Apprentice candidate bottled it

[Foxy Moron]

The Apprentice returns for its fifth series with just 15 candidates. One candidate buckled under pressure and quit the competition, before even setting foot in the boardroom.

The missing man arrived at his London hotel for the start of the competition, but then decided to leave.

At the launch of the new series, Sir Alan explained to reporters that there was "nothing sinister" about the missing candidate's departure. The night before the competition started, "the candidate realised that, 'this is it. I'm away from my family and kids,' and I think the reality hit home, " and he decided to bail out.

Fifteen candidates remain in the running for the job of the next apprentice. "It makes my job easier," concludes Sir Alan.

[Moscow Mule]

Is it last week already?

[eliquant]

Sorry, I chickened out last minute because I prefer to be an armchair critic rather than "metophoricaly" dangling my bare balls out on TV in front of millions of people.

[cojak]

And was rightly savaged on 'You're fired!' for stopping someone else from being an apprentice.

[MrMark]

I reckon Nick (Sir Alun's sidekick) ate him.

[moorfield]

The night before the competition started, "the candidate realised that, 'this is it. I'm away from my family and kids,' and I think the reality hit home, " and he decided to bail out.

Or maybe he just got another gig on circa £500/day.

[Sockpuppet]

And was rightly savaged on 'You're fired!' for stopping someone else from being an apprentice.

Like they don't have a backup

They could have fielded another person if they wanted.

[BrilloPad]

Sir Alan definetly sacked the right one last night. Claimed to be god's gift to business : but did not have a clue.

Personally I would have taken a bucket/sponge and gone knocking door to door.

[Menelaus]

I'm afraid that the one who got sacked last night (in fact, most of last nights female batch) looked like they couldn't organise a urine-up in a brewery.

The one who got sacked specifically looked like she'd not smiled any time in the last hundred years or so ...

Also: how many "non-jobs" were there in the group? A "strategist" - I mean, FFS - WTF is a strategist?

Also(2): having 15 people sitting around thinking up a name for a group? You've got to be kidding, and not in a good way.

Also(3): ugliest-woman-in-NATO leaving the place last night "I think Sir Alan will see a difference in 10 years time" - huh? 10 years = too long.

[Liability]

the one that got sacked had to be the most ugliest woman Ive seen!

What a bunch of talenless idiots!

I mean this task was simple yet none of them actually had any kind of business sense! I am sure they get chosen for all talk and very little substance.

Door to door would have been a risk but could have paid off - but the women messed up monumentally! I mean none of them knew how to even wash bloody cars!! The streaks, ignore the windows and door sides, etc I mean how bloody hard is it?!! They could have cleaned up and taken the other 10 cars if someone actually had the responsibility of checking the cleaning and quality of it!