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Old 09-12-2010, 20:53
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Old 09-12-2010, 21:07
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I can't think of a single thing that Stuart has excelled in. It was only a performance of quite spectacular incompetance that kept him in on the first week of the process.
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Old 09-12-2010, 22:04
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Lord Sugar is just blinded by his bullshit all the time. He was unbelievably bad and should have gone
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Old 10-12-2010, 00:07
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I think Sugar recognises that for all his faults he has the most potential, I really don't understand the level of dislike, it is people like Stuart that make money and keep trying to make it until they drop dead, thats what business is about, the people that live for the deal and who always want to progress- Stuart is there because he sees the wider picture, as it stands his company can not expand and ultimately his best chance of growing his income is by going to a better resourced company. if he were humble then people would give him more credit... It's not a popularity contest
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Old 10-12-2010, 01:32
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Stuart is apparently a 'one off' ...
Thank God for that. In Stu's case, one is MORE than enough.
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Old 10-12-2010, 07:53
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I think he's great. Very single-minded and unusually self-aware for his age. He may well go far.

He has major geeky qualities and exploits that. But he has got a girlfriend! Oh, yes. He so has.

I love him.
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Old 10-12-2010, 08:22
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I think he's great. Very single-minded and unusually self-aware for his age. He may well go far.

He has major geeky qualities and exploits that. But he has got a girlfriend! Oh, yes. He so has.

I love him.
Your post almost made me faint!

I think Sugar just knows that he is TV gold. He's certainly not that daft.
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Old 10-12-2010, 08:34
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I think he's great. Very single-minded and unusually self-aware for his age. He may well go far.

He has major geeky qualities and exploits that. But he has got a girlfriend! Oh, yes. He so has.

I love him.
I pretty much agree with you, although I'd swap the "unusually self aware" bit for " so naive he doesn't know when to either shut up or stop his gob before he lands in the proverbial". All of which are traits that could carry him far in siralun's world.

He'd be a complete nightmare to work for, or with (not sure how much of a chance anyone would have of working with him! but you need a thick skin in business and they dont come much thicker than Bilbo Baggins.

Anyway it IS just a TV programme and he's entertained me enormously over the past few weeks. I cant wait to see his interviews next episode. Well the interview with Margaret particuarly. It should be spectacular.

He wont be the next Apprentice, but he's certainly been the star of this series. As others have said, television gold.


OMG, can you imagine his kids watching this back some 20 years hence? It'd take the meaning of having an embarrassing dad to whole new levels.
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Old 10-12-2010, 09:04
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Stuart is an appalling project manager - he has made money for himself and wants to be the leader all the time but does not know how to lead others. Could you imagine him in LS's organisation having to take orders from someone?

He thinks he should be let loose to do his own thing and has not got the self-awareness that initially he can be amusing and assertive, then he quickly slips into pushy and annoying. I want to swat him like a fly!

Can't wait for Margaret and Claude's thoughts on him
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Old 10-12-2010, 09:22
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Margaret will exceed all her previous expressions of disbelief I feel - can't wait for her return and I so hope she's a panellist on YF on Wednesday. It would be rude of her not to be, I feel!
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Old 10-12-2010, 09:28
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Old 10-12-2010, 18:27
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I think Sugar recognises that for all his faults he has the most potential, I really don't understand the level of dislike, it is people like Stuart that make money and keep trying to make it until they drop dead, thats what business is about, the people that live for the deal and who always want to progress- Stuart is there because he sees the wider picture, as it stands his company can not expand and ultimately his best chance of growing his income is by going to a better resourced company. if he were humble then people would give him more credit... It's not a popularity contest
Sorry, but in my experience people like Stuart never really 'make' it. They want you to think they've made it, they try their best to make it look like they've made it, but underneath it all they're paddling away like mad. People like Stuart usually manage to land a good deal based on a slew of promises, then alienate their clients when they can't deliver. It's all huff and puff and bugger all substance.

If Stuart could actually 'see' the wider picture he would never have entered the Apprentice, in search of a salaried job. He would have been too busy managing/increasing the millions he claims to have made already.
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Old 11-12-2010, 11:24
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I don't really get it with with him, when people use words like potential, unpredictable and having a spark, that in my mind would suggest he has actually excelled in some of the tasks, and maybe been shambolic in others.

But I can't remember where he ever excelled...
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Old 11-12-2010, 11:47
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But I can't remember where he ever excelled...
What?


He's a legend in his own mind already.Mundane things like proving he can work withothers are superfluous.

Besides I have it on the best authority he's no one trick pony. He's a whole field full. And it comes with a money back guarantee!!

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Old 11-12-2010, 12:22
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What?


He's a legend in his own mind already.Mundane things like proving he can work withothers are superfluous.

Besides I have it on the best authority he's no one trick pony. He's a whole field full. And it comes with a money back guarantee!!

Plus, he wants to be harnessed by Sugar.
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Old 11-12-2010, 12:31
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Apparently he is only 21, but doesn't like to mention it.
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Old 11-12-2010, 14:22
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He reminds me SO much of David Brent ..but less subtle.

I'd never employ him, he's a loose cannon.

TV gold, though.
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Old 11-12-2010, 17:48
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Margaret will exceed all her previous expressions of disbelief I feel - can't wait for her return and I so hope she's a panellist on YF on Wednesday. It would be rude of her not to be, I feel!
I hope Margaret interviews Stuart as I can't wait to see her facial expressions when she hears about his field full of ponies!!
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Old 11-12-2010, 17:53
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Lets be honest though...the guy is entertainment gold and bascially the reason I have signed up to DS!
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Old 11-12-2010, 18:04
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Did anyone read the article about Stuart in the Daily Express today? Seemingly Stuart lives with his millionaire parents on the cheap tax haven of the Isle of Man, where his dad whiles away his days racing powerboats!!! Maybe rich daddy set Stuart up in business!!!

From the Daily Express and worth a read!!!!

Some familiar names were trotted out when contestants on The Apprentice were asked to reveal the personalities who had most inspired them. Predictably, famous entrepreneurs and captains of industry, such as Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson and Anita Roddick, were among those listed by the hopefuls. No doubt they hoped to impress Lord Sugar who will reward the winner with a job within his company and a six-figure salary. Then came the turn of the youngest competitor, 21-year-old Stuart Baggs. With characteristic lack of humility he replied: “Myself.”

It might have been a preposterous remark but, as regular viewers of the BBC1 programme will testify, that merely paved the way for a string of even more outrageous claims. Most ludicrously he introduced himself: “I’m Stuart Baggs, the Brand,” before going on to say he was not a one-trick pony but a whole field of them.

Initially tipped as a certainty to become one of the first candidates to hear the show’s dreaded catchphrase, “you’re fired”, Baggs has somehow made the final five. This week his role of villain was sealed when Lord Sugar inexplicably showed investment banker Liz Locke the boardroom door, even though she had consistently out-performed Stuart in tasks set by the tycoon.

The decision has led to a flurry of vitriol being aimed in the direction of Baggs. Websites demanding his sacking – and worse – have sprung up, including one which invites users to slap him repeatedly in the face with a virtual wet fish. Yet there is a growing suspicion that Lord Sugar has been seduced by the boyish enthusiasm of Baggs. It was voiced by Liz, following her sacking, who claimed that Lord Sugar regards Stuart as a “mini-me”.

His detractors will no doubt be hoping that the upstart gets his comeuppance next week when the remaining wannabes are put through a series of gruelling interviews. In the past the process has exposed candidates who have falsified their CVs, added a few noughts to the value of their companies and exaggerated their tough backgrounds. So will we finally see Baggs, who claims to have started out selling yo-yos in the school playground before founding a telecoms company with a £3million annual turnover, brought down to earth?

On the Isle of Man where he grew up and still lives, no one has yet come forward to recall purchasing a yo-yo from him. If he hopes to impress Lord Sugar with a rags-to-riches tale he could be heading for a crash landing. In fact, Stuart is the son of millionaire Stephen Baggs who made his fortune selling leisure equipment and spends his spare time racing powerboats. His family lived in the West Country, where Stuart was born, before moving to the Isle of Man, which is renowned for its generous tax rates. At one stage the family ran the Glen Helen Inn, near Peel, where Stuart’s parents recall him counting the money when he was a boy.

Earlier this year Baggs Snr ruffled feathers by flaunting his wealth on a television programme, Islands Of Britain. He bragged that he had owned a yellow Porsche but was “between cars at the moment”. Presenter Martin Clunes barely concealed his contempt for the “smugness” of rich newcomers. Now many locals feel that Stuart is adding to the Isle of Man’s embarrassment by his antics on The Apprentice. They are keen to point out that the Baggses are not born and bred islanders but “come-overs”.

“There are hundreds of millionaires on the island but most prefer to remain low-key,” says one. “People are very sensitive about anything that brings the island into disrepute or exposes it to mockery.”

In his early teens Stuart, who was a pupil at Ramsey Grammar School, graduated from yo-yos to selling SIM cards for mobile telephones. One former schoolmate Sarah Harding says: “At school Stuart wasn’t at all nice. He had an ego and often dictated to other students how he thought they should behave. He was always mouthing off if they did nything that got in his way. He wasn’t afraid to fight and he often had scraps with his friends if they dared call him arrogant.

He always looked down on people because his parents had money. He was ridiculously cocky. By the time he left school he had alienated everyone and was frankly a bit of a loner.” Charlotte Kelly, 21, who dated him in 2005, says: “Stuart was harmless but he’s all mouth, no trousers."

Yet just as Stuart has his fans among followers of The Apprentice, he divides opinion on the Isle of Man. Another former schoolmate says: “What you see is what you get. Stuart has a real sense of fun and great sense of humour, which we’ve seen glimpses of on the show. Yes, he’s got an opinion about everything and he’s ruthlessly ambitious but people warm to Stuart when they get to know him.” At school it’s claimed he planted grass seed in the chairs at the end of term and teachers came back after a holiday to find it sprouting.

He also had the last laugh on those who mocked his efforts to sell mobile phones when he founded his company, BlueWave Communications, when he was 18 years old. Stuart has used every opportunity on The Apprentice to rub in the point that he is the youngest ever contestant. At the launch of his company in 2007 he boasted that he believed he was the island’s youngest managing director.

At the time, Stuart told how business contacts often underestimated him because of his tender years but soon realised he was formidable. He said: “I can often talk them under the table and when people start getting returns on their money, they continue to invest.” Even then Stuart was honing his bravado, adding: “I rarely have spare time. I love my job. It really isn’t like going to work.”

One of his contracts is to provide communications equipment for the island’s ferry company, while he has also dabbled in radio. He has presented radio programmes for 3FM, a small commercial channel, and has tried to launch a station, Blast FM, aimed at under-25s. He is studying part time for a computing degree at Leeds Metropolitan University but admits he’s motivated by money. “I want a better car, I want a better house, I want a better holiday, I want better everything,” he says. “The way to get that is by making money.”

On the Isle of Man, where Stuart is said to drive a BMW and has his own flat there’s resentment that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth although he says he hasn’t relied on handouts. During filming of The Apprentice, which took place last year, he had to keep his participation secret from his family, including mother Rosemary, a teacher, and sister Charlotte, 25. Even Charlotte admits that Stuart, who has described himself as “a geek with personality”, can be overpowering, saying:

“I think you’ll be hard pushed to find a bigger character. He is rather in your face sometimes. If he wants something he goes after it like a dog with a bone and always has.” However one business contact claims that appearing on the programme has helped him mature. “I think the whole process has made him more reflective and he’s much less likely to open his mouth without thinking. Everyone expects Stuart to be abrasive but although he’s certainly outgoing, he is also very likeable. There’s no doubt he has the ability to spot a deal.

“He’s obviously instantly recognisable on the island now and he has been keeping himself in the background.” The shy, retiring Stuart Baggs. It’s a description that few viewers will recognise but perhaps a leopard can change its spots and Lord Sugar is a perceptive judge of character after all.
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Old 11-12-2010, 18:14
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Did anyone read the article about Stuart in the Daily Express today? Seemingly Stuart lives with his millionaire parents on the cheap tax haven of the Isle of Man, where his dad whiles away his days racing powerboats!!! Maybe rich daddy set Stuart up in business!!!

From the Daily Express and worth a read!!!!

Some familiar names were trotted out when contestants on The Apprentice were asked to reveal the personalities who had most inspired them. Predictably, famous entrepreneurs and captains of industry, such as Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson and Anita Roddick, were among those listed by the hopefuls. No doubt they hoped to impress Lord Sugar who will reward the winner with a job within his company and a six-figure salary. Then came the turn of the youngest competitor, 21-year-old Stuart Baggs. With characteristic lack of humility he replied: “Myself.”

It might have been a preposterous remark but, as regular viewers of the BBC1 programme will testify, that merely paved the way for a string of even more outrageous claims. Most ludicrously he introduced himself: “I’m Stuart Baggs, the Brand,” before going on to say he was not a one-trick pony but a whole field of them.

Initially tipped as a certainty to become one of the first candidates to hear the show’s dreaded catchphrase, “you’re fired”, Baggs has somehow made the final five. This week his role of villain was sealed when Lord Sugar inexplicably showed investment banker Liz Locke the boardroom door, even though she had consistently out-performed Stuart in tasks set by the tycoon.

The decision has led to a flurry of vitriol being aimed in the direction of Baggs. Websites demanding his sacking – and worse – have sprung up, including one which invites users to slap him repeatedly in the face with a virtual wet fish. Yet there is a growing suspicion that Lord Sugar has been seduced by the boyish enthusiasm of Baggs. It was voiced by Liz, following her sacking, who claimed that Lord Sugar regards Stuart as a “mini-me”.

His detractors will no doubt be hoping that the upstart gets his comeuppance next week when the remaining wannabes are put through a series of gruelling interviews. In the past the process has exposed candidates who have falsified their CVs, added a few noughts to the value of their companies and exaggerated their tough backgrounds. So will we finally see Baggs, who claims to have started out selling yo-yos in the school playground before founding a telecoms company with a £3million annual turnover, brought down to earth?

On the Isle of Man where he grew up and still lives, no one has yet come forward to recall purchasing a yo-yo from him. If he hopes to impress Lord Sugar with a rags-to-riches tale he could be heading for a crash landing. In fact, Stuart is the son of millionaire Stephen Baggs who made his fortune selling leisure equipment and spends his spare time racing powerboats. His family lived in the West Country, where Stuart was born, before moving to the Isle of Man, which is renowned for its generous tax rates. At one stage the family ran the Glen Helen Inn, near Peel, where Stuart’s parents recall him counting the money when he was a boy.

Earlier this year Baggs Snr ruffled feathers by flaunting his wealth on a television programme, Islands Of Britain. He bragged that he had owned a yellow Porsche but was “between cars at the moment”. Presenter Martin Clunes barely concealed his contempt for the “smugness” of rich newcomers. Now many locals feel that Stuart is adding to the Isle of Man’s embarrassment by his antics on The Apprentice. They are keen to point out that the Baggses are not born and bred islanders but “come-overs”.

“There are hundreds of millionaires on the island but most prefer to remain low-key,” says one. “People are very sensitive about anything that brings the island into disrepute or exposes it to mockery.”

In his early teens Stuart, who was a pupil at Ramsey Grammar School, graduated from yo-yos to selling SIM cards for mobile telephones. One former schoolmate Sarah Harding says: “At school Stuart wasn’t at all nice. He had an ego and often dictated to other students how he thought they should behave. He was always mouthing off if they did nything that got in his way. He wasn’t afraid to fight and he often had scraps with his friends if they dared call him arrogant.

He always looked down on people because his parents had money. He was ridiculously cocky. By the time he left school he had alienated everyone and was frankly a bit of a loner.” Charlotte Kelly, 21, who dated him in 2005, says: “Stuart was harmless but he’s all mouth, no trousers."

Yet just as Stuart has his fans among followers of The Apprentice, he divides opinion on the Isle of Man. Another former schoolmate says: “What you see is what you get. Stuart has a real sense of fun and great sense of humour, which we’ve seen glimpses of on the show. Yes, he’s got an opinion about everything and he’s ruthlessly ambitious but people warm to Stuart when they get to know him.” At school it’s claimed he planted grass seed in the chairs at the end of term and teachers came back after a holiday to find it sprouting.

He also had the last laugh on those who mocked his efforts to sell mobile phones when he founded his company, BlueWave Communications, when he was 18 years old. Stuart has used every opportunity on The Apprentice to rub in the point that he is the youngest ever contestant. At the launch of his company in 2007 he boasted that he believed he was the island’s youngest managing director.

At the time, Stuart told how business contacts often underestimated him because of his tender years but soon realised he was formidable. He said: “I can often talk them under the table and when people start getting returns on their money, they continue to invest.” Even then Stuart was honing his bravado, adding: “I rarely have spare time. I love my job. It really isn’t like going to work.”

One of his contracts is to provide communications equipment for the island’s ferry company, while he has also dabbled in radio. He has presented radio programmes for 3FM, a small commercial channel, and has tried to launch a station, Blast FM, aimed at under-25s. He is studying part time for a computing degree at Leeds Metropolitan University but admits he’s motivated by money. “I want a better car, I want a better house, I want a better holiday, I want better everything,” he says. “The way to get that is by making money.”

On the Isle of Man, where Stuart is said to drive a BMW and has his own flat there’s resentment that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth although he says he hasn’t relied on handouts. During filming of The Apprentice, which took place last year, he had to keep his participation secret from his family, including mother Rosemary, a teacher, and sister Charlotte, 25. Even Charlotte admits that Stuart, who has described himself as “a geek with personality”, can be overpowering, saying:

“I think you’ll be hard pushed to find a bigger character. He is rather in your face sometimes. If he wants something he goes after it like a dog with a bone and always has.” However one business contact claims that appearing on the programme has helped him mature. “I think the whole process has made him more reflective and he’s much less likely to open his mouth without thinking. Everyone expects Stuart to be abrasive but although he’s certainly outgoing, he is also very likeable. There’s no doubt he has the ability to spot a deal.

“He’s obviously instantly recognisable on the island now and he has been keeping himself in the background.” The shy, retiring Stuart Baggs. It’s a description that few viewers will recognise but perhaps a leopard can change its spots and Lord Sugar is a perceptive judge of character after all.
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I sure hope you copied and pasted that
Yes I did.... as I thought it would be quicker to read than via the link to the paper because of adverts in between the text!
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