The Apprentice - Season 17 - Thread 3 - The FINAL Round! Ding Ding

[RicciardoPerez]

See what I did there 🤪

So it's between Marnie and Rochelle!

Place your bets!

Not really.

To me she she passed as someone who has gone overboard with the fake tan- which is a very common fashion.

The whole show needs a proper shake up if it is to survive needs to be a bit more of a crossover with dragons den and less of masterchef

No trout pouts allowed and all arms to be in Jackets and heels optional

Contestants ought to be allowed to use the rest of the rooms in the house rather than one bedroom for 5

Its interesting the image that the producers portray to their audience and what they let you see in the final . Marnie was so much more accomplished and what on earth Victoria and her sweets were doing in the final Lord only knows

Dragons den is far superior to this show
It's a shame really as it has the potential to be good : just gone a bit downhill lately

When you go overboard with fake tan, you go orange and patchy like Donald Trump. It was obvious her skin colour is natural and that she has black heritage. You could tell her hair wasn't naturally straight too.

@ReneBumsWombats

Exactly !!

They normally only have a selection come back, not all of them. (I recently discovered I still had series 14 recorded so rewatched it. Eight candidates returned for the final.)

Oh, OK. Thank you. I wonder how they decide who returns.

Probably partly the candidates' choice and partly who will make good TV/create conflict

My thoughts exactly

Well my DP was debating in the early episodes if Rochelle was actually trans, so...it could be worse. I don't think it was immediately obvious she was mixed race.

I hope they shake things up next series, this one hasn't been fun.

They need more varied tasks rather than design/advert/sell.etc.

Just to add that I also didn’t know Rochelle was mixed race until she mentioned being a woman of colour.

It's amazing how SurAlun spends the entire series telling the candidates they're all utterly incompetent, yet when they make it to the finals they suddenly become brilliant business whizzkids in his eyes.

Very true! 😂 He was so much less harsh in the finale boardroom scene than I've ever seen him. Same goes for Karren lol

The business plans were just so disappointing and showed no imagination IMO. I just don’t see how investing in hair salons is ever going to be up Sugar’s street. Shouldn’t they be offering something more original or ahead of the trend? The sweets thing - it’s already being done, the market is saturated. Ditto the dessert shops. Maybe if someone had come along 10-15 years ago, when dessert shops weren’t really a thing, but now there are several chains doing this and you’d just be entering an already crowded market offering nothing particularly different. I didn’t even understand the hair extensions idea. And TBH I’m not convinced by the gyms either but that was what was left after the other ideas had been dismissed.
I do think it needs a radical re-think for the next series. And please let’s see some serious women next time.

Loved the way they were all laughing together in the boardroom. Showed a bond there that we don’t always see.

When does Alan Sugar see the business plans? Who decides on the candidates initially? They need better business plans from the start & Id bet that is nothing to do with Alan Sugar.

Sian, winner 2018,’s business has gone into administration

Anyone just seen Baroness Brady on Sky News say 'you can call me Karren' when called Baroness!

on a separate but related note I’m spending today eating chocolate and binge watching the second season of The Apprentice Australia celebrity I’ve just found

I am also watching the Australian Celeb Apprentice. The contestants are nicer than last year when at least two of them were utterly vile, but less memorable.

I felt this week's task (the wellness campsite) was really unfair. The team with the terrible accommodation was set up to fail, and it wasn't their fault they didn't get the good stuff. It was pretty random who got there first - not like the tasks where they have to negotiate for a desirable option.

The only way the women could have won was if the men had had a disaster. What they did was basically irrelevant. That's not fair.