The Apprentice

I am shocked that Ansell is gone. Ruth is by far and away the most annoying person on the show and frankly, unless (and I hope I'm wrong) it's for the sake of political correctness, she should not be in the final. Paul shot himself in the foot big time this evening - first time I've seen him crumble to smithereens. Ansell was brilliant and it's a disgrace that Ruth be kept in his place. Michelle is the winner after this, but if Ruth wins, then you know that the Apprentice is a joke because I wouldn't let Ruth run a chicken battery let alone a business.

Interesting to see the ex-Apprentices are back to form teams next week, might have to actually watch it now again... didn't wanna seeing as Paul and Ansell are gone. Shucks! And the Scottish babe is lookin well in her wee dress!!!

Yes Paul, I too hate how homeless people fail to research their target audience, fail to construct an appropriate presentation method, or even hold a round table meeting before they go out in the morning. Prìck.

Well, the real underdog of the series looks as though she's going to win it. Michelle came across as the most professional and likeable interviewee and potential employee n the boardroom by far. Good on her, and I really hope that she goes the whole way after tonight.

I can't say I'm surprised about Ansell - yes, as with many on here he was a favourite of mine, but you've got to ask yourself what he actually proved to Sir Alan over the ten weeks in comparison to his colleagues. The answer is, bordering on nothing. He negotiated some good deals, and saved his skin by truth telling etc, but at the end of he day was just not up to it. I would have said the same for Michelle as well an hour ago, but I feel that today we really got an insight into her personality and aspirations, and it is this which has appealed to both me and those in the boardroom. Ansell however, just seemed to slip into the background tonight, as usual.

Ruth-same old, same old. She's good, and may take the job as the apprentice due to what she has proven over the last ten tasks. Unfortunate for her that she has been in the losing team more often than not. My concern though is that she may be a bit too 'in your face', but maybe Alan likes that.

As for Paul; well, good riddance. What a cocky ****. Came across like Syed tonight, and by no strech of the imagination is that a good thing.

At work today we were discussing who could be in next weeks final.

Most of us said that it would Ruth and Ansell, whilst a coupl said Ruth and Paul.

What a shocker to see MIchelle reach the final. But on tonights viewing it is understandable as to how she reached the final.


Will she cope with the job?????

There are spoiler tags provided for a purpose. It doesn't matter if it's conjecture, media hype or determined by logical thinking, or even if its completely wrong, anything remotely suggestive of who the winner will be should be in spoilers.

Its not spoiling the viewing as it [ B]COULD[/B] be wrong. I thought the spoiler tags were there just forthe use of reported ( and confirmed ) true stories of events/happenings in shows, and not just rumours. If this isn't the case then I apologise.

Yes it could. But it could also be right.

Example: Say I didn't know about . By typing it out loud you would have slanted my thought process towards winning, and possibly ruining my viewing of next weeks show, as I sit there thinking I knew what was going to happen.

Example 2: Some git on DS posted a thread, and his opening post was pretty much a statement (very thinly disguised) as to which team would lose that night (gleaned from "The Scum"), thus ruining my enjoyment of the task part of the programme, because I knew which team would lose.

With respect to others, it is always a good idea to put any thoughts which reveal the probability of one event happening over the other in spoilers. People will interpret what they read and if what they have read turns out to be right, then it has spoiled the programme for them.

The "next week" bit gave it away anyway. It was edited to give the strong impression that Candidate A will be beaten hands down by Candidate B. Therefore, the opposite is the case. QED.

I have to say last week I was really glad Syed went, but I'd have loved to have seen him torn to pieces in the interviews last night.

I wonder how he'd have explained the non existence of the company he claimed to run.

what i thought was funny about that is that most people dislike being approached or pressured into buying something on the street even if the person selling it to to is homeless (it's even worse when they do it next to a cash point etc) but would you really put it on your cv? it's the utter stupidity of it. the very fact that he felt the need to write about it in his cv almost suggests that he doesn't have full control of his emotions anyway.

like others have said, i'm suprised he got this far.

Thing that annoyed me about last nights show was the editing of the interviews. Is it really necessary to go back and forth between interviewer and candidate with these short snippets ?

I appreciate it had to be edited but couldn't we have taken excerpts of each candidate in turn with each interviewer to get the fuller picture ?

Apart from that great show, although I think Sir Alan must be thinking he'd rather not employ any of them.

Paul got what he deserved for all of his arrogance. All that spin about how much of a go getter he is and his experience in business and it turns out he's been in his latest job for just a month and earns less than I do! And no wonder his firm gave hime full paid leave to go on the show, they're milking it for all its worth in terms of PR and publicity.