But Sir Alan is going to want to hire somebody based on what they can do, not what they didn't do wrong.

I too am not impressed with Lohit. Sir Alan has just said what I've been saying for weeks, that he's nice and articulate.

I wanted Tre and Jadine to stay and Lohit to go.

I heard its filmed a day before on the Tuesday...

eccentric monk, I see you are new here, welcome, if you click on the Edit button (lower right) on one of your double posts you can delete it, put double post as reason.
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I don't get Sir Alan there,....he's supposed to be hiring an apprentice isn't he?

Previous contestants in other series have been given a right mouthful by Sir Alan when they've told him that they don't need to learn anything.

That'll be Katie I guess.

He is making it up as he goes along this series IMO. He wants "drop dead shrewd" in the opening, I think that is what he going for this time although he seemed disappointed Simon was not in the Boardroom.

Lohit has not been shown very much, I cannot think of much he has done apart from the French task where he was a fairly good PM, IIRC, but even then he listened to Simon about tea. Is Simon secretly sabotaging tasks and getting away with it as he is everyone's friend?

Why is Sir Alan not able to find an apprentice? Does he not have children?

Sad to see Jadine go as she was willing to learn and that was my understanding of what an apprentice was.

Tre thinks he knows it all so what is he gonna gain from being an apprentice if he already can do everything? Well, he thinks he can.

For a TV festival they did a mini The Apprentice with TV bosses selling items items on QVC so that is what that post is about. The date of the post pre-dates the filming.

I`m sure I read somewhere that his son had lost him a load of money on a project

Does anyone else think this lot really aren't that great? I'm not sure I care who wins. Kristina's probably the best bet, but I don't think any of them are that great. Ruth Badger really stood out last year, SAS must be kicking himself for not hiring her.

Yes, personal attacks, name-calling and abuse of women is becoming a speciality of the BBC. On another earlier programme a guest was allowed to use an offensive term of abuse to refer to a woman. The same thing was done on Question Time and on the Daily Politics.

Adrian Chiles has revealed himself to be a disgusting neanderthal creep with his sexist playing to the male audience lowest denominator, coupled with his ludicrous hero-worship of the sexist, grandiose and obnoxious Tre.

That business man on the panel really showed Chiles up for the frivolous lightweight he is, with his daft penchant for turning the programme into a pantomime opportunity for personal prejudice, hero worship and demonisation. The panellist was able to bring a proper analytical, business perspective and a sense of reality to his perception and assessment of Tre. That would be beyond the capability or reach of Chiles, the big unlovely overgrown boy 'chile'. Gawd, how many women could fancy him?

simon was shit today

Katie went up in my estimation tonight. Kristina is my favourite now. Tre and Simon went from being my favourite 2 last week to my least favourite 2 this week. One of them should've been fired.

I am not sure he would be happy with the competition for airtime.

I am looking forward to the hard hitting interviews with Simon and Tre.

The Internet Entrepreneur spent 2.5 hrs researching online to produce a sad looking out of date list, just company names and phone numbers, no information about them.

Tre will be exposed as not suitable for working with anyone he cannot blame for any failures. My opinion.

OMG just seen the clip of Simon screwing the legs on the trampoline.....

The English language is a treacherous little beast, isn't it?

Not half as treacherous as camera angles, mind you...

No. Simon is not that smart. He seems to think he is a homeboy but really he is just a NEGGA - Not Especially Good At Anything. Can you tell I'm not impressed by him?

I knew what i was doing washboard, I just forgot to put in the "" around the verb in question - but I must admit i didn't realise what was alarming SAS until Simon (ahem) "turned" the second leg into it's holder...

Nah, it's my smutty mind especially at these hours

The camera angle when Simon "turned the second leg into its holder" (brilliant way of putting it!) was alarming/amusing/entertaining/jawdroppingly embarrassing.

But - as if that wasn't enough - my smutty mind found another double entendre image in your words. Let's blame that on my mind, and my view of Simon

I can't wait to see the whole programme next week! I'll make sure I have a cushion handy - so I can half hide behind it at the really cringeworthy moments (while not missing a second, of course )

That makes two of us.

He will survive until the interviews, then he will be asked HARD questions about himself and what he has done. Smug little g** will get the exit he deserves, unless SAS wants a self satisfied smarty pants, in which case I will not bother with the next series.

I just wish when asked why they shouldn't be fired someone will say something other than "I think I shouldn't be fired, Sir Alan, because I am a hard worker and I really want to be your apprentice. Just give me the chance to show you how hard I can work and what a good apprentice I can be."

They wouldn't be on the programme if that wasn't the case, can't they ever come up with something more original than that? And as there are so few of them left now, they have had more than enough chances to show what they are capable of, or not.

I don't think that Ruth Badger was great.
She was excellent at selling but she wasn't that creative a thinker and not a good all-rounder.

I think she's extremely overrated.
If you remember back she was hated in the first half of the competition just like Katie is now.
Then as soon as she sells a few things everybody thinks that she's wonderful.
I'm not saying that she deserved that, I'm just saying that perception plays a massive part in this. You say she stood out, but it's the editing that makes somebody stand out.


I don't think she was bad, I just think that at a certain stage of the competition hype took over and I think that she is very overrated.
I think that she's far too bullish for the role that Sir Alan has in mind.
Some of these contestants this year appear to have much more ability in their communication skills when it comes to dealing with business people in a negotiating situation than Ruth appeared to have.

I've got to agree with you here. Except with your opinion on Tre, which is just doing the same thing which you accuse the show of doing to Katie.

'You're Hired' just seems so much more dumbed down this year and it's getting tiresome with it's pantomime villain section on Katie every week, and Tre's weekly spot as well.
It's just gone far too formulaic and just reducing the contestants to caricatures.
Which it usually did a bit before, but not to this ridiculous extent. This year it really feels like it's pandering to the lowest common denominator and treating the viewers as though they are stupid.
I expect this of Big Brother or The X Factor, but not for this show.

And I don't even like Katie,...but 'You're Hired' is just stupid this year.

And to ask the audience who fancied Katie, well that just really nasty and a really cheap shot by Adrian Chiles.
I expected better than that.

I thought Jadine looked lovely on Your Hired - she had been looking so stressed and unwell on The Apprentice for a few weeks and it was nice to see her looking so much healthier and happier now.