Live Blogging: The Apprentice S05E01

by elfinamsterdam on March 25th, 2009

First Ep of Season Five UK Apprentice.

The Apprentice UK

Live Blogged with the help of Culch.ie Niamh.

Read the tweets below – we had loads of contributors, thanks to everyone!

Next week, Live Blogging and perhaps a drinking game?

Edit: Hopefully Ian Walsh will join us next week, I loved his review of the ep and his Dragons Den ones rock too!

Check back here, or culch.ie for more details!

There’s more beyond the – Read More at the end of the post, so don’t cross the line if you have sky+’d it or some such

And so the Live Blogging Began:

8:29 PM elfinamsterdam - Wont keep plugging but Liveblogging The Apprentice on BBC1 at 9pm GMT. Link is http://is.gd/oWPJ come join in & please RT! ##apprenticeuk
8:39 PM tezzer57 - @elfinamsterdam Will do my best, I said I wouldn’t twitter during the apprentice . #apprenticeuk
8:39 PM tezzer57 - @adelleywelley Cant’t wait i also love Dru Masters for apprentice. #apprenticeuk
8:41 PM elfinamsterdam - @tezzer57 wonderful… so you’ll be liveblogging instead, me likes your logic #apprenticeuk
8:43 PM tezzer57 - @elfinamsterdam Will do my best
8:44 PM niamhsmith - you’ve started without me! lol
8:45 PM elfinamsterdam - @niamh… without you? never! nah just drumming up folk to chat to!
8:47 PM niamhsmith - ah well I was off doing my dishes in time for this-all clean now
8:48 PM SarahGriffiths - @elfinamsterdam I’ll pop by and have a gander at the Apprentice Live Blog – new to Scribble live too: http://is.gd/oWPJc ##apprenticeuk ;0)cc
8:49 PM elfinamsterdam - @niamh couldnt concentrate without the ware being washed!
8:50 PM niamhsmith - So we have 15 candidates this series, 8 women (one from Mullingar) and 7 men. Is this the first time there’s been more women than men to start off?
8:51 PM niamhsmith - getting ready to live blog #apprenticeuk if anyone fancies joining in either with Tweets or on http://is.gd/oWPJ you’re most welcome!
8:51 PM elfinamsterdam - Possibly! I never watched the first season. Watched the 2nd while newly with the GF and last yrs seen me through moving over here … addicted now.
8:52 PM SarahGriffiths - I think I am even more excited by scribble live now..thanks for setting this up
8:53 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh i dont think there is a way to share the Creator role… cause then you could see the side stream and invite folk too
8:54 PM niamhsmith - @Elf no I think I am just a writer? You’ll have to do all the work now haha
8:54 PM elfinamsterdam - @sarah no worries, I have been a guest at two and they are fun, @niamhsmith really helped too, she’s ace!
8:54 PM niamhsmith - Ooh thanks *big head*
8:54 PM elfinamsterdam - @niamh me and my big mouth eh! I put the live stream on my blog too! Next week its www.culch.ie ‘s turn!
8:55 PM Lottie - Let’s see how this works then…
8:55 PM Darren - Hey! I’m here. I’ll be in and out.
8:55 PM elfinamsterdam - Just to confirm… do we want to give up after the show or also do the BBC2 You’ve been fired show too?
8:55 PM niamhsmith - Hello Darren & Lottie Got the tea & biccies sorted?
8:56 PM Lottie - Thanks Elf. Hey Niamh & All. Just had the dinner so it’s a bit soon for tea & biccies.
8:56 PM elfinamsterdam - Hey Lottie & Darrenc. invitations sent… come and go as you please! Thanks for popping by!
8:56 PM Darren - @Elf Ah, sure we’ll see how annoying they are first.
8:57 PM elfinamsterdam - @niamh… now I want biccies!
8:59 PM elfinamsterdam - final push livebloging #apprenticeuk if anyone fancies joining in either with Tweets or on http://is.gd/oWPJ you’re most welcome
8:59 PM elfinamsterdam - oooohhhh.. i love this eastenders promo… very freaky!
8:59 PM niamhsmith - @elf sure you have chocolate!
9:00 PM SarahGriffiths - Think it’s worth saying that “logging in is really easy – top right corner-put in twitter name” just in case any lurkers, like I was for 3 mins …

9:00 PM elfinamsterdam - @niamh whispers I ate it already

9:00 PM elfinamsterdam - Ok and it begins!!!
9:00 PM niamhsmith - @elf oh dear
9:00 PM niamhsmith - “Making money is better than sex” I don;t think he’s doing it right!
9:00 PM elfinamsterdam - I love the bull they come out with… even better towards the end when you see they are muppets
9:01 PM elfinamsterdam - Rough Tough creme puff! lol
9:01 PM niamhsmith - “a rought, tough cream puff fom New York”
9:01 PM SarahGriffiths - A cream puff – ain’t rough or tough…she’s out
9:01 PM Lottie - @Niamh – lol!
9:01 PM niamhsmith - oooh early call from Sarah!
9:01 PM elfinamsterdam - love the Irish girls line in the blurb… “to be able to drive a dead horse to the winning line” Lorraine Tighe
9:02 PM niamhsmith - haha love the NY girl already
9:02 PM Darren - 16? Is that more than usual?
9:02 PM icedcoffee - hey folks – can you add me to the ‘blogging’ crew?
9:03 PM niamhsmith - Apparently I can’t count..I counted pics on site earlier & got 15 :/
9:03 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil – invited, check your DM’s i think…
9:03 PM niamhsmith - @elf oooh I can invite people just invited @icedcoffee
9:03 PM icedcoffee - @elf no DMs here (yeah i dont really get this thing – do my comments have to be approved)
9:03 PM elfinamsterdam - Do you think Sir Allan gets sick of this?
9:04 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh… brilliant *snaps whip* get to work
9:04 PM Lottie - soneone is gone already?
9:04 PM niamhsmith - oh- I CAN count Yay
9:04 PM Lottie - Would the not have replaced him?
9:04 PM Darren - Someone bottled it already – brilliant.
9:04 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil no… just sign in at the top i think?
9:04 PM niamhsmith - @Lottie Must have been very last minute -like first day of filming
9:05 PM stevepurkiss - OMG I almost want to switch off already, but I know I wont. #apprenticeuk
9:05 PM elfinamsterdam - @lottie, Darren and Phil … sending you all writer links… if it helps
9:05 PM Darren - @Elf Cheers!
9:06 PM omahonydonnelly - Hi, I’m here!
9:06 PM niamhsmith - Cleaning- oh some people will hate this already, I know it!
9:06 PM KieronJS - Can I be a global strategist? #apprenticeuk
9:07 PM niamhsmith - @omahonydonnelly hi!
9:07 PM elfinamsterdam - @Ann woo hoo you are here !
9:07 PM Darren - Margaret is very scary looking. What’s her story?
9:07 PM LondonEater - @tezzer57 he really does n more authentic. He built his business from ground up where as Trump inherited it from his dad. #apprenticeuk
9:07 PM omahonydonnelly - power of proxy!
9:07 PM niamhsmith - @Darren scarier than Jackie Lavin? I don’t think so! Lol
9:07 PM omahonydonnelly - Who will we hate this year?
9:08 PM Darren - @Niamh Good point!
9:08 PM elfinamsterdam - where is the Irish girl?? Lorraine Tighe
9:08 PM icedcoffee - To get this out of the way quickly – how do hashtags work around here? hashtag from twitter go here? vice versa?
9:08 PM omahonydonnelly - no, you are a dumb blonde!
9:08 PM elfinamsterdam - cant say i like any of them yet?
9:08 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil hashtag in twitter if you want
9:08 PM omahonydonnelly - you can call the hashtags at the right bar – #apprentice or what?
9:09 PM niamhsmith - @icedcoffee tweets with hashtags are coming through and we can approve them
9:09 PM niamhsmith - #apprenticeuk
9:09 PM omahonydonnelly - None of them sound very smart
9:09 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil but now everything you say in twitter will be pulled in till it closes!
9:09 PM KieronJS - Noorul to go already #apprenticeuk god this lot are more scary than ever
9:10 PM tezzer57 - @adelleywelley Excellents, thanks I’d forgotten bout that, you can buy the apprentice soundtrack on iTunes #apprenticeuk
9:10 PM Darren - Go Team Empire!
9:10 PM niamhsmith - Boys = Team Empire
9:10 PM omahonydonnelly - Empire, of course! That blonde is getting on my tits!
9:10 PM elfinamsterdam - havent they used ignite before?
9:11 PM niamhsmith - @Elf no idea!
9:11 PM elfinamsterdam - all the blokes look like wide boys…
9:11 PM niamhsmith - Dodgy as feck
9:11 PM omahonydonnelly - sound like it too
9:11 PM elfinamsterdam - aren’t they just the kind of people you’d shoot yourself if you ened up in an office with?
9:11 PM Darren - @Elf Or them!
9:11 PM omahonydonnelly - like the black girl – she sounds intelligent
9:12 PM niamhsmith - Oooh no one in the girls willing to step up to lead the team!
9:12 PM elfinamsterdam - Irish girl (yes im obsessed) is one with dark rimmed glasses
9:12 PM omahonydonnelly - They all look like actresses
9:12 PM elfinamsterdam - @darren yep, or them… hopefully them first i guess
9:12 PM niamhsmith - £200 of equipment and a van each
9:12 PM Darren - Girls are seem a little soft. Are they just holding back?
9:13 PM elfinamsterdam - clean babies…. foolproof
9:13 PM omahonydonnelly - They’re not dressed for cleaning!
9:13 PM SarahGriffiths - Check out the girls wearing high necks, these are the ones scared of getting flustered, that’s what I would do – actually checked it all pretty confident.
9:13 PM elfinamsterdam - @darren none of the girls have the liathroidi for it eh?
9:14 PM niamhsmith - 8hours to earn as much as possible through cleaning
9:14 PM omahonydonnelly - liarathroidi?
9:14 PM niamhsmith - @Elf LOL
9:14 PM omahonydonnelly - I’d be crap at that!
9:14 PM elfinamsterdam - @ann cheers and sorry my spelling is rubbish my Irish is utter rubbish
9:14 PM niamhsmith - He sounds like Jimmy Nail, that jordie fela
9:14 PM omahonydonnelly - oh, i’ve got no irish
9:15 PM elfinamsterdam - wash 12 cars MY EYE! LOL
9:15 PM icedcoffee - Oooh legs.
9:15 PM omahonydonnelly - nice white boots
9:15 PM omahonydonnelly - up skirt shots
9:15 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil lol good we can girl watch together
9:15 PM niamhsmith - Am I watching a different programme to the rest of you? lol
9:15 PM omahonydonnelly - the’re not delegating
9:15 PM Darren - Ooh – Spanking in the Boardroom. Great movie!
9:15 PM icedcoffee - ooh spanking
9:16 PM omahonydonnelly - lads!
9:16 PM niamhsmith - Hey switch back to BBC1
9:16 PM elfinamsterdam - girl in black dress has red arm rash… i hate that … get it all the time… yes i am pass remarkable
9:16 PM niamhsmith -
9:16 PM omahonydonnelly - those who fail to plan…
9:16 PM elfinamsterdam - @niamh yah they are watching the redlight version
9:16 PM niamhsmith - Car washing – good idea?
9:16 PM Darren - Initial favourite – the lads leader. What’s his name?
9:16 PM KieronJS - @EmmaK67 Philip Taylor is only going at it 100% pathetic should be at least double that #apprenticeuk
9:17 PM niamhsmith - @Darren Jimmy Nail til we find out
9:17 PM omahonydonnelly - They both picked washing cars?
9:17 PM niamhsmith - Philip Taylor
9:17 PM elfinamsterdam - “Cant stand here scratching our nuts all day”… interesting money making scheme there
9:17 PM icedcoffee - so whats the hashtag for this? if i use the hashtag on twitter will it post here?
9:18 PM elfinamsterdam - Project manager what?
9:18 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil yep!
9:18 PM niamhsmith -
9:18 PM simonianson - “Can’t stand here scratching our nuts all day” But you probably will! #apprenticeuk
9:18 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil hashtag is #apprenticeuk
9:18 PM simonianson - “Can’t stand here scratching our nuts all day” But you probably will! #apprenticeuk
9:19 PM d_ransome - Would Waterloo Road finish already #apprenticeuk This episode is for you Bert!!
9:19 PM omahonydonnelly - £60 for three – no way!
9:19 PM Lottie - Awful sales technique!!! Awful! “You’re just wrong”
9:19 PM omahonydonnelly - I paid €40ish for my people carrier in West Cork.
9:19 PM Darren - Here comes the fun bit!
9:20 PM omahonydonnelly - Anyone thinking Cool Hand Luke? if they put bikinis on he’d pay £200.
9:20 PM elfinamsterdam - lol they are going to DESTROY the paint jobs on those cars
9:20 PM niamhsmith - Oh dear…we don’t know how to work our own equipment
9:20 PM Darren - The customer is helping them do their job? FAIL
9:20 PM omahonydonnelly - who’s in charge?
9:20 PM elfinamsterdam - lets ask the client how to do the job… Great Idea!!
9:21 PM omahonydonnelly - Did they not do any research on what prices are?
9:21 PM niamhsmith - Slag off men to two men…eh…FAIL
9:21 PM elfinamsterdam - @Ann Monkeys? No sign of the Organ Grinder it would seem
9:21 PM icedcoffee - “that is a bloody good deal” hardly when they normally get it done cheaper
9:21 PM Darren - Who’s the girl’s manager?
9:21 PM niamhsmith - Mona is the project leader
9:21 PM icedcoffee - @darren the black girl
9:21 PM elfinamsterdam - Hmmm… Oh Sir… you have a Huge Vehicle…
9:21 PM Darren - Mona? K – she’s useless!
9:22 PM omahonydonnelly - Damn, phone ringing – too bad!
9:22 PM elfinamsterdam - Four Pound?? You’d BUY a pair of shoes in a market in London for that!!
9:22 PM Darren - Alan should hire that old dude.
9:22 PM omahonydonnelly - how’d they go from cars to shoes – they split up?
9:22 PM tezzer57 - Lorraine (The Davina McCall look a like) hasn’t said a word yet #apprenticeuk
9:22 PM niamhsmith - PMSl @ te old man – I’d do me own in tow minutes
9:23 PM elfinamsterdam - @ann yep! divide and eh eh eh …fail it would seem
9:23 PM icedcoffee - And how much does it cost for the license to provide service in shopping centre? and the use of the big chairs?
9:23 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh…. so funny I’ve never seen PMSL before…
9:23 PM niamhsmith - That car is still manky!
9:23 PM niamhsmith - @Elf -really? lol
9:23 PM elfinamsterdam - Now we know what we are doing???
9:24 PM Darren - That guy is already regretting starting,
9:24 PM elfinamsterdam - you are washing CARS for god sake…. not splitting atoms!! My 6yr old nephew could do better
9:24 PM omahonydonnelly - you’d get a better job at a primary school charity car wash!
9:24 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh… yep *sheepish* I lead a sheltered life it seems
9:24 PM icedcoffee - i dont want a ride in one of those hummers!
9:25 PM Darren - Love love love her!
9:25 PM omahonydonnelly - curb side –good idea
9:25 PM Darren - Curb side – genius.
9:25 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil having spent too many years working with North Americans, I cant say /read Hummer without sniggering childishly
9:26 PM Darren - Wow – they really have done a bad job.
9:26 PM SarahGriffiths - Glad I’m not linked in via Twitter now…could see myself getting a bit abusive. I’ll hold back a bit …for now
9:26 PM elfinamsterdam - ooooooooohhhh polish left on a mustang… .you muppet it will be destroyed
9:26 PM niamhsmith - Really bad job!
9:26 PM omahonydonnelly - good, consult with mgr
9:26 PM Darren - @Sarah Go on…go mad!
9:26 PM elfinamsterdam - @sarah let your freak flag fly… thats the best bit about this
9:27 PM omahonydonnelly - supermarket – that’s where I get mine done!
9:27 PM icedcoffee - @elf dont reallly get the correllation – americans have lots of hummers, say it more and in their funny american accent?
9:27 PM omahonydonnelly - North London, there must be one round the corner, babe!
9:27 PM omahonydonnelly - Addison Lee, we used to use them!
9:27 PM icedcoffee - anyway – theres a guy from NI isnt there? which one is he? whats he look like?
9:27 PM SarahGriffiths - Speed dating my ar$e….too creative…another one for the hit list
9:28 PM elfinamsterdam - @sarah… and she brings it… good woman yourself
9:28 PM omahonydonnelly - hard telling the difference between them!
9:28 PM simonianson - Global strategy, sales, marketing and operations director maybe. But they can’t clean a car for toffee. #apprenticeuk
9:28 PM elfinamsterdam - LOL I love Margaret
9:28 PM omahonydonnelly - She is great.
9:29 PM tezzer57 - The whole bunch of them so far in the apprentice… clueless, completely clueless it’s not rocket science #apprenticeuk
9:29 PM omahonydonnelly - Idiots!
9:29 PM elfinamsterdam - @ann wait till you hate a few of them… then you’ll know the difference
9:29 PM icedcoffee - she does look a bit scary..
9:29 PM niamhsmith -
9:29 PM niamhsmith - @icedcoffee Ben CLarke, this guy
9:29 PM omahonydonnelly - The need a big sign.
9:29 PM icedcoffee - thanks niamh
9:29 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh are you posting your crushes already?
9:30 PM simonianson - “Never before in the history of car washing have so few cars been washed by so many people” Love you Margaret!! #apprenticeuk
9:30 PM omahonydonnelly - so they don’t look like hijackers – white coats, escapees from insane asylum
9:30 PM elfinamsterdam - Made a killing …. or been killed??
9:30 PM niamhsmith - @Elf no Phil wanted to know who the NI guy was!
9:30 PM Darren - @Simon Brilliant Quote!
9:30 PM omahonydonnelly - They can’t really be this useless!
9:30 PM elfinamsterdam - Demented Zebra Crossing Ladies more like
9:31 PM Darren - The girls have this one. What you think?
9:31 PM omahonydonnelly - DZCL!
9:31 PM icedcoffee - ha “nice car mister” its a frickin VW or similar
9:31 PM niamhsmith - huh?
9:31 PM omahonydonnelly - Looks like the girls did more, but they didn’t show the lads much.
9:31 PM tezzer57 - Lorraine spoke and scared a car away #apprenticeuk
9:31 PM omahonydonnelly - both leaders sucked!
9:31 PM niamhsmith - lo @ texxer
9:31 PM niamhsmith - tezzer even-doh
9:31 PM Darren - Dude’s blue eyes are very cool.
9:32 PM niamhsmith - @Darren man crush already?
9:32 PM SarahGriffiths - Guys had 2 strategies though…so when time pushed…good gamble ….think girls made the most though
9:32 PM Darren - @Niamh I like his eyes. His face needs work.
9:32 PM niamhsmith - I love Sir Alan!
9:32 PM icedcoffee - yeah what is with that guys blue eyes – hot
9:32 PM icedcoffee - @darren LOL
9:32 PM Lottie - @Phil- Knew it!
9:32 PM SarahGriffiths - Ooooh arsey
9:33 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil natural or contacts
9:33 PM niamhsmith - Ooh 2 man crushed on the same guy -fight fight fight!
9:33 PM omahonydonnelly - where was that one all day – one w glasses – that the Irish one
9:33 PM omahonydonnelly - That blonde one is the evil “one”
9:33 PM icedcoffee - @lottie – hey now
9:33 PM elfinamsterdam - she was there… quiet… but the glasses were loud
9:33 PM Darren - I heart Howard!
9:33 PM icedcoffee - @elf well im not expert but they are pretty damn blue alright
9:34 PM elfinamsterdam - Howard and Darren up a tree…..
9:34 PM Darren - Neither team leader were any good.
9:34 PM omahonydonnelly - Think Howards eyes are natural, but girl team leader may be contacts
9:34 PM elfinamsterdam - why are none of the girls hot?
9:34 PM icedcoffee - he has really blue eyes too – what is up with these peoples eyes!
9:34 PM omahonydonnelly - they’re so poor – we’re more interested in their eyes!
9:35 PM niamhsmith - Maybe its a reflection of the blue walls
9:35 PM Darren - @omahonydonnelly True!
9:35 PM elfinamsterdam - And where is(are) the gay one(s)
9:35 PM icedcoffee - mona’s eyes are kinda cool too
9:35 PM omahonydonnelly - 160.55 for all of them for a days work!
9:35 PM niamhsmith - £160.65 profit for girls
9:35 PM Darren - @Elf He bottled it before it began.
9:35 PM elfinamsterdam - a days crap work
9:35 PM niamhsmith - £239 profit for guys
9:35 PM SarahGriffiths - Howard has 10 pubs in Surrey…sure you will track him down..he reminds me of my mates husky dog
9:35 PM tezzer57 - The girls lose #apprenticeuk
9:35 PM niamhsmith - lol @ Sarah
9:35 PM SarahGriffiths - Oooh it must have been the shoes
9:35 PM Darren - Hmm…fair to say the girl’s team leader should go?
9:35 PM omahonydonnelly - don’t want any of them working for me
9:36 PM elfinamsterdam - Ooooh look at the face on the Morticia Addams lookalike
9:36 PM niamhsmith - Aw the ladies took in ten ounds more but not enough profit
9:36 PM elfinamsterdam - @darren Nah … it was like herding sheep on acid. They were all rubbish
9:36 PM icedcoffee - @elf alan doesnt strike me as the type would you employ, or interview, gays
9:36 PM omahonydonnelly - I liked the girl team leader at first. She should’ve taken more control
9:36 PM icedcoffee - i *want* to learn how to make cocktails
9:36 PM SarahGriffiths - Bitch fight…this is the bit I like
9:37 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil maybe not… but there is usually a closet case or two
9:37 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil didnt he hire the Badger? she was soooooo gay? or did she come second?
9:37 PM niamhsmith - Mona deciding who to blame and take to the boardroom already
9:37 PM Darren - This is better. Go Mono!
9:37 PM SarahGriffiths - Did she just call someone a puppet !
9:37 PM omahonydonnelly - That group that lost the 10 cars – they should be up
9:37 PM elfinamsterdam - Irish girl is SILENT
9:37 PM niamhsmith - @Elf I think she came second cos she has since had her own tv show
9:37 PM icedcoffee - @elf is there? has there been? i cant remember/never paid that much attention in the past
9:38 PM omahonydonnelly - Looks like there in a prison kitchen
9:38 PM icedcoffee - whos the irish girl?
9:38 PM elfinamsterdam - come on … .you went to Loretto Mullingar… you know how to Bitch Fight
9:38 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil Irish girl is Lorraine.. blondish hair with black rimmed glasses
9:38 PM omahonydonnelly - modern decor
9:38 PM Darren - Want. That. Apartment.
9:38 PM niamhsmith - @Phil Lorraine is Irish girl – not the most flattering of photos
9:38 PM icedcoffee - people from NI should no say “lads” on tv
9:38 PM simonianson - Girls lost. Cue cat fight. #apprenticeuk
9:38 PM niamhsmith -
9:38 PM elfinamsterdam - Want that Bartender… or at least the drinks
9:39 PM omahonydonnelly - That’s an awful picture
9:39 PM elfinamsterdam - I know… even the Westmeath Examiner went with a better one
9:39 PM niamhsmith - Bit of a lad’s pad that place
9:39 PM SarahGriffiths - They are the bartenders that were in the running for Britans got talent, love them
9:39 PM Darren - Eugh! What’s that a picture of?
9:39 PM omahonydonnelly - nice telescope
9:40 PM icedcoffee - @niamh i dont know how you’re doing it – but you are doing a good job with the pics
9:40 PM niamhsmith - @Darrenthe Irish girl in it, barely seen her on screen yet
9:40 PM omahonydonnelly - I miss London
9:40 PM Darren - @Phil Unlike the photographer who took that last one.
9:40 PM niamhsmith - @Phil I’m very organised me – well a bit
9:40 PM omahonydonnelly - Waste of a good suit!
9:41 PM Darren - Here we go…
9:41 PM omahonydonnelly - Always wondered how I’d do. Have a friend, an old boss, who would be excellent at this.
9:41 PM elfinamsterdam -
9:41 PM omahonydonnelly - that’s a better pic
9:41 PM elfinamsterdam - is the one from Westmeath Examiner
9:41 PM niamhsmith - That’s a much better pic
9:42 PM simonianson - Sir Alan will see you now. #apprenticeuk
9:42 PM Darren - Is that the same girl? My god.
9:42 PM icedcoffee - awful quality – but better expression etc, yes
9:42 PM OllyWhittall - Why do the #apprenticeuk women always have to be complete be complete bitches. Plus y does one look like Cher.
9:42 PM Darren - Mono is going.
9:42 PM omahonydonnelly - He’s not going to like Mona not taking responsibility
9:43 PM omahonydonnelly - so say it girl
9:43 PM Darren - @Olly Because it’s entertaining. No?
9:43 PM elfinamsterdam - God Morticia look like she is sucking lemons… and Lorraine needs to stop pouting
9:43 PM omahonydonnelly - irish girl looked better there – where from Ireland
9:44 PM elfinamsterdam - she was born in London. When she was six, her parents, Rathowen-born James Tighe, and his Streete-born wife, Loretto (nee Coffey) (now living in Petitswood), moved back to Ireland, and Lorraine attended Rathowen N.S., before going on to attend the Loreto College in Mullingar“
9:44 PM elfinamsterdam - so basically my home town… almost
9:44 PM elfinamsterdam - she’s 36 and a single mother of 2 girls
9:44 PM omahonydonnelly - thanks elf, lucky we have you here!
9:44 PM elfinamsterdam - not a bit
9:45 PM omahonydonnelly - shut up blondie – you may survive this week, but watch out!
9:45 PM elfinamsterdam - Debroah is a wagon me thinks
9:45 PM niamhsmith - Debra – Morticia – Cher = same person?
9:45 PM elfinamsterdam - believe so Niamh
9:45 PM Darren - Deborah scares me a little
9:45 PM SarahGriffiths - Debs has really blue eyes too…maybe the digital re-tune has effected the colour !! or maybe not
9:45 PM elfinamsterdam - Wow Lorraine SPEAKS
9:45 PM niamhsmith -
9:45 PM Darren - *Debra
9:45 PM Darren - @Sarah She’s no Howard!
9:46 PM omahonydonnelly - Oh, just annoying!
9:46 PM SarahGriffiths - Red rashes coming on
9:46 PM niamhsmith - Ah come on – they all have lovely blue eyes
9:46 PM elfinamsterdam - @sarah yep I’d be a world of tomatos by now
9:46 PM omahonydonnelly - Nobody took charge of that decision – manager should have made it clear.
9:46 PM Darren - “I didn’t want to be a strong individual” Wtf?
9:46 PM elfinamsterdam - oh that second last girl was hot
9:46 PM icedcoffee - @niamh they arent all blue – but they are very shiny
9:47 PM elfinamsterdam - i mean last girl to the left
9:47 PM niamhsmith - @Elf who was hot??
9:47 PM omahonydonnelly - I can’t beleive he sat through that!
9:47 PM icedcoffee - @elf agree
9:47 PM Darren - She picked the right two.
9:47 PM elfinamsterdam - the end one at the desk …. to the far left
9:48 PM elfinamsterdam - @phil
9:48 PM omahonydonnelly - They’re the only two that stood out at all.
9:48 PM DaRadar - Mini cab company got very cheap advertising….anyone else think Alan Sugar owns the place where the apartment is (portobello lofts) ?
9:48 PM elfinamsterdam - well as they say … the squeaky wheel .. .gets the bullet
9:48 PM Darren - @omahony But not in a good way.
9:48 PM Krelborn - Predictably the girls all turn on eachother. I think Sir Alan is as amused as I am. He’s heard it all before. #apprenticeuk
9:49 PM icedcoffee - debra (sp?) laughs too much – hate ppl like that
9:49 PM omahonydonnelly - Used to use that minicab company in my old job in London – they were excellent.
9:49 PM niamhsmith - Here we go…who’ll be gone?
9:49 PM Darren - I still think Mono is going home.
9:49 PM pallmallmedia - Alan sugar is definately more calmer in this years #apprentice
9:49 PM mykreeve - “They’re either very very clever, or very very dumb.” Hmm… whichever could it be? #apprentice
9:49 PM catnipxox - Don’t leave them alone in reception..handbags at dawn! #apprentice
9:49 PM simonianson - Alan Sugar “They’re either very clever or very dumb” I’ll give you one guess what my thoughts are. #apprenticeuk
9:50 PM SarahGriffiths - Failed me….the cheeky…madam
9:50 PM niamhsmith - Mona is going I think…
9:50 PM omahonydonnelly - Mona is not acting like a leader – she’s made up a lot of the criticism
9:50 PM DaRadar - Mona sounds a bit emotional during her claims of dishonesty etc
9:50 PM elfinamsterdam - God Morticia is a cow
9:50 PM _laertesgirl - Debra is a cow #apprentice
9:50 PM hettys_hat - there is was, end of the day, lol #apprentice
9:50 PM SarahGriffiths - puppets muppets – tomatoes – tomaaatoes
9:50 PM omahonydonnelly - Mona is grasping and Alan doesn’t like that.
9:51 PM omahonydonnelly - If it isn’t clear cut, he’ll probably sack the leader
9:51 PM gabysslave - i want to hand in my womanhood card now #apprentice
9:51 PM Darren - Debra has some attitude problem.
9:51 PM asthiggins - First fish lips from Nick! #apprentice
9:51 PM niamhsmith - @gabysslave oh dear, that bad?
9:51 PM omahonydonnelly - oh, maybe it will come down to losing those 10 cars
9:52 PM DaRadar - Anita will go
9:52 PM ComedyBint - @ElleSergi *laughing* But she’ll make better telly…! #apprentice
9:52 PM Darren - Alan does NOT like Anita at all.
9:52 PM DaRadar - “I’ll bring a bottle of vodka and some cans of beer to your party sir alan” = not getting fired
9:52 PM elfinamsterdam - Alan fancies Debra i think…
9:52 PM omahonydonnelly - poor girl got stuck with a calculator and now on the firing line.
9:53 PM Darren - @Elf Is he blind?
9:53 PM omahonydonnelly - she didn’t take on responsibility of leader though
9:53 PM helenathomas - #apprentice God, get rid of both Mona and Anita. What a load of bollocks.
9:53 PM tholder - how can 7 guys only clean 16 cars in a day? 1 person should easily be able to do 4 in a day even if they’re lazy idiots! #apprentice
9:53 PM Darren - @Helen Hear hear!
9:53 PM distantrambler - really funny just watching this and not seeing the program… we have quality TV at 9.00pm eastern … Rachel Maddow… ah
9:53 PM DaRadar - Will he fire 2 girls to make up for the guy who bottled out ?
9:53 PM elfinamsterdam - @darren yep, time and time again, at the end of the day we have seen that Allan is indeed blind. End Of!
9:54 PM SarahGriffiths - Anita said £19.50 and £19.50 is £39 – without the calculator – save her
9:54 PM stevenbenton - Watching #Apprentice, but then I suppose everyone else is?!
9:54 PM purplejp - Can’t wait for the Adrian Chiles show after – it’s the best part for me. Hope Nick & Margaret appear this year! #apprentice
9:54 PM Darren - Oh this is entertaining.
9:54 PM circeplum - How many business cliches can Donna come out with in one sentence? #apprentice
9:54 PM kitchendresser - “At the end of the day” Mona is annoying me so much #apprentice
9:54 PM omahonydonnelly - those 10 cars would’ve made the difference
9:54 PM omahonydonnelly - Don’t disagree w Nic girlie!
9:54 PM DaRadar - we all know how much he loves the cliches, but still anita to go i think
9:54 PM niamhsmith - Mona is nearly vomitting on the board room table there!
9:55 PM ilikedthecore - For the 1st task on #apprentice they should just blow the budget on scratch cards and hope to win
9:55 PM simonianson - Watching the Apprentice has reminded me of these superb YouTube videos from BolegBros. The Apprentice in lego http://bit.lyc/57XtA
9:55 PM icedcoffee - ew crazy eyelids
9:55 PM AJCann - #apprentice prediction: Debra will go far, but not win.
9:55 PM distantrambler - your all doing very good job on describing the ladies
9:55 PM danofthewibble - #apprentice Spending half an hour watching eight women backbiting each other when they were all equally shit is fun.
9:55 PM koffiekitten - #apprentice anita to go?
9:55 PM Darren - Bye bye Anita!
9:55 PM distantrambler - @Niamhsmith waves
9:56 PM niamhsmith - Aw Anita?? Didn’t see that coming
9:56 PM DaRadar - Yay, i’m right…what do i win :p
9:56 PM Darren - Probably the right decision, but Mono needs to go too.
9:56 PM omahonydonnelly - Oh, Anita – she was weak. He doesn’t like that. A bit surpised.
9:56 PM elfinamsterdam - @DR hey there!
9:56 PM niamhsmith - Hi L, how are you
9:56 PM icedcoffee - well thats over – how is everyone today?
9:56 PM omahonydonnelly - one down!
9:56 PM niamhsmith - Must look at that vid @simonianson
9:57 PM elfinamsterdam - Anyone up for the after show? You’ve been fired on BBC2?
9:57 PM simonianson - You’re fired! Only 11 weeks of this marvel left #apprenticeuk
9:57 PM SarahGriffiths - Don’t cry in the taxi Anita…you’ll regret it
9:57 PM DaRadar - Better to do something important badly than do something trivial badly…can’t decide whether american girl or geordie lad is more annoying to listen to
9:57 PM ruthward - Is that woman’s accent for real? #apprentice
9:57 PM paula6thlevel - @ralvin #apprentice brilliant, we should play it every week
9:57 PM niamhsmith - Yep I guess I will Elf…feel likeI’ve missed half of that typing! lol
9:57 PM SarahGriffiths - They have only known each other for 8hrs…chill the boots man
9:57 PM distantrambler - @niamh good, supposed to be studying but could not resist this … how you? Enjoy St Patrick’s Fes?
9:57 PM witholeary - mona finest hour: http://url.ie/1d8c #apprentice
9:57 PM soulmate02 - Miss Upside-Down-Smile’s been fired #apprentice
9:57 PM ruby_gem - #apprentice upside down mouth has gone!!!
9:58 PM WGDurrant - “turnover is vanity, profit is sanity” Genius! #apprentice
9:58 PM Theprowler - CALLED IT. Now to rewind and actually watch it, rather than twitter through it #apprentice.
9:58 PM omahonydonnelly - The least model-like got sacked. Figures.
9:58 PM distantrambler - upside down mouth lol
9:58 PM niamhsmith - @DR yeah it was a great weekend, brilliant weather & lots of stuff going on in town. Did you make it out to any festivities?
9:58 PM niamhsmith - Cooking next week? Oh dear…
9:58 PM SarahGriffiths - Who mentioned biscuits earlier on here….thinking of them now
9:58 PM omahonydonnelly - I love it when they have to go “blue collar”!
9:58 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh .yep i know… will be *ahem* rewatching it
9:59 PM Darren - @Elf Well done on the liveblogging. @Niamh You too!
9:59 PM omahonydonnelly - Oh, biscuits!
9:59 PM icedcoffee - right im off for shower, quick photoblog post and early night – later folks
9:59 PM omahonydonnelly - Thanks everybody. I love this. May go over to BBC2 now!
9:59 PM niamhsmith - Thanks Darren All over to Culch.ie for next week?
9:59 PM elfinamsterdam - Thanks @darren, and yep thanks to Niamh for really helping
9:59 PM distantrambler - @Niamh went to 5th Ave and told everyone I am Irish really .. it was good
9:59 PM niamhsmith - night night Phil
9:59 PM DaRadar - Mona was a bit like “the joker”s sad sister with her sulky face in the boardroom
10:00 PM SarahGriffiths - Do people Boo on the 1st to be sacked
10:00 PM elfinamsterdam - yep … over to culch.ie next week…. all this was crossposted to www.elfinamsterdam.com
10:00 PM niamhsmith - WOW so jealous. Did you have any green beer over there, lol
10:00 PM YorkshireLen - Debra & Monica would make a lovely couple, in my mind anyway… #apprentice
10:00 PM niamhsmith - @Elf lookit you with your crossposting, lol
10:00 PM KevinC_ - RT @contwext: Trendy users tweeting about #apprentice – @rhysadams, @si, @overlandsi, @bostinbloke, @asthiggins, @gillalexander, @moneyw …
10:01 PM Darren - @Elf I’ll drop you a mail during the week, yeah?
10:01 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh I know… *blushes* thanks … worked so easily
10:01 PM elfinamsterdam - please do!
10:02 PM distantrambler - @niamh I am studying law at NYU and live on the upper west side so it was my first St Pats day and the green bud lite was about
10:02 PM elfinamsterdam - @darren i mean .. yes please
10:02 PM niamhsmith - Anita Shah on now
10:02 PM Darren - G’night all!
10:02 PM niamhsmith - @DR no way? I didn’t know that at all! Fair play to you, that’s some change. *Jealous*
10:02 PM elfinamsterdam - @darren … night night
10:03 PM 1jh - time to watch #apprentice you’re fired on BBC2
10:03 PM niamhsmith - See ya Darren
10:03 PM ruby_gem - and now for the best bit of #apprentice! You’re fired with our Adrian!!!
10:03 PM SarahGriffiths - The Guardians Live blog 2nite has 27 comments, last post 1hr ago…or am I missing some other area…who cares..this has been fun
10:04 PM elfinamsterdam - I love this part
10:04 PM distantrambler - @niamh it’s some madness but loving it .. Will be home for Easter and will buy you a beer if your about already got Mr Darragh Doyle roped in for one… was not hard to do. How was Fair City? Heard you were in it.
10:04 PM gibbzer - #apprentice It’s not only lovely to see Anita smile, Adrian, it’s a feat of engineering. Unless you stand on your head.
10:06 PM distantrambler - Right got to get some food in and do some study. Thanks all was great fun. See you @niamh
10:06 PM niamhsmith - See you Laura
10:07 PM lucas - what is this live blogging thing?
10:07 PM niamhsmith - Oh & yes was in Fair City very briefly – definitely on for a beer at Easter!
10:07 PM elfinamsterdam - sorry had to take a call.. .. back now
10:07 PM niamhsmith - @lucas just watching the tv and commenting on the programme as it’s on
10:08 PM lucas - can some on tell me what this is? is it just like chat?
10:08 PM niamhsmith - Anita looks much better here – but WHY do people ALWAYS look extremely orange on BBC2??
10:08 PM elfinamsterdam - @lucas we are watching BBC2 You’ve been Fired and chatting about it
10:09 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh yep there is an overlay on their tones there
10:09 PM gillalexander - #apprentice Interesting. La Voderman has said “You could have laid into Deborah (Breezeblock)”. Sooner you than me Carole. She’d crush you.
10:09 PM lucas - @elfinamsterdam so it is just chat rather than blogging?!
10:09 PM elfinamsterdam - @lucas well it gets posted to a blog… check it out www.elfinamsterdam.cocmc
10:10 PM nickhalstead - BBC budget cuts equals the winners get £100 pair of bartenders doing cocktails – #apprentice
10:11 PM niamhsmith - The whole pressure washer debacle.
10:11 PM lucas - @elfinamsterdam wow I have never seen this technology before! Is there somewhere I can chat to you more about it as I don’t feel this is the appropriate place!
10:11 PM niamhsmith - Lack of common sense girls
10:11 PM elfinamsterdam - lol, seriously have none of theses ladies know how to do anything manual
10:11 PM cpetzny - So Sir Alan thinks they have a better crop of apprentices this year than ever before. After today’s show I’m not convinced. #apprenticeuk
10:12 PM elfinamsterdam - @lucas i am new to it too. there are great help docs on it … if you have a look around the site
10:13 PM SarahGriffiths - Amazing that this post on your blog learnt two things 2nite, more about Scribble Live and never to go on the Apprentice
10:13 PM niamhsmith - Oooh clip of Celebrity Apprentice
10:13 PM niamhsmith - Raging I missed that
10:14 PM elfinamsterdam - @sarah yeah it was surprisingly easy. First time i tried this was at the Obama Inauguration
10:14 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh really? oh it was funny but edited and a bit too polite
10:14 PM niamhsmith - Debra had a close call with Sir Alan
10:14 PM SarahGriffiths - Oh wow, missed that…watched it on my Iphone though..so was being geeky at the time
10:15 PM lucas - @elfinamsterdam does it have to post to a blog? Can you have it not post anywhere? As I really like this idea but I wouldn’t want it to save to my blog etc.
10:15 PM dallsobrook - #apprentice who’s the woman with the big hair and offensively pink jacket? She looks like Stefan Edberg
10:16 PM elfinamsterdam - @lucas I think you can link to past events but i believe the live blogging part must reside here and point to a blog
10:16 PM Nutcroft - what was she doing on the prog if she’s not hard and ruthless??!! #apprentice
10:16 PM niamhsmith - What everyone else thought of Anita
10:16 PM mrgammon - Exhausted after a new televisual experience…The Apprentice and #apprentice on Twitter, we nearly died laughing. Try it next week…
10:17 PM geordiekid - If you’ve got £12m you can buy the #Apprentice apartment: http://tinyurl.com/dlzfe5
10:17 PM elfinamsterdam - I think she was a lamb to the slaughter
10:17 PM niamhsmith - Yikes – lacked the most basic business skills – Sir ALan
10:17 PM Fiona_Mackenzie - Debra’s got more front than Blackpool! Wonderful bitch, with Rotterweiler in the pedigree #apprentice.
10:17 PM failedmuso - RT @Twistedlilkitty: I like the blonde girl who talks into the phone like a horse chasing a sugar cube that is just out of reach #apprentice
10:17 PM murphygrainne - What’s happened to Carol Vorderman’s face? She’s looking really weird nowadays #apprentice
10:18 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh well she did really, she was far too soft for that game
10:18 PM niamhsmith - Haha doors open – MORONS
10:19 PM elfinamsterdam - Really I LOVE Margaret
10:19 PM tonys - #apprentice “fiesty challenging character” == cow!
10:20 PM TUID - #apprentice Adrian Chiles is brilliant – “COW. Is the word you’re looking for!” Comedian man is a bit Simon Pegg-esque. I like.
10:20 PM elfinamsterdam - LOL Do the outside of the cars….
10:20 PM failedmuso - @Glinner I think we should start an Apprentice type weekly event in the vein of #badmovieclub Whadya reckon? #Apprentice
10:21 PM SarahGriffiths - Just realised you can change the sound on here on right bar….I could have however had mute..rather than Flick noise through the Apprentice…will remember for next time
10:21 PM elfinamsterdam - @sarah lol, the flick reminds me to look at the screen
10:22 PM niamhsmith - Awww slagging poor Ben andhis little legs and little arms
10:22 PM elfinamsterdam - LOL The Walk Boy
10:22 PM elfinamsterdam - the cream puff is baaaaack
10:22 PM elfinamsterdam - lol
10:22 PM niamhsmith - Quote of the week – a rough tough cream puff from New York and I am in it to win it
10:22 PM elfinamsterdam - Hip Hop Creme Puff
10:22 PM elfinamsterdam - OOOOH Mystery Man
10:22 PM niamhsmith - The one that got away – Adam Freeman
10:23 PM niamhsmith - ALready made his fortume?
10:23 PM niamhsmith - What was he doing there? Family comes first..what’s that all about?
10:23 PM elfinamsterdam - Opertunity of a lifetime
10:23 PM SarahGriffiths - I just realised I can have a glass of wine…as playing the apprentice drinking game at same time – and guessed phrase “in it to win it” – @gezd – set that one up on Twitter.
10:24 PM niamhsmith - Aw couldn’t leave his young family behind. They would have been aaaaa
10:24 PM niamhsmith - alright for a few weeks even
10:24 PM niamhsmith - Apprentice drinking game? :O Don;t let Darren hear about that, lol
10:24 PM elfinamsterdam - @sarah next week Live *hiccup* Blogging…. Check out elfinamsterdam.com or culch.ie for the details and invite @gezd
10:25 PM elfinamsterdam - Hmmmm Nick and his fantasies!
10:25 PM SarahGriffiths - @elf – will do
10:26 PM elfinamsterdam - @Sarah… wooo hoo! Darren will be pleased!
10:26 PM TUID - #apprentice Is it wrong that I’m more excited by the Nick and Margaret compilation clips than the whole of the rest of the show?
10:27 PM devcoach - What about the one who got away – do we believe Adam’s story? #apprentice
10:27 PM hennell - I think Margaret and Nick from the #apprentice should be in charge of overseeing bankers. Credit crunch would never have happened.
10:28 PM elfinamsterdam - Highlights???
10:28 PM icedcoffee - Where The Wild Things Are looks really good.
10:28 PM niamhsmith - Audience back Anita & think she should have been kept
10:28 PM niamhsmith - HIghlights – cream puff from NY, Margarets Winston Churchill quote, Nick’s ‘spanking in the boardroom’ comment
10:28 PM elfinamsterdam - the futures bright but that table is brighter
10:29 PM elfinamsterdam - @Niamh seconded!
10:30 PM elfinamsterdam - Ok People! Thanks to everyone … come back to culch.ie or elfinamsterdam.com to find out about LiveBlogging and Drinking Game for #apprenticeuk