The short answer is No. However, we only get to see a brief part of the overall tasks and it does make entertaining Tv for a change. He manged to kick into touch the lie on the CV and clearly McQueen did not see that onwe coming when the interviewer pulled out a fax from the university. I suppose having exposed the lie the candidate is then very under the cosh so would therefore make a good candidate. I've screamed at the TV, jumped up and down at some of the corporate hyperbabble being trotted out each week and FOCUS GROUPS !!!!!!!!!!! Happy to say I helped introduce them in the early 1970's at Foote Cone and Belding / Welbeck Public Relations and delighted that the misery of them is still being inflicted on sucessive generations. The joke being that the whole idea of a focus group is deeply flawed as nwe exposed at the time, but it does enable the agency to put one over the client as any recommedation can be laid at the door of the focus group and thererfore must be right!
Back to Sir Al's Apprentice, how about a squad of candidates taken from the 50/60's age group! Just imagine a group of oldies being lectured by the fuzzy one and the barbed retorts flying back over the board room table. Ageing sexual chemistry in the house, refined dinner parties instead of a bottle of chardonnay and a delivery pizza, To top it all the Sir Al watchdogs could be in this instance from the 20-30's age group. A complete reversal! Simply magic and remeber I thought of the idea Mark Burnett!
Julian Bray an internationally recognized broadcaster, author, journalist, actor and presenter initially with the BBC in Uganda, East Africa then departed for the emerging commercial radio and television networks in the UK and Europe. He’s been at the centre of world and current affairs for over 30 years. Julian Bray is an established keynote speaker on the international convention circuit and has featured in the premier reference source to the British establishment: Debretts Distinguished People of Today 2008 and for the last sixteen annual editions.
As CEO for a major public affairs corporation, he acted as consultant to leading international corporations and advised Governments. Julian Bray was for several years the international adviser to Dr Romano Prodi, the current Italian Premier and the former European Commission President, Working and socializing with leading political figures, film and stage directors, Julian Bray produced and directed a series of television programs and in so doing revived a boyhood passion for stage magic and illusions. Under the stage name of Ian Ray, he was duly elected into full membership of the secretive but world famous Magic Circle and is also recognized as a performing member of British Actors Equity.
