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That last episode was bizarre,like james was acting |
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What are you actually suggesting happened?
I would guess though, that off-screen producers that must guide the contestants at certain points have just been told to play a bigger part this year. Did you not feel that the whole lying hot-tub incident seemed unrealistic? Considering the fact that the entire group will have spent an un-televised evening, morning, and journey to the boardroom together since the task took place without any mentioning of what happened. |
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I think it's plausible that James wouldn't have mentioned it and Roisin wanted to reveal it in the boardroom to throw him off guard.
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I read an interview with someone (I think it was Yasmina) and it said that on the tasks, the producers are really good at keeping the teams apart from each other. On the design tasks, they never know what the other team has done until the boardroom.
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Yeah I agree... There's no way that they weren't aware of what happened until that point, and the 'reveal' was clearly set up and not very well executed by James either.
It's the first time I've doubted the pure 'reality' element of the Apprentice which makes me sad. I mean of course there's a large amount of selective editing for comedic and entertaining effect, and the 'board room' is not real etc, but this is completely different. Disappointing ![]() Quote:
Well I assume he's implying that the team already knew that he'd screwed up the hot tub deal, and it was a staged reveal in the Boardroom.
To the poster this is the 2nd time (if you believe this time) that James has been the subject of a "staged" accusation. I made the other day when they got the trip to NY, he would of known maybe days/months in advance that a trip to the US was on the cards, as he would of had to apply for a VISA. Because of his conviction, he would have need a US Visa. However it would be a simple matter for the producers to ensure all candidates met US entry requirements well in advance. If the BBC were looking to fix things in just a few hours he would have been put in the UK team because he couldn't travel. I felt that the PM on that task, which depended on the product design and branding, should have been in that team anyway. |
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So, Dan's gone from driving a Mini to buying a Ferrari 458 Spyder and having a £200,000 wedding?
Hope that doesn't mean AS gave him the money for it. ![]() |
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If it was staged it was extremely good acting by those who supposedly didn't know. It doesn't make sense as a staged reveal. Why would the producers stage it when James was trying to stage it himself (i.e. hoping it wouldn't be revealed, having told Roisin he would tell them after the task). Nor do I agree with the premise of the thread that James was acting. He was being himself (super confident in his limited ability).
I'm sorry, but it's "would have" (or "would've") not "would of". I wouldn't nitpick over one mistake but you've said it repeatedly in this thread. Because of his conviction, he would have need a US Visa. However it would be a simple matter for the producers to ensure all candidates met US entry requirements well in advance. If the BBC were looking to fix things in just a few hours he would have been put in the UK team because he couldn't travel. I felt that the PM on that task, which depended on the product design and branding, should have been in that team anyway. |
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Yes we've all acknowledged that there's things going on behind the scenes. But to check wether contestants meet the US entry requirements, would require the production team to ask those questions. So even if James had a VISA, (I doubt he did by the way he went on about going to America) they would still need to ask him "do you have any reason that you know of, why you wouldn't be able to travel to the US. So this in itself is quite a big glue that at some point in the process they're off to the US!! So his faux joy at getting a trip to the US was false!!
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^^hmm sorry not convinced, the US has some of the strictest polices, where as most of Europe and large junks of the world you can just go, in fact usually they do go to Europe and once to Morocco. How would you know you couldn't go to the US unless asked, you can't prove a negative.
And lets assume James says "well actually last year I tried to go to America and couldn't" he would then still have to know that the US was on the cards. This of course assumes he didn't already have a VISA for the states. But the way he was jumping around suggested he'd never been, he was like a child....oh wait. And another thing occurred to my while typing this, would all the contestants need some sort of working VISA? I remember Top Gear when they did one of their races in America and they had to be all serious because their VISA only allowed "Factual Programming" and not comedy. |
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I don't think they get paid for doing The Apprentice so it would not be considered work.
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Just got around to watching last week's show and, I gotta say, James reeked of petulance and insecurity.
The way he threw all his toys out of the pram when Roisin managed to flog a lawn-mower seemed eerily similar to the strop he threw at Bianca the other week. ... and then, when the smarmy brat finally managed to sell a mower himself, he was suddenly all smiles and high-fives. As I've already said, I really don't understand why so many spiv's and wide-boys think they're "businessmen". Sure, I can see James selling novelty phone covers and plastic dog turds on a market stall, and possibly doing very well out of it but, seriously, can anybody see him being able to deal with, say, a planning meeting to address environmental issues related to building a new factory, carrying out risk-assessments, coming up with marketing strategies or doing any of the other stuff that real managers actually do every day? Frankly, I bet my Spaniel, Ollie, could make just a good a job of it all. And he'd roll over on his back so people could tickle his tummy. S'funny, at the start of this episode, I was starting to think "y'know, I guess I do admire his straightforwardness" but then, almost immediately, he spent the rest of the show being a complete and utter nobber. Incidentally, I was just googling to remind myself of Bianca's name and stumbled across THIS article. So, Dan's gone from driving a Mini to buying a Ferrari 458 Spyder and having a £200,000 wedding? Hope that doesn't mean AS gave him the money for it. ![]()
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I don't think they get paid for doing The Apprentice so it would not be considered work.
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I don't think they get paid for doing The Apprentice so it would not be considered work.
In this case, The Apprentice, as a whole, would almost certainly be considered as "work" for the purposes of a visa and so everybody entering the USA as part of that production would be likely to require a work visa. I used to work in the USA and it was common practice for the company to fly family members out to the USA rather than flying employees home for time off. The company started to ask the family members to carry stuff out to the USA for them (documents, laptops, small machinery parts etc) but that didn't last long because a number of family members found themselves in trouble simply because carrying business items into the USA wasn't permitted under a tourist visa. |
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