Tonight saw the final Apprentice of the year and boy was it a good one!
Kate Walsh and Yasmina Siadatan went head to head in a confectionery based task, where each woman was responsible for creating and launching their own range of chocolates.
Kate’s team came up with ‘Choc Amour’, a product which was designed for sharing between couples, whilst Yamsina’s team produced ‘Cocoa Electric’ a shocking’ box of chocolates, which were almost inedible.
Taste obviously wasn’t an issue and Alan Sugar obviously isn’t a chocolate fan, because after admitting that Yasmina’s chocolates were vile, they were also cheap to produce and he moved on to hire her. I feel sorry for poor Mrs Sugar, I bet Valentines Day is a disappointment in their house.
So Yasmina landed a six figure job and Kate is left high and dry but somehow I don’t think she’ll be destitute. Surely her and Phillip are good for at least one or two big magazine spreads?
The Conservatives have called for Sir Alan Sugar to quit his TV show ‘The Apprentice’, after he accepted a job from Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
They say his new role as an “enterprise tsar” for the government is “completely incompatible” with BBC rules.
Culture Select Committee chairman and Conservative politician John Whittingdale told The Mail On Sunday: “In my view it is not possible for him to continue to present The Apprentice at the same time as he is so closely identified with the Government.
After 11 gruelling weeks of “the job interview from hell”; it’s time for Sir Alan Sugar to finally choose his next Apprentice.
For the two remaining finalists, it’s the toughest challenge yet. They have just three days to create and brand a new box of chocolates with original flavours before launching them to an audience of more than 100 industry experts.
Apprentice finalist Yasmina Siadatan has accused producers of editing her unfairly in the shows most recent episode.
Last week’s episode saw Yasmina struggle to answer questions put to her by the formidable Claude Litner. As he grilled her on her company accounts she squirmed and was obviously out of her depth. yet Yasmina was shown to emerge from the interview and describe it as “very good” and “actually enjoyable” in a conversation with her fellow candidates.
Sir Alan Sugar’s advisor, Margaret Mountford, has quit the show after five years.
The Northern Irish corporate lawyer acts as Sir Alan’s eyes and ears on the show, as she and Nick Hewer shadow teams of candidates and report back on their performance throughout the tasks.
The Sun reports that Mountford will quit after this years series ends in order to finish her doctorate on ancient Egyptian manuscripts.
With just days to go until Sir Alan Sugar chooses his new Apprentice, viewers are offered a chance to review the candidates who didn’t quite make it this year.
From washing cars and selling soap to creating a cartoon character for a new breakfast cereal, the budding business men and women have been tested to destruction.
Sir Alan Sugar is quite the business man and in my mind he would be crazy not to take Debra Barr up on her recent offer.
After being sacked from The Apprentice last night for being too rude and offensive, Debra has revealed that so strong is her desire to work for Sir Alan, she would be prepared to do for for a substantially lower sum than the £100,000 figure awarded to the winner of the show.
She told The Sun: “I was gutted not to be in the final.
Tonight’s Apprentice show had to be the best of the series so far. I love to watch the candidates squirm under the pressure of the four part interview and every year there is serious fall out from this phase of the process.
Although Sir Alan sacked three candidates before next week’s final, the big loser tonight was without doubt James McQuillan. James was almost mocked by each of Sir Alan’s advisors. They branded him as immature and it didn’t help that he littered his interview with Karen full of Willy Wonka references. Claude said his CV was full of jibberish, and the line of the night had to be James description of his last job as:
‘I put a leash on people who spunk money up the wall.’
The fact that he sold himself by saying that Sir Alan should hire him because:
I can bring ignorance to the table
just proves how much the village idiot he really is.
Lorraine’s big downfall tonight was the fact that she talked an abundance of crap to her interviewers, rambling on about her powers of mind reading. If the mother of two really could tell what people were thinking surely she would wash her hair or choose a less ridiculous colour of lipstick before venturing out of the house.
Debra impressed the interviewers with her composure and intelligent responses to their questions however the fact that her co-workers and former bosses described her as:
‘rude, foul mouthed and ignorant. ‘
and
‘very aggressive and rude, people either love her or hate her, most people hate her.’
raised serious concerns about her ability to function within a team environment. When Sir Alan fired her he admitted that it may have been a huge mistake but he didn’t feel that she was yet ready or mature enough for the challenges he would expect her to face.
So next weeks final will see Kate and Yasmina go head to head. Given that Yas lied about her turnover and profits and wasn’t too worried about the prospect of making her mother homeless should her restaurant go under, I can’t see her winning……can you?
I love this point of The Apprentice series, the scary interviews. This week the remaining five candidates face four of Sir Alan’s trusted colleagues for the grilling of their lives.
For some reason I don’t think James will do too well but ultimately I think cocky Debra will run into trouble when challenged.
The Apprentice final has been moved from its regular Wednesday night slot to a Sunday evening, in order to accommodate a football match.
The final epoisode of the series will air on Sunday, June 7 at 9pm on BBC One and so will no longer clash with ITV’s coverage of an England World Cup qualifier with Andorra.
“We appreciate that many viewers will want to watch both The Apprentice final and the England World Cup qualifier,” said a BBC spokesperson.
Sir Alan Sugar’s helper Nick Hewer has blasted Apprentice reject Howard Ebison for lacking in “courage and flair”.
“When I asked if he thought he was a ‘brave warrior’ his face betrayed, I thought, the realisation that he is, in fact, lacking in ambition and courage – something Sir Alan has in spades,” the former PR boss told The Mirror.
“He’s a decent young man but is destined for now to remain in middle management because he lacks that vital entrepreneurial flair.”
Howard Ebison has become the latest candidate to be fired by Sir Alan Sugar after he accused him of being “ordinary” and not taking enough risks.
On last night’s Apprentice show the teams were required to pick four items each and then sell them on a TV shopping channel during one of their primetime slots. SAS was initially impressed with Ignite and their choices of products. He liked the chip fryer, air guitar toy and expensive leather jackets though no one could quite understand why anyone would choose to sell the creepy looking cat and dog figures.
Tonight, The Apprentice candidates really do face their hardest challenge yet. They will be required to sell crap products, that may have been bought in the local pound shop, on a TV shopping channel without the help of pants man.
The clip above shows some of their efforts, I’d be surprised if they make more than a tenner at that rate!
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