This question just popped into my head as I was listening to Prokofiev’s Romeo and Julliet classical music, Where are the folks that appeared on the apprentice now?
Folks like the good one Michelle, the English guy and the warrior Breffini and his burd Geraldine. Have they gone onto bigger and better things or have they crashed on the rocks like their Master Bill?
Ah jaysus! tazdedub
Had to ask when I heard the music:) it was one of the most popular items for discussion on this forum when it was on.
Michelle died in a hot air balloon accident in Egypt.
Just read an article in the herald that says she works for BT.
I sit less than 10 yards in work from a candidate from the year of Breffni et all.
That’s wrong. She works for Google.
I also work closely with another recent finalist
I meet Joanna Murphy a few times a year at conferences and trade shows. She is in the Passive Building business these days.
Is he/she a little touched?
She will be if Mac is sitting near her #pervert
I have yet to converse with him / her but he / she seems be be alrightish
Well I did get the information from the herald, so I’m not surprised I’m wrong. at least I didn’t say she was dead.
Ah that’s nice. I always assumed that anyone who would go on that programme wouldn’t be all there.
Surprised any of these gimps are in gainful employment.
So are they.
must say this is a wonderfully amusing topic. My mood is helped by the absolute ar5e fungalraving made of himself in the cop on topic but even taking that into account the high brow beginning and the witty repartee is top class
‘Out of it’ Irish Apprentice star cannot recall cocaine use on night of dispute with taxi driver
A former winner of the Irish Apprentice was so “out of it” after a night’s drinking that she became violent in a dispute with a taxi driver and could not remember taking cocaine, a court heard.
Michelle Massey (34) was found with the drug in her pocket when she was searched in a garda station following her arrest after the drunken episode in south Dublin.
Massey told Dun Laoghaire District Court she was having a “pretty rough time” when she was found with the cocaine.
Her lawyer said it had been a “bad night, a one-off” for Massey, who had never used drugs before and had no recollection of taking the cocaine.
Judge Ann Watkin said she was “seriously considering” leaving her with no criminal record if she undertakes voluntary work and provides clean urinalysis results.
She said she also wanted clarification from a probation report that the “anger issue is dealt with”. She adjourned the case for an updated report.
Massey, of Corrig Hall, Ticknock Hill in Sandyford, admitted public drunkenness and threatening and abusive behaviour at Tanney Road in Dundrum on May 1, 2015.
She also pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine at Blackrock Garda Station on the same date.
A previous report stated Massey told her probation officer that two deals of cocaine had been placed in her trouser pocket by an unknown person without her knowledge.
Defence solicitor Richard Young said his client had no recollection of it, was “someone who would never have abused drugs” and found it hard to believe she had acted in such a manner.
However, having discussed the facts with her, she now accepted that in the circumstances “that is what must have occurred – that she would have been in possession and would have consumed same.”
Because there was some cocaine found and an empty wrapper, she “accepts there must have been consumption”, Mr Young said. The court heard Massey had no previous convictions of any kind.
On the night, she had gone out to a licensed premises in the city centre and consumed a “large amount of alcohol”.
She was going through a difficult period at the time and she “foolishly decided to go out and become quite intoxicated.”
Asked by the judge if this was why she took the drug, Mr Young said: “Perhaps, unfortunately she has no recollection.”
Sgt Peadar McCann confirmed that the garda evidence was that Massey had been “completely out of it”.
“I was having a pretty rough time,” Massey, upset and visibly trembling, told the judge in evidence.
She said she was “really into fitness”, and was training six days per week. The judge asked what her regular consumption of alcohol was.
“Maybe a glass of wine with dinner,” Massey said, explaining that any more “would ruin my training”.
Mr Young said his client apologised to the taxi driver and the gardai.
“It’s a bad night, it’s a one-off,” Mr Young added.
Massey paid €500 into court as ‘restitution’ and Mr Young asked the judge to consider leaving her without criminal convictions.
Judge Watkin said this was a “big ask” and that the probation service was unable to make an assessment about Massey’s “violent behaviour” because she had denied taking cocaine.
The judge wanted the updated report to address this.
A former sales consultant originally from Peterborough in England, Massey won the third series of the Irish version of The Apprentice TV show in 2010.
Her prize at the time was a one-year €100,000 contract working for entrepreneur Bill Cullen.
According to Massey’s LinkedIn profile, she currently works as a senior account manager for a US multi-national company.
Is Ireland the only country in the world where having every advantage in life is taken as mitigation by the court? Fucking hell.
Next time you’re back, go into a district court for a look. This is how it rolls.