There’s two reasons I love the MacBook Air advert. Firstly, the thing looks amazing and I can just stare at it. It’s just so slim and sexy looking. Secondly, there’s that really cool song which is called New Soul by Yael Naïm.
Apple MacBook Air Ad from YouTube
Series 4 of The Apprentice started last night, and it was great to see the usual mix of ridiculous egos who make grandiose claims about their own abilities and then promptly fall apart at the seems when asked to do something relatively simple like price and sell some fish.
Jennifer claimed to be the best sales person in Europe, and Michael offered this gem: “People say to me you’re arrogant and I say ‘yeah, what are you going to do about it?’”.
In the boys’ team, Nicholas took the blame, and ultimately the sack, for the decision to wrongly price lobsters although the edit showed that team leader Alex played a major part in that decision. They went up against each other in the boardroom, with Nicholas hilariously suggesting that there was a schism in the team between the “educated” and those less so, which Alex took major offence at. Raef chipped in with the pearl of wisdom that he was able to talk to “prince or pauper”, with Alex choosing to take offence at that too.
Sir Alan seemed to be enjoying the class war unfolding but eventually put an end to it by delivering a “big fat F” to Nicholas, who’s only previous experience of failure was getting a B at GCSE French.
It’s brilliant to see the Apprentice back and I can’t wait for the next episode. One thought though: what on earth was Matt Lucas doing on the boy’s team?
Following the Judge’s decision on her divorce settlement, Heather Mills came out and gave this rambling performance. As has been noted elsewhere, she has complained about the press for as long as I can remember and then came out to hold court as if they were her closest friends. She ended up getting about £23million. She says that Sir Paul offered very much less, implying he lost out, but the summary shows he offered £16million and she wanted £125million, which shows it was very much closer to his figure than hers.
Anyway, I’m not much interested in either of them and I hope she goes away (but I doubt she will). In case you didn’t see her rather embarrasing performance, here it is in its entirety…
I was watching the BBC’s coverage of the budget and was amazed to see Jade Goody pop up in some celebrity vox pops with her suggestions for the budget. Why is the BBC wasting its time, helping with the rehabilitation of the racist, Jade Goody? What does she possibly have to offer in the BBC’s coverage of the budget? I can only think that her agent is extremely well connected.
And why was Andrew Neil - the Beeb’s best political presenter - not in charge of proceedings?All in all a very poor show.
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I had the misfortune of catching And and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. These two are really becoming groansome. The thing that I hate most, and it’s always been the case, is the fakery. There was a segment called Ant Vs Dec where they each have a team and had to do some barber shop singing. Three “mystery” judges were brought on - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jason Donovan, and Ruthie Henshall. Cue looks of shock and disbelief from Ant and Dec. “Oh no, we didn’t know it was them”. Course you didn’t, boys. You’re only Executive Producers on the show. Why would you know who was coming on for a major part of the show. And I guess you must have avoided them in the green room too. This show has always relied on this ridiculous idea that they don’t know what’s about to happen to them, whilst still offering them up as “Excutive Producers”. They mostly get away with it because they do have a history as actors don’t forget, but it’s getting cringeworthy and they actually looked bored with it themselves.
Oh no, poor Gareth Gates has been voted off Dancing On Ice. It’s such a shame but I suppose if you look at it dispassionately, the other three were superior skaters and were able to perform more advanced moves and maintain speed on the ice. And what’s with Zaara always being in the bottom two, despite being great. Something about that leaves me distinctly uneasy, but I guess she doesn’t really have the fanbase of the others - although I’m not sure what fan base Suzanne would have as I haven’t seen her on TV for years. Hmmm poor Zaarah. Poor Gareth. It’s a tough game, this skating lark.
It’s series 2 of “That Mitchell and Webb Look”, and the guys are back sharper than ever. What do you reckon?
I caught Episode 5 of Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong on Friday night. It really is one of the funniest things on TV. It sets a team of celebrities against “civilians”. The celebs for this edition were Johnny Vegas, Jermaine Jackson (what’s he still doing here?), Sara Cox, Jenni Falconer and Lee Ryan (hubba!). Alan is so funny, managing to say completely outrageous things about the plebs but without actually causing offence. Really, the show is all about him and his humour - the competition and the guests are just a device to let him run riot. The only duff notes are when the civilians try a bit too hard to be funny. Loved this joke:
I got dragged into a lap dancing club in Blackpool. God, it was ropey. One of the dancers had run out of baby oil and was using Febreeze.
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A clip from across the pond here, as David Archuleta sings Imagine in last week’s American Idol. This guy is seriously talented and will almost certainly win the competition. His version of Imagine reduces Paula to tears, and she calls it one of the most moving performances she’s ever seen. What do you think?