I thought it very telling, two weeks now Michael has apparently been let off the hook with his 'make me a PM' speech and two weeks he hasn't actually been PM the following week. Quite frankly that stinks. SAS never even gave a reason WHY he wanted Raef to be PM, he just told him he was. Shocking!

Sorry, but Raef has actually made a contribution week in week out, don't let SAS (and Nicks) bluffing fool you on this score. His contributions have helped win it for the his team many weeks - laundry, cards, wedding dresses, shopping, etc.

It's not often I have questioned Sir Alan's judgement.
However, in this case he got it wrong.
As for Michael, talk about nine lives ...........

I am still shocked that SAS fired raef and allowed Michael to survive again, as Raef said he is a liar and unprincipled and should not stay.

Michael must be a SAS clone with education

Michael, the rat with nine lives. I think there are only one or two left though and the series is longer than that.

I think Michael and Raef were equally to blame. They were both out of control and made ridiculous decisions. Personally I would have fired Michael due to his past history, but I'm not that bothered that Raef was fired. He really is all talk and not a lot of action.

I agree with Sir Alan when he said Raef has been lucky not to be brought in the boardroom for so many weeks - but everyone's luck runs out at some point.

I am still shocked that SAS fired raef and allowed Michael to survive again, as Raef said he is a liar and unprincipled and should not stay.

Michael must be a SAS clone with education

Whilst I can see exactly why Raef was in the boardroom - they didn't fulfill the brief, if that advert had appeared on tv you wouldn't have had the fainest idea what it was advertising (the other advert was dreadful - of the Cillet Bang school of advertising) it did fulfill the brief, had the product shot, had the selling point, albeit in a cringey, cringey way - so they had to win, on past history alone Michael should have gone.

He was equally responsible with Raef for the advert, plus he has the back history of bad decision, lying etc - that alone should have got him fired. I didn't mind the girls box design, thought it was quite pretty, sort of thing you could see sitting alongside a range of household products 'I love my .......'

Raef remains a prince amongst men, polite, well mannered, charming and gracious to the end.

I was convinced raef was going to win How many chances does michael need?

I haven't seen the show yet but Raef made no particular impression on me so I'm not that bothered. Michael on the other hand I have always quite liked.

I presume you like useless t*ssers with no moral values then...

They can have their appeal .

The show is extremely edited of course.

I honestly think this would be a great ad!
And on topic, I cannot believe Raef is gone! I was squealing like a stuck pig at the injustice of it all.

i'm quite upset that raef has gone, but the sadness is dulled by the fact that he used the best mixed metaphor i've ever heard in my life in the boardroom.
"if you're going to take the limelight for the success and like a rat jump off the sinking ship as soon as things hit the fat"


i love it. pure raefism, and a fitting description of sophocles.

Apart from week 1 when he was in the boardroom, the only weeks Raef had been on the losing side previously were week 3 (the pub task) and week 5 (the ice cream task), and on neither occasion was the loss of the task down to Raef's contribution. So SAS was completely wrong to suggest that.

Conversely on many occasions Raef has made the critical decisions that have won tasks and it seems ludicrous that, by this stage, that has been completely overlooked, particularly since Michael has had a particularly chequered record.

Raef has been quite good up to now, Claire has been good and Michael was as responsible for the crap ad as Raef so why SAS decided to fire Raef is beyond me.

Michael has made so so many cock ups, why does he keep getting away with it..

Raef was fantastic in his first attempt at Project Leader, and since then had done a steady and good job IMO without backstabbing anyone too. I can't remember bar week 1 an occasion where Raef made a bad error, yet he's hardly slipped under the raider either.

I am so glad Raef has gone, it was a choice between him and Micheal, both had to go.

I disliked both of them not just on this task but for a while now.

Micheal is a snake in the grass.

Raef was just up his own arse.

It was such good TV the way Raef's team sat full of self-congratulations at their commercial - how many of us were screaming at the T.V. 'Mention the bloody anti-bacterial tissues'? It seemed such an obvious thing to me

No, Terry Scott sadly died 18 years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Scott

I thought he had been pretty quiet recently.

Correct, but is this all down to Rafe, Michael suggested slicing her out of the ad altogether? He was dead set on screwing the whole thing up, yet he claims he was reponsible for the 'decency' in the ad.


I would NOT buy a box of tissues called 'atishu' - I'd think 'what a CRAP name' and just get Tesco economy.


She did not moan, she is the only member of that team with a brain, but fortunately she was with the two working class lads who can do no wrong.


I'd remember it alright, I'd remember NOT to buy it because of how shite the ad was. I make a point of not buying things if the ads are patronizing and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I won't fund thier crap.


He didn't dismiss it, he refrained from telling them what he REALLY thought out of respect. Also, Alex is giggling his head off at the other teams advert. What's good for the goose, is good for the gander.




How celebrities have been involved in ads that have nothing to do with their vocations? Hundreds. They do it for money, they do it to resurrect their flagging careers, something in which Sian needed to do after her ugly boyfriend left her for an anorexic. She was happy enough to appear on the show and only then slag off the advert.


So Lee gets away with his CASTASTROPHIC pitch on that basis? Claire's pitch was excellent and had people listening, in Lee's people were nodding off, yet, I am to beleive that these people praised Lee afterwards? Don't buy it!



Out of the four of them, Helene should have gone because she did zero work. Claire was saying she ran the show, scuse me love, all you did was come up with a CRAP brand name, and a CRAP box. Rafe and Toad did the location work, the casting, the filming and the editing, they made errors for sure, but they certainly did the lions share of the work.



But why is it judged on 'tonights task alone' Sugar often gives people second chances based on their efforts up to this week, Claire and Michael certainly have, Alex too, yet Rafe - only not fired the other time he's been in the boardroom because the only man posher than him was there - is straight out of the door after an EXCELLENT 9 weeks and not as culpable for the screw-ups of the team as others - namely Michael.




From what I saw, they did thrash them. If Rafe wore an Arthur Fowler cap and spoke in a cockney accent then he'd still be there.

I am sick of SAS and his double standards.

He's a cretin.

Possibly the worst decision I have EVER seen broadcast on television.

I've always stood by Sir Alan in interviews when he says that he makes the decisions himself without any nudging from producers but, while this task being his worst, the only reason I can see for Raef to have gone in that boardroom is because he was sat between two people Sir Alan really was never going to fire.

Sir Alan clearly likes Claire, going as far as to ask her opinion in the boardroom in the past, but if he really knows everything that goes on on these tasks, the ONLY reason Michael is still there has to be the TV factor. He's alienated customers particularly on the wedding task, lost his rag - during the task AND in the boardroom, and just generally behaved unprofessionally and unscrupulously throughout the show, there can't be any way that Sir Alan wants him in his company.

Having said all that, after Michael's pleading to stay in the competition as PM last week, when he was kept but wasn't made PM this week absolved a LOT of responsibility from him, from that point on in this show I knew he wasn't going to go.

As far as the advert task was, given the fact that these commercials weren't going to air but were to be judged by Sir Alan, the clear choice was to make any old tat that stood out, which is where Raef went wrong, but good for him keeping his artistic integrity in my opinion, and not making something that he would deem vulgar and crass.

I mean, is Cillit Bang even an actual brand? I thought it was a joke! Lord knows I wouldn't buy any tat advertised like that. If those are the type of tactics and demographics Sir Alan wants to appeal to it doesn't really say much about the quality of his products really does it? Raef would probably be wasted on the low-end, predator pricing: poor quality market.

Great post my friend.

So do you think Michael will make it all the way to the end? I thought he was going out on week 2/3!!