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!
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.
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