Sir Alan Sugar’s sidekick Nick Hewer has said that Debra Barr could have sold one of her expensive rocking horses on Wednesday night’s show had she applied some creative thinking.
Debra was trying to sell £2000 rocking horses at the London Baby Fair but failed to make a sale after she refused to knock £200 off the price.
Hewer told The Mirror: “What would have been wrong in saying: ‘Pay the full price because we can’t drop it, and we’ll give you £200 back from the money we got from the birthing pools?’
The Apprentice kicked off this week with a 6am phone call directing all candidates to the local maternity hospital. Am I the only one who thinks that 6am is a ridiculous hour to phone anyone? Sir Alan obviously doesn’t realise that sleep deprivation impedes performance and affects peoples ability to operate every day baby paraphernalia!
You would imagine that since Apprentice candidate Lorraine Tighe has two children of her own, she would be able to work a buggy. But apparently not!
The mother-of-two is project manager for tonight’s task, in which the teams pick two baby products then attempt to sell them at a baby fair in London’s Earl’s Court.
As Lorraine struggles trying to collapse a buggy, Sir Alan’s aide Nick Hewer quips: “This pushchair looks to me like the most complicated thing when in fact of course, when done properly it is the simplest thing with a great selling point – she is making a complete Horlicks of it!”
Sir Michael Parkinson has described Big Brother as “the modern version of Bedlam”.
The former chat show host also blasted The Apprentice and Sir Alan Sugar’s attitude to his candidates.
“I object to the exploitation of the underclass in shows like Big Brother,” he told The Observer. “It is the modern version of Bedlam, where you pay to see the poor benighted people making asses of themselves.”
Tonight’s Apprentice will see the candidates trying to flog some baby products at one of Britain’s largest baby fairs. Judging by the clip above I wouldn’t say that many of them have a clue about babies, prams or any other child paraphernalia, so their attempts should be humourous at least.
The sight of James giving birth may be a bit for the weak stomached so if you are at all queasy, give the clip below a miss!
The RSPCA is reportedly considering launching an investigation into Apprentice candidate Ben Clarke after he swallowed a live goldfish at a drunken party.
One partygoer told The News Of The World: “Ben was out of control. Yes, it was a drunken party, but how can anyone defend eating a live animal just for a laugh?”
The newspaper sent copies of the party photographs to the RSPCA, urging them to launch an investigation into the matter.
Mona Lewis got sacked on tonight’s Apprentice after failing to bring the gay people to Margate.
The teams were sent to the seaside town and asked to rebrand it. Ignite went for the family market, Empire chased the pink pound.
It didn’t pay off as they filled their posters with too many words but there weren’t enough on their promotional leaflets. They instead were filled with blank spaces, which they tried to tell experts were left deliberately for local advertisers.
9.57: Mona reaches the end of the pier! I have hoped for weeks that she would be fired but in fairness, tonight should have been Debra’s last. The woman can’t lead a team, can’t even design a poster or finish a leaflet. On second thoughts I would have liked a shock triple eviction. Not a one of those no hopers can hope to work for SAS long term.
9.55: SAS says Mona is someone who sits in the background and says what people want to hear, he brands James a ducker and diver who plays a clever game and he thinks Debra is too loud, too bossy and someone who kills creativity.
9.51: Debra takes James and Mona back into the boardroom. James was ineffective in Margate, Mona didn’t like the gay community and Debra is a lazy liar. Not a great bunch really.
On this week’s Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar sends his bunch of useless candidates to Margate where they must market the town as a tourist destination. No doubt the neighbouring seaside resort of Ramsgate were rubbing their hands with glee.
The clip over the jumshows Howard and and Debra casting for their same sex photoshoot, after their team decided that the Pink Pound was one to capitalise on.
Apprentice candidate Phillip Taylor has admitted that Kate Walsh is just the sort of woman he’d like to marry.
Phillip was fired from the show last week for being too cocky and shooting his mouth off but the experience left him with more than just honed business skills, he also got a girlfriend thrown in for free.
In an interview with Heat magazine Phil opened up about his and Kate’s relationship saying:
“Well you always dream of marrying a beautiful woman don’t you – put it this way if I was going to marry anyone I’d like it to be her.”
Former Apprentice candidate Katie Hopkins is running for MEP.
The woman who caused a stir on last years show by walking off before she was sacked, is standing under the banner of Katie Olivia Hopkins Independent Party.
The former Met Office worker is one of six South West region candidates on June 4.
Apprentice candidate Ben Clarke is reportedly already planning how to make a name for himself in the media after leaving the show.
Ben is lucky to have survived on the show so far, and knowing that his days are numbered, the stockbroker arranged a dinner date with last year’s contestants Claire Young and Raef Bjayou.
An onlooker told the Daily Star Sunday: “You’d think he would have been more discreet – but he has a loud voice and everyone could hear him. Ben told Claire, who was famous for being tough and no-nonsense: ‘I want to be like you. I want to be the new Rottweiler’.
Apprentice candidates Phillip Taylor and Kate Walsh may look all loved up now but rumour has it that Kate was not the Phillip’s first choice.
Paula Jones, who was fired from the show in week four, reportedly claimed that Phillip tried to bed her in the early days of filming but after she rebuffed him, he moved on to wooing Kate.
The People report that Paula told a friend: “It was obvious from the moment we met that he wanted to bed me. One night he tried to pull me on to a sofa but I wasn’t having any of it.
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