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Bandai UK Throws Tamagotchi Uni Launch Party in London

You’ve been asking about a UK event, and it happened! First off, this even was invitation only (yes, we were asked to attend but we are not in the UK). The event was invitation only for trade media and influencers and their families.

To help celebrate the global launch of the Tamagotchi Uni, Bandai UK threw a party at the cocktail bar of the exclusive members club, Century Club on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue on the evening of June 27th, 2023. An open bar with cocktails for those who could enjoy drinks, and small bites. The signature drink was the Flora Dora cocktail!

Who was on the guest list? Guests included Vanessa Feltz, Nicky Clarke, Imogen Thomas and Carina Lepore, as well as Toy World’s own Rachael Simpson-Jones and Marianna Casal. Guests posted in the selfie booth, became Tamagotchi’s at the selfie wall, had their nails painted in pastel, Tamagotchi inspired colors, and got temporary glitter tattoos!

Guests were also able to write a wish for their new a Tamagotchi Uni and hadn’t it on the special wish tree before heading home with their exclusive goodie bag which featured the new Tamagotchi Uni! Priya Jadeja, Bandai UK’s Tamagotchi brand manager was really excited about the out come of the event!

“The Tamagotchi Uni launch event was fantastic. Everything came together brilliantly and there was a real buzz in the room, with everyone really engaged and excited about what the new Tamagotchi Uni offers, which was great to see. It was a fantastic way to kick off the launch in the UK and we’re looking forward to it hitting shelves next month.”

Bandai UK also brought the Tamagotchi history wall that we saw last year at the CIJ Group’s The Big Christmas Press Show 2022! It looks like an updated version as the typos we previously called out have been addressed (they must read our blog!), and of course the Tamagotchi Uni has been added for 2023!

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Carina Lepore

(A) 30

(O) Artisan Bakery Owner

(S) 15

(F) Winner

(Q) I’m about 5 foot 1 inch tall - I’m like a pocket rocket, you don’t really want to mess with me

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You’re Hired

I love The Apprentice. I look forward to it every single year. It’s the one reality series that too-smart-for-you TV snobs won’t look down on you for watching, despite the fact that The Apprentice is really just Big Brother in suits. Think about it: larger-than-life contestants, living together in a big house, completing tasks where they will always be destined to fail (because it makes for much better conflict), all while being watched closely by an omnipotent figure, who calls all the shots.

In fact, Alan Sugar is a much scarier man-in-charge than the titular Big Brother. For one thing, he looks the contestants in the eyes when he’s destroying them emotionally - Big Brother hides away in a little recording booth somewhere, where he’s safe from any angry housemates, who’ve snapped after the pointlessness of what they’re doing has finally dawned on them. What a coward. Also, Alan Sugar is really bloody rich. Alan Sugar is so rich that he could probably buy you, and sell you back to yourself at a much higher price, and that’s pretty scary, if you ask me.

But, I digress. The thing that’s so great about The Apprentice is that it’s so low-stakes. Not to the contestants, of course, but to the viewer. See, it’s the only reality show where I never care who stays or who goes, and that’s because the contestants are usually, without exception, cocks - and this year hasn’t been much different.

Obviously, the stand-out recipient of the ‘Jesus Christ, You Really Are Absolutely Awful’ award this year has to be librarian and general irritant Lottie Lion, whose name alone makes her sound like the archetypal spoiled brat character from a Roald Dahl novel. It suits her so well, it’s almost as though her parents just sensed from birth that she was going to turn out that way. Or maybe she came out of the womb riding side-saddle on a horse and waxing lyrical about how much better she is than everyone else. I can’t know for sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

When she wasn’t shooting a piece-to-camera to repeat her mantra “I’m not here to make friends, I’m here to win”, she was busy coming up with increasingly ridiculous reasons why she was the ideal candidate for the top job in each task. She started out strong in Week 1 by announcing she was the best choice for sub-team leader in a tourism task, because “I know that the population of South Africa is 51 million”, and yet, amazingly, still managed to out-BS herself week after week. Perhaps the finest example was Week 9, in which she described having viola lessons when she was four as having been “in the music industry for 15 years”. By that logic, I’ve been in dentistry for 23 years, because I can navigate my own mouth with a toothbrush without taking out six of my teeth in the process.

Oh, and let’s not forget the remark she allegedly made in a contestants’ group chat, in which she told Pakistani candidate Lubna to “shut up, Ghandi”, before allegedly threatening “I’ll fucking knock you out at our press training”. Obviously, this is horrendously racist and absolutely out of order, and with any luck, Lubna might knock her out first, since, as a person born with arms, she has technically been in the boxing industry for 33 years.

On a much lighter note, this series might have introduced us to one of the most genuinely likeable contestants The Apprentice has ever seen in the form of Thomas Skinner, a self-described “full-time geezer”. Obviously, that’s not his day job - geezering does not pay very well, especially in this difficult economic climate. He’s a salesman, and a bloody good one - he’s so ridiculously charismatic that he could sell me the very concept of breathing itself and I’d probably pay over the odds for it.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t very good at much else, and was fired by a reluctant Alan Sugar after losing eight out of the nine tasks he’d been involved in. I got thinking, though… couldn’t Alan Sugar just take him on anyway? Considering the lack of success that previous winners have experienced, he honestly might as well. I’m not sure exactly what he would hire him to do, but if anyone can help Thomas realise his dream of actually making a living as a full-time geezer, then I’m sure it’s him.

Personally, I think he deserves all of the money and maybe a knighthood, purely on the basis he’s the first candidate in a long time that hasn’t once described himself as ‘cutthroat’ or ‘brutal’, or made some ridiculous statement about how money is so important to him that he’d probably murder his entire family for a fiver. You know, like they usually do.

This year’s final saw headhunter Scarlett Allen-Horton and artisan bakery owner Carina Lepore go head-to-head for the opportunity to work alongside The Ultimate Sugar Daddy, with the final task being to create a hypothetical launch for their respective businesses.

Step one was to pick a new brand name. Carina and co. decided on Lepore’s, because - as Thomas put it - “people will go for the bread, but they’ll go for you, too”. It’s a nice enough point, but if she’s opening a chain of bakeries, she won’t always be in there, will she? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been disappointed to go into a Blackpool branch of Gregg’s, only to be told that, once again, I’m unable to speak to King Gregg himself. He’s probably hiding in one of his fancy London stores, the big elitist. Scarlett had slightly more trouble with rebranding her recruitment company, which aims to place more women and minorities into top level engineering positions. Marianne helpfully suggested naming it after “those animals that build their own homes”. Beavers. She means beavers. Beaver Recruitment? Really? Not exactly suited to a top level headhunting agency, but on the bright side, she may have just stumbled on a great new way for men to describe going out on the pull.

Next on the agenda was to come up with a billboard and a TV advert. The billboards were both surprisingly good, at least in comparison to anything else filmed against a cheap green screen in this year’s series (the now infamous soundbite “who took my unicorn, Sparkle Stars??” from Toy Week immediately springs to mind). The TV advert task was a different story for Scarlett, who was surprised to find that her ‘vision’ of Lewis, Lottie and Marianne driving an imagery car in an empty warehouse wasn’t absolute advertising golddust. “It’s cheesier than I imagined”, she said, upon seeing it for the first time. How? I genuinely can’t understand how she came up with that and thought it was ever going to look like anything other than part of a hastily-planned GCSE Drama performance. But then I would say that, because as someone who has seen a TV advert before, I’ve technically been in marketing since 1996. On Carina’s team, their prison-themed advert for her artisan bread (no, I’m not sure how they arrived at this idea, either) was far more impressive - prefect from a 1960s comic book Ryan-Mark even managed to put in a convincing performance as a hungry jailbird, which wasn’t something any of us were expecting to see this year.

After this, and the all important pitches - which I’m not going to go into, since it’s consistently the least entertaining part of the finale, where I imagine most people, including me, take a toilet break - it was time for the final boardroom. In all seriousness, the tension in the final boardroom is mad. I can only imagine it’s like you and another person are staring down the barrel of a madman’s gun, except the madman is Alan Sugar, and you want to be shot because, instead of bullets, it’s money. Actually, it’s not like that at all, is it? But it must be absolute squeaky bum time for the candidates, is what I’m trying to say.

After a few minutes of back and forth, and a couple more minutes of Carina and Scarlett turning on each other at the last second - which I’m absolutely, one hundred-percent, completely sure the producers definitely didn’t encourage in any way - The Sugarman arrived at a conclusion, and crowned Carina the winner, with a statement that I’m sure we can all agree with: “I do like the idea of more bread.” Well, don’t we all?

Anyway, deserving winner found - as well as plenty of memorable moments and ridiculous characters along the way - that’s it for another year. The only thing I’m left wondering is why it’s called The Apprentice, since the prize is a £250,000 investment, and since most real life apprentice jobs pay about £3.90 an hour. But then I wonder that every year, and to be honest, I’m all fired out.

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National Television Awards 2020

National Television Awards 2020

Vamos hoy con una nueva alfombra roja. Esta vez nos vamos a Inglaterra donde han tenido lugar sus premios de la televisión. Se llaman National Television Awards. La entrega tuvo lugar en el O2 Arena de Londres. Esta cita ha sido de las más multitudinarias de las últimas alfombras rojas que hemos visto en el blog. Y como siempre que se puede, antes de analizar la alfombra roja… vamos con los…

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Local residents called cops with complaints of loud music, and large gatherings of people. Police attended Carina Lepore's Beckenham bakery and reportedly issued a warning from Daily Star - Latest News https://ift.tt/3n5Y0pL

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Lord Alan Sugar shuts down Phillip Schofield over people going back to work despite increase of coronavirus cases in UK

Lord Alan Sugar shuts down Phillip Schofield over people going back to work despite increase of coronavirus cases in UK

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Lord Alan Sugar shut down Phillip Schofield during Thursday’s This Morning as they discussed people going back to work despite the increase of coronavirus cases in the UK.

The businessman appeared alongside The Apprentice 2019 winner Carina Lepore where they spoke…

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Carina Lepore (A) 30 (OC) Artisan Bakery Owner (F) Winner

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Steam Train

The ApprenticeSeries 15 Episode 8 of 12

It’s Week Eight, and Lord Sugar instructs the candidates to put on their high-visibility jackets and meet him at the Battersea rail depot. There he reveals that it’s full steam ahead for this task, in which the teams will be hosting a corporate away day onboard the iconic Belmond British Pullman train.

The candidates will have to lay on food, drink and entertainment while securing a good ticket price from the corporate clients to ensure a large profit. The task requires the teams to show off their organisation and hospitality skills. Get off track and they could end up with a one-way ticket home.

For one team the journey gets off to a bumpy start, while the others are left covering their tracks as they are faced with hungry guests. As this runaway train pulls in to the station, the candidates head back to the boardroom to face Lord Sugar’s scrutiny. For one candidate, it’s the final stop on their journey, as they are told – ‘You’re Fired!’

TEAM EMPOWER.

Ryan-Mark Parsons

Pamela Laird

Marianne Rawlins

Lewis Ellis

  This teams results were.

They spent on the task £980.25

The refunds for this task £200

Total Profits were £1812.75.

    TEAM UNISON.

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Lottie Lion

Carina Lepore

Scarlett Allen-Horton

Dean Ahmad

  This teams results were.

They spent on the task £871.75

The refunds for this task £300

Total Profits were £1828.25. so it looks like this team won the task by a very short margin.

  In The Boardroom.

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Ryan-Mark Parsons

Pamela Laird

Marianne Rawlins

“YOUR FIRED”

Ryan-Mark Parsons

  The Apprentice Series 15 Episode 8 of 12. Steam Train The ApprenticeSeries 15 Episode 8 of 12 It’s Week Eight, and Lord Sugar instructs the candidates to put on their high-visibility jackets and meet him at the Battersea rail depot.

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BOOKS OF 2018

This is very late but I still wanted to do it. (It only covers the books I read that came out in 2018 or a year or so earlier - I still have a big stack of books to read)

A couple of writers who’s work I really love are Nikita Gill + Fiona Helmsley (will definitely look out for more books by them). I don’t tend to read that much fiction but I did read Caitlin Moran’s How To Be Famous (the sequel to How Build A Girl) - one of the best bits for me was the character of Joanne ( think that’s what she’s called) who is so clearly based on Courtney Love she should get a co-writing credit :)

I read memoirs by Amanda LePore, Rhyannon Styles, Rose McGowan, and James Rhodes & John O’ Farrell (the last two were sequels). Also Michelle Tea’s book, Against Memoir which is more of a collection of essays on various subjects which I really loved. Another book I really liked was Chris Kraus’s book on Kathy Acker. 

Read a few self help type books this year plus a couple of good ones on mental health - Matt Haig’s Notes on a Nervous Planet + Natasha Devon’s A Beginner’s Guide to Mental Illness (they both look at mental health but also consider the wider impact of issues in society/popular culture) . Read Recovery by Russell Brand which I liked but I preferred the bits where he wasn’t just going over the whole 12 Steps thing. Loved Ruby Tandoh’s book Eat Up which talks about food, appetite + issues around food with a few recipes thrown in - everything from food in prison to how fat people are treated to issues around the concept of ‘clean eating’ - her writing is engaging + interesting and she talks about the joys of eating Creme Eggs or drinking cold Coke straight from the fridge as well as cooking healthy vegan stew or cake. 20th anniversary edition of Cunt came out (I really must try + compare it to the original to see if/how it’s been changed) 

Was delighted to see The Story of The Face, a big coffee-table book full of gorgeous pics detailing the rise + fall of the iconic style mag.

Also read You Play The Girl by Carina Chocano which looks at various female roles in popular media. + The Girl by Michelle Morgan which examines Marilyn Monroe from a feminist viewpoint in particular around the time she made The Seven Year Itch,

I read Andrew O’ Neill’s book on the history of heavy metal which is very funny but concentrated a lot on speed/thrash/black metal (which I’m not so keen on). And Joseph Vogel’s book, This Thing Called Life which looks at the various themes in Prince’s music over his career. Also a book I really liked was We Were Going To Change The World which is interviews with women involved in the California punk scene in the 70s/80s. 

Undoubtedly my favourite book of the year was Good Booty by Ann Powers which looks at race/sex/gender + how they have affected/been influenced by popular music in America.

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The Apprentice 2019: Lord Sugar says 'You're hired' to his latest winner

Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final. from BBC News - London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50841295 from Blogger http://componentplanet.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-apprentice-2019-lord-sugar-says.html

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Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50841295

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The Apprentice 2019: Lord Sugar says 'You're hired' to his latest winner

Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36Odx4v via IFTTT

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Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final. via BBC News - Entertainment & Arts

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Finland Advertising

The Apprentice Series 15 Episode 7 of 12

At the London Stadium in Stratford, site of the 2012 Olympics and home to UK Athletics and West Ham FC, Lord Sugar reveals that this week the contestants will be rebranding the country of Finland. Finland is known as a winter holiday destination, but for this task the candidates must create an advertising campaign to entice UK visitors during the summer months.

Half the team head to Finland to film the TV advert whilst the rest create a marketing campaign and a digital billboard to be displayed at Piccadilly Circus. The candidates must then pitch their advertising campaign to leading industry experts, including the head of tourism for Finland.

During the filming of the advert, on one team temperatures soar, while the other team make a big splash. Going into the pitches, both teams must convince the panel that they really understand all Finland has to offer, not just as a country, but as a summer destination.

The candidates aren’t out of the woods yet, as they’re back in the boardroom and facing Lord Sugar’s scrutiny. And for one candidate it’s time to pack their suitcase, as they are told – ‘You’re Fired!’

Team Empower.

Jemelin Artigas

Ryan-Mark Parsons

Pamela Laird

  This team

  Team Unison.

Dean Ahmad

Lewis Ellis

Carina Lepore

  This Team

This Team was granted a win in this task.

  In The Boardroom.

Jemelin Artigas

Ryan-Mark Parsons

  Your “Fired”

Jemelin Artigas

The Apprentice Series 15 Episode 7 of 12. Finland Advertising The Apprentice Series 15 Episode 7 of 12 At the London Stadium in Stratford, site of the 2012 Olympics and home to UK Athletics and West Ham FC, Lord Sugar reveals that this week the contestants will be rebranding the country of Finland.

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Theme Park

The Apprentice Series 15 Episode 6 of 12

Lord Sugar sends the candidates to a top theme park, home to some of the UK’s most popular rollercoasters. On arrival, a three-dimensional hologram of Lord Sugar appears in front of the candidates and reveals that for this week’s task they will be creating and marketing a new rollercoaster. They will need to design and brand their new attraction, which overnight will be turned into a 4-D ride that they will then pitch to the theme park’s top talent to see whose ride they think is best. The task balances creative flair with productive pitching, and the team that forgets either could face a terrifying time in the boardroom.

During the ride design, one team’s overly ambitious concept ends up hurtling them into a total spin, while for the others miscommunication sends them well off track. During the pitches, both teams must cling on as they receive a bumpy ride from the panel. Then there are twists and turns in the boardroom, and for one candidate it’s the end of the ride as they are told – “You’re Fired!”

Boys Team Empower.

Carina Lepore

Ryan-Mark Parsons

Jemelin Artigas

Pamela Laird

Lewis Ellis

Rollercoaster Insomnia.

This team was voted by all three experts to be the best preposition and won the task.

  The Girls Team Unison.

Iasha Masood

Dean Ahmad

Rollercoaster The Final Loop.

This team was good at arguing Thomas & Lottie but didn’t win as the experts had so many floors & critiques with the logo.

In The Boardroom.

Dean Ahmad

Iasha Masood

The first time ever 4 candidates were bought back into the boardroom decided by Lord Sugar as Scarlett was struggling to make a decision.

Your “Fired”

Iasha Masood

The Apprentice Series 15 Episode 6 of 12. Theme Park The Apprentice Series 15 Episode 6 of 12 Lord Sugar sends the candidates to a top theme park, home to some of the UK's most popular rollercoasters.

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Oxford and Cambridge Discount Buying

The ApprenticeSeries 15 Episode 5 of 12

As the candidates relax at home with their feet up, they are shocked by a surprise visit from the boss himself.

Lord Sugar reveals that their task for week five will see them heading to the historic university cities of Oxford and Cambridge to procure nine items that are associated with both places.

Half of the team will head to Oxford, while the other half travel to Cambridge. The added difficulty for the candidates is that they are given no clues as to which of the cities the various items are located in.

In Oxford, for half of one team time wasting leads to a baffling back-and-forth to get their items, for the other indecision means that they get caught in rush hour traffic. In Cambridge, poor planning sends one team round in circles, on the other team a gamble on negotiations causes a riverside ruckus.

In the boardroom there is nowhere to hide, and for one member of the losing team there is no blagging their way out of this one as they are told – “You’re Fired!”

BOYS TEAM EMPOWER.

Jemelin Artigas

Lewis Ellis

Ryan-Mark Parsons

Pamela Laird

Carina Lepore

This looks like a scared group of chickens.

This team only managed to collect 7 items out of 9.

This teams Buying Costs were £351.20.

This team got Fines of £280.

The total costs were £631.20.

THE GIRLS TEAM UNISON.

Iasha Masood

Dean Ahmad

This team does not have a clue.

This team only managed to collect 8 items out of 9

This teams Buying Costs were £304.49.

This team got Fines of £65.00.

The Total Costs were £369.49.

This team scraped in and won this task.

  IN THE BOARDROOM.

Jemelin Artigas

Ryan-Mark Parsons

    Who Got “FIRED”

  THE APPRENTICE SERIES 15 EPISODE 5 OF 12. Oxford and Cambridge Discount Buying The ApprenticeSeries 15 Episode 5 of 12 As the candidates relax at home with their feet up, they are shocked by a surprise visit from the boss himself.