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Frances this week
glad she didn't go,wasnt her fault the other two were too busy gin testing/getting mashed to answer the phone. I suppose her geography is poor though
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Frances totally didn't deserve to go. I can't believe the behaviour of the other two. Unprofessional does not begin to cover it.
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I thought she was very dishonest. In the cab, she took it upon herself to phone Grainne to give her negative opinion, then handed the phone back to Trishna to handle the fallout. She set up a conflict and then stepped back from it. However, in the boardroom, she let LS believe that she'd been instructed to make that phone call by Trishna, even getting an apology from Grainne. I think she's a very sneaky character.
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She should have been sacked just for choosing the name 'Colony' with all its negative connotations of slavery, imperialism, racism and prisons.
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Frances is very manipulative and I hope she gets the sack next week.
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Noticeable when Alana & Jessica didn't get up to greet her back to the house and yet ran up to Grainne.
![]() Plus noticed when Grainne and her came out of the BR not much seen of her "cuddling" Trishna. |
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She should have been sacked just for choosing the name 'Colony' with all its negative connotations of slavery, imperialism, racism and prisons.
Personally I think we should be proud of our nation's history, and how our navy ruled the waves. It may seem brutal by today's standards but there were different rules back then and if we had been weak then other countries would have gladly stomped all over us. |
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She must have a cracker of a business plan to have lasted this long.
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Her 'traveller bringing home tastes of far away' concept was pretty much ripped off of the Phileas Fogg snacks brand yet somehow made more unpalatable by the mention of the colonies.
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frances comes across as a bit dim at times
the choice of the name colony gin was a big screw up imo as it just has so many negative connotations, as well as then getting the graphics so wrong but i think she has decent instincts and definitely didn't deserve to go, the other two showed such unprofessionalism in getting pissed and not being in contact |
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That's pretty much what the hand wringing, politically correct, liberal women was implying when they were doing the consumer test.
Personally I think we should be proud of our nation's history, and how our navy ruled the waves. It may seem brutal by today's standards but there were different rules back then and if we had been weak then other countries would have gladly stomped all over us. |
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The whole task was a bit odd as neither team specified target markets. Had Frances' team been aiming at right wing men over 60, then Colony Gin would have been spot on.
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I couldn't believe Frances was the best out of the three if we were talking about this task. The whole 19 missed calls drama was just WOW. How could Grainne get away with that as PM?
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I couldn't believe Frances was the best out of the three if we were talking about this task. The whole 19 missed calls drama was just WOW. How could Grainne get away with that as PM?
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That's pretty much what the hand wringing, politically correct, liberal women was implying when they were doing the consumer test.
Personally I think we should be proud of our nation's history, and how our navy ruled the waves. It may seem brutal by today's standards but there were different rules back then and if we had been weak then other countries would have gladly stomped all over us. It does have negative connotations especially with Africa being on the map. Like it or not the branding was an utter disaster. |
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Frances is a bit of a snake.
The nearest this series has to a baddie. |
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She's a schnide in the boardroom. Engineering an apology from Grainne, Trishna didn't force her to speak on the phone and was prepared to say the same things herself.
I can't believe Trishna was fired ahead of her |
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I wouldn't be surprised if she kept on calling as soon as she reached voicemail, to make as many missed call messages as she could
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I wouldn't be surprised if she kept on calling as soon as she reached voicemail, to make as many missed call messages as she could
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I wouldn't be surprised if she kept on calling as soon as she reached voicemail, to make as many missed call messages as she could
![]() Colony Gin, nearly on a par with Camp coffee!
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Why didn't she leave a message? That's what voicemail is for, isn't it?
Colony Gin, nearly on a par with Camp coffee! ![]() |
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That's pretty much what the hand wringing, politically correct, liberal women was implying when they were doing the consumer test.
Personally I think we should be proud of our nation's history, and how our navy ruled the waves. It may seem brutal by today's standards but there were different rules back then and if we had been weak then other countries would have gladly stomped all over us. No, I do think that when you evoke the colonial days (especially with a map of Africa), you're talking about a very dark part of our history that we should be ashamed of. |
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I thought she was very dishonest. In the cab, she took it upon herself to phone Grainne to give her negative opinion, then handed the phone back to Trishna to handle the fallout. She set up a conflict and then stepped back from it. However, in the boardroom, she let LS believe that she'd been instructed to make that phone call by Trishna, even getting an apology from Grainne. I think she's a very sneaky character.
I find Frances annoying because she thinks she's far better than she is, claiming in almost all off the first episodes that she "smashed it"...only for her team to lose. The only thing I will give her is that she may not have been directly responsible for those losses. I'm predicting she will finish 3rd. |
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She would stab you in the back as look at you whilst convincing you she was your bezzie.
Perhaps this is what Lord Sugar admires! Who knows. |
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Frances committed what for me is the Apprentice cardinal sin of pitching when she opened to Majestic Wine with: the gin market is worth £1 billion that I'm sure you guys are keen to take a slice of. She continued in the same patronising tone.
Not only is it borderline insulting to imply the Majestic Wine team is ignorant of basic facts about its own trade, it also reveals Frances has not looked into it enough to know that Majestic already sells gin. https://www.majestic.co.uk/gin Edit: then she (and Trishna) lied about the colour. |
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