Apprentice Watch – Week 2 – The one with the chin
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Meh. I’m not enjoying this series of The Apprentice as much as previous ones. There’s no real characters in it. I’m spending more time playing lookie likies. Didn’t help that the reception on the television was blizzard like.
This weeks task for the candidates was to set up and run a launderette. It looked like a lot of hard work and it was easy to see the boys were going to win this task seeing as they rang some launderettes to enquire about pricing.
The Irish girl, Jennifer Maguire (best salesperson in Europe don’t forget), went into a hotel with Lindi Mngaza to pitch for the business of laundering 1,000 pieces of stinky hotel linen. Their collective wisdom and experience figured that a fair price for the work was £4,999!!! The hotel usually pays about 200 quid. Come on now. Surely if you’re the best salesperson in Europe you would have a better idea on how to pitch for business than this. It doesn’t auger well. I was disappointed.
Stand out candidate (for the wrong reasons) this week was Chinny chin chin chineroo, Jenny Celerier who played the role of project manager. All you need to know about her is
a) SHE SHOUTS A LOT
b) She looks like Bruce Forsyth (ok, I modified her chin a little bit, just a little – well, maybe a lot)
This weeks business lesson : Find out how much people charge for the same service, and then undercut it a little. Guaranteed to get business that way.
The search continues…
Updated : Just read Paul Groves’ review – classic 
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7 Comments
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 am
I watched the Apprentice for the first time last night and am hooked. I completely agree that Jenny should have gone. She was sly, manipulative and didn’t have a handle on the task right from the start.
As for Jenny ‘Show Me the Money’ Maguire, did she speak more than two words during the entire show? Are they editing her out or is she actually that quiet. She won’t get very far if she doesn’t speak up a bit.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Jenny is definitely not what I expected. Nothing like Kristina Grimes last year who made her presence felt from the beginning.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
Yeah that Jenny was a shrewdy hag all right. The whole lot of them made women look bad. Why do they separate the teams by sex anyway? The dynamic would be a lot more interesting otherwise. Women tend to hold their own a lot better when men are around, but dissolve into catty bitches when left to their own devices. Maybe that’s the appeal from a producers standpoint, but it gets old. Loving the blog by the way!
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 am
I really enjoyed last nights episode. I thought it was hilarious to watch the girls team completely fall apart. All Jenny project manager’s fault.
And yep, Jenny Maguire is keeping quiet – not a bad strategy until the complete muppets are weeded out.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am
@Deborah – they usually split the teams after a couple of weeks
@Jazz, your probably right. Maybe that’s the winning strategy – slow and steady for the first few weeks.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Thanks for the link and the praise
For the last two series I’ve been hooked simply because I can’t take it seriously any longer. I’m not sure Sir Alan genuinely believes he’s conducting the “Interview From Hell” these days and he was surely instructed to leave Jenny in as a ratings booster. Last night gave me some outright belly laughs, not the reaction I’m sure he wants.
Splitting the teams is usually the signal for even more hilarity. I can’t wait.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
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