“Boozy Bangers, Boozy Bangers” Why is that the most prominent thing in my mind after last nights Apprentice?
The annual search for Lord Sugar's assistant began with a bang(er) as the candidates were put through their paces with the first of this years strange tasks none of them would ever have to do in 'real life'.
Last night the office hopefuls were buying meat, making sausages overnight, and selling them to the public the next day. As ever, sausages were the last things on their minds as egos exploded everywhere, there were disagreements and even worse (or better from an entertainment point of view) the sausages the boys made looked like actual poo. More importantly, we also got our first glimpses of who the characters are going to be this series:
Stuart Baggs – The youngest ever contestant, and in my eyes, probably the most annoying. He starts off by claiming everything he touches turns to sold. Sold? Come on now, did he sell the most sausages? No he didn’t. His one shining moment was the fact that he seemed to be able to use an invisible calculator. If that isn’t a great skill, then what is?
Dan Harris – Team leader for the boys team, and all around hot head. If managing people includes screaming, swearing and not really getting involved then Dan should be earning millions. He must have been the fist ever contestant to slouch in the board room in front of Lord Sugar. It was at that point, I thought to myself Dan is a gonner.
Melissa Cohen – Jenny Éclair lookalike and slightly argumentative. Melissa seems to be the most entertaining of the girls so far. As Nick Hewer said she spent a lot of her time “pecking away” at team leader Joanna. If Melissa wanted to be team leader, then she should have said yes when the other girls suggested that she should. May be that was a ploy to avoid the firing line if they lost. Apparently I also went to school with Melissa. I don't remember it at all, but rumour has it, she left because no one liked her.
So it was bye bye to hot head Dan. To be fair another week of him would have been way too much.
Sadly I'm already looking forward to next week's clash of the egos.
If like me you can’t actually wait, maybe you should watch some classic apprentice to wet your appetite until next week.