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 ...

Sounds ideal to me, lol!

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.

"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

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.

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?! )

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?

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?

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.

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!!

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?