'Apprentice' viewers already incensed over contestant's sexist comments

Apprentice contestant Rick Monk has already managed to lose the support of half of the show’s audience in the first minutes of the very first episode.

The fourteenth series of the show began last night, with the traditional buying task brought forward to episode one, and Lord Sugar’s prospective business partners split into a boy’s team and a girl’s team.

But just nine minutes in, 33-year-old quality controller Rick lost control of the quality of his character, with some eye-rollingly predictable sexist remarks.

“These girls have no chance of winning this first task,” he said.

“They’re gonna be fashion-conscious, ‘oh my make-up’s running’, doing their hair. The boys on tour. We’re definitely going to wipe the floor with them.”

Suffice to say he won’t be finding a supporter in Lord Sugar’s eyes and ears, Karren Brady.

He didn’t find himself with much support online either.

It was reported in The Sun last week that Monk and his girlfriend Katie had previously been listed on the escort site Adult Work.

The pair said in a statement: “We’re in a loving relationship and have been together for many years – and as couples are these days, we’re also both sexually adventurous people.

“In the past we have been listed on an escort agency website, but we are not currently active members and haven’t been for some time.”

It wasn’t the only matter viewers were up in arms about, after it emerged that the Bridge Cafe, the location where the losing team slinks off to to lick their wounds, appears to have been replaced with the La Cabana Cafe in Bayswater.

La Cabana has appeared once in the 2017 series, however. So perhaps the Bridge could make a triumphant return next week.

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