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Old 18-12-2015, 09:38
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The day Linda Planted herself into the interview process she's scored gold first time round, her brevity of speech, her aura her presence and the way she questions, tight balanced and harsh in a subtle way, the way she took Dickie [second only to Jedi Jim in waffling] to the cleaners to get him to fess up and admit his plan was BS. She's a perfect entry into the show already gaining legendary status. And seems like a very decent person otherwise outside of the show
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Old 18-12-2015, 09:46
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I liked her a lot. She asked tough questions but without being antagonistic or making it feel like she was grandstanding for the cameras. Ricky wasn't really enough of a character as an interviewer and Margaret had become almost a caricature of herself.
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Old 18-12-2015, 10:06
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I agree she was good but for me the real star was Claude doing what he does best.
Haven't thought much of him on a weekly basis.
I love his interviews though.
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Old 18-12-2015, 10:07
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I liked her a lot. She asked tough questions but without being antagonistic or making it feel like she was grandstanding for the cameras. Ricky wasn't really enough of a character as an interviewer and Margaret had become almost a caricature of herself.
Disagree.
His questions about Lord Sugar were a masterstroke.
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Old 18-12-2015, 10:09
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Disagree.
His questions about Lord Sugar were a masterstroke.
Fair enough. I have to admit he didn't leave much of an impression on me, even though I came to rather like him as a candidate. I had a brief chat with him at the recording of You're Hired two years ago - he seemed very down to earth and likeable.
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Old 18-12-2015, 10:19
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Fair enough. I have to admit he didn't leave much of an impression on me, even though I came to rather like him as a candidate. I had a brief chat with him at the recording of You're Hired two years ago - he seemed very down to earth and likeable.
My mistake.

I was referring to someone else.............ooooooops.
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Old 18-12-2015, 11:18
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I like her. Straight to the point not allowing any BS.
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Old 18-12-2015, 11:19
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I couldn't take my eyes off her face. It looked like a fair amount of not-very-well-done cosmetic surgery to me, unless the lighting was just particularly bad...
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Old 18-12-2015, 11:21
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Grotesque old goat who should be long retired. Who stole her neck?!

Claude as always was The Don of interviews. Such a delicate voice but the most cutting comments.
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Old 18-12-2015, 11:26
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Claude is awesome. I regularly laugh out loud...
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Old 18-12-2015, 12:19
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Looked like an old "bag lady", what is it with designers, be it fashion or interior, they can't seem to dress their age or they get so much plastic surgery, they end up looking ridiculous.
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Old 18-12-2015, 12:24
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I can't remember who it was that awkwardly stood in front of her after saying 'Hello/Good afternoon' with their hands outstretched (Richard or Gary?), but her completely ignoring him - whoever it was - was pretty crap I thought. There's a level of professionalism that the interviewers should abide by and she clearly didn't.
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Old 18-12-2015, 13:37
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I can't remember who it was that awkwardly stood in front of her after saying 'Hello/Good afternoon' with their hands outstretched (Richard or Gary?), but her completely ignoring him - whoever it was - was pretty crap I thought. There's a level of professionalism that the interviewers should abide by and she clearly didn't.
None of the interviewers get up to greet the customers so it is probably a filming requirement to do with camera positions or something. At a guess, because the director cannot be sure where the candidate will sit, they need to nail down the interviewer.
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Old 18-12-2015, 15:39
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None of the interviewers get up to greet the customers so it is probably a filming requirement to do with camera positions or something. At a guess, because the director cannot be sure where the candidate will sit, they need to nail down the interviewer.
Nonsense. It was just plain rude. When he did it with another interviewer it was a much more of a polite response.
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Old 18-12-2015, 15:41
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I agree she was good but for me the real star was Claude doing what he does best.
Haven't thought much of him on a weekly basis.
I love his interviews though.
I liked Claude this season, his new role with the candidates and subsequently he's become softer on them he didn't go all out like before maybe because he's very familiar with them but he was better than before, I felt earlier he became a prisoner of his own reputation and hype and that act became stale after a while, because he made a sole point to just belittle them pick anything and berate them for it to garner more eyeballs it became more about him than the candidates after a point he was trying too hard whereas Linda is more effortless.

But this lady is a refreshing change, she's similar to Claude yet very different she listens interprets doesn't go off on a tangent but tears them in a very succinct way, depending on the candidate. Hope she sticks around.
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Old 18-12-2015, 15:47
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I thought she was trying too hard. Didn't like her.
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Old 18-12-2015, 16:56
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I liked her. She is the new Queen of Mean.
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Old 18-12-2015, 17:18
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None of the interviewers get up to greet the customers so it is probably a filming requirement to do with camera positions or something. At a guess, because the director cannot be sure where the candidate will sit, they need to nail down the interviewer.
There's only one chair, so unless they don't sit down it wouldn't be hard to predict. Even if there was a choice the director would simply tell them which to sit in.
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Old 18-12-2015, 17:21
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Nonsense. It was just plain rude. When he did it with another interviewer it was a much more of a polite response.
It's not rudeness, it's part of the "scary interview" set up in the Apprentice. It makes the interviewer seem more remote and powerful. In real life any interview would be conducted on a much more friendly basis because they want to get the interviewee talking.
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Old 18-12-2015, 17:24
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Looked like an old "bag lady", what is it with designers, be it fashion or interior, they can't seem to dress their age or they get so much plastic surgery, they end up looking ridiculous.
What she looked like is completely irrelevant. She asked incisive and pertinent questions and was the best of the four interviewers in my opinion. The way she demolished Richard was very impressive. I hope she stays on the team.
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Old 18-12-2015, 18:27
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Grotesque old goat who should be long retired. Who stole her neck?!

Claude as always was The Don of interviews. Such a delicate voice but the most cutting comments.
Why should she?
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Old 18-12-2015, 19:21
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I preferred her when she wrote Prime Suspect.
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Old 18-12-2015, 21:01
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It's not rudeness, it's part of the "scary interview" set up in the Apprentice. It makes the interviewer seem more remote and powerful. In real life any interview would be conducted on a much more friendly basis because they want to get the interviewee talking.
Weakest link was like that
I went to a celeb special taping, and the contestants were treated like dirt the whole time.
Anne Robinson only spoke to them when asking a question or insulting them,
the whole thing was a psychological torture chamber.
I guess the producers are aiming to create something like that to "break" some of the candidates.

Boy do they break !!
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Old 18-12-2015, 21:12
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she looks like she uses the same plastic surgeon as Joan Rivers
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Old 19-12-2015, 00:04
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I thought she was terrible. We only even saw her interviewing three of the five candidates, so presumably they were struggling for usable footage of her, and making fun of Charleine for crying was about as playground as this show has got from someone who's supposed to be on the "professional" side of the desk. I found her mostly pointlessly combative rather than insightful, just snotting "no you can't" or "that's bullshit" to everything the candidates said, and she's damned lucky that she was so rude that she pushed Richard into having a nervous breakdown otherwise there was precious little she said that I'd even remember as having any substance at all. Her mannerisms were embarassingly panto as well, like watching Priscilla Presley as the wicked queen in provincial panto.
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