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.

In their situation even I, a dozy public sector drone, would have done school gates at the biggest secondary in Islington first thing, then shuffled off to outside City University for a few hours
I would also have scoped where the really massive office buildings locally are and done them at lunch before heading back to City to catch them all on the homeward stretch

I think we should have a Mumsnet Apprentice

Jadine's ranting about Eclipse being a "coffee experience" and insisting that Tre and the other one sift their cocoa through a stencil - actions of a loon?

Complete loon molesworth. And the corporate song thing? NUts.

I think her 'coffee experience' comments were designed so that she could show she'd thought of the corporate image a la MacDonalds and Starbucks etc. but her energy did really need to be channelled into just selling the stuff. It's not like it was going to be a global brand or anything (or even be there the next day)

Does anyone else think that Tre is actually Craig David's slightly-bitter-because-he-can't-sing-so-he'll-kick-arse-in-the-world-of-business younger brother?

Producers must recruit some of these people knowing they will inevitably fail ... there's no way they could have considered Andy a hotshot up and coming business person.
And he called one of the girls Sweetheart didn't he? and kissed them outside the boardroom. a bit inapropriate I think.

He used 'sweetheart' quite a lot. They showed this later on the Adrian Chiles programme. I probably wouldn't be offended by that - although can understand that many would be. Unfortunately, the kissy, kissy, mwah, mwah thing is quite common and just makes me squirm, not just in a work situation, I can't stand when friends do it either. Isn't 'hiya, how are you enough anymore?'

marina, lol @ dozy public sector drone

can I just say that I have been within metres/spitting distance of a Stealth bomber at an RAF base. it looked like it was made of cardboard and so do most of the new wannabe Apprentices..

Same here but siralan liked it

A man who i was going to buy fitted wardrobes from once did the kissykissy thing to me in the showroom. I was ed Needless to say I didn't buy the wardrobes.

best quote "life's not all sandwiches and biscuits"

er..whaaaaaaaaaat?!

I think it's just the way it's edited, fio.

When Siralan comes through his doors it always looks as if he's emerging from the loo. Imagine "Gor blimey, I'd leave it a bit if I were you" over the top!

ggirl, it is repeated next Tuesday at 7pm on BBC.

PMSL at that Charlie Brooker article.

That's BBC2.

Love the idea of a mumsnet apprentice. Maybe we should get siralan to do a challenge where they have to get through an average day with 3 under 5's and the winner is the person whose suit is still wearable - or should it be the one with the most stains on it!!

Unquietdad - still laughing at your msg. He does always look guilty and strangely surprised at seeing all of them sitting there. Are his right-hand man and woman married to each other?

nappychange - no, they're not.
Article about them here !

"All yer 'ad ter do was get the kids to an' from school an' stuff without 'em startin' a bleedin' brawl or bein' sick. I mean, 'ow difficult was that?... 'Oose daft idea was it ter feed 'em Fruit Shoots? Well?..."

"Er, that would have been me, siralan."

"Would've been? Well, were it or weren't it?"

"Actually, siralan, as project manager I take full responsibility for the Fruit Shoots. And the playcentre."

"Now that's anuvver thing. You took 'em to a bleedin' playcentre right after school when yer KNEW yer 'ad fifteen minutes before Brahnies??! WHY, for gawd's sake?"

"Well, I thought... um, we thought, I thought they might like it."

"I might like to rule the bleedin' world, sunshine, but that don't mean I can do it!"

.."as sure as there's an 'ole in me arse".

was rather disappointed that Jadines team didn't lose actually - given that she dragged the two boys - who were selling really well - out of their prime spot and consequently number of sales went down - silly moo.