The Apprentice (UK) 2008

condra

What do you think of the new lot?

SoupyNorman

When did it start?

Mr E

Very vague post, womama! Try and give more information next time.

The new Apprentice UK starts March 26th. You can see the new candidates here.

Edit: BBC1's Apprentice Site is up too, click here

BaZmO*

Noticed on Aertel the other night that there was a Dub on it this year.
Looking at the BBC site it's Jennifer Maguire a 27 y.o. Marketing Consultant living in Bristol and apparently she can make the shape of a shamrock with her tongue... nice!

corcaighcailin9

Can't wait for it to start again. Bring it on!!

niceirishfella

Indeed, need something decent on the telly these days.

I just looked at all the pics of the new victims...opps, sorry ...contestants.
It'll be good to watch for the lads hairdo's - good grief! The state of some of em....

BaZmO*

niceirishfella wrote: »

It'll be good to watch for the lads hairdo's - good grief! The state of some of em....

CHRIST! You're not wrong!!

WTF?

niceirishfella

These blokes look they are going to spend more time watching their hair do's than tending to the tasks in hand.
Sir Alan will have them for breakfast...............

condra

Personally I'm disappointed at the ratio of cocky:modest people this year. I'll probably enjoy watching it regardless, if only to see some of those people get a smack of reality.

The X-Soldier is my favourite already. Everyone else is dispicable based on those little interviews on the bbc site.

Utopia Parkway

Your man that married Liz Hurley



The slightly inbred posh one



Your man from Fall Out Boy



Tramp in a suit

niceirishfella

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Your man that married Liz Hurley



The slightly inbred posh one



Your man from Fall Out Boy



Tramp in a suit

RAFLMAO - very good:p

damnyanks

None of them really seem to have done anything particularly good.

Clay Davis

BaZmO* wrote: »

CHRIST! You're not wrong!!

WTF?

Man, those haircuts are so freakin' gay! They all need a punch in the face!

lol - and one of the Sugababes has entered too:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/realitytv/i126204/lindi-mngaza.html

anotherlostie

The last two are actually quite attractive if someone took a scissors and comb to their barnets. And they definitely aren't gay haircuts (well maybe the third one) unless you are a 12 year old who uses gay as an adjective to describe something bad.

I read that the second guy has given himself an additional surname, deLacy no less, because he is a barrister and wanted to sound posh...

I saw one trailer for the show and it looked like loads of rows between the girls, whereas usually the alpha males generate all the early friction allowing the girls to win the challenges.

Clay Davis

anotherlostie wrote: »

unless you are a 12 year old who uses gay as an adjective to describe something bad.

No - I'm a 29 year old who uses gay as an adjective to describe something bad.

And they all need a good punch in the face to wipe those conceited smirks off them.

Cork

Hi folks - Wensday nights is bad for me.

Is this programme repeated at any other time?

KnifeWRENCH

Clay Davis wrote: »

lol - and one of the Sugababes has entered too:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/realitytv/i126204/lindi-mngaza.html

It's official: all 3 original Sugababes have left!! Seriously, she could be Keisha's long lost twin!!! Well spotted!!

ojewriej

So it starts today. Apparently they will be selling fish on the market. Can't wait.

Curvy Vixen

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

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Love child of Robbie Williams and Will Young!!

deise gal

For all my fellow apprentice lovers, tonight 9pm ! i personally cannot wait!

For more info on the contestants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/

We have an Irish representative:
Jennifer Maguire
Age 27
Career Marketing Consultant
Qualifications Irish leaving Cert
Home Town Bristol

"I can sell anything. I can sell pieces of paper for £50 and making a living out of it."

Jennifer was born and brought up in Dublin. Rejecting university life in favour of instant earning, she hopped on a plane to New York where she waited tables in a restaurant. After a year in advertising sales back home, she ran her own successful advertising business in Brussels before taking up her current role, working within the fashion industry. Jennifer comes from a very large feisty family and isn't afraid to have her voice heard. She sees herself as outspoken, funny and open-minded but has vowed to win The Apprentice by keeping her enemies close by her side. Apparently she can make the shape of a shamrock with her tongue...

Dyr

TV forum?

and may all the apprentices die in a car crash :pac:

Mossy Monk

Ooooooooh, an Irish contestant. I still wont watch. An the Television board was setup for this type of thing.

Miguel_Sanchez

Get thee and thou worthless reality TV crap to the Television Forum!!!

GhostInTheRuins

Do you know when it's repeated? I love the apprentice but can't see tv on wednesday nights.

Karoma

Moved. ¬_¬

Mr E

... and merged.

Quality

This is going to be great...

Cant wait,

HOpe they have a load of gob****es on it to keep it interesting.:)

corcaighcailin9

deise gal wrote: »

For all my fellow apprentice lovers, tonight 9pm ! i personally cannot wait!

For more info on the contestants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/

We have an Irish representative:
Jennifer Maguire
Age 27
Career Marketing Consultant
Qualifications Irish leaving Cert
Home Town Bristol

"I can sell anything. I can sell pieces of paper for £50 and making a living out of it."

Jennifer was born and brought up in Dublin. Rejecting university life in favour of instant earning, she hopped on a plane to New York where she waited tables in a restaurant. After a year in advertising sales back home, she ran her own successful advertising business in Brussels before taking up her current role, working within the fashion industry. Jennifer comes from a very large feisty family and isn't afraid to have her voice heard. She sees herself as outspoken, funny and open-minded but has vowed to win The Apprentice by keeping her enemies close by her side. Apparently she can make the shape of a shamrock with her tongue...

I saw a clip for the show where she claims "to be the best in Europe". I don't know what she was claiming to be the best as, her job presumably but it should be interesting.

anotherlostie

Already I HATE Rauf.

condra

Me too, and i have a feeling Im not much going to like that girl with the cookie hats.

stepbar

Is it just me, but every year without fail the producers pick the biggest, loudest, ego tripping tossers going. TBH none of them have covered themselves in glory in business terms. "The best sales person in Europe"?? That's a ridiculus comment :rolleyes: Telesales Executive..... Big deal :rolleyes: Sales Manager.... Big deal :rolleyes: and so on yada yada yada...... These people are not high flyers. Spoofers, pure spoofers.

Utopia Parkway

They all came across as self-absorbed pricks to be honest. Well maybe bar one or two.

Thought the leader of the men's team should have got the bullet. He let his team split into two camps on the very first task and was quite transparently using the posh barrister as a scapegoat. What did he say in the boardroom? "I was working transatlantically before I was 21". ffs.

How bad was the barrister in defending himself though? He spoke very poorly I thought. Good luck to whoever gets him in court.

corcaighcailin9

Is that Raef dude the new Tre? Arrogant self-centred maniac? Time will tell

stepbar

I think I might get my granny to apply next year.... she'd make a better shape of selling fish than the 16 of them put together. Makes me wonder how they select people for the show.... Might apply myself next year for the craic!

Utopia Parkway

stepbar wrote: »

Makes me wonder how they select people for the show....

I think they just pick out the most obnoxious twats they can find.:D

Snake Plisken

Yeah Alex was a bit of a Tosser, he did cause divide in the team and he was wrong to bully and ridicule Little Nick in front of the rest of the team. Raef was alright although don't see any of the posh boys doing to well. On the Girls team no real thoughts Ms McGuire hasn't really done much to catch the eye. And Silly hat lady Lucinda looks like she ends up crying next week so not looking promising.
Its great to have The Apprentice back

BaZmO*

I thought Sport Relief was over? Why is Daffyd from Little Britain on it?

niceirishfella

I fooking missed it people!

FFS..........I was'nt home till late........tell me pleazzzzz,
when can i see a repeat of tonights show?

Mezcita

Clay Davis wrote: »

Man, those haircuts are so freakin' gay! They all need a punch in the face!

That's all I could think during the entire show. Brilliant stuff!

Gekko

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Yeah Alex was a bit of a Tosser, he did cause divide in the team and he was wrong to bully and ridicule Little Nick in front of the rest of the team. Raef was alright although don't see any of the posh boys doing to well.

It wasn't clear to me how the divide in the team developed. I think the lawyer was right to go. It was pretty pathetic that they couldn't do basic tasks like identify fish and price them.

Duckjob

BaZmO* wrote: »

I thought Sport Relief was over? Why is Daffyd from Little Britain on it?

ROFL. I thought I was the only one who thought of Little Britain everytime there was a shot of him. I'm sure he's not the only gay in the vill-ege though.

The start of The Apprentice is always fun. Lots of tossers trying to talk up how super they are and then showing themselves to be completely mediocre.

Snake Plisken

Gekko wrote: »

It wasn't clear to me how the divide in the team developed. I think the lawyer was right to go. It was pretty pathetic that they couldn't do basic tasks like identify fish and price them.

I think once the dressing down of Nick and then when he sent the boys off to sell the fish he kept the blokes he liked the best with him.

ojewriej

You could argue who should go, the barrister or the Team Leader, up until the boardroom. Nicolas basically fired himself - talking about uneducated people, and how he can't talk about football. Alan Sugar left school at 16 and he owns (used to own?) a football team. Nicolas might have as wall paint a bulls eye on his forehead. And he is a barrister, so I thought he will be able to put up a decent fight.

Our man in Havana

Personally I thought that Jimmy Carr's brother should have been fired.

Quality

It was great.

So far the men are more annoying than the women, I loved hating that katie last year..

It will be an interesting season!!

ojewriej

Bond-007 wrote: »

Personally I thought that Jimmy Carr's brother should have been fired.

I loved him. There were moments, where you could see him thinking really hard how to say something in a really elaborate way, and then being delighted with himself when he came up with something. Brilliant.

MoominPapa

BaZmO* wrote: »

I thought Sport Relief was over? Why is Daffyd from Little Britain on it?

This guy is gold. His "Look at the breasts on that" comment while showing a potential customer a side of cod bodes well. His montage of best bits on You've been Fired will be priceless

Elmo

The guy who sold the remainder fish for 50 pounds should have been fired.

They go to a Solitors office selling the fish, They never mention the price of the fish, then they run off to the fish only to return to the office and have one of the solitors tell them that they have to sell for 50pounds at this stage otherwise they won't sell it.

Surely they should have discussed the price before they brought the fish to the office. :rolleyes:

Gillie

The guy who was fired was a complete tool!

ojewriej

Elmo wrote: »

The guy who sold the remainder fish for 50 pounds should have been fired.

They go to a Solitors office selling the fish, They never mention the price of the fish, then they run off to the fish only to return to the office and have one of the solitors tell them that they have to sell for 50pounds at this stage otherwise they won't sell it.

Surely they should have discussed the price before they brought the fish to the office. :rolleyes:

That's true, but they were deperate at this stage. And a lot of them made mistakes - i think the one with the pricing was a biggest one. Lobster for 4.95 a piece?

Our man in Havana

Will the "your fired!" programme be repeated? I totally forgot to sky+ it last night.