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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.
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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...
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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.
I suspect helium would have cost too much. They spent too much as it was. |
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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! http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/realityt...k-hideous.html |
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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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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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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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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?!
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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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Did Michelle ever get the blame? My understanding is that she looked into it and discovered it wasn't viable, and Sir Alan agreed.
So after they agreed it wasn't viable, what was Michelle working on at Amstrad? |
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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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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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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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