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Old 14-04-2007, 07:24
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Originally Posted by mindyann
I suppose the illusion is that they are doing what anyone else with £200 and a dream could do - so the fiction is that they are just being filmed doing what anyone else could do - whereas the fact is that if they weren't part of 'The Apprentice' machine and had to conform to all the normal bylaws and general life then they wouldn't have done half so well.
Exactly - the fact that they were all such personable young people and accompanied by a camera crew must have made a lot of difference - people tend to be too suspicious of strangers these days to let people do odd jobs around the house ...
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Old 14-04-2007, 10:46
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Originally Posted by The Swampster
What can I say, SG? I don't think I'm Sir Alan's type somehow - the people skills of Jadine in the body of The Badger...
Sounds ideal to me, lol!
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Old 14-04-2007, 17:19
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Originally Posted by Nostalgia Kid
Now I've read about all the possible conditions and clauses, this may not have been feasible but I thought the girls could have gone for helium balloons. Most children have a completely irrational LOVE of helium balloons (mine do anyway). It would have added value to the face painting idea. Sell the balloons for £2 each or give them free with every £5 face painting session - something like that.
Each £5 face-paint came with a free balloon and lolly pop.

I suspect helium would have cost too much. They spent too much as it was.
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Old 14-04-2007, 18:16
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Originally Posted by Miss Poppy
RE the list - there was an article on Msn yesterday - an interview with Gerri in which she said they'd been given a list of 200 approved services and were only allowed to do those!

Think that makes the programme v misleading, as we, the viewers were given the impression that they were allowed to do anything legal, so the possibility of someone coming up with a completely original brainwave was there... hmph!
"We were given a list of 200 businesses that we were allowed to do – businesses approved by Richmond council – and the reason a kissogram business became a potential idea was because it didn’t require any spending. You didn’t have to hire any equipment – it was a quick win kind of thing – but everyone thought it was morally wrong," Gerri told Digital Spy.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/realityt...k-hideous.html
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Old 15-04-2007, 00:22
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I wonder was supermarket bag packing on the list. I would love to have seen either team doing something like that. That profits could have been given to charity after it was over.
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Old 15-04-2007, 03:45
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Many people who live in the London Borough of Richmond (including me)can't afford to move with the average semi costing about £600K so there is lots of extension and improvement work going on - it's skip city. So the taking things to the tip idea would be a great one - we have loads of stuff in our shed and I would have paid thirty quid to have it taken away.
If you put anything out the front within minutes someone will be knocking on your door offering to take it to the tip for you for some hugely inflated amount. That would have been a mega winner.
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Old 15-04-2007, 11:20
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Originally Posted by bevheth
Many people who live in the London Borough of Richmond (including me)can't afford to move with the average semi costing about £600K so there is lots of extension and improvement work going on - it's skip city. So the taking things to the tip idea would be a great one - we have loads of stuff in our shed and I would have paid thirty quid to have it taken away.
If you put anything out the front within minutes someone will be knocking on your door offering to take it to the tip for you for some hugely inflated amount. That would have been a mega winner.
That's a good idea. It would have been nice to have had some more 'green' or recycling type ideas - would have shown up Sir A in a good light too. (I don't think he does 'green' very well - Michelle was taken on to promote his 'Xenon Green' computer recycling idea, but I kind of get the feeling that he was bowing down to current trends a bit, and his heart wasn't really in it! Begs the question - we know where Michelle went, but where did Xenon Green go - anywhere?! )
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Old 15-04-2007, 12:02
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Originally Posted by SapphicGrrl
That's a good idea. It would have been nice to have had some more 'green' or recycling type ideas - would have shown up Sir A in a good light too. (I don't think he does 'green' very well - Michelle was taken on to promote his 'Xenon Green' computer recycling idea, but I kind of get the feeling that he was bowing down to current trends a bit, and his heart wasn't really in it! Begs the question - we know where Michelle went, but where did Xenon Green go - anywhere?! )
I'd like to know that too. Was it the case that the idea failed and Michelle got the blame or was a handy scapegoat to cover up its failure? Did it go the same place as the beauty system of the first year's winner?
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Old 15-04-2007, 17:45
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Did Michelle ever get the blame? My understanding is that she looked into it and discovered it wasn't viable, and Sir Alan agreed.
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Old 16-04-2007, 01:26
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Originally Posted by brangdon
Did Michelle ever get the blame? My understanding is that she looked into it and discovered it wasn't viable, and Sir Alan agreed.
Oh, right. I meant in a general sense that Michelle seems to get the blame from commentators in the media, online and from the disobliging remarks by Sugar himself, for whatever did go wrong with her stint at Sugar's.

So after they agreed it wasn't viable, what was Michelle working on at Amstrad?
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Old 16-04-2007, 02:04
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As I understand it, Sir Alan couldn't find another suitable project so they parted company. Although he presumably has found something for this year's winner, so her pregnancy and miscarriage may have had something to do with it.
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Old 16-04-2007, 10:47
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Originally Posted by brangdon
Did Michelle ever get the blame? My understanding is that she looked into it and discovered it wasn't viable, and Sir Alan agreed.
Good grief, you'd think a little more research would have been done into a project that you're just about to pay someone £100,000 to undertake!!
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Old 16-04-2007, 13:42
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Originally Posted by Jeanie
Interesting.

Shame the programme couldn't have maybe allowed the viewer to know that. As I said in my earlier post, all the instructions for the tasks seem very vague sometimes, and to my mind it leaves the viewer feeling somewhat confused as to why the candidates opt to go down certain routes.

Can see how programme time restraints would prevent them giving all the details - but maybe a little more insight into the actual rules of the tasks wouldn't go amiss.

I didn't know they had to choose from a list??Maybe they delibirately gave them not very good options to see if they could make something good out of it! your right though, they should have said that in the programme!!

Anyone ever thought of applying for the apprentice?
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