I have a scary feeling Lucinda is going this week.... It will be Micheal and clare in the final as much as it pains me... Lee is the only decent one left
Printable View
I have a scary feeling Lucinda is going this week.... It will be Micheal and clare in the final as much as it pains me... Lee is the only decent one left
Apprentice number one left after two years:Quote:
Originally Posted by Siobhan
http://www.tim-campbell.co.uk/
Apprentice number two Michelle Dewsbury only stayed for her one year contract:
http://www.michelledewberry.com/index.htm
Apprentice number three Simon Ambrose is still working with the propoerty arm of Sir Alan Sugar's empire. He is not exactly setting the real estate world alight....
'Last years Apprentice winner, Simon Abrose is said to have had a “rude awakening” when he took up his post at AMSPROP, the real estate division of Alan Sugar’s group of companies.
“Simon’s doing OK…He’s working on trying to sell some places for us and I think he’s had a rude awakening,” Sugar revealed. “His naivety’s been given a whack over the head, thinking that he’s got things sold but then realising he’s amongst some real sharks out there. He’s gotta learn - he’s an apprentice.”
However, despite his bumpy start, Sugar is confident that Ambrose will grow into his role. “He hasn’t sold Canary Wharf yet, but he’ll get there,” he insisted.'
http://www.biogs.com/apprentice/simon.html
I still think that Kristina Grimes was robbed!
thanks for the info.. and 100% agree with above statement.. she was robbedQuote:
Originally Posted by Trinity
I agree about Kristina being robbed. You can view a bit of S3 on YouTube and she was a fantastic contestant and great at thinking on her feet.
I don't think Lee was the right person to do the presentation. I think his speech can come across as quite garbled. Alex would have been much better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chloe O'brien
None of the remaining contestants have the quality that Kristina had last year she was robbed last year, this time it was Simon who was robbed.
I think it has to be Alex or Helene to go this week as they have been hiding under the Radar since week one and haven't pulled their finger out and done some serious work to prove they are the best candidate for the apprentice.
As much as we all love to hate Michael he is the Kate Hopkins of this series. Everyone hates him but can't bear to get rid of him. claires a bullying bitch who should have went weeks ago. Lee and Airy Fairy Lucinda to be the final two with Lee winning.
Reminder::::
Apprentice tonight at 9pm on BBC 1
Just saw this on the BBC Homepage!..Quote:
Originally Posted by Siobhan
It clashes with BGT don't it :( I think I will watch The Apprentice on BBC iPlayer...
Yessssss! :cheer:
Michael is gone, justice has at last been served to slimey, liar and egotist.
If only Helene had gone too, I really thought it was going to happen...
Verdicts on the rest of them are mixed.
Lucinda, get the car right, babe - the name is on the badge!
Claire, good at selling medium priced products and works very hard.
Alex, sold an impossibly expensive car hire 4 times over, I was impressed. He has no personality, though.
Lee, should have managed Lucinda better. She needed help and was hung out to dry. He can take risks though, the expensive car was a gamble that paid off in the same way as the designer wedding dresses a couple of weeks ago. He should have thought of the team as a whole. The evening slot was a great place to sell the raffle tickets - what happened to them BTW?
Though it pains me to say it Alex and Claire for the final. Lucinda is a good manager but she flounders as a team member.
I wouldn't pick Lee, and you know what I am taliking about!
I am so glad Micheal has gone, how he escaped firing for so long was beyond me!
Lucinda, bless her, she's such a sweet soul but totally useless! She may be a nice person, but she wouldn't last long working with Sir Alan! She needs a bit of a backbone and a bit of something about her, when the going gets tough Sir Alan needs someone who can get results, now go in the corner and cry and blame it all on others.
Saying that it didn't excuse the way she's been treated the past two weeks by Lee and Alex. With that raffle idea, it was clearly hers not Alex's! And she has no experience of sales, so why Lee left her alone is beyond me!
This year's bunch are near to useless, they're just big egos who try and make out to be next to brilliant. When I'm saying Claire to win, it just shows how bad the rest are.
I can't wait for next week..I love the interview show.. one of those guys rips the contestants to shreds..
Apparently next week - the real interviews from Hell - "Look out for the moment when your least favourite candidate is so brutally done over, you feel for the first time in 11 weeks an actual spark of sympathy" [Radio Times]. Presumably that's Claire. I read that before last night's programme and thought that Michael was going to escape again. But justice was done at last!
Having said that, I can't see the final being between anyone but Lee and Claire.
I think your right about Lee and Claire being in the final, but I wouldn't rule out Lucinda she is a dark horse with her tree-hugging ways. As long as it's not Helene or Alex that make it. Those two have been lurking around for weeks without bringing anything to the show.
OMG - what an episode.
Needy Lee lied on his C.V.
Sneeky Alex shafted Lucinda in the boardroom
Claire talked and talked, but still shone.
Helene proved that she interviewed better than she performed
And Lucinda was fired...but she will do okay, she would have taken a pay cut to work for £100K anyway - and although I loved her I think Sir Alan was right to fire her, she would not have been a good fit within his companies.
I think Sir Alan kept the four of them in not because they were all great, but because no two shone.
Lee really shot himself in the foot with his lie on his C.V. He obviously has a total chip on his shoulder regarding his lack of a university education and instead of using it as a plus - e.g. I didn't have the educational advantages of some of the contestants but I have worked my butt off and made a sucess of myself - he lied. Very sad.
Alex interviewed really badly, however the panal still liked him. I don't, who wants to work with a back stabber, even if he used to be a model and has Superman p.js?
Claire did well, the best of all the candidates bar Lucinda in the interview, but her incessant talking is obviously annoying people.
Helene, oh god- I hope she doesn't get the job.
In the absence of robbed duo Simon and Raef, reluctantly I have to say, 'Claire, you're hired!'
Can anyone tell me how old Alex is? He forgot to mention it last night! :wall:
Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
:rotfl:
lol, i loved when Karen Brady was like so what if your 24. I was chair of Birmingham City at 23, a whole year younger".
Cant believe Lee but 2 years rather than 4 months not really an easy mistake.
and the other favourite was Alex putting Fluent in english.
poor Lucinda! :( bless her little cotton socks!
I am not suprised Lucinda got fired.. she was 100% right, you don't need to be a bitch to do well in business..
I am not sure if Clare has changed at all.. as Sir Alan said, she shuts up in the boardroom but she hasn't changed outside it. Still would like Lee to win as Helene and Alex are just not good options
How on earth Alex and Helene have lasted this long is anyone guesed. Alex has been a backstabbing slimeball since day 1 and Helene has just been hiding in all the tasks I would not hire any them. Claire is a motormouth bully Sir Alan had it right last night she can talk but she doesn't listen. The only one out of the 4 despite his lying on his CV is Lee as he has grafted his butt of in every task.
At least he owned up in the boardroom, and I think that if Sir Alan was going to hold the lie against him he would have gone yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chloe O'brien
I would find Clare annoying to work with definitely, but I do think that she is the best of a poor bunch.
Sir Alan's mistake's in firing Simon and Raef are going to cost him dearly.
can anyone else not believe that they kept saying Lucinda wasn't a serious businesswoman because she had an interest in aromotherapy?! its not like her degree was in it! and contary to what they were saying you can't be a dizzy silly woman and still earn £100k a year!
I agree totally, Lucinda was a smart, capable woman, and a wonderful manager. Where she performed poorly as part of a team it was invariably down to poor management on someone elses part.
Unfortunately the business world is still a chauvanistic environment, and Lu is better working for herself. She would have hated the job anyway.
I think it would be a travesty if Alex won. Claire is a much stronger candidate and would make much more of an impact within SAS's company.
If anyone apart from Lee win then it's a fix like last year. Lee was not my favourite but he is the best hardworking candidate out of the four. Helene and Alex are only there because they hid behind others shirt-tales throughout the competition and as for Clare she only survived due to .simon and Rafe hard luck
that's the thing, sometimes i wonder why they bother with the process. the whole point of doing a '10week interview" or whatever was that they got to know they canddates as people more and how they worked in a group environment. Claire might interview well and look good on paper but she's also proven she can't work well wth other people and will happily undermine anyone else at the first chance she gets.
The runner-up in this year's Apprentice will be offered a job by Essex County Council, reports the BBC.
The position will be created and tailored towards the strengths of the second-placed candidate from the show.
Claire Young, Lee McQueen, Helene Speight and Alex Wotherspoon will all compete for a job at Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad firm in Wednesday's final.
Council leader Lord Hanningfield said: "Essex County Council is as ambitious as any private company. We unashamedly want the best and brightest to come and work for us.
"Perceptions need to change. Working in local government is every bit as challenging and rewarding, if not more so, than the private sector."
He added: "Sir Alan Sugar's company is based right here in Essex - so this is about the ambition of the county as a whole, both private and public sector working together, to deliver the best possible quality of life for the people of Essex."
The Apprentice final airs Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.
judging by that news article i think i know who win's this series.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bondboffin
Go on then - who?
Presumably with salary to match. As an Essex Council tax payer myself I object!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chloe O'brien
I reckon Claire wins and Lee is giving the above positionQuote:
Originally Posted by bondboffin
That would be fair given the dross left in the competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiobhanI reckon Claire wins and Lee is giving the above positionQuote:
Originally Posted by bondboffin
Exactly! Lee is from Essex, or London? The others are northern, so doubt they'd be working for Essex Council.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiobhanI reckon Claire wins and Lee is giving the above positionQuote:
Originally Posted by bondboffin
And Lee & Claire are paired together in the final, so if Lee gets that job, i'd say Claire wins the apprentice.
I think Claire's gonna win tonight but I hope Helene does :D
Lee won :cheer: I was SOOOO pleased! He deserves it!
Oh no! Claire was more capable than Lee but he wanted an apprentice and he's got one.
Poor Helene on You're Fired!. The interview seemed to be tailored towards having a dig at her and Lucinda should have kept quiet and Adrian Chiles should have kept more control.
APPRENTICE winner Lee McQueen last night said he still has one task left to do — marry his sweetheart.
Former salesman Lee, 30, scooped the show’s prize of a £100,000-a-year job after an estimated nine million viewers saw the tense final head-to-head with rival Claire Young.
He says hearing show tycoon Sir Alan Sugar telling him “You’re hired” still hasn’t sunk in.
But, launching into his catchphrase “That’s what I’m talking about,” one thing he is clear about is long-time girlfriend Nicola Jellyman.
Runners-up ... Claire Young, Alex Wotherspoon and Helene Speight
Lee said: “I’ve got my dream job and I’ve already got my dream girl. I suppose now I should go down on one knee and ask her to marry me. That would really complete things wouldn’t it?”
Lee and Nicola have been together for nine years and live in a £500,000 home in Princes Risborough, Bucks.
The faithful star said he was furious with whispers that he was dating runner-up Claire, 29. He said: “I heard all these rumours but they were just that. Me and Nicola are solid.
“We have a great life together - I’m not going to jeopardise that.
“I’m a big fan of Claire professionally. I was backing her to win.
“I even started thinking how I’d quite happily ask her for a job if she ended up working for Sir Alan.”
Lee revealed he plans to splash out on Nicola as a treat for putting up with him while he filmed the BBC1 show.
He said: “One of the first things I’m going to have to do when I join Sir Alan’s company is ask him for some time off so we can go on holiday. And I should treat Nicola to something nice like some fancy new shoes.”
He also plans to splash out on his loving mum Susan, 55, who has split from his milkman dad.
He said: “When I was 18 I helped my mum buy a house because she’s always been so supportive. I know there are things that need sorting out and improving there so that’s what I’ll do.”
And he also plans to buy himself a flash motor as soon as he banks his first pay cheque.
He said: “When I was 26 I said to my mates I was going to have a Porsche 911 when I was 30.
“Well I’m 30 now and I’ve got a £100,000-a-year job so it shouldn’t be long before that gets sorted.”
Sadly, he has little contact with his dad. He said: “My dad didn’t come to the screening and he doesn’t know I’ve won . . . well I suppose he might do by now.”
Lee was a surprise winner as many thought he had blown his chances by lying on his CV.
He claimed to have been to college for two years when in fact he lasted only four months.
Lee described the “miscommunication” as “one of the biggest mistakes of my life”.
He said: “It was a massive mistake and I got a serious grilling for it from Sir Alan. I deserved that. I shouldn’t have lied. But it was a mistake and it didn’t reflect on my skills.
“I’ve got a chip on my shoulder about my education because I didn’t do very well at school.
I also once worked for four years as a catering manager at Harrow School, which was full of posh kids getting a great education. I think that might have something to do with my insecurities.
“I still had them going on to the show which is why I did what I did with my CV. But I’m glad Sir Alan saw beyond that and realised I’ve got plenty of experience and gone on to achieve at a high level.
“I think maybe he saw a bit of himself in me - he left school at 16 and has had to make his way without masses of educational achievements.”
He added winning the show had given him a “major confidence boost”. He added: “I won't let Sir Alan down. I can't wait to get stuck in. Maybe soon I'll be earning seven figures instead of six.”
Lee - who earned £75,000-a-year in his last job at Capita Group - will be put in charge of a new company within Sir Alan’s sprawling £800million empire.
He explained: “Sir Alan has bought a new business doing digital advertising and signage. I’ll be running the sales teams with one of his colleagues. It’s just want I wanted to do - start on something fresh and exciting.”
Lee said he would employ some of the other apprentices - including runner-up Claire.
But added: “She’d never work for me. In fact, I imagine none of them would work for me. How odd would that be?”
He also confessed that he had become a GAY icon since appearing on the BBC1 show.
He said: “I’ve had letters from gay blokes. One guy said he didn’t care if I won - he just wanted to spend some time with me. I’ll probably give that a miss.”
Another thing he won’t be indulging in is his famous reverse pterodactyl performance, which he demonstrated on the show. He laughed: “It’s extinct.”
Well done Lee!
I am gutted for Claire, though. They worked very well together and deserved to win the task even if their fragrance was 'boring'.
Helene was awful. She fell to pieces and is a conceited, delusional woman who believes herself to be so much better than she is. She is negative, negative, negative.
Alex, needs to concentrate on being positive and performing himself rather than putting other people down. He also deserved to go. It was the designer who had the great idea, and the name came from the bottle.
Neither of them performed well.
I would have preferred that Claire got the job, however, I think that Lee is a fantastic apprentice. He is a grafter who needed this more than Claire. I think that she will still get her chance. didn't one of the interviewers last week say that if Sir Alan didn't give her a job then she would??
:cheer::cheer: delighted Lee won.. He was consistent throughout and it was well deserved
I am so pleased Lee won, i was a bit gutted for Claire as i thought she worjed really well in the last few weeks. I was just so wanting Helene not to win. She was still blaming other people when she came out.