I got the impression Wax only would tolerate Melody if she appeared humble and it did cross my mind if Wax had a racial problem with her! IMO Wax couldn't handle a confiedent doing well Melody in general.

Wax was out of order imo.

Racial problem??????????????? Oh come on, like her or not, Ruby Wax is a highly intelligent and sophisticated woman of the world. Only idiots would let someone's ethnicity color their judgement, it's completely conceivable to not like someone, and have their race or religion NEVER be an issue.
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you are definitely seeing problems where there are none.

All the things Ruby pulled Melody up on were to do with her business model or rather lack of one.

that does not have anything to do with Melody's race.

Well said.

Wax's "comedy" style is very vicious.
I recall she has been on You're fired in previous years and she was pretty similar.

I suspect she's booked so that she can give a bit of stick to one of the more unpopular candidates who the audience thinks deserves it.
Problem is this year we didn't really end up with any real pantomime villains. Everyone has good points and bad points this year.
The closest they could find was Melody,who mostly off the back of the Paris episode and a little bit of general arrogance ended up being landed with Wax on her you're fired showed.

This is very true.

Every other year they have had one or two people that I just wanted to go. And they always seemed to hang on to the bitter end.

This year all I got was feeling that some people: Jim, Tom and Melody, kept 'getting away with it'. But none of them were really that annoying.

I'm still thinking that the biggest signpost to the winner is that Tom has got away with the same mistake week after week after week. Or it is just that each time there has been another candidate who is just that little bit more deserving of the chop?

I came on here just to say what a total bitch Ruby Wax was. What does she think of herself? I can't remeber the last time she was funny or on TV! She is just an old hag that used to be funny. Hates good looking women? Looking like that no wonder! I felt sorry for Melody because she didn't deserve that.

Total and Utter useless Bitch!

I think she's hilarious.
That's her thing..to be shocking and on the edge.

I think peeps take her too literally.

At the risk of regurgitating (very painful, Missus) all that stuff I wrote nearly a week ago, I don't have a problem with any comic, Wax included, being on the edge and she was the right side of it for the last 20 minutes of the show.

But for the first 10, she was way across that edge into inappropriate territory with raw sarcasm and statements to Melody to which Melody could not really reply.

Although most modern day comics make their living out of taking the mick from obseravtions about people and situations.

With most of them, Dara most definately included, this approach is not personal and not for scoring points.

I've seen Wax being a smart-alec many times, but this was different.

She reminded me of the nastiest bosses I worked for in the corporate world who criticise you, pick holes in you and patronise you and all of the above in situations where you can't fire back.

Its fine if they want to have a gloves off atmosphere in YFd but as I've said in numerous other posts, this is not how the show works.

If Melody or any other candidate in the firing line were allowed to counter the panelists comments with personal remarks back at them, then maybe it would be a level playing field.

But an atmosphere of tit-for-tat snidy remarks is not what I believe the programme to be about.

Wax was fine for the last 20 minutes; appropriately witty and with observations which added value to the siuation. She should stick to that style next time, I reckon.

I agree with zombiepizza's comments above about the lack of really extreme candidates this year.

Although in other posts, I've grouped Baggs and Melody together, she isn't really in his league.

I think many are scraping the barrel with the level of scrutiny and need to uncover the details of Melody and her business; a focus that has lead to a huge amount of speculative judgements about her based on negligible information, it seems.

I think that because her line of work is not an old-style established job (Doctor, Solicitor etc), many have demonstarted the worst type of critical and suspicious attitude becasue they can't 'get' what it is that she does.

And even if Melody submitted to us a weekly schedule of her meetings, facilitation work, training workshops and admininstrative time, just what would we do with it?

In YFd, she summarised that she put organisations together with young people to help them realise their potential (or words pretty similar). Exactly what and why do we need to know more than that?

Overall, Melody seemed pretty harmless to me; in the programme she was a more assertive candidate, but from my corporate background, Helen's attempted 'coup' was far more out of order than anything I saw Melody do.

And in real life, if Melody helps a few young people to get on better and organisations to integrate a few young workers better, then good.

I for one and just not bothered about her external funding, her turnover, her profits, her business strategy, her salary or her hour by hour daily schedule.

I've got enough challenges running my own business in these areas without worrying about a now fired reality TV programme candidate with a tendency to name drop.

Anyay, better go - I've got a conference call lined up with the Dalai Lama and Al Gore to discuss the pros and cons of shopping carts on the back of full service websites...........