Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[Viv]

I'm still finding it early days to pick a potential winner. Really not sure at all so far.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

The real winner from all this will be Alan Sugar. Fact.

[Viv]

Very true. Unfortunately, people who have won his series haven't blooming stayed with him.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Michelle Dewberry (who should have been beaten by Ruth Badger) is prime example of that, stays a few months then shacks up with that Sayeed guy who was an annoying p****. Think the guy from the first one (Tim?) is still in the AMS empire though.

[R94N]

TV Burp - I wonder what's been happening on Loose Women this week? XD It's so cleverly done.

[Viv]

Yep. Michelle Dewberry really surprised me. She was my favourite at the time. Thought she would have stuck it out longer.

Yasmina is expecting a bambino as well, I think.

Anyhoo, tonight's show is all about buns, I think, which somehow turn into croissants. Go figure.

[Viv]

yet more fighting last night. And seriously though, that blonde girl (Melissa is it?) going for a top job, and cannot count (with a calculator).

Poor show (again).

[R94N]

Yeah, the only thing it made me do was get hungry (I watched it this morning before lunch!).

[KingTutsWWH]

Forgot to mention I really enjoyed The Apprentice on Wednesday. The right person definitely went, but I do feel Melissa was incredibly lucky to get off. She has certainly shown her flaws though.

Got a tweet from Lord A of Sugar yesterday, on the subject of Wayne Rooney and chorizo. This made me very happy.

[R94N]

I have had replies from Jason Bradbury before and a podcaster from HSW, but no one else (yet)!

[kyle_y]

Melissa cracks me up! So glad she went, she was awful. And quite an unpleasant person too, a bit like a little 'gangsta yoot, init blud'.

"Save your skin and get out my face init.." Hmmm.. Gracious loser?

[Viv]

So glad Melissa went. She behaved like an absolute child in a tantrum at the end though. Shameful. I wonder if any prospective employers watching will be keen to snap HER up!! :-/

[KingTutsWWH]

Yay! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3207311/Margaret-Mountford-is-back-with-Lord-Alan-Sugar.html

[Viv]

Yes!! Excellent news!! :-)

[franzi]

Looking forward to see her. I've just started watching The Apprentice (after I heard about Junior Apprentice), so I haven't seen her before.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Brilliant, might be a good reason to jump on the bandwagon and watch toward the end of the series.

[cxx666]

Nice little twist there. I like Karen, although I think Margaret is definitly missed. Nick for me has to be 1 of the stars of the show though, I liked his comparison when talking about one of the shop window displays yesterday, and I love his facial expressions when he's silently observing the candidates

[Viv]

Karen is a competent character, but she doesn't have Margaret's ability to just lift an eyebrow and make someone shut up.

She's blending a bit too much into the background for my liking.

[franzi]

Just caught up on last weeks episode... (yeah, I know, veeery early..) I love that they're going to Hamburg in this weeks episode, I'm already wondering if they add subtitles for the English audience that don't understand what the Germans are saying...

[R94N]

Yeah, they have Although there wasn't that much German to be honest - mostly English spoken slowly with lots of gestures....

It was quite good last night, although like I said on Twitter I don't think Christopher deserved to go (if that's what his name was...I get mixed up!) Stuart is the very definition of a d-bag though.

[cxx666]

The wrong guy went in my opinion. I don't think Chris was ever really in with a shout for the job but I think he should have stayed in a bit longer. The other 2 were more responsible for the failure of the task than he was.

I'm already wondering if they add subtitles for the English audience that don't understand what the Germans are saying...

I wasn't expecting there to be any need for subtitles, as we're often reminded the British are very ignorant when it comes to learning other languages as most places speak English as a second language. In particular as many of those they spoke to were business people.