To think the women on The Apprentice need to start acting like business women and not Barbie dolls!

[LaRegina]

I am getting so wound up by this every time it's on!

I can't bear the way they can't negotiate with any member of the opposite sex without talking in baby voices and going all giggly and flirty; the dominatrix heels they totter around in; the mini skirts and the thick makeup. They are really not doing women any favours at all.

Some of the men aren't up to much either, but they are getting away with it because the women are awful this year.

That's all.

I don't know. The one who did? Got fired last night.

Real business women are apparently not good TV.

Sad but true.

Completely agree. The only woman I actually respected was fired last night.

If that daft bunt goes in about 'the corporate world' again I will throw something at the telly.

They come across as vacuous, stupid, childish and in danger of looking like drag acts.

The men also seem like childish twats as well.

None of them seem to understand even the most basic of business principals. Imagine being half an hour late to a business meeting with a CEO!!!!!!

What was the crap about being a policewoman last night? Embarrassing.

At least Rebecca had dignity.

The women are all absolute rubbish this year. They normally select mostly idiots to humiliate themselves with a few pretty good candidates to choose from at the end. This year, they are all an embarrassment. The women worse.

And the hair, the long tumbling fucking hair! Cut your hair ladies!

I liked the woman who was fired too. The other moany, girlie voiced, cupcake business owning woman is beyond painful.

I cringed through the whole thing last night. None of them seemed to grasp the remit at all.
That blonde one who just regurgitated 'working towards one goal' again and again was clueless.
Their events where badly thrown together with absolutely no thought about the objectives the clients wanted.

Ruth Badger would soon knock all this year's contestants into shape.

Yes I liked Rebecca too - I think she was probably the only 'real' one out of the women. Unfortunately she just seemed to go quiet in the boardroom and couldn't fight her corner - AS always seems to keep the loud shouty ones in.

Yes bring back the Badger! Bet she's doing alright for herself without AS though...

YABU for watching The Apprentice, which is designed to have people shouting at the TV about how fucking stupid the people they have are.

They could pick bright future business leaders, but as it's a non-job for entertainment purposes, they don't.

Rebecca just wasn't good TV, which is why she was fired. A shame, as she seemed like an actual human being.

I generally take the position that there is far too much focus on women's looks, clothing etc, whether that is about skirt length or burka wearing, but I have to say that during this season, I keep noticing the female contestants' huge, but somewhat ratty, hairstyles and itching to have a go with a hairbrush. Even maddening Luisa would look both better and more professional if she brushed her hair and wore it up rather than tumbling slightly stickily around her face.

And I think Leah is very pretty, but don't get why she insists on presenting herself like a Girls' World head. I swear my Girls' World had exactly that bubblegum lipstick in 1980... If she is a medic, do you suppose she does morning ward rounds like that?

To be fair, the Welshman seems to have been recruited for his very odd eyebrow shaping decisions, and Neil's extremely beardy neck makes him look like a werewolf who does motivational speaking.

It was way more interesting during the first couple of series' when they selected credible candidates.

Fair point Patpig - maybe I just like moaning

Ugh, the beardy neck is so distracting! Shave your neck man.

Yes agreed UNdine, there are some dodgy men too - eyebrow man also seems to have some anger management issues, although I can't help sniggering every time they show him calling James a 'stupid shit' in the back of the taxi...

Neil needs a good waxing, but infuriatingly, he does seem to do well in the tasks.

Lol to all above. Definatly the badger was the best.

She was sensible.

Luisa is absolutely appalling; vain, shallow and incredibly rude. And that stupid little girl voice that she puts on really grates. She is the worst of a very bad lot. I had thought Leah would do well but she, too, seems to have lowered herself to the level of Luisa, Natalie et al. They all look like they should be working in a nail bar in some really tacky back street.

The blonde one who was the losing team leader last night has no chance of winnin she looks far too much like Stella! And I cannot believe Leah answered the phone "talk to me" - even by ridiculous apprentice-speak, that takes the biscuit! She may well be a Dr but given her age (unless she just looks young) i doubt she is much beyond graduation in her career.

I wish just one of them had a nice crop or a sleek and shiny bob.

There is another thread going on this too, saying much the same thing.

I wonder whether the panel who selected the woman candidates in particular, is a different panel than previously?

the thing that annoys me - yes, I know how insane it is to be annoyed by anything on The Apprentice - is this faux-mystery about their business proposals, that they're somehow too exciting to be revealed until the final stages. Are we to assume that His Serene Highness has basically agreed to all of them, in principle? Because one of the more annoying elements one year was the reasonable candidate who then turned out to be proposing a battery-call-centre idea that appeared to contravene about twelve different human rights.

Maybe it's because the 'business proposals' are all arse-winkingly tedious and would make us give up after two episodes. [Answers own question] Although perhaps the twist should be that His SH doesn't know what the proposal is and is obliged to take on the winner no matter what they're wanting to do... Seeing as how his selection procedure is so rigorous, toughest job interview in the world, I don't need no bullshitters, etc.