Will it be an INJECTION if cash for Leah or will Lord Sugar ice the CUPCAKE dream if Louisa? Its thw Apprentixe final!

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Will it be a sweet ending for Louisa or will Leah's dreams be filler-filled?

Verrrrry late to this thread, but Dr Leah? - sounds like a sex therapy clnic to me

I don't think is rejecting anything they have to offer on the basis of how they look.

Cafecito I was being naive - do you mean that at her age Leah ahs already had fillers?!!!

I don't much like either of them though, in the "after" show with Dara O'Brien I was pleased to see Luisa's apology to Jason.

Leah, surely, at 24 is a very newly qualified doctor? I think it's a shame that someone goes through their medical training and almost immediately on qualifying, wants to go into a private, money making cosmetic procedures clinic. If I was contemplating major cosmetic changes, I'd want someone with more experience though, to be fair, the procedures in her N I K S outfit, are very basic.

Not impressed.

Leah's looks? Well, it's a personal thing, I guess but if I'd been desperately sick on a ward somewhere, I'd not care what she looked like, but then she's not that kind of doctor, is she? She's what my grandad would have called a "dolly bird" and I'd find her manner rather off putting, if she were my GP. All that lip gloss and frizzy, porn star candy floss hair. No. Not for me.

The Apprentice, years ago, used to have a real mix of candidates. Clever young people, more in tune with their ideas and business clout than they appear to be now.

I wanted Neil to win.

I'm actually quite envious of Leah - Very intelligent, very driven and massively confident. I'm sure she will be a very rich and successful woman. But yes, it is a shame that the NHS will be short of a doctor but obviously, like many many other people, she is more interested in business than social good.

The problem was Neil's idea was rubbish and he doggedly refused to accept it.

Apparently Leah is not at all dolled up at work, to the extent that she has been on duty in a&e throughout the airing of the show and no one recognised her - to paraphrase her words in the Judith woods interview at work she wears no make up, hair scrapped back in a bun.

Glad Leah won in the end!

Suralan was clearly still so gutted that it wasn't Neil sitting beside him on stage.

The emphasis on 'ethical' facial treatments makes me laugh - not only is it wasting her medical training and encouraging the normalisation of medical cosmetic treatments, it's making a huge profit from the clients. Large profit margins were the clincher for Lord S presumably. A more ethical approach would be to charge less surely.

I hope Dr Leah's skills with a needle are better than most of the junior doctors I've come across. When they're having trouble with my troublesome veins they eventually ask for help from a nurse. They're famous for being rubbish at taking blood. Hopefully, giving injections requires less skill.

I was disappointed in the finalists and the proposed businesses so I didn't enjoy the final as much as normal. However I disliked Leah far less than I disliked Luisa so I guess I got the result I preferred.

They should have made more of their business plans throughout the series rather than having a semi grand unveiling at the end, it didn't make sense to have sales task after sales task and then decide it all on the proposed business model.

If they made more of their business plans it would become a glorified Dragon's Den though, wouldn't it?

Still, it's not really about LordSugar and his investments, it's pure reality TV.

Stunned at Lord Suralan.

I thought both finalists were weak but plumping (arf) for a base level botox clinic defies belief.

I'd have liked to have seen Francesca in the final and the exercise studios win. I think he missed a sitter there.

Chive - I agree, I think Francesca was the strongest candidate last week. Shocked she went.

I think Sralan realises he made a mistake binning Francesca. He as good as said so last night.

I've been so put off the women in this series by their Barbie looks and ridiculous high heels. I thought the final three being all women was cause for celebration but for the winner to be a botox clinic and the runner up to be a pinkificated cupcake supplier has summed up the whole thing really.

I can't really figure Leah out. She's only just qualified and already she's ditching her chosen profession to set up in an (admittedly related) business. I could understand if she'd had a few years working in a hospital setting or as a GP and then decided she wanted a big change. But it does seem to be an awful waste of a highly intelligent and trained doctor. I know she gave a lot of spiel last night about being motivated by concern that unqualified people were carrying out these procedures but I got the impression that was only to put an ethical spin on it for Suralan.

Also, why would a beautiful and intelligent girl deliberately make herself look like a cheap, Bet Lynch style bimbo?

Yes, arabesque Thats what I thought. i didn't really buy her "Well, I have plenty of time to work for the NHS" She must have just qualified, decided she couldn't hack A & E, even on £150000+ a year and wanted to do cosmetic procedures with almost no experience as a qualified doctor. How does she think she is going to go back into the NHS, looking at peoples bunions?

She just said that as she was put on the spot, she has clearly waved goodbye to the NHS for good.

Leah made a point of saying every 5 minutes or so how ethical and moral she was. Also how intelligent. Clearly never read Othello though, eh.

I could be wrong but, I just don't see Leah working all the hours God sends and working her way up through the ranks to Consultant level. It takes years. I think Leah is trading heavily on the "you can trust me, I'm a Doctor" label and basically, going for the cash. I'm not judging her on that, it's just that she seems very young to have opted out, so soon. Leah did lay it on thick with the fact that she will continue her 'research' and has years ahead of her, to go back to the NHS. Whatever. She'll be worth a fortune, by the time she's 30.

Good luck to her then. The medical profession is hierarchical and in some respects deeply sexist. If she can take a shortcut to good money why not.

"If she can take a shortcut to good money why not."

That is one way of looking at it. Kind of jars with the "I'm a very ethical and moral person" bit, though, as I see it.

Surprised none of the "experts" on the show seemed to pick up on the fact that it would still be about Leah training up nurses and moving on... so much for pushing the "highly trained medical doctor" side. And why did no-one point out that she isn't "highly trained" - she has only just qualified.

Niks was a sh*te name, too. Still, "Dr Leah" isn't much better. How many clients will Dr Leah herself be treating? None. How many will be treated by a doctor at all? None.

I, was disappointed that Sugar chose Leah, given the questionable morality of the botox business. But I guess that's where he comes into his own as the businessman he is. He didn't quite feel comfortable about it, but there was profit in it.

Re. Leah's appearance - I certainly found it bizarre. But - I know a few youngish, fashionable Irish women and this seems to be a kind of fashion for many of them - as said above, an Americanised look, lots of fake tan, make up, etc. Perhaps that could explain some of it? But I agree, its an awful look, very fake and bland too.