Elsewhere, in another triumph for grumpiness, Jack Dee replaces Dara O Briain on The Apprentice: You’re Fired, which follows on BBC Two at 10pm.
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He might not be a household name just yet, but this year’s Apprentice contestants will no doubt still be squirming at the memory of their time spent in his presence, when the series was shot earlier this year.
Scott says: “People do say to me they’ve never met anyone like me”. “And I suppose the viewers must have the same feeling, because you see that first episode and you think “Oh, that one is gonna win” and then as it goes on, you change your mind”. “I’m demanding the answers, you better bloody well supply them”.
“The business school has been going for many years, in fact I attended it nearly 50 years ago so it has been going for a long time”.
And the headhunter was in bullish mood going into the programme, declaring: “I have always been successful. That was my job and I hope that’s all I did”. “It’s something I respond well to, I think it’s go hard or go home”. “Everyone should have a Paul in the house”.
Girls project manager Aisha says, “I just want to say if anybody’s not productive in this team at the end of the day and we lose, they’ll be coming in the boardroom with me, I don’t care”. “She helped me a lot”. I know my strengths, I know my weaknesses, I know that I’m a perfectly decent human being and I’m very happy with my values.
Lord Sugar was also surprised to find that throughout the whole task Dan didn’t sell one product, helping to affirm his decision that Dan was the first to be fired.
Mr Wright said Lord Sugar, who has a 50pc stake in Climb Online, spends a day with him once a month, and calls him once a week.
Andy later said: “I don’t regret it for a second”.
“I have been cancer-free since March 2000 and I’m so glad I’m alive”.
Karren admitted she had learned something new from 47-year-old Ruth Whiteley, who Lord Sugar’s right hand woman admitted has a ‘creepy sales technique but they are stopping and buying’.
Claire, from Wakefield, admits the level of recognition that came with TV fame was something of a surprise: “I can remember being in M&S packing a few shopping and this man came up and started telling me his opinions about me!”
You’ll have to wait and see – but he doesn’t laugh a lot.
Lord Alan Sugar’s new judge for the forthcoming BBC series, which begins on Wednesday (October 14), said being firm about CV and accuracy errors is an essential lesson for aspiring entrepreneurs to learn.
“But to get to the final three is an unbelievable achievement”.
“It’s a bit of a fishy story, this thing here”.
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