| Fans not-so-sweet on Sugar’s
Apprentice Kristina  IRISH
Apprentice contestant Kristina Grimes is emerging as many people’s
favourite to win the lucrative contract to work for no-nonsense business
mogul Alan Sugar.
She has reached the final eight in the hit BBC show by demonstrating sound
business acumen but the ruthless side of her character is dividing many
of her rivals and viewers.
Labelled by detractors as the show’s Ice Queen the Wicklow-born
single mum has particularly incensed upper-class British rival Katie Hopkins.
Their rivalry has become one of the shows biggest talking points and
stems from Kristina revealing in The Boardroom that Katie was emotionally
involved with another contestant ex-army lieutenant Paul Callaghan.
That revelation played a part in Paul’s firing and it has put the
two women at loggerheads ever since.
In an interview after leaving the show Paul lashed out at the Irish contestant
and said she would do anything to emerge triumphant.
He said: “Kristina was going to use anything she had on me to get
herself safely out of the boardroom and get me fired.
“The relationship sorry, the alleged relationship was something
she was prepared to use.
“Maybe I was naive but when Kristina brought it up I was like ‘woah!
I didn’t see that coming’. But she’s in it to win it
and she’ll do whatever it takes.
“She will probably do quite well although she will leave a trail
of death and destruction in her wake.”
Kristina is also separating fans of the hit show in internet message boards.
The pro-Kristina lobby has seen her performances as another example of
the continued success of the Irish in business.
One poster wrote: “Kristina proved she was a great manager. She’s
a good worker; she’s smart, knows what she wants and gets things
done. Definitely the real deal.”
But some have not been as appreciative of her efforts.
Another poster wrote: “I am Irish and I don’t like her. She
is far too two-faced for my liking. So far she’s come up with selling
kisses to desperate blokes and walked-up and given lollies to toddlers
then turned round to their parents and said ‘that’s £2
please’.
“Her attempts to knock down the wholesaler with the lolly sticks
showed how she gets on with real business people, ie they have the intuition
to see when someone’s trying to pull a fast one over them.
“Not only do they not like it, they won’t want to deal with
her in the future.” |
