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Heh. I had Miriam down as a potential winner, but reading between the lines on hers, I guess not.

Oh, and from Raj's ...
PS Please try to ignore the photo's - no I'm not after a modelling contract - the website needed some colour and that was the only quick solution!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Raj isn't off the show yet, though has had final warning from Sugar.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcello, you only exist to correct my mistakes it seems...

(arggh!)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and on the FFS! tip..
http://www.paultorrisi.com/form.html

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Saira's going to win it, isn't she?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

To be honest, I'd bet on Paul. I don't know why, and Miriam's the only one that's impressed me as such, but it's an odd world we're watching there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend T - who is not much inclined to worship businessmen, success or authority - says she feels a bit sorry for sugar

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Amstrad share prices apparently took a major fall following that business with the 10-CD multiplayer thing which has been considered "incontrovertibly naff."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

There are worrying rumours elsewhere on the interweb (such as p0pb1tch) giving strong hints Saira makes the final two at least - there's debate over whether it's actually over yet or not.

She's utterly vile though, and it's hard to see what talents she has. Were it not for Rachel's mind-map she surely couldn't have survived the Jukebox week, and almost every other time in the bottom three it really should be her.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Certainly she would have gone then had it not been for Rachel's David Brent dance in particular. Or the producers saying we've got to keep her in there to keep the programme interesting.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, sometimes comedy is not stranger than real-life...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd have said Miriam, but her website suggests not... so Tim, then. I could see him as an Amstrad man. But I can certainly see Saira making the final two, on sheer dogged persistence alone.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh Tim! Every time I see him on that prog, I go "WHO'S HE?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Saira would have to be the winner as X weeks of her antics on air have made her unemployable by absolutely anyone else ever (popbitch says she's a former poster there). However, I like the other remaining girl as the boys don't see that she is competing with them and don't notice that she's ticking all the boxes.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I can see a future for Saira compering the main stage at Birmingham Pride at around 4 in the afternoon. "Let me see those HANDS in the AIR", etc etc.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

.. with a clipboard and a clicky counter..

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

and a mind-map!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sticking to this thread like SHIT TO A BLANKET

― mrteasyweasy, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

So who got canned last night?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The one I keep forgetting his name. Short fella. Not Paul.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

brian?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a guess though i did watch it: thery are all a bit blurry

i like to imagine that a.sugar got where he is today by gathering wild elderberries from the roadside on nights before [important sales pitch/business deal]

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben, apparently.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

He was the one I thought was called Tim, above.

Can you imagine how I'd be if I hadn't actually watched this?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

they should all wear chunky jumpers w.a number on

he was particularly recessive though

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I still cannot take this programme seriously due to being unable to stop thinking "the Americans had Donald Trump, we have Alan Sugar". I think I only watch it because it's on before Desperate Housewives.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

SUGAR TRUMPS TRUMP

lex they are identically ridiculous surely? or do you take trump (haha "the donald", where is ivana now?) seriously?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

You mentalists!!!

You were watching this instead of GRAND DESIGNS SCOTLAND?!?!?

With the rock-climbing outdoorsy hippie mentalists turning a burned-out shell of a cottage into the most PRIVACY-FREE HOUSE EVER?

(Seriously. No walls - anywhere. Balconies and loft living and no sonic privacy - that place will echo like a airplane hangar. Not to mention BATHTUB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BEDROOM! What are they thinking)

(The only episode of the Apprentice was the one with the yBa's because I liked the artists, but they were all repulsive in it.)

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

well Trump is ridiculous but also a Proper Famous Person. Sugar is ridiculous but I'm like "who actually ARE you? and why are you being so ridiculous when no one has heard of you"

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, if Trump is the Britney Spears of business then Sugar is... the Lisa Scott-Lee, or something.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

d00d!

http://www.phenixinformatique.com/fichier/pub_cpc/AMSTRAD/PCW8256/Pcw8256_001.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

kate i just heard my mag is likely to be closed down so i wz full of spite and wanted to watch ppl bein fired = the kinds of ppl who decided to close down my mag >:(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

By your mag I presume you mean Crafts, as I can't imagine Sight & Sound ever being shut down. Pretty bad news, though, whichever mag it is.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no I'm sorry about your mag. :-(

Is that the appeal of the show? Watching people get fired? Because I couldn't understand the appeal. (Then again, I never "got" BB either.)

Wouldn't you rather watch the kind of stuff your magazine is about (beautifully hand wrought ironwork) being used by Smart! Young! Urbanites! to reassure you that there really is still a market for said magazine?

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Smart! Young! Urbanites! are the cause of said magazine being closed down.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

haha kate do you mean flog it?

yeah it suXoRz: i hate when magazines get killed (though there are some dead-still-livin which ought to be put out of misery i spose)

(on a sugar-ish note, it is possibly time i stopped devoted 8/9ths of my life to correctin the spellin of the writin of others, and concentrated fully on my own possibly)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

it is being closed down by insecure amnd confused small-pond funded-arts bureaucrats (though they probably are urbanites)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A shame because the folks on this ep of Grand Designs (refurbishing the outside of their cottage with traditional craft and the inside with edgy contemporary craft) seemed to show that there is a market for this sort of thing - but it's technohippies rather than the sort of middle aged ladies that arts council types usually attract.

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a nutty decision mostly related to internal politics - of course the mag being autonomous has more internal foes than friends

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

So, there's Saira just about to get hers, then Raj virtually falls on his sword...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Saira finally getting fired will be such a great TV moment. If Raj actually did anything ever he'd still be on.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

surely the grebtest TV moment =

i. saira gets the job
ii. we get to imagine a.sugar's rage and crestfallen dismay five mins into the working relationship!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

sugar certainly has his favourites (or learnt the BB lesson about voting out the noise = less viewers).

she did have a point with the 'cheerio' comment though.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know about the cheerio comment. Anyone can see when someone is or isn't behaving naturally. I don't really like it when people take on the class accent of the person they're talking to.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

he probably wouldn't get away with 'me old china', you're right, but 'bye', for instance, is neutral and natural.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

wotcher guv!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

From the comments in James's blog:

Comment from: Tony Linden
Francis the receptionist in the boardroom, looks bored and sounds miserable and shows she has a low opinion of the apprentices.

Comment from: James Max
On Francis - she is actually a production manager from Talkback and is called Sonya... That probably answers that one! She is known as Francis because Sir Alan's real PA is called by that name!

I am deeply shocked.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean... it's all artifice?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

what was the "cheerio" thing?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It was about:

Taking sides : Saying "Cheerio" to the proletariat vs "Wotcher"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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They're all unremittingly useless and awful this year (yeah, OK, every year). Still convinced Kayoade would have walked the old format.

― ailsa, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:30 (seven years ago)

i am convinced none of them have watched previous series - the Sex Sells thing has always been frowned upon by sugar / brady

― koogs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:23 (seven years ago)

Remember the guy who couldn't stop mentioning that he'd been to Sandhurst? Or at least had been accepted to Sandhurst. Practically every idea he had was 'sex sells'. Even when he was on one of the two finalist's teams he said something like "let's go down a sexual route" regarding - coincidentally - a box of luxury chocolates.

― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:44 (seven years ago)

Poor Sabrina, picked after kurran

― koogs, Monday, 17 December 2018 19:24 (seven years ago)

Also, these people are selfie-obsessed

― koogs, Monday, 17 December 2018 19:28 (seven years ago)

nine months pass...

Another year, another bunch of alpha dicks...

― koogs, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:28 (six years ago)

Finding it hard to even care. They've jumped straight to a mid-series task with this South African safari/wine tasting thing.

― just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:45 (six years ago)

Rob Beckett's dad.

I think the foreign visit was first last year as well.

― koogs, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:46 (six years ago)

Karen sabotaging the PM's business plan for the finale in the opening episode was a bold step.

― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:59 (six years ago)

He lost it a bit there.

― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:00 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

week 1: shahin
week 2: kenna
week 3: souleyman
week 4: lubna

it's almost as if he's getting rid of the least english sounding names first...

― koogs, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:03 (six years ago)

Tommy is Sugar catnip, though

― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:37 (six years ago)

Did the tiny plate have all the crests on it?

Tory boy must go.

― koogs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:55 (six years ago)

If he stood as an mp, they'd have to cancel this series

― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:27 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

And now I'm all alone
In bedsit land
My only home

― koogs, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 22:34 (six years ago)

"indie band"

― koogs, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:37 (six years ago)

Well, that was... Yeah.

― Mark G, Thursday, 28 November 2019 08:24 (six years ago)

"breaking outside the mould"

― koogs, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:48 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Absolute classic episode tonight. Fish: literally caught from the sea.

― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 27 January 2022 22:31 (four years ago)

They were definitely all at sea. You could say they were FLOUNDERing ahahahaha

― ailsa, Friday, 28 January 2022 15:24 (four years ago)

two years pass...

Let's get Scotland wrong! A lot! Shower of bellends as always.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 February 2024 23:25 (two years ago)

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