance of Edna's gloves. I did not expect to see them again, but there they were being slipped on as she left The Savoy.

Maybe they are her business power gloves and she can't think without them on? Personally, they just freak me out.

Something else which had me agog was the orange face Natasha sported for the first half of the show. The tell tale sign of a jawline mark teamed with white hands was the first official beauty faux par of the series.

With all the 5am starts, I'm sure she's the first of many. My money's on Vincent being next, when he finally runs out of grease to slick his hair.

He kind of makes me feel a bit sick watching him work, a feeling which I'm sure is shared by many other females.

One of my favourite contestants however has to be the amazing Jim. To talk your way out of the firing line last week and then to convince a shopkeeper it was actually his idea to sell something cheaper was pure genius.

He will go far, until his sales patter trips him up and then he may well find himself in the firing line.

Next week looks hilarious... fake tanning, waxing and foot massages; Welcome to The Apprentice.

The one that got away…

The Apprentice: Episode 2
Apologies for my lateness in blogging on Wednesday night’s Apprentice, but I have only just caught up on the madness.

How the girls won for a second week in a row was a mystery to me, especially when they were led by the terrifying Edna.

The woman’s manic grin was enough to put me off wanting to listen to her ever again, and then, oh lord, those gloves!

Picture the scene, you’re pitching to young, hip kids and you prance around a stage wearing a dominatrix get up, talking so slowly that people are seemingly nodding off all around you.

It was one of the strangest pitches ever featured on the show- it was almost like she was trying to seduce them into downloading the app, only she didn’t explain how it worked or how to get hold of it. Oops.

Aside from the scary gloves moment, which will no doubt be parodied on the You’re Fired show at some point, the girls once again were dull, dull, dull.

Bring back Lucinda’s berets and bright colours- at least she wasn’t the stereotypical business bitch!

This week sees them trying to stock The Savoy with a few items they ‘forgot’ to buy. How convenient!