Where is our apprentice final 5 thread?

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Is this just a boring recap of them all?

It's looking like the Jim Show so far!

Yes, but at Tom in that top with the pushed up sleeves . Dh is laughing at me.

I thought this was going to be the interview episode!
It does look like a "best of" show

With a bit of input from friends and family

Oh, I always like seeing their backgrounds. Jim's wife is very glam!!

Susie is more impressive knowing her background.

Susie has done well hasn't she!

Natasha also

Until now I thought she was crap tbh

Susie is amazing!! Its really opened my eyes.

Blimey, Helen's a bit scary

I dont get the whole "they had to share a room they were poor" thing.

I think being the 1st person in your family to go to University is a biggie though

Esp when you did your A levels on a scholarship

remember when the majority of them used to come from privelaged backgrounds? Its very different now.

yes, I get the 1st to university thing.

I just didnt realise that sharing a room with 1 sibling was such as indication as being poor!!

Based on 'how well they've done from where they came from' then Susan should win by a country mile. However if they go on business plans and ideas then Tom will be a clear winner. Not sure what Jim, Natasha and Helen have to offer in terms of original business ideas. I'm sure all could run a business but I'm not sure if those three could have an original idea between them.

as likes working class girls made good so looking like natasha to win
susie just too annoying personality
tom is a contender - he is v sweet
helen - robot
jim - full of something

I thought Natasha came across as a bit of an idiot, tbh. She spoke of being on free school dinners like it was somehow shameful, and proudly claimed that she paid for her dinners herself. When the LEA has already paid? How is paying twice for something indicative of sound business sense?

Only was the first and only female on both sides of my immediate and extended family to go to uni and 28 years later that is still the case. My brother was the same for the males. I don't think of it as anything special or unusual, it is just what we chose to do. Natasha has done well but a degree in hospitality management isn't really a serious degree is it?

bettering yourself maybe bof?

'I not 'only'

Bettering yourself means taking advantage of the opportunities afforded you- not hamstringing yourself with some vague proto-Thatcherite contempt for where you come from. That smacks of Issues to me.

BOF I think you're right about the 'issues' thing. I don't run around wearing my background on my sleeve for all to see as it isn't relevant to who I am. I feel a bit been there done that and moved on. Unless she is going for the pity vote, which is a pretty poor tactic. She will get torn apart in the interview stage if she gets that far.

i agree with her take on it - i would rather be financially independent than rely on others if possible.it sounds like that has driven her on.

i agree with BoF and smokin, the free school meals and 'sharing a room with sister shocker' didnt endear Natasha to me at all. I actually shouted at the TV at that point. I grew up in a council estate, didnt go to Uni but have managed to get myself a good job through hard work.

Also my sister is the first and only member of the family to go to Uni - she actually has 3 degrees now and we are v proud of her, but I dont put her on a pedestal as she is still self obsessed with 'ishoos' of her own

Does anyone else have a peculiar crush on Tom?