Now, before I begin this review, or even begin watching The Apprentice it is important you understand that even though my understanding of the French language is quite low. Even though I have my sentiments, sometimes less complimentary about the Wannabe’s I must say there are going to be parts of this episode which I just cannot listen to. I have been pre-warned about their need to deliver some conversation in French and as Wannabe’s like Melody and Zoe are near incoherent when speaking the Queens I am tense before I even click play.
Team Logic: Tom (Team Leader), Melody, Natasha, Leon
Team venture: Helen, Jim, Susan (Team Leader), Zoe
In the freezing cold, the teams roll up to Kings Cross St Pancras and are greeted by Lord Sugar- that’s three weeks in a row he has shown up to watch the Wannabe’s cower. This time the teams need to head to Paris and sell English products to French companies.
The Teams are introduced to a room loaded with “innovative British designs”, anything from pop-up postcards to a teapot that lights up for some reason and a creepy skeleton claw which can hold your phone or camera.
Jim pulls a rabbit out of the hat and throws in some French… Phew! Not too bad but Helen’s attempt which led to her desperately hurling the phone at Jims mouth when she faltered on a simple greeting was a bit hard to watch.
Melody pushes to be the pitcher for team Logic. She makes a great sell and lands Tom’s team a heap load of money. I did fast forward through Natasha’s slightly awkward presentation to La Redouté (a very big catalogue) and if you don’t know who they are then just Google them to find out.
Currently, Jim is trying to sell as the French shop assistants look on nonchalantly and act unimpressed, at this point I am unsure as to where Jim’s French speaking skills have gone to, hopefully they will return to save Venture’s weaker sales strategy. Susan’s team finally land a big deal with a rather tidy sum at the end of it.
Time for the boardroom where we find out Alan has got his knickers in a twist over something and seems even more short-tempered and fiery than previous weeks.
Overall figures for team Venture sales: 14, 699 euros on top of that La Redouté wanted over 200,000 of one of their products, needless to say, they win. Melody from Logic was very much against the idea of marketing a child booster seat which converts into a rucksack; however this exact product is what made Susan’s team the winners.
Overall figures for team Logic sales: 11,705 euros. The child booster seat was Tom’s idea and if he had taken enough control and grabbed the bull by the horns (see I can talk like Sir Alan) his team wouldn’t be sitting where they are, in the losers chairs.
The winning team get to learn to fly planes as part of their reward. For the first time on this episode the team look genuinely happy.
The not so winning team go to the Bridge Café which looks as run down as ever considering the amount of business it must be getting from all these wannabe’s. Tom looks nervous, but with Melodies personality this could go either way.
Melody seems to have been given many awards in her business career and seems to have quite a credible background and career history and it surprisingly dazzles his lordship. Alan also, in his weekly boardroom speeches just reminds all the wannabe’s how much younger he was than them and how much harder he had to work for his money. I would love for Alan to be in their place with no power no money, this man has probably made more mistakes than victories to get where he is today. I find it incredibly arrogant that he has nothing else to say about himself, I can only imagine how dull he is at the dinner table.
Alan wraps it up in the boardroom with one hilarious quote “Back to the house the pair of you” as though their dad has just caught them smoking in an alleyway round the corner from home.
Reject of the week is Leon and he once again he dishes out a Thank you to Lord Sugar before exiting. This was a good decision as I didn’t see Leon do anything on this task.Why can’t they just have the last word and tell him what they really think?
Melody wins French-speaker of the week and Wannabe of the week she goes up in my estimations, and seems to speak better French than English when doing a spot of market research at Metro stations upon her arrival in Paris.
Quote of the week “I know absolutely nothing about France…don’t know any French people…Can’t speak a word of French…don’t know French food, nothing.”- Susan says all this just after nominating herself for Project Manager on a project based in where…? That’s right France
Tune in next week!
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