Amen! Says it all really.

I have also watched from series 1. If they think the totty this year is so good then i think they should let women pick the guys next year because in SAS's words 'they haven't a clue'

I think Alex is attractive. I also found Raef attractive. Nothing wrong with that - doesn't mean to say I would continue to watch a programme based on the physical attributes of any contestant. I see the journalist made no comment on those males who entertained erotic fantasies about some women participants; last year Karen Bremner was the cause of some stirring of the loins as I recall and even Katie motivated some sexual arousal



I don't think any female is offended by the observation that some women found some male contestants attractive. It is the assumption that these women continued to watch the programme based on a bit of gratuitous lust that is insulting.

I always thought it was men who think with the bottom half of their anatomy - but then, I'm just a silly woman - what would I know?


Hey a man who talks sense - would you like to be an honorary female Dave?

if you want to watch people undress and make a fool out of themselves then watch big bloody brother

if you want to see people undress buy that shit we call the sun or watch some porn...

I actually didn't mind, and I'm usually very dedicated to my humourless feminism!

I think it's because I actually DO feel really pleased that this is the first reality TV show I have EVER seen where the average male contestant is more physically attractive than the average female contestant. It's just a refreshing change, is all. I kind of like feeling that I'm being pandered to a little bit. Heterosexual male viewers get pandered to like this all the time, it's just normalised so nobody notices. It's not that men are watching the show for w*nk fodder exactly, it just seems more like it's expected that there will be decorative women on any given show for the benefit of male viewers.
So the columnist is dumb for not realising that. And I bet more women than men watch The Apprentice anyway. But still, I do actually think it's a good thing to have more attractive men on TV... tat for tit!

That said, no more like Alex pls. I now can't understand how I ever saw his as good looking; his personality has annoyed me for weeks and now his face does the same!

Was that written by a male or female?

I don't find any of the numpties this year remotely attractive, male or female.

Glad (some) ladies happy.

Not much eye candy for blokes on this program. I'll just hop over to Virgin at 11:00pm.

yeah Alex is quite pretty. Unfortunately his vile personality makes him uglier than SAS himself!

Only if I can be a lesbian

The whole thing has moved away from a business show in to nothing more than a Big Brother variant.

Posing in Heat?!?!* Yeah, that will help them get taken seriously in business meetings.

Sugar should be embarrassed to hire any of the sad little wannabees.






*Alex in a state of undress? Skinny fool.

You're right. But these guys have to make a living just like the rest of us. Why not cash in on the 15 mins of fame they get if it means a bit of cash for their futures? Media exposure is what they have signed themselves up to and that's what they all want to some degree.

Staying up to 3(?) months in the house does disrupt earnings. Presumably The Apprentice would pay some expenses but not much? There is still mortgage/rent to be paid in the real world.

Agreed; they will have mortgages etc. to pay like the rest of us. The media will pay them mega bucks for their time, stories, interviews etc. I'm sure I heard somewhere that they are all paid to work for Sir Alan temporarily for the duration of the programme? Correct me if I'm wrong.

What are you doing out of the kitchen?!?!




JOKE!!!

I sort of know what the author means. Why the hell are half naked pics of so-called serious business people being being posted in rags like Heat I wonder?

Fortunately most people watch the show as a bit of light entertainment and without the sickly fangirl adoration of the "good looking" contestants

I understand Sara watches The Apprentice from the kitchen through the serving hatch.

Well that might account for her romantic and unrealistic perspective on the process.

The serving hatch had a rectangular shape similar to the tele and imbedding it, resulting in a psychedelic 3-D effect.

Oh, is that really the best you can do, my trolling friend? I give you a grade of D- . You really should try harder.

I see you're back. Funny how you disappeared when the poster who was supposed to be Lucinda turned up...



Sounds likely doesn't it?


At least you two are actually funny.

Well that post rates an F and is appropriately fatuous and fantastical too.

To suggest that somehow I am scared of Lucinda is quite an extraordinary piece of fantasy logic, but perhaps one worthy of a confused-by-the-world Lucinda obsessive who is as detached from reality as Lucinda and seemingly shares her wish to inhabit a fanciful alternative world dominated by herbs, Feng Shui, berets and feelings that is untainted with logic or evidence.

Sorry, are Alex and Lee meant to be attractive?

Did I miss this?

Ha ha! Nice try, but as you know nothing about me that's a rather daft assumption on your part, yet again. As for Lucinda, you're the one who permanently bangs on about her with obsessive vitriol.

I wasn't for a second suggesting that you were scared of Lucinda - who in their right mind would be scared of her? I was implying that it was that you pretending to BE her on this forum.

Now, go back to playing with your toys, or even better, go back to Yahoo Answers where you'll find plenty of likeminded children.

...considering the preponderance of 'I'd shag Alex/Lee/Simon/Raef' (delete as applicable) posts I'd say the author wasn't a million miles off the mark. I've followed every series of TA both on TV and on here and I've never seen quite as much gushing as this year.

That might well be true, although I personally wasn't doing it. How many of those women have watched the show from series one and are just commenting on the fact that they find someone attractive?

My beef is with the suggestion that women are tuning into this series largely because of the candidates looks, when in fact many of us have followed the show from the first episode, because we enjoy the programme and have an interest in business, occupational psychology, career development, and/or commerciality. I find the article's suggestion that the majority of new female viewers only watch for the sake of 'eye candy' rather tragic in its assumption and completely inaccurate.