New series of The Apprentice

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Wednesday 9pm.
It's been promoted to BBC1.
The only reality show I can bare to watch.
Grazia reports that Alan Sugar has just had cosmetic surgery on his droopy eyelids.

Love this programme. It's the cliches which make it fun to watch I think. Sadly, many of my ex-colleagues did used to say many of these things, although I suspect even they would cringe at 'working until we bleed'.

Already dislike mouthy Trey of the bloke group and the blonde lady who got called into the boardroom (what's her name?), the one who got the location so wrong. Her comments about Andy checking his phonecalls every 5 min is soooo bitchy.

Greenday, the blondes name is Gerri(sp?).

I was also highly amused at the 2 ex public schoolboys comparing (old school) ties on the Adrian Chiles programme.

Glad I wasn't Andy's team tonight. Did you notice he kept referring to the girls as Sweetheart - cringe.

The blond one looks like Lorne Spicer (Is that her name? Doyenne of daytime 'sell you crap' progammes)

One of teh other women looked familiar as well but decided she was a Tanya Bryer/Byron? lookalike

Ah, Gerri. Thanks! There's a sneaky smugness about her. Blink and you'll miss it. Notice it and it'll eat into you. Mark my words. She's going to be the one that makes me shout at my telly.

Andy made me cringe when he started begging and grovelling...not a good look for a hard-nose business go-getter!! He had his beautiful wife and family, lovely house and his dignity just about until that point....

Gerri

Lorne

Separated at birth?

Right - Hands up I watch crap tv but this next revalation must be my worst one.

I thought Gerri looked like Zarah from Jades PA.

Did anyone read Charile Brooker's piece on this in last sat's Guardian guide??

here

i read an article this week that jadine had serious mental health problems and it was unfair to let her do this!!

I didn't like Jadine either, but I bet she sticks around for a while longer.

Had a tear in my eye when they showed Andy's three boys....

Bet he rued the day he volunteered to be project manager! If I were on (not that I would want to or even be chosennn), I'd wait at least a few weeks and get to know what everyone was like first!

And those t*ssers comparing old school ties!

oh mt thanks for that link!

"You were meant to be promotin' the bloody show!", he'd shriek, like a huge indignant hedgehog at the point of climax. "You can't even get one poxy disc to the prick from the Guardian!"

PMSL WRIT LARGE!

"strutting besuited bell-end in the mould of Syed"

The thing is he didn't volunteer for the PM job - he was stitched up by the others. I couldn't believe he fell for it to be honest!

But he deserved it, as he did purposely coerced the other guy into being PM then when they got back in they did the old switcheroo! Hilarious!! I have worked with a few car sales managers and in work mode they are a slippery bunch!!

by the time he aggreed he sounded as if hes quite a bit of champagne. mens and they egos!!! lol whereas jadine wanted to do it. agree you are better off staying in the background in the beginning.

did michelle or ruth do that last year. or the man who won the first series.

And his cliched motivational sound bytes were as cringy as watching the first round of x-factor. I was actually watching through my fingers!! 'WORK TO WE BLEED!!!!' Oh. My. God.....

Brooker keepin' it real

Yes, respect to Jadine for actually volunteering. The boys were trying very hard to wriggle out of it but save face at the same time and it backfired spectacularly on Andy. He really did deserve to go.

I thought both teams made a mess of this task. DD1(13) watched this with me and even she was shouting at the TV "you won't sell 100 cups an hour"

shoite -missed this last night.Does anyone know if it is repeated?

Did I miss something? At one point in initial de-brief, Surralan told the physics girl that she had bought enough milk for 10,000 cups of coffee? (absolute max they could poss have needed was 2,000 (2 machines at full tilt all day though clearly less needed than that). Yet it was allowed to slide by Surralan and also by Andy The Cheese. Surely a spectacular failure by anyone, let alone a scientist?

Agree Andy made a plonker of himself and prob deserved to go.

Agree that Gerri and the other one sitting at Chapel Street market for hours was pathetic. I'm no businessperson but even I would have the nous to keep moving to find a better pitch. Idiots.