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An interesting show tonight - don't understand why Sir Alan didn't fire Melody also - in the company I work for I'm certain that would of been a serious breach of Standards of Business Conduct and Gross Misconduct !!! Asking a rival to disclose their suppliers ????

Alan has been coming out with some amazing quotes this series, I've really been enjoying it.
Melody drives me insane, Zoe over pronounces everything and doesn't make sense.
There were more deserving candidates to be fired than Gavin or Vincent.

I didn't know Zoe existed until tonight!!

In your fired they wanted to know who Vincent reminded them of . Simple - Leslie Phillips !

Should have called 118.

Can someone please tell me if the aim of the game is to destroy your fellow comrades and dispose of the project manager in order to score brownie points? Team Logic ran around like headless chickens and didn’t have a clue tonight! Gavin lacked leadership and control over the flock and this empowered Vincent to undermine everyone! I’m sorry but………… Vincent should have been ‘fired’. If he were in charge of a company…… he would have no staff to manage the business!

Which restaurant did the winning team go to tonight in Covent Garden?
It looked great.

The whole lot are simply too full of themselves and trying to out do eachother rather than work together , I mean come any of us proper eastenders know - in order to negotiate and look for the best price u get 5 quotes n then go for the middle quote then get that retailer to drop there price to the two lowest quotes thats how negotiating is done , how simple n easy this task was - did u notice how they were using a to z and maps over satnav , n none of them even used a iphone app or a laptop to identify n get an idea of the prices or to locate the cheap areas , n has they used there brains which they not got - this task would have been done within 4 hours with all items and no penalties ... top hat come on u can get one for around £35.00 pounds ... lol = Lord sugar next time get people on the show who have truly grafted from the eastend not wanna be,s

Good show - not as good as the one when they went to Marrakech market and tried to buy halal meat but still good. Why do they always seem so stupid - aren't they meant to be business people. I teach kids who could do a better job then them!

I think the king was buying a top hat for the Royal Wedding? And as for tonight...where to start.... Vincent I would fire you immediately.... for treating ladies well i think so far they are ladies..like some under qualified candidates... Your way of negotiating can only go one way up and up and as for trying to take control in the real working environment you would not get away with that ... poor Gavin.. I bet he wished he could have fired you !!!! but i suppose being overpowered by a Zoro lookalike meant Lord Sugar could not see any strength left in you ...wee shame

Ben Rawson-Jones - Sorry, I stand corrected regarding Melody/Natasha. I also agree with you about Mickey from Only Fools...!

raajkp - I appreciate your comments but the show is UK-wide so your comment of "I mean come any of us proper eastenders know...." may not be relevent. The show is not open to Eastenders only as far as I am aware. Some of the contestants have no local knowledge of London (all having no knowledge would probably be best if we are to start with a level playing field)...

I think Vincent looks like the bad guy in Dogtanian & the three Muskahounds!

You're from Belgium, so that's where the waffle comes from comment, cracked me up!!!

Just realised if you look at /apprentice/series7/candidates.shtml Melody and Natasha look very similar..... excuses made (boardroom style ?)....

Don't the candidates know, the best way to find out what something is is just to GOOGLE!!! ALL THAT MONEY THEY HAVE, surely someone has an iPhone?

It makes me laugh to read all these comments saying "ooo it's easy...just use an iphone to find out" or "Googles it....simples" and all that non-sense.

These tools are clearly not allowed, I have never seen them used in a single episode since the apprentice started, surely people can figure out that it isnt simply a coincidence that no-one has 'figured out' to use the internet for information yet??

Also before you start saying "I would have sent everone off in a different direct to get an item each...." thats not allowed either, they clearly have to stay in a maximum of two teams when they are out on task.

These rules are in places to make the tasks more logistically challenging, and, i'm sure, to make the candidates look stupid......it makes for good viewing!

Karren Brady: Vice President of West Ham United.
West Ham United: £80 million in debt and climbing, needing an injection of capital of at least £20 million just to keep afloat.
West Ham United: 20th in the Premier League with the 8th highest wage bill.

Am I the only person who thinks she is in no position to comment on any Apprentice candidates' buying decisions?

Gavin had to go because it was his fault his team were not organised. He didn't know how to control, motivate or manage people. He didn't seem to have any common sense and couldn't work under pressure.

That nurk Gavin will have to go after providing some more entertainment.

Natasha's idea to get info from a competitor was good. No harm in trying, it's only a couple of phone calls and may have helped with a few items or at least told them what a cloche was. The people that say doing this is bad business practice just don't understand the cut throat world of business.

Have to say I tipped Zoe from the audition clips. Was getting worried as she was quiet or edited out. Not sure she understands that this years apprentice is all about showing just how good you are every week. Get into that radar and stay there!

Of course I meant that nurk Vincent or D'Artagnan or that bloke from fools and horses or whatever you want to call him because he can't hear!

Vincent looks like Zlatan Imbrahimovich:

Does anyone think that Vincent looks like Zlatan Ibrahimović?????

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Something seems to have gone wrong with your Boardroom Appearances count on the Candidates page. You have a total of 13 appearances from 3 episodes. Surely some mistake!

Karren Brady (the great MM before her),Nick Hewer and Sir Alan have done a great job on this series. To have a blogger like "byebyehammers" hammering Karren Brady out with football pain is so off....the Apprentice is not football! ....and Alan Sugar is worth £1 billion and he made losses at Spurs.....what Karren Brady has not made at West Ham is not unusual...football makes losses...if you support WHU, what a pain you are for Karren, poor woman!

bye bye byebyehammers...and be a bit nicer to Karren

I mean, the 'fish out of water' effect always makes me laugh - to see these people who are so-called 'brilliant' in their fields have no dynamism when it comes to the tasks. It never fails to surprise me.
I always enjoy the 'buy ten items' task the best because it's not the easiest and the candidates come apart frequently!

QUESTORING,
No The Apprentice is not football, it's business. Football is business too....didn't you know? And as I understand it, Karren Brady's "day job" is to run West Ham in a competent way. My interpretation of "competent" includes "solvent". Do you think Alan Sugar would disagree?

Just to correct you (again), Alan Sugar bought Spurs for £8million and sold it a few years later for £50 million....if that's your idea of "a loss" then I understand why you find Karren Brady's business performance for West Ham so impressive.

Also to clear one thing up I am not a West Ham fan, never have been. I am however (or was) an Apprentice fan, although I'm not sure I will be if they continue to field proven incompetents as "experts".

I agree, all of this season's candidates seem like they're all just waiting for each other to trip up, and seem really nasty, especially Zoe in next episode's preview. Susan is the only one trying to be genuinely nice, but I guess nice doesn't get rewarded in business!

why didnt anyone stop someone in the street and ask them what a cloche was?!!! so frustrating

There was an item never discussed, began with P, like pirsopis ?? would love to know what was required as I never heard of it, and that Annoys ME.

What I didnt understand was the LUXURY tea.. wouldnt the Savoy have loved that unique tea ? wasnt part of the task to get QUALITY items .. then Lord Sugar seemed to change the rules of the game and by the board room was talking about Pound Shops...

The correct approach would have been to source the standard products through a hospitality supplier, and they would have probably had a clue about the other items specific to high end hotels. What was the issue with asking the Savoy what the items were?

OK, given that using the Internet or a phone app. isn't allowed, who said anything about a library? As deeram11 wrote: "why didnt anyone stop someone in the street and ask"? Like a greengrocer for instance. Who would probably also know what a cloche is. It was a farce that neither team managed to source all the list never mind get so ripped off. But that Gavin's team lost by a few quid was crazy! It was such an easy list! I would have liked to have seen what the Savoy guy had to say about the results.