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Old 19-12-2015, 05:11
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Unscripted: My Ten Years in Telly

The book contains a lot of background to The Apprentice, written in Lord Sugar's immodest, self-congratulatory and even bombastic style.

Put it on your Christmas list but do not buy it for anyone who is not a fan, as they will find the justifications for firing candidate X in series Y quite dull, will not care who was producer of which series, and many of Lord Sugar's best boardroom quips fall flat on the page.

Things I'd not realised or even thought about include the production team changing because The Apprentice is not year-round, so people move on to other programmes, and Junior Apprentice candidates were forced to wear the same clothes to the boardroom each week because their pre-filmed taxi sequences were shot in high summer and did not include the cover-all raincoats and scarves of the adult series.
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Old 19-12-2015, 08:07
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Another question addressed is whether Lord Sugar really puts in £250,000 or just "equivalent value services".

The answer is that the money really does go into the new company, but that if the winner does want to use Lord Sugar's in-house lawyers or IT people, they are charged at an hourly rate of 30 per cent over salary. This is probably cheaper than going outside.

Rent for the office space used? I've not finished the book yet but don't remember seeing anything about it.
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Old 19-12-2015, 09:05
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Joseph will be the first to purchase
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Old 19-12-2015, 11:14
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As a big Apprentice fan I've found it a great read.
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