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Where 16 candidates who previously appeared in a series and got fired get a second chance?
And who would you like to see get another go? I'd like Miriam from series 1 and Jadine from series 3 for definate. Possibly Paula from series 5 (she did very well on her task as project manager making a very good product and tbh i didn't think he was going to fire her but she got fired over that big mistake with the costing) The woman who got fired in the laundry task in series 4 and Jenny was spared. And several that got fired in Series 4 so that Sophocles could stay, like Raef. The ones with issues Lord Sugar unfairly doesn't like will still have them, and he either has the Tres and Jims and Stuarts back for comedy value, or the show has no comedy. You end up with the doomed big losing characters we have seen before, or a hole in the show. If you don't rerun them you have the also rans in the middle , without the stars, and the line up misses the other key characters they cast for. If I went for a mix of the best people who left in the last stages, the smartest early leavers, people with obvious missed potential, dumb firings, or real Sugar like qualities I would end up with 16 of Miriam, Ansell, Alexa. Jadine, Ghazal, Simon Smith,Jennifer, Debra, Howard, Sandeesh, Joanna, Laura, Liz, Susan, Zoe, Nick, Bilyana , Uzma and Francesca. The number of under appreciated females, and lack of underperforming males itself says something - often because he kept male flim flam artistes over better females. A runners up series would be better, but they are too successful and that series would raise too many questions about some very doubtful winners - you can't have the runners up without really challenging who won. |
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Do you have a reason for thinking that, or is it just a guess? Of course, mine is just personal conjecture also, but I do feel that my theory is considerably more likely than yours, given that yours tends to involve quite a bit coincidence.
And the coincidence, which is exactly what it is, is that they had a disagreement over who would be PM, and the PMs were swapped. I just don't understand how that's unbelievable. I believe my theory is more likely than yours, but then of course I would. |
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It definitely would have been in Series 6 and 7! The women's team from the former series was volatile enough as it was; having Dan lead them would have been like throwing a hand grenade into the room. As for Series 7, as annoying as she got later in the series, I have to admit that Melody was an extremely effective project manager on the first task, while Edward... definitely didn't fit the mould of a good manager.
Actually, I think that the women's team on Series 7 was worse (in terms of being volatile). In Series 6 most of the actual fighting put Laura in the centre of it (ok, except for Melissa, but she was a bit unhinged). In Series 7, you had Susan, Melody, Natasha, Edna and obviously Zoe. |
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I don't think this would work but what I would like to see is the Junior Apprentices to come back for a 12 week process.. the particularly strong ones anyway like the winners of the series and semi finalists potentially ... those who submitted strongest business plans or whatever. They all showed a lot of potential now, with most of them would be in the age of 19-22, they'd have become stronger and able to run a successful business. I think that would be a brilliant series. I think its the most ideal age for candidates to be on the Apprentice. I don't think anyone who's 30 to 40 is really "Apprentice" material. They aren't really going to develop or change as their background in work structured the way they do things.
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I don't think this would work but what I would like to see is the Junior Apprentices to come back for a 12 week process.. the particularly strong ones anyway like the winners of the series and semi finalists potentially ... those who submitted strongest business plans or whatever. They all showed a lot of potential now, with most of them would be in the age of 19-22, they'd have become stronger and able to run a successful business. I think that would be a brilliant series. I think its the most ideal age for candidates to be on the Apprentice. I don't think anyone who's 30 to 40 is really "Apprentice" material. They aren't really going to develop or change as their background in work structured the way they do things.
Boys: Andrew Harry H Harry M James Patrick Steven Tim Girls: Emma Haya Kirsty Lizzie Lucy Maria Zoe |
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I think I would include winners as £250,000 in 50/50 share business is a lot different; I doubt they'd do it anyway. I hope the Apprentice candidates are younger and more bright this year; if you think of last year, Jazz showed that with age, common sense doesn't always get better. Probably up there with worst managers of all time.
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That would be good - I wouldn't include the winners, because they got investment anyway, but the people who got to the semi-finals but didn't win? That would be fourteen in all, the same as the original two series.
Boys: Andrew Harry H Harry M James Patrick Steven Tim Girls: Emma Haya Kirsty Lizzie Lucy Maria Zoe |
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You couldn't do it now as lots of those are in university still.For example -two of the boys were at the LSE last time I looked on linkedin. Maria is studying Law at another Russell Group university. Several of the others, including the last person one would expect to, have avoided getting degrees gone corporate and got themselves into accountancy / consultancy/investment firms. I haven't found one who was really good who is actually doing the entrepreneurial thing - though some like Kirsty seem too difficult to find..
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