Wednesday, 30 April 2008

The Apprentice Uk - episode six

Kevin got fired - and serves him right for not bringing Jenny Celerier (the one with ginger hair and the long chin) into the boardroom. To recap, Jenny came up with the dumb idea that people would want to send greetings cards exhorting someone to be environmentally friendly - never mind that cutting down a tree to make the card and wasting fuel to deliver it is environmentaly unfriendly.

Yet Jenny is such an assertive personality that not only did she persuade Kevin, the team leader, not to take her into the boardroom for the final showdown, but she managed to orchestrate a campaign to evict Sara, whose only sin was that she managed to come up with different (and probably more successful ideas) for the greetings card task. It's not the first time that Jenny has done this - witness the way she scapegoated Shazia in week two in the task she led. Jenny had not only persuaded Kevin, but other members of the group so that poor Sara, in an extraordinary scene, actually got attacked when she came back from the boardroom because she hadn't been fired!

However, if the contestents haven't worked Jenny out, Sir Alan seems to have twigged. He looked positively disappointed that Kevin hadn't brought Jenny back in with him for the final cut - I think he fired Kevin because he was too dense to realise the task failure was down to Jenny. He'll be looking for an excuse to get rid of jenny the next chance he gets, mark my words.

On the other team, the well-educated Michael Sophocles proved his education didn't teach him grammar as he spent a whole three hours wondering where an apostrophe went. For what it's worth Michael, though technically speaking it should be Singles' day - in practice it's now written colloquially as Singles Day without the apostrophe. He was very nervous in the boardroom, thinking he might have lost the task, and was whooping almost desperately like someone in a make-or-break rugby game when he did - to Sir Alan's astonishment. But to be fair he wasn't a bad leader.

But it does look like people are ganging up on Sara - she's the only ethnic member left, and apart from Lucinda, the only woman who looks like a woman. In her favour is that she won her task in episode three, whereas Jenny lost hers in episode two. Rafe, bless him, defended her from attack when eveyone launched into her when she got home from the boardroom. IMO Raef stands a good chance of winning - apart from being a bit toffish in episode one, he hasn't put a foot wrong.

If you missed this week's episode, click on the BBC iPlayer in the sidebar - the episode is available to view for seven days after broadcast.

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