Apprentice UK 2012 Episode 1 Live Blog
Whoohoo! The Apprentice has finally returned. Here's to the next 12 weeks of catfights, bad number crunching and all round jolly good entertainment :D.
[21:00:12] They’re introducing the new batch of morons now.
[21:02:50] Week One, dun dun dunnn.
[21:02:56] 8am in the boardroom.
[21:03:38] Lord Sugar goes through Receptionists as quickly as toilet paper it appears.
[21:04:17] Ewww one of them has hideous bright purple pointy eyeshadow on :P.
[21:05:26] The task is to start their own print business.
[21:06:10] Girls versus boys as usual, Nick follows the girls, Karen the boys
[21:10:06] Boys calling themselves Team Phoenix.
[21:10:10] Girls are Team Sterling.
[21:10:50] Dude called Nick is the boys’ team leader.
[21:10:58] Gabrielle is the girls’ leader.
[21:12:10] Girls want to sell T-Shirts.
[21:12:20] Boys selling big teddy bears.
[21:15:26] Girls have not even thought about how many T-Shirts they want geesh.
[21:16:50] Boys are being boring with a London red bus as their logo.
[21:18:03] On the T-Shirts we have cartoons of a lion, penguin and a tiger (oh at least I think it is). The tiger drawing is messed up :P.
[21:19:24] Hahaha, the boys first logo of the red bus came out really faint.
[21:20:24] Jie Yang: Their logo is “This is a” then a pic of the red bus lol.
[21:20:51] They’re selling teddies at £15 each, bit expensive hmmmn.
[21:23:12] Girls printing “I loved my day out” at the zoo T-Shirts, bringing them to London Zoo.
[21:25:00] Other half selling them at a stall.
[21:25:13] Girls also doing the personalised puzzles.
[21:27:37] Girls at the zoo insist on taking turns selling the T-Shirts.
[21:27:46] I don’t see why they don’t just split up and sell on their own.
[21:28:22] Girls also selling bags at the zoo.
[21:29:12] Leaving the zoo now to sell at trade shops nearby. I am impressed that the shopkeeper the girls are trying to pressure into a sale has a backbone and is adamant she won't impulse buy from them.
[21:31:08] 5pm and sales time is over.
[21:31:32] Boys are already getting complaints. The T-Shirts had ink stains on them.
[21:31:57] They had to refund the shop lady.
[21:32:33] Back at the boardroom…
[21:33:35] Boys team first to be analysed…
[21:34:37] Jack the bear.
[21:35:05] Sugar not impressed with the oversimplistic design.
[21:35:50] Girls now…
[21:36:49] Sugar impressed with their design.
[21:37:26] Numbers time.
[21:37:44] Girls: £214.80 profit
[21:38:06] Boys: £616 profit
[21:38:10] HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Boys totallly thrashed the girls
[21:38:38] Treat is a art-inspired reception back at the mansion with canapes and stuff.
[21:39:36] Haha the food is all art like.
[21:39:55] They have to lick the “abstract art” off tiles.
[21:40:46] The “paint” is in small cups they drink.
[21:40:59] Girls in the cafe arguing like hell bickering and shouting.
[21:43:04] Back at the boardroom the girls are defending themselves.
[21:43:20] Nick called them a pack of hyenas lol.
[21:46:14] Gabrielle bringing back Bilyana and Katie.
[21:46:33] Sugar having his chat with Nick and Karen now.
[21:47:15] Gabrielle: Pushover.
[21:47:21] Katie: Not sure what she’s been up to.
[21:47:33] Bilyana: Timewaster.
[21:49:20] Bilyana seems to be all talk no walk.
[21:50:06] Gabrielle is pissed off and shouting at Bilyana now. She’s totally lost it.
[21:50:51] Sugar is telling them to stop.
[21:51:16] Now Sugar is saying Katie is taking a backseat and hiding behind others.
[21:51:46] Katie is saying give me another chance and I’ll prove myself.
[21:51:57] Katie says Bilyana should be fired.
[21:52:45] Bilyana says Gabrielle should be fired.
[21:53:11] Gabrielle says Bilyana.
[21:53:21] And the the fired one is…
[21:53:28] *drumrolls*
[21:55:04] BILYANA!
[21:55:34] She just kept talking and talking and digging herself a giant hole
[21:55:57] Oh hai there Taxi! :P
[21:56:09] Bilyana says the decision wasn’t fair and she thinks Gabrielle should have been fired.
[21:56:33] Katie said Bilyana did her a favour by not shutting up in front of Sugar.
[21:56:56] People back at the mansion want Gabrielle back.
[21:57:21] Everyone cheers when Gabrielle and Katie returns.
[21:57:30] Next week: The teams are to design a new gadget.
[21:59:01] And that’s a wrap! :)