I beg you Alan get rid, the guy is really annoying. Don't like him at all.

I think he'll be a goner if he fails another task and ends up in the boardroom again.

How the hell is he still there? The guy is an emotional unstable wreck and totally unable to cope with any pressure whatsoever and I couldn't work with him, let alone have him work for me. I don't know what Siralun is thinking.

I love James! I'm so glad he's still in. I think Ben should've gone today.

James is so insincere. I'm not buying any of his emotional clap-trap.

He's this year's Michael.

Someone's just hit the nail on the head elsewhere. He's being kept in for 'entertainment' purposes, the producers probably think his boardroom meltdowns make it more interesting.

I don't find him the slightest bit entertaining, just incredibly irritating.

This is something I want to know too. How is James entertaining? Wow, let's show someone who could clearly pass as 5 year old monkey on crack going under the daily struggles of the business world.

it was the same with Micheal last year. The guy was never anything even remotely resembling entertaining yet he was kept in for weeks and weeks.

Definately. I'm noticing this trend more and more with each series.

Mild-mannered Maj was sacrificed so that we could watch James make an even greater fool of himself in the boardroom in weeks to come.

For sure. These days the characters are definitely kept in over some of the more capable yet quieter ones. Look at Raef/Michael last year.

That was a travesty!

And the irony was that Raef proved to be a bigger and more entertaining character than Michael in the end. I don't think production foresaw this during filming.

Absolutely. I heard Raef on the radio the other week and it was lovely to hear from him again. It was on Chris Moyle's show and he said I've just got in from a run, Dom thought he said he'd just got in from Iran, much hilarity ensued and they aired that clip for a while afterwards. I don't think the producers anticipated Raef's popularity. I reckon they assumed because he was extremely posh we'd hate him and route for 'adorable/thick as a plank' Michael. They got it very, very wrong. Sugar has said since though he made a massive mistake with that one though - after he realised how popular Raef with us though of course.

Yep Sid - but with a slight difference - Michael's antics made us laugh; James' wriggling makes me cringe.

"Yep Sid" - what kind of greeting is that!?

Where's me snog

Anyway, I have to disagree with you on this one Iganzio, Michael was even more excrutiating to watch than Howard!

You have to admit watching him digging his own hole even deeper was really funny at times. Koshergate was priceless. Yet he shouldn't have been kept in time and time again over far more competent and intelligent people, of which he hadn't an ounce of either.

Which rather undermines the claim Michael was kept in for being entertaining.

Sir Alan has his biases, but he doesn't especially favour the entertaining ones just because they are entertaining. Usually they are entertaining because they have a spark; originality or energy or something. That also makes them potentially useful in business.

Generally, Sir Alan doesn't fire the team leader unless they mess up really badly (like Rocky did). James was merely mediocre, and he had Margaret speaking in his favour, so he stayed another week.

Nothing to do with his being entertaining. If anything, Majid is better for that.

Call me cynical but I reckon the producers have as much say in who stays/goes as SAS.

I'm beginning to think along those lines myself.

Having said that, I guess I'm a bit of a hypocrite! I was happy for Tre and Sayeed to be kept in week after week purely for entertainment reasons, even though I knew they didn't have a hope in hell of winning!

I don't mind him staying while wallpaper gets booted out, like tonight.

But James is worse.

*mwaah - mwaah."

Whoop whoop!

Can go to bed happy now

[quote=Eric_Blob;31811786]I love James! I'm so glad he's still in. I think Ben should've gone today.[/QUO

Thanks for that, Eric-Blob. James is a relative of mine. He's a really nice guy and he wants so badly to do well. He is a very genuine nice guy and his only fault is that he is too nice for his own good. He would find it hard to hurt someone's feelings and when he was asked last week who should get fired he said both because he didn't want to pick one. If ruthlessness is the most desired characteristic then he's got a problem. He has always been very successful in his jobs and has attained a high position within companies very rapidly through his charm and not by being ruthless and stepping on people on the way up.

Out of interest why is Maj a stronger candidate than James?

James had had a poor run but he has attracted some praise from Nick and co. Maj's sum total of contributions have been to come up with the illfated Olympic theme and add all the extra stuff to Ben's design. I can't see how he is any stronger than James, he was one of the weakest there. His complacency that James would go sealed it for me.

Aww, I like James. I think he's sweet, and he tries hard, he's just a bit of a muppet really.

Can't see James winning. He talks too much, Sugar doesn't like wafflers, plus he's a bit too emotional at times. I don't think Sugar wants that neither! James may be a nice guy but two words comes to mind when I think of him...

A drip.

Slang: A drip - A tiresome, ineffectual or annoying person.