What an interesting week it promised to be if rumours were to be believed and to be fair it lived up to this expectation for me anyway!
This week in the Apprentice the teams were running a WEEE recycling plant for electrical equipment, whoever collected the most electrical waste would win the task. Joanna was team leader in Naas and Shane was team leader in Maynooth. Now (even though I knew she had been fired) when it mentioned at the beginning that Joanna was a local in Naas you had to wonder what she was going to do to use this to her advantage!
So Joanna sent Nicky and Orla out onto the Naas streets to rally people to bring their goods to the Racecourse while Paddy and Joanna stayed on site directing and organising. Joanna was her usual bossy self but as always was in her element in this role, she hired someone to deliver fliers and to their detriment they decided against a collection service for the housing estates.
Over in Maynooth Shane's team I have to say were completely tuned in, they got the schools to send fliers home with the children and stood outside Tesco talking to people and handing out fliers and they hired a van to collect goods from people's homes which was in the end what won the task for them.
So as we all know by now, Joanna was fired for cheating, she emailed her hubby Ray and asked him to round up the troops which he duly did and ordered them to take goods from another recycling centre and bring them to hers which of course Bill found out and called her up on - it was actually cringe TV and very funny I have to say - her face when he asked her who her husband was, priceless! So Nicky and Orla lived to tell the tale and fight for another week to win the title of Bill Cullen's Apprentice!
But back to Joanna, I have to say, much as she wasn't my favourite (as you all know) and I found her smiley face in the boardroom quite irriatating I found her very funny at the end of last night's episode when she was interviewed leaving, she was the most relaxed she had been throughout the show and some of her statements about herself were just hilarious, ie. "She didn't just think outside the box, she brought the box!". She was just interviewed on the Ray D'Arcy show and again was very funny, her excuse for cheating was that "in Naas they don't have washing machines in their back gardens, they have race horses!!!"
What did you think?