Bill Cullen - will he now work for nothing

msg11 · 16-05-2012 03:29PM

What is more worrying is RTE are looking to commission the series and if it has a price tag of 2 million over on TV3, that means about 20 million down at RTE.

TV3 must have been paying the company's to give them tasks even though the huge advertisement they would get. Just remember we live in Ireland after all.

foxyboxer · 16-05-2012 03:33PM

Harry Hill always summed up The Apprentice UK nicely on TV Burp.

"I'm a mover and a shaker, I started my own online business at 14 and I got a first from Cambridge, I will be Lord Sugars next Apprentice"

*cut to*

"Joanne, your fired!"

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-05-2012 03:35PM

Was there really a 100k a year job going with Bill or was that just part of the bullsh1t?

I can imagine Bill saying to the 'winner' once the cameras were turned off, Right Bud shows over now Feck Off. :pac:

christmas2012 · 16-05-2012 03:52PM

I hate the smugness of people like that,most of them wouldnt get out of bed for the right fee,while telling us to do work for free programmes.
Its quangos like these (FAS and JOBFIT intern ce schemes) that rob what could have been a paid job advertised right out of the community.
They displace what jobs could have been available,because of these piss schemes we dont have half the paid jobs available that we should have.

smash · 16-05-2012 03:53PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Was there really a 100k a year job going with Bill or was that just part of the bullsh1t?

It's a 100K package. This consisted of your company car, wages and OTE if you hit it.

Nothingbetter2d · 16-05-2012 03:53PM

i wonder how many of the dragons from the irish dragon's den went bankrupt after the bubble burst?

mikemac1 · 16-05-2012 03:58PM

Captain Graphite wrote: »

The English version is much better; Lord Sugar is someone you'd actually listen to and would want to work for. And Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford, his assistants, were a brilliant double act that had some wonderful put downs. (Sadly Margaret left a couple of seasons ago to do a PhD studying papyrus or something. Karren Brady, her replacement, isn't as entertaining but still much better than either of Cullen's lackeys.)

It's a very poor season on at the moment, one of the weakest ever

Two seasons ago was TV gold with the candidates they had

Alan Sugar has changed so much as this show has gone on.
In earlier seasons he'd be cursing out everyone, nowadays he's meek in comparison

smash · 16-05-2012 03:59PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

i wonder how many of the dragons from the irish dragon's den went bankrupt after the bubble burst?

None as far as I'm aware.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-05-2012 04:01PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

i wonder how many of the dragons from the irish dragon's den went bankrupt after the bubble burst?

I think DJ Careys ex is in a spot of financial bother at the moment.

aidan24326 · 16-05-2012 04:17PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Was there really a 100k a year job going with Bill or was that just part of the bullsh1t?

I can imagine Bill saying to the 'winner' once the cameras were turned off, Right Bud shows over now Feck Off. :pac:

The guy who won it last year or the year before (Steve Rayner) definitely still works for Bill. Doubt he's on 100K per year though.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I think DJ Careys ex is in a spot of financial bother at the moment.

Yep. Sarah Newman, the blonde one who made one relatively small investment in her whole two series on the show (on a business related to hurling!) is in fairly deep dodo related to some bad property investments. Herself and DJ like so many others got caught up in the property wankfest and are feeling the heat now.

MadsL · 16-05-2012 04:25PM

fishy fishy wrote: »

agreed, to me he comes across as a cheap salesman in a cheap suit.

He is. One of the (illegal) attraction tactics he uses in Dublin is drenching the dealership building in fabric banners, along with a few out on the roads - in breach of planning byelaws in Dublin. Then he opines on the Apprentice about hin-teg-gritty.

ejmaztec · 16-05-2012 04:34PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I think DJ Careys ex is in a spot of financial bother at the moment.

Sarah Newman. Wasn't she the one who didn't actually invest in anything when she was on the programme?

TwoShedsJackson · 16-05-2012 05:42PM

He can go back to getting up at 4 a.m. and selling apples or whatever it is he's always ****eing on about.

mikeym · 16-05-2012 05:50PM

Tight Tv3 feckers

Cee-Jay-Cee · 16-05-2012 10:28PM

Sort of sad to hear its been axed as it was entertaining watching a bunch of smug wannabes being booted off each week. Although i wont be sorry not seeing that botoxed facelifted aul bag jackie lavin.

Pottler · 16-05-2012 11:03PM

Is Bills last apprentice not running an auction(a new one) in Toughers? There's a big trailer with a picture of Bill, the Lackeys and the beaming apprentice on it. Hardly the most original idea but might work. Not quite the high glamour promised by the original programme either.

Mickey Dazzler · 16-05-2012 11:09PM

Bill Cillen is an absolute condescending egomaniacal horrible shit talking fat faced little cunt. Who's mistress looks like my arsehole first thing on a money morning after 12 pints of Guinness and a curry. Absolute wanker.

Svetti Arss · 16-05-2012 11:12PM

"Where's the passion"!

SerialComplaint · 16-05-2012 11:15PM

CJC999 wrote: »

Although i wont be sorry not seeing that botoxed facelifted aul bag jackie lavin.

I hear that Jackie looked very surprised when she heard that the show was dropped. But then again, Jackie looks very surprised all the time anyway.

Eggonyerface · 16-05-2012 11:16PM

Mickey Dazzler wrote: »

Bill Cillen is an absolute condescending egomaniacal horrible shit talking fat faced little cunt. Who's mistress looks like my arsehole first thing on a money morning after 12 pints of Guinness and a curry. Absolute wanker.

Get off the fence and tell us what you really think

stovelid · 16-05-2012 11:16PM

He has a curiously immobile face.

That's about all I can think of to say.

Archeron · 16-05-2012 11:18PM

bluewolf wrote: »

how was it that expensive they had massive advertising every week from the companies

And that the lucky weekly winners prizes included such gems as tap dancing lessons, or learning how to properly fry cabbage in the middle of a department store at night.

MadsL · 17-05-2012 01:30AM

stovelid wrote: »

He has a curiously immobile face.

That's about all I can think of to say.

Botox.

17-05-2012 09:59AM

Archeron wrote: »

And that the lucky weekly winners prizes included such gems as tap dancing lessons, or learning how to properly fry cabbage in the middle of a department store at night.

yeah

"and now this week's prize... a lovely dinner!"
over and over

bigmark39 · 17-05-2012 10:54AM

There's no doubt Bill Cullen loved the cameras. This story he puts out about selling apples with his grannie taught him the rules of business etc sounds good, but so does little house on the prairie and the Waltons. Like those shows it's probably a load of bollocks.
As for Jackie, if she smiled, she might make her arse jealous

Bill Cullen - will he now work for nothing

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