My favourite episode in the run of any series of the Apprentice is Week 11 - the interview stage, and this year's Week 11 episode did not disappoint. It had plenty of enjoyable highlights as the remaining 5 contestants got grilled by four of Lord Sugar's interviewers, who were the ruthless bulldog Claude, incredibly shrewd Borden, litigation lawyer Alan Watt, and of course the surprise return of Margaret Mountford, Lord Sugar's ex-aide.
Again through the interview process the contestants skeletons were all well and truly dug up, Jamie's 3rd nipple claim, while ridiculous was quite funny but at the same time why bother put it in a CV???? Joanna who actually came off really well in the interviews she did show a complete lack of business knowledge and again she fell foul of the many candidates who do not do their homework and look into Lord Sugar's companies and their history. I mean it doesn't take much to google or look up Wikipedia for him is it??! Chris also came across quite well in his interviews although he did come across as being a bit too self congratulatory of his academic career, while he sorely lacked work experience in the real world, something which Claude grilled him on, but Chris did hold his own and gave very articulate answers throughout. Stella also came through really well as she was the only one who had a complete set of very good interviews, the only complaint was she was a bit of a cold fish and was maybe more suited to a corporate environment.
But I have to devote a whole paragraph to the last but not least candidate, the legendary Stuart Baggs, who throughout the previous 10 weeks showed incredible arrogance, immaturity, as well as some of the best TV cringe comedy moments of recent times. But here Stuart couldn't hide behind his cocky persona, as he got grilled on the comments in his CV where he said he would step over anyone to get ahead, also lying about telling the press about a competitor who went bust when they didn't. But worst of all he lied about having a full telecomms licence for his business, when in fact he didn't have one at all, he just had a simple ISP licence for broadband who anyone could buy for £350. It was great to watch Borden who is usually a very composed interviewer grow more and more impatient with the young Baggster as tried to bluff his way out of this one until he finally admitted he was lying.
Back in the boardroom of course things got ruthless almost straight off starting with Stuart as Lord Sugar berated him for lying about his telecomms licence and some of the arrogant comments he made in his CV, not to mention the stream of bullshit he presented last week in his boardroom BAFTA winning performance. I too felt quite annoyed for Liz last week when I saw just how much this little knob managed to lie his way out of being fired, when he really should have gone last week as he was the one who messed up the most. So after that Lord Sugar fired Stuart without mercy ha ha, good riddance, one of the most satisfying moments in TV this year. :-)
So of the remaining candidates, starting with Joanna, she came off really well when Lord Sugar commended her for starting her own business so young and advised her to stick with it and expand on it and regretfully let her go. Jamie to be honest didn't stand much of a chance with his 3rd nipple but also he was unable to articulate why he should be in the final, just blethered about being a vital cog in a wheel, also he tried to blame everyone else in his life when things went wrong, not exactly a good candidate for the Sugar, he was entertaining though but not apprentice stuff. Which left the two finalists Stella and Chris: To be honest I think they are both very deserving finalists, although I would like to have seen Liz in the final as well, its just a shame that Bawbaggs was too good a bullshitter to have let that happen. Stella while a bit wooden in personality, she is a very strong candidate is able to get things done, is very level headed and she also got commended as one of the best team leaders on the second task. Chris is on the other while being a bit cocky and having a monotonous voice (as Nick said he sounded like a heavy bomber flying home!) is also really good, quite shrewd and also has shown some flashes of personality throughout the process, especially his sob stories in the buying task and eyeing up the German girl and afterwards saying to Liz he'd like to give her some of his bratwhurst (spelling??).
So the final next week, not sure who is going to win, would quite like to see Chris win, but I don't mind which ever way it goes as they are both very good. So here's to the final on Sunday. :-)
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