Asleep on the job.
The Apprentice week 2.
This week we saw another wine for the lads. Bit of a no brainer though to be fair. They were decisive in firstly their choice of PM Azhar Siddique, the killer whale of the sea world, as opposed to the other worlds where you find killer whales, and secondly in their choice of product. Ok not hugely decisive, blond Mancunian Adam Corbally, fresh from playing Coronation Street’s Ashley Peacock, developed an idea for rubber gloves with bits of sponge stuck on it. It wasn’t the best idea, in fact it was a tripe idea and so they went with the Eco-Press, a compost bin that looked a little like Mr Fusion from the Back to the Future DeLorean. It was a pretty sound idea, and to be fair it was a good choice to select the kitchen gadget over the bathroom. It sold well, despite the worst pitch ever from Stephen Brady, uniquely starring on the Apprentice whilst also currently playing cricket in Sri Lanka. What the lads have in team Phoenix is a tight nit group. They had a couple of gripes, but on day two they were working for each other and the product, but watch this space, Azhar seems to want the wheels to come off.
Still in the tale of two Mancunians, Duane got the win and must surely be the favourite for the series at this point.
The girls on the other hand were bad from word go, clearly missing Bilyana. Jane stepped forward for the PM job, a good choice as she clearly leads well, just doesn’t make decisions very well. Katie also put herself forward. I think she did this so that should she be dragged back into the boardroom she could at least say she did something. She was clearly not interested in the role, her impassioned plea to take the role being ‘I’m really excited’ followed by a couple of giggles then a look around the room to see the best thing for her to hide behind. It seems to be a championship game of hide and seek between herself and Michael Copp who might not even have bothered turning up so far. Anyway, the girls flapped between two products, both as bad as each other, eventually deciding on a splash screen for babies to stop them making a mess in the bathroom. It wasn’t a good product with one of the retailers refusing to order any, but what let the girls down the most was their ridiculous pitch of 1 million units to Amazon whose buyers looked totally unimpressed and their inability to organise their figures. It was this costing boob that infuriated Lord Sugar the most, almost tempting him into sacking two candidates, again someone survived by the skin of their arse.
Jane brought Jenna and Maria back into the boardroom. Mistakes had been made but there was plenty of ammunition to fire at Maria. Once again she didn’t do a huge amount other than kick off and argue. This is of course when she was awake. It is quite an ability to sleep through Jenna’s whinging nasal honk; she drifted off in the car through one of Jenna’s most passionate wails.
Maria showed her age as she did last week, throwing in accusations of ‘you’re ridiculous’ and ‘I didn’t say nothin’ (yes that’s true, you said nothing, you did nothing and she deserved to go). Lord Sugar recognised her as one who wants to row, Nick echoing this with ‘she is a very noisy woman’. She was in fact as daft as her stupid eye makeup. She deserved to go.
She went but that was nearly not the end of all the shouting and firing. Lord Sugar was pretty sick about the failure of the figures, holding back a second sacking through an exasperated ‘you run your own businesses, get back to the house.’
Duane is clearly favourite after week 2, but I still fancy Jane, she dealt well with the task and well with the boardroom and I think will go a long way.
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