The point is, by calling themselves kissograms, the girls were actually being rather coy. A kissogram - to my knowledge, anyway - is a man or woman, usually dressed in a costume, who is hired in advance to surprise someone celebrating a special occasion. They usually sing a little song and give the recipient a kiss at the end - a bit like a human birthday card. Some are raunchier than others, but on the whole the emphasis is on the performance and surprise element, rather than the kiss.

The girls' team weren't being kissograms at all: they were propositioning men on the spot for a very mild sexual service. We can all debate about the morality of working as a prostitute: whether full sex is 'bad' but a hand job is acceptable; or whether interaction with the male member is immoral, but kissing's fine - even with a bit of a bum feel thrown in for free. Personally, I find it disappointing that this kind of business is the best these apparently high-flying business women could manage.

I was just gutted I wasn't in one of the pubs they visited.

I think if Jadine had given anyone a tongue sandwich she would probably have choked them !!
It must be really uncomfortable having such a huuuugggge tongue - is it a recognized medical condition ??

Thanks! Really enlightening.

From inside information of the candidates it seems there was a list of about 200 'to do things' and kiss-o-gramm was actually one of them.

Still, very weak of the top of Best of British Business Brains to actually choose that one...

Jadine may not be 'pretty' in a simpering girly way, but she has a strong attractive look - whereas Naomi is incredibly bland looking - she has a nice figure and blonde hair but I wouldn't describe her face as pretty either - to be honest she remind me a bit of Miss Piggy. Other than Ghazal I don't honestly think any of them are anything out of the ordinary and if they tried to 'sell' kisses without a camera crew following them around I don't think they'd get many takers ...

I really fancy Kristina I so wish I had been in that pub that night.

They seemed to be mostly picking blokes they fancied any way, for the full on snog, with the peck on the cheek reserved for the ones they didn't.

In America selling kisses at social events etc. is quite common and respectable or it was in the fifties.

Finally what about women who get bought expensive presents by rich old men. No once says that is prostitution but they clearly are just doing it as a living.

My point is if they give them money but they would have got off with them anyway on a night out is it really such a problem.

So they were given a list? I must admit I'm disappointed I thought they just came up with ideas off the top of their heads ...

That kinda makes it worse doesn't it?

Sorry a little off topic

this "best buisness minds in England" stuff makes me laugh

the men and women are hardly the best buisness people in the country

those people are either

A) running thier own buisness's and doing a damm good job of it
B) already employed earning a damm sight more than the 100 grand SAS is offering
C) are already working for SAS

in sayin that i LOVE the aprentice and back on topic now

its not the idea of selling kisses that appaled me its the fact that they did so badly at it they were in bars with boozed up blokes IIRC they made about 60 odd quid (if i heard right when they announced it on the tv) they should have earnt more than that

Don't forget that a least half that was for painting kiddies faces in the morning. Being the skilled negotiators they are, they were charging a massive £1 a kiss.

thats my whole point a pound a kiss

i mean the girls that were doing the kissing werent half bad so imagine em through the old beer googles it should have looked like christina and britney were offering the kisses they should have got more than a paltry pound a kiss

Which is why in my first post I was appalled that of all the people that applied these are the ones that got chosen.

I know many people that are damn good at business and are either running their own or working for a successful company but when it comes to common sense, they must have been at the back of the queue the day they were handed out.

Dante i wasnt having a pop at you more at the the tv compnay that continually tell us that these are the best buisness minds in the UK

im sorry if you thought i was having a dig at you

I can't believe they thought a pound a kiss was a good way to make any decent money, they'd probably have been better off buying lottery scratch cards.

Not at all, it's just that on most of the threads it gets brought up so I always get a tad pedantic and point out it's only the ones that applied.

At the end of the day, if it was the best business brains in Britain, I'd be on there

Doubtful. Years ago I bloke I used to work with won £200 on a scratch card and then bought 100 scratch cards and only won around £30, all in £1 an £2 amounts

if these are the best business brains in the UK, all they need to do for the next 10 weeks is set up a parlour.

With this lot it seems more like they are there because they failed the auditions for BB

MI5 never offered her a job. They did call her back for another interview stage.

They were given a list of 200 ideas for the task, and kissogram was one of them. However, they only had the list for a couple of hours the previous night. When it came time to decide what to do in the evening, they seem to have forgotten almost everything on the list. Kissogram was one of the few things they remembered (for obvious reasons) so it was what they were stuck doing. Most of them agreed to it, whether as kissers or as pimps, so it would be unfair to blame Naomi alone.

What was the job for? There are a lot of people who can quite justifiably say they work for MI5 - cooks, cleaners, accountants etc... At the end of the day their just civil servants. Very few are the 'spooks' you see on the TV dramas.

I've no idea but something tells me it was nothing to do with finding locations

I think that although they knew that SAS would not have liked it, if it secured them the win it was worth doing as
none of them could get fired.

They took a chance that selling themselves would rake it in and although they would get an earbashing from Sir Alan, none of them would get fired!
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