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Women on Apprentice

155 replies

Cosmos123 · 05/01/2023 22:01

Why do they have to be plastered with make up and have those funny inflated lips. Even Karen Brady is caked on.

OP posts:
doyouwanticewiththat · 06/01/2023 00:05

My DD sad they looked like popsicles in their coloured dresses same style !

Theredfoxfliesatmidnight · 06/01/2023 00:06

It's sad, you'd never get a Ruth Badger on the show now would you. And she was great.

foxlover47 · 06/01/2023 00:12

@Benjispruce4 😅😂
These women I remember last year on the early wake up
Calls get ready super fast too
And look
Immaculate in their cabs

Benjispruce4 · 06/01/2023 00:13

Yeah that must be edited. Bring back The Badger!

Oher · 06/01/2023 00:14

I know! The lip thing is so gross, they look like they’ve been stung on the mouth by a bee.

All part of a porn-soaked culture I guess 🤮

foxlover47 · 06/01/2023 00:20

I wonder what nick and Margaret would
Make
Of the contestants now

Murdoch1949 · 06/01/2023 02:59

I stopped watching it when the contestants became more TOWIE types, selected not for their business acumen but for their appearance, men & women. Ruth Badger, an old contestant, would not stand a chance now. The women frequently have sweet shops, cupcake shops, hair & beauty businesses, rare to have a female with an IT or engineering business. Their businesses tend to be tiny and usually going nowhere. The only episode I watch is when Claude rips apart their falsified business plans and exposes all their lies. The strange thing is that Sugar ignores their falsehoods and still chooses one of them.

Liorae · 06/01/2023 03:34

VickyEadieofThigh · 05/01/2023 22:06

YANBU.

Also, why do so many of the people who enter this competition appear never to have watched it, given the fact they make the same mistakes every year?

Because it is probably scripted, like most "reality" shows.

mydogsteppedonabee · 06/01/2023 04:15

The inflated lip look is just terrible. I hope it stops soon

SnowlayRoundabout · 06/01/2023 05:07

IhateJan22 · 05/01/2023 22:53

I’m surprised at how many comments there are about how women look but then be outraged that the Daily Mail make a headline about bikini clad beauties. We can only have an opinion on it and whether it’s for us or not but surely we all do things to make us feel better about ourselves, whether it’s fillers and Botox or a new outfit. Each to their own.

But does it actually make them feel better about themselves? I mean, they put themselves through all that pain (and those shoes must be very painful) to come out looking mostly like clones of each other, and it won't actually help them to win or even to be seen as credible businesswomen.

Crimblecrumblerules · 06/01/2023 05:30

It used to be good when the contestants were a bit older and actually had an ounce of common sense and good business ideas.

Talapia · 06/01/2023 05:39

Oher · 06/01/2023 00:14

I know! The lip thing is so gross, they look like they’ve been stung on the mouth by a bee.

All part of a porn-soaked culture I guess 🤮

Ij agree with this...They've been styled like blow up sex dolls, it's awful. Is this what we want people to aspire to.

SmokeyPaprika · 06/01/2023 05:43

Last time I was in London I saw one woman in heels and she looked like a tourist

It was refreshing to see everyone their normal height and striding along the pavement.

WandaWonder · 06/01/2023 05:43

Mind you is it any surprise, TOWIE, Love Island type shows are popular

CWeed · 06/01/2023 05:49

Both sexes wear clothes that are far too tight. How do they sit down without splitting their dresses and trousers?

They're all dressed like a porn sketch for an office orgy.

garlictwist · 06/01/2023 06:01

faffer44 · 05/01/2023 22:15

Their dress sense seems really outdated too. Do businesswomen still totter about in high heels and wear those daft pencil skirts?

I agree. It seems so old fashioned. No one dresses like that in the real world.

PumpkinDart · 06/01/2023 06:21

I just hate how The Apprentice puts across female business women time and time again. Looks to one side the perceived behaviour is worse, the endless focus on bickering, bitching, someone who disagrees being called disruptive, uh it's just such an insulting stereotype churned out every year.

Twiglets1 · 06/01/2023 06:28

It’s because they are hoping for a media career if they aren’t picked as Sir Alans Apprentice. So they think they have to look a certain way to be picked for other shows.

Andypandy799 · 06/01/2023 06:38

Absolutely detest the pouty lip filler look it just screams desperation to me and is not attractive IMHO

SmokeyPaprika · 06/01/2023 06:57

Twiglets1 · 06/01/2023 06:28

It’s because they are hoping for a media career if they aren’t picked as Sir Alans Apprentice. So they think they have to look a certain way to be picked for other shows.

This

ChimChimeny · 06/01/2023 07:05

SmokeyPaprika · 06/01/2023 05:43

Last time I was in London I saw one woman in heels and she looked like a tourist

It was refreshing to see everyone their normal height and striding along the pavement.

Not London but since covid and hybrid working high heels are much rarer in my office, except low heeled boots over winter. Much more likely to see trainers.

Cockle1234 · 06/01/2023 07:09

determinedtomakethiswork · 05/01/2023 22:09

So they were all told in the boardroom that they were going to Antigua. Next shot is them on the beach in the same dresses, carrying their high heels, trying to sell trips en masse to tourists. Why on earth weren't they allowed to change their clothes?

I noticed this. Me and DP chose three each in the first five minutes so we can have a little competition. I chose the three girls without fat lips - light pink, dark pink and blue their names were. I still didn't need to figure out their names when they were plodding around the beach in the exact same clothes. I've kept my full set of normal lipped females for the first round, long may it continue.

Cosmos123 · 06/01/2023 09:26

Benjispruce4 · 05/01/2023 23:49

I thought they looked really dated. The one that looked best was the one who dared to have her hair in a bob. So sick of Barbie look hair, fat, wet lips and brown skid marked cheeks.

And that describes Karren Brady

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arethereanyleftatall · 06/01/2023 09:37

Thing is with this look is that individually you may well look great, but collectively it's clones and as a poster above said, like blow up sex dolls.
Whereas the males they've chosen have a a complete mix - nerd, quiet, arrogant etc. when was the last time eg a waify girl with no make up and glasses, and flats on there?

unc79 · 06/01/2023 09:49

when was the last time eg a waify girl with no make up and glasses, and flats on there?

Or an older woman? Why are they always so young?

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