The Apprentice UK - Week 2 - No Winners, One Loser

The Apprentice UK - Week 2 - No Winners, One Loser The Apprentice UK Week 2 No Winners, One Loser Image Source: BBCIN THE end, there were no winners at all, and just one loser, Natalie Hughes, who became the victim of Lord Sugar’s forefinger of doom after a gruelling boardroom post-mortem of The Apprentice UK  Week 2 task.Image Source: BBCBut everyone appears to be on borrowed time, after Lord Sugar poured scorn on both teams’ efforts to devise an advertising campaign for jeans made from Japanese denim.“I am not putting my name to either of these campaigns. Theyre both uselessâ€"totally, absolutely useless,” Lord Sugar told the visibly rattled candidates  who  hope to become his business partner. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Standout CharactersImage Source: BBCIT WAS  inevitable that Jessica Cunningham  (above) would be one of the closely watched characters in Week 2. The editing of the promos for the episode had played up her meltdown after arriving at a  photo shoot minus the jeans that her girls’ team were preparing the advertising campaign for .This, juxtaposed with clips of Lord Sugar decrying “loose cannons”, had led some to believe that her head would be on the chopping block by the end of Week 2. But it wasn’t to be…Natalie found herself marginalised throughout the task, and made the most of it by taking care of jobs such as hairdressing the models and cleaning up after the photo and video shoots.These skills were not what was required in the process, Karren Brady observed at one point. And indeed in the end, Lord Sugar, albeit “regretfully”, fired her for being “too quiet” on the task.Others to keep an eye on include  Karthik Nagesan, aka The Big K, who was cautioned about his loose cannon tendencies, after the  team members, verified by Lord Sugar’s associate  Claude Littner, accused him of disruptiveness throughout the task.Image Source: BBCFood entrepreneur Alana Spencer  (above)  too is on Lord Sugar’s radar, after her contribution to the task was questioned, and she became tongue-tied when ca lled to account in the boardroom.Image Source: BBCIrish art director Dillon St Paul  (above) did not escape Claude Littner’s eagle-eyed observations, after  spending an inordinate length of time in casting for the boys’ team’s promotional film. Lord Sugar offered a typically pointed assessment in the boardroom: “What comes across here is that youre a person of great detail and a perfectionist. The only thing is, you forget to look at your watch.”Lord Sugar’s wisdomIMAGE SOURCE: BBCLORD Sugar was in vintage form throughout Week 2 of The Apprentice UK, his increasingly biting  criticisms fired by his fury at neither team having done a campaign good enough to receive his backingâ€"an unprecedented occurrence on The Apprentice UK.Among his more memorable quotes from Week 2 were:• “You’re not very subtle. It’s like you’re trying to play a piano with boxing gloves on.” [to Karthik]• “You wait ages for a terrible bus shelter advert, and two come along at once.† [to both teams]• “Never mind ‘Mad Men’. This is more like ‘Demented Dimwits’.” [to both teams]• “Day After Yesterday? Meaning ‘Today’? Hmmm… Sounds like a James Bond movie to me.” [assessing the boys’ team brandname]• “You spent a lot of time in the casting. If we were making Ben-Hur perhaps you’d have had the time to do that.” [to Dillon]• “Trying to calm you down is like trying to baptise a cat!” [to Karthik] (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Firing Natalie… The Right Call?Image Source: BBCON THE  weekly aftershow, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, host Rhod Gilbert, the guest panellists and the studio audience agreed that Natalie should not have been fired, as there were a number of passengers across both teams who had done much less than she  had.The only person who appeared unconcerned about the firing was Natalie herself, who revealed that she had never before watched The Apprentice, and revealed that she didn’t h ang around to wait for her fellow contestants afterwards as she had “forgotten all their names”.“It was my time to go,” she told Rhod. “Honestly, it was like, Im outta here!”Next WeekNOW  that the dust has settled on JeansGate, it’s time to look ahead to The Apprentice UK  Week 3, when the teams are tasked with manufacturing and selling their own range of sweets.But there was nothing sweet about the atmosphere between Week 2 team leader Mukai Noiri, JD O’Brien and Karthik  during their post boardroom car ride home. (Karthik’s quoting of  Rocky â€" “it’s not how hard you hit, it’s how hard you get hit, and still keep going” â€" went unappreciated, to say the least).So no predictions. Anything could happen. But what the clip does reveal is that whoever is on the losing side next week can expect more vintage Sugarisms: “Your best hope for two hundred and fifty grand is to buy a scratch card,” he fumed.As ever, AGENT  wishes it was next Thursday already!The Apprentice UK is broadcast Thursdays 9-10pm on BBC One, followed by The Apprentice: You’re Fired, hosted by Rhod Gilbert, on BBC Two, 10-10.30pm.