BIB .. Except Karen is a director..

Managing Director, Birmingham City FC
Vice Chairman, West Ham United
Chairman, Kerrang!
Non-Executive Director, Channel 4
Sits on the board of Phillip Green's Arcadia Group
Sits on the board of Sport England
Chairman of the England 2018 World Cup Bid Advisory Board

She isn't just someone who walks around with a clipboard, she is a businesswoman obviously quite a good one, The Apprentice is a side job which raises her media profile, same as Alan Sugar

Uh. Margaret Mountford was a non-exec Director of Amstrad, not a 9-5 employee in the slightest.

I wouldn't even bother replying to any of totalwise's posts. Clearly that stupid they can't tell the difference between being a manager and a chief executive even though a few posters have put them right.

Either a complete bonehead or being deliberately awkward.

I'm going with the former, by the way totalwise that means the first of the two options.

If anyone's interested, Karren has now done more series as an observer than Margaret. Margaret did the first five series, Karren is now doing her sixth - she's caught up very quickly because of Young Apprentice.

I much prefer Karren to Margaret, Karren interacts more with the candidates and gives better feedback than Margaret. Nick is still a legend. I wonder if they'd replace him if he left?

Another thing I always wonder is how much Mark Halliley (the narrator) contributes to The Apprentice... he has narrated every series, I personally can't imagine anyone else doing it.

Yet she married one of her Players so at least one of them had a shot

Still love to know how she persuaded Sullivan to make her a Director of Sport newspapers at the age of 20, especially as she got her first job by lying on her application that she had a Degree! and then letting her run Birmingham with no Managerial or Directorial experience. he must have had a lot of faith (even though he has admitted he only gave her the job for the publicity as a Woman), but she seems to have hung on his coat tails for a long time.

Just my opinion, dont shoot me

I don't really see how anything about her career entitles her to be a right moody b1tch who delights in picking fault and parading it in the boardroom to humiliate people (including 17 year olds).

Hahahaha. How to get ahead in business, by hard work, attitude and some bloke buying a football club for you. All credit to her.

Absolute tosh. Karren is mean and spiteful and loves to tell people (including teenagers) that they got something horribly wrong, without anything constructive to add, all the time with a sour miserable face.

I've seen Karren give positive feedback as well - like about Arjun's creativity, Zara's professionalism, Helen's organisational skills and Patrick's creativity. She's hard to impress, but does not only focus on the negative. Besides, you're telling us right now that Karren is mean and spiteful and you're saying lots of negative things about her, so what makes you any better than her?

To me Karen tries to stick up for the ladies more than she would do if it was a male doing the same thing so its seems that she'll back a female contestant no matter how bad before an excellent male candidate which always makes me have a slight dislike of her opinions as its automatically going to be save the girls and sack the boys but i do also watch the program and look at it and if someones an idiot and deserves the punt then punt away regardless of sex

I've noticed the same thing.

I dont get all the karen hate at all! she is a well respected business woman and Lord Sugar obviously values her opinion!

the only thing i would say is that every time i seem to watch it (usually i fastforward until it gets to lord sugar as he is the best thing about it for me!!) but the majority of the time, when karen observes a team they end up losing!!

Your grudge against Karren is still ongoing then?

I've not noticed her being spiteful at all. We must be watching different programmes.