Alan sugar

[bednobs]

what has he actually done? Ok so he built up "amstrad" but really - what has he done lately? Also "on offer is a 50/50 partnership" - is the winner gonna put 250000 in then? What about if their business is rubbish, and the winning candidate has an idea to sell rubber women - is he really going to associate with that?

[bednobs]

also does anyone else end up thinking (even when they got £900 odd quid last week) that they are really rubbish? In real life it would have cost them god knows what to hire the van, plus 5 of them working 2 days - they would have made a big loss

[Answerprancer]

I have no respect whatsoever for a 'celebrity' who pulls the old "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM ?" stunt when he wants to get his own way.

[emmie]

I think he is horrible, i can't watch the Apprentice, his voice, manner, and bullying nature puts me off.

[bednobs]

i have to say (sounding like a total snob) he can't even speak properly "you was in the losing team last week" "i done that when i was 17" and so on

[Answerprancer]

I wonder if AB's swear filter is altering his surname ;-)

[emmie]

plays too much on his working class roots, never fails to mention how he started in business, on a stall wasn't it...

[Zeuhl]

Amstrad made a lot of Sky TV boxes and Sugar sold out to BSkyB in 2007.

I don't think he's done much other than media since and is effectively semi retired.

He's worth about £700 million.

[emmie]

I have worked with people like him, and many of the k***heads on the show, proactive a word i despise, american speak, being part of a team, bonding, all that crap. Most wouldn't have got past the first interview in any place i have worked.

[vivandorron]

I think I read somewhere in AB that the Sugar guy was a friend of a high ranking politician.....(some chap named Mr.Anthony Blair.)

Ron.

[emmie]

can you imagine him in the House of Lords, effin and blinding, i read that he doesn't go a lot, perhap unlike some he doesn't need the allowance.

[Ratty2E]

He started with Amstrad but now has a few other companies and is worth about £700million or there abouts so he must know a tad about business. I don't think he's rude at all, some of the supposed business wannabes are total idiots. If you can't take an earbashing from lord Sugar then your not going to get very far.

[bednobs]

SOME of them are idiots?? Try ALL of them

[vivandorron]

I may have made a mistake.........for Tony Blair read Gordon Brown.

Well said bednobs.

Ron

[Eve]

He quite facinates me in a way and I like the fact he is proud of his roots and where he comes from, showing people that you don't have to have a heap of qualifications or come from a wealthy background to be successful in business and pushes the hard work ethic of it.

I was at an awards do he spoke at some years ago and I didn't realise how little he is, he walked right passed me with his entourage when he was leaving.

I have to agree about the contestants now, they are just a bit of a joke. True about the actual costs of the task although I see it he is looking for skills and characteristics so provided the tasks show those (and make for good viewing!) then the realism of the cost is not so important. I doubt some of the tasks would be so entertaining if they were more realistic.

[brionon]

Made a fortune out of idiots who watch his show ?

[weecalf]

Used to have a say at the greatest club side in the world Tottenham Hotspur

[Tizzi24]

I agree with ratty and jenna. I admire AS for what he's done and achieved. Some people can't stand others who have worked hard to get where they are today. Good luck to them I say!

[emmie]

nothing to do with what he has acheived, good luck to him in that respect.
I just think he is boorish in his manner, even when being interviewed on news programmes, he comes across as surly, and bad mannered.

[jno]

the programme's about finding people who have the skills to succeed in business. (Being TV, it's also about reality TV, personality clashes, catchphrases, audience identification, competition etc). Sugar clearly has the requisite business skills himself - he didn't inherit his money. He seems to have the personality to get people watching - it doesn't much matter if you like him or hate him so long as you watch.

Seems like just the job to me. But a lot will also depend on the contestants; if they're all dull and stupid, people won't watch.

[RATTER15]

Bednobs, He is a human being, does it really mean that much that he doesn't speak your version of "correct English", as far as im concerned if he speaks politely and I understand what he is saying, what the hell does it matter, he isn't actually talking like some 15 year old chav now is he.