Did Debra cheat on shopping channel task?
their items were all cheap, even buying one thing would have made no difference.
The TV channel would have checked their records of items ordered with name and addresses if Talkback asked them to. As the latter are content, the slur of cheating is just infered to boost a non story of Debra wanting to phone her parents.
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The TV channel would have checked their records of items ordered with name and addresses if Talkback asked them to. As the latter are content, the slur of cheating is just infered to boost a non story of Debra wanting to phone her parents.
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She quite clearly broke the rules on phoning, so that would be a disciplinary in a normal employment situation. I suspect she will go on Wednesday anyway.
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“Last night Debra’s father confirmed that she had made the secretive hotel room call – but denied the family had bought anything.
He revealed that she had been reprimanded by Apprentice staff after they discovered she made the call from the four-star Bull hotel in Peterborough, the base of Ideal World. He confirmed the family had surfed Ideal World’s website but denied they had bought anything from the channel.
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“Last night Debra’s father confirmed that she had made the secretive hotel room call – but denied the family had bought anything.
He revealed that she had been reprimanded by Apprentice staff after they discovered she made the call from the four-star Bull hotel in Peterborough, the base of Ideal World. He confirmed the family had surfed Ideal World’s website but denied they had bought anything from the channel.
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Well if this true it seems she got told off but didn't get removed from the show. I suspect this has lost her any chance of winning the show. I don't think she deserves to win wearing that strange thing on her head.
I wouldn't surprise me if she did cheat, because that's happened before. The Mirror also accused Claire of cheating in the car task last year, phoning up friends to look at the Spyker she was selling.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/theappre...ticle_continue
In S3, Adam claimed in his diary that Simon cheated on a number of occasions, in the art task and the shopping task.
http://www.thecoolmarkwebsite.co.uk/adamhosker/
"When Simon sold the lips photo I was very impressed, when we got back to the house I asked him how he had done it, he admitted that he had moved his microphone so the production team couldn't hear him and told the guy it would be a great investment because once the show aired and people saw the work it would go up in value and to just put the money on his credit card and sell it on e-bay once the programme aired and make some profit. Completely against the rules, people were not allowed to know what we were filming and we were strictly forbidden from using the camera crew as a negotiating tool, but desperate times call for desperate measures."
"Simon's team were also fined, for breaking rules, Simon had negotiated off camera to buy a damaged piece of marble an inferior product to what the brief had stated. For some reason they only got fined £50. You would have thought cheating would warrant a larger fine."
I know Adam is partisan, but it does raise questions about what goes on behind the scenes. It doesn't outrage me too much though. It happens under pressure. I'd probably do it if I was on the apprentice
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/theappre...ticle_continue
In S3, Adam claimed in his diary that Simon cheated on a number of occasions, in the art task and the shopping task.
http://www.thecoolmarkwebsite.co.uk/adamhosker/
"When Simon sold the lips photo I was very impressed, when we got back to the house I asked him how he had done it, he admitted that he had moved his microphone so the production team couldn't hear him and told the guy it would be a great investment because once the show aired and people saw the work it would go up in value and to just put the money on his credit card and sell it on e-bay once the programme aired and make some profit. Completely against the rules, people were not allowed to know what we were filming and we were strictly forbidden from using the camera crew as a negotiating tool, but desperate times call for desperate measures."
"Simon's team were also fined, for breaking rules, Simon had negotiated off camera to buy a damaged piece of marble an inferior product to what the brief had stated. For some reason they only got fined £50. You would have thought cheating would warrant a larger fine."
I know Adam is partisan, but it does raise questions about what goes on behind the scenes. It doesn't outrage me too much though. It happens under pressure. I'd probably do it if I was on the apprentice
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Originally Posted by apprenticeguru:
“I wouldn't surprise me if she did cheat, because that's happened before.”
“I wouldn't surprise me if she did cheat, because that's happened before.”
You mean, with other candidates.
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“The Mirror also accused Claire of cheating in the car task last year, phoning up friends to look at the Spyker she was selling.”
“The Mirror also accused Claire of cheating in the car task last year, phoning up friends to look at the Spyker she was selling.”
As I recall, she was cleared of that. Someone who didn't like her made a scurrilous accusation. Don't trust the tabloids; they don't have much interest in verifying their stories.
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“"Simon's team were also fined, for breaking rules, Simon had negotiated off camera to buy a damaged piece of marble an inferior product to what the brief had stated. For some reason they only got fined £50. You would have thought cheating would warrant a larger fine."”
“"Simon's team were also fined, for breaking rules, Simon had negotiated off camera to buy a damaged piece of marble an inferior product to what the brief had stated. For some reason they only got fined £50. You would have thought cheating would warrant a larger fine."”
I'm pretty sure that was mentioned on camera in the boardroom. The fine wasn't so much for breaking rules as for not getting the item as specified on the list. A bit like getting the wrong colour clock in the Marrakesh task.
There have long been rumours of candidates phoning home when they shouldn't, to get a bit of moral support and remind themselves why they are doing it. Although it's against the rules, I doubt getting caught would affect any of Sir Alan's decisions. It's even less significant than lying on your CV. Likewise with Debra, so long as her family didn't buy anything. (And I don't trust the tabloid's claim about the phone call.)
[quote=brangdon;32740347]Don't trust the tabloids; they don't have much interest in verifying their stories.[QUOTE;]
I don't trust the tabloids either. Looking more closely, I don't think in this case there was any cheating, as it seems she was calling for moral support.
I'm just saying that there may be cases where candiates have cheated behind the scenes, which is natural under pressure.
It seems probable that people may use the camera crew and the fact that they're filming the apprentice as a way of getting someone to buy from them, like Simon was alleged to have done.
And remember Jenny C trying to sabotage the other team in Marrakech? The difference there was that she was stupid enough to do it on camera.
I also seem to remember that Syed had a tendency to bend the rules, like on the cruise ship task.
I don't trust the tabloids either. Looking more closely, I don't think in this case there was any cheating, as it seems she was calling for moral support.
I'm just saying that there may be cases where candiates have cheated behind the scenes, which is natural under pressure.
It seems probable that people may use the camera crew and the fact that they're filming the apprentice as a way of getting someone to buy from them, like Simon was alleged to have done.
And remember Jenny C trying to sabotage the other team in Marrakech? The difference there was that she was stupid enough to do it on camera.
I also seem to remember that Syed had a tendency to bend the rules, like on the cruise ship task.
