Finally, she had her team sit down for one last vote. She gave each of the six members 100 points, and asked that they assign a value to much they wanted to present each toy (so someone could be 70-30 in favor of the robot or 80-20 in favor of the flags). The final tally there was 340-260 in favor of the robot.
That's not actually as close as it looks. Let's think about it — we know that Lindsay felt strongly about the flags. Let's say she voted 70-30 in favor of the flags and pull her score from the total, giving us 310-190 in favor of the robot. That's not all that close (and later in the episode we found out that the presenter had voted 50-50 because she didn't want to bias herself, which is a whole different brand of crazy we won't be talking about). Lindsay, insanely but not surprisingly, went with the flags.
Lindsay's team lost badly, the toy company didn't like the flags, and she was fired. Even then, however, poor Lindsay couldn't admit she'd made the wrong decision and that Sir Alan was right to fire her. She figured that she'd made her mistake and that in a real job she'd never be fired – that it would be a live and learn thing. I guess she'd never seen a reality show before and didn't realize how she wasn't in a real job.
See? Crazy candidates, confronting boss, the same tasks you've already seen, it's just like The Apprentice here, but this UK version not only features great accents, but it's the first season of the show and so people haven't figured out the rules of the game yet. And that makes it much more fun.
Article comments
1 - Michelle
The Apprentice UK is a great tv show. I am Canadian and ahve been watching it for the past 5 seasons (err, 5 Series for you UK fans). I have watched Donald Trumps (american version) and i found it dull (after the 1st 2 seasons) but was totally blown away by the UK version because Alan Sugar is sooo genuine..he fires because of a strong reason. I loved 2 seasons back where he talked for what amounted to about 30mins in the boardroom to convince one of the 3 finalists that she was doing it more for fame and SHOCKINGLY she revealed it that she was and took herself out of the running..It was incredible theatre and the amazing gut that Sugar has about people. Its a great show to watch..and for anyone i encourage you to start with Season 1 because although they are all very good Season 1 is there best: you will Love Sarah Khan and Paul ...the feud between them was incredible!
2 - Michelle
Forgot to add that it was a total surprise to me how so different Apprentice UK is from Apprentice US...the UK version takes a documentary style to it which is the perfect formula and what Apprentice SHOULD be. ~Michelle