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Why are they never ill on the Apprentice?
On X-Factor and Strictly, every season the odd person gets ill ("I've been struggling with flu this week" - cue heartstrings being plucked) and everyone is allowed one missed performance as a "bye", although if they miss two weeks they have to go home.
But on the Apprentice, although we've heard on other threads that they film 2 tasks a week with very little sleep for 6 days a week and just Sunday off, they are never ill. Maybe they are, but the production team have made it clear that nobody will care and if they make a fuss they will get sent home? I'd swear Liz sounded husky in the cafe and the boardroom on last night's show but no mention was made of it. People are allowed days off sick in the real world, and I'm just amazed that surviving on so much stress, and so little sleep, nobody has been taken ill yet. Or have they, and I've missed it? |
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Or have they, and I've missed it?
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Ok, I didn't see the junior series. But I did mean the adult version.
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I'm sure some of the past candidates have complained of feeling ill, but soldiered on regardless 'cos thats how much they want the job Suralun!
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It's also a much shorter process than Strictly or Xfactor. We watch the episodes over a few months but it's actually filmed in around three weeks isn't it?
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Didn't one of the candidates pull out after one week due to a family injury this year, IIRC?
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Didn't one of the candidates pull out after one week due to a family injury this year, IIRC?
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baggs is sick
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It's also a much shorter process than Strictly or Xfactor. We watch the episodes over a few months but it's actually filmed in around three weeks isn't it?
But with Apprentice, you're filmed over 5 weeks (let's say, since the last series had 12 episodes and the first 10 of those would have been filmed consecutively) so that's 5 weeks where for 6 nights out of 7 you might not get enough sleep, in some cases just 4 hours, and where for 6 days out of 7 you will be stressed and having to force yourself to be working at the top of your game. Surely a month or so of that is a recipe for illness, particularly as there is a lot of travel, and they are all holed up together - opportunity to pick up new germs and share them around, when people's immune system might well be compromised by it all? That's why I'm just amazed we don't have more burn out or just plain succumbing to something which turns into pneumonia, or whatever. We don't even see them failing to take part in food-handling tasks due to stomach bugs, which has happened in series like The Restaurant. The applicants must have a constitution of steel. And I bet they will burn out before they are 40... |
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It's staged.
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Perhaps it's beacuse in real life people do tend to go to work unless they are seriously unwell (rightly or wrongly but that's another debate).
So, the poor dahlings on X-Factor and the like can play on the 'flu' or 'malaria' and yet recover in time to play a part the following week with the full sympathy of the audience who will be struck in wonderment at their bravery. If the Apprentice candidates decided that the 'flu' prevented them from taking part, they know full well that Sugar would tell them to do one as he doesn't want shirkers... |
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Well, considering the fact that the laydeez are getting on a bit you'd think there'd be more illness/absenteeism.
Different for Stuart. Him being young, dynamic and testosterone-fuelled and all...... |
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Well, considering the fact that the laydeez are getting on a bit you'd think there'd be more illness/absenteeism.
Different for Stuart. Him being young, dynamic and testosterone-fuelled and all......
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Yep, that's what I'm getting at. In X-factor they have a week before performances, so if they need to take a couple of days out due to flu or whatever they are on the back foot but the schedule permits it. (Yet sometimes people have still had to skip the live show, e.g. Diana Vickers.)
But with Apprentice, you're filmed over 5 weeks (let's say, since the last series had 12 episodes and the first 10 of those would have been filmed consecutively) so that's 5 weeks where for 6 nights out of 7 you might not get enough sleep, in some cases just 4 hours, and where for 6 days out of 7 you will be stressed and having to force yourself to be working at the top of your game. Surely a month or so of that is a recipe for illness, particularly as there is a lot of travel, and they are all holed up together - opportunity to pick up new germs and share them around, when people's immune system might well be compromised by it all? That's why I'm just amazed we don't have more burn out or just plain succumbing to something which turns into pneumonia, or whatever. We don't even see them failing to take part in food-handling tasks due to stomach bugs, which has happened in series like The Restaurant. The applicants must have a constitution of steel. And I bet they will burn out before they are 40... |
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Believe it or not many people work those sorts of hours and a good deal worse for many years if they work in their own business or a profession.
By the end of it, candidates do start to look a little rough. Hair, stress acne, voice, etc. Women (and Phillip hehe) can hide some of this, but it was very noticable how spotty Zoe suddenly became at the final of the JA. Adam was the one that pulled out ill btw. It seems they crack mentally before other things show. Or it could be the film makers perfer to show that as it 'makes good tv', whereas snot does not. |
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Lord Alan of the Sith sees pestilence as a sign of weakness and fires them immediately.
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Believe it or not many people work those sorts of hours and a good deal worse for many years if they work in their own business or a profession.
Anyway I know other people who do similar hours and it makes them ill... as well as people who worked nightshifts and long hours and it made THEM ill... etc. Which is why I was wondering. At least when it's your own business you can decide to just turn off the phones of an evening and do paperwork, or whatever, perhaps with the radio on - it's still work but less stressful. We never see the candidates eat, either, but I guess people must cater for them so they can grab a quick sandwich in the car or something? |
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They are all young, well nourished and fit so the chances of them getting flu etc over the short span of the series is reduced.
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Sometimes they get ill. It's not mentioned in the edit unless it's relevant.
For example, Tuan said he was ill during the TopShop task in s2. |
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They are all young, well nourished and fit so the chances of them getting flu etc over the short span of the series is reduced.
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US apprentice allows people to miss episodes by being religious, which is rather dubious.
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They are all young, well nourished and fit.
Alex and Stuart aren't fit. Liz is definitely undernourished. |
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On the Irish version one of the guys was sick twice --- once he slept with the window open and had a sore neck, the second time he was light-headed due to taking too many painkillers!
He carried on though, bless his soldiering little soul!
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I'm sure many people carry on working if they are 'ill' in the non-serious sense. I can't remember the last time I had a day off sick, probably 3-4 years ago.
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Yep, that's what I'm getting at. In X-factor they have a week before performances, so if they need to take a couple of days out due to flu or whatever they are on the back foot but the schedule permits it. (Yet sometimes people have still had to skip the live show, e.g. Diana Vickers.)
But with Apprentice, you're filmed over 5 weeks (let's say, since the last series had 12 episodes and the first 10 of those would have been filmed consecutively) so that's 5 weeks where for 6 nights out of 7 you might not get enough sleep, in some cases just 4 hours, and where for 6 days out of 7 you will be stressed and having to force yourself to be working at the top of your game. Surely a month or so of that is a recipe for illness, particularly as there is a lot of travel, and they are all holed up together - opportunity to pick up new germs and share them around, when people's immune system might well be compromised by it all? That's why I'm just amazed we don't have more burn out or just plain succumbing to something which turns into pneumonia, or whatever. We don't even see them failing to take part in food-handling tasks due to stomach bugs, which has happened in series like The Restaurant. The applicants must have a constitution of steel. And I bet they will burn out before they are 40... I imagine also that if the Apprentice house goes down with some really bad bug they just don't film until people are better. On the other shows there's a realtime schedule to meet to produce next weeks show, so nothing can be hidden. |
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