Now I kept my council last week as I’m new to The Apprentice and wasn’t entirely sure about the budding Entrepreneurs that made up this series’ crop of hopefuls. Of course it’s funny to see these stuffed suits up to their elbows in fish scales or sweating buckets in a commercial laundry, as they have in the last 2 weeks, and the “In Fighting” is great as they all try to get the plumb job of Project Manager – meaning they do the least work and get a title in the process!
The dress sense all seems a bit off. They have clumped around in white welly boots, white coats, shirts and ties whilst selling fish on a market only to turn up to a board meeting with Sir Alan (In the case of Alex) looking like he’d slept in his suit, lost his hairbrush and neglected to shave!
Now maybe it is his “Look” but presumably he didn’t want the sack and I wouldn’t want to face Sir Alan looking like that – I doubt if it endeared him at all!
This week was great, the girls wanted to do the laundry for a hotel at a cut price £4.99 an item. YES £4.99. I suppose they could do it for that seeing it was a bulk order of one thousand pieces, a cut price Five Grand – were they serious? The hotel manager’s face was a picture!
Pricing seems to be a problem with the Boys selling whole lobsters for a fiver the week before.
It all went wrong from there for the “Girls” and degenerated into the “Project Manager” – Jenny (you can tell the Project Manager as they keep telling the group that they are) – reducing poor old Lucinda to tears. I think it’s great that Jenny managed to pull everyone together.
Both Alex and Jenny have managed to get their scapegoats fired, so they can’t be doing everything wrong. I suppose all the candidates will find their feet as the series goes on and there are fewer contestants to argue with.
I love to see these management types putting their spin on more traditional industries.
Episode 1 – The boys got fleeced by a firm of solicitors when they tried to sell them fish. As Carly Chynoweth mentioned in the TimesOnline – Why try to sell fish to sharks? They drove a hard bargain and fleeced the boys.
Episode 2 – The girls offering a 24hr hotline along with personal account managers so that you can track your overnight laundry. I would have had to call them at 4 am just to check it out!
Does anyone agree that Kevin Shaw looks uncannily like Matt Lucas? I think he’s great – funny as you like!
I’m really looking forward to next week, it’s car crash TV at its best.
