Melody Hossaini's audition - The Apprentice 2011 - BBC One

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice Melody fled a war-torn Iran after her neighbours' house was bombed...
Melody speaks about how she was born 'amongst war' in Iran and says she was kidnapped and held at gunpoint in her own home. She wants to be more than just average, as 'average was never good enough...'
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[@giodude92]

"Who says the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon?" Love that!

[@stranraer9]

what made her different from other candidates was that she is absolutely gorgeous !

[@preciousmetalz]

I think she is a stunna!!! I'd marry her. Beautiful accent, very well presented and her passion for success is infectious. Lovely accent, very nice and comfortable speech, 10 out of 10. I hope she wins. She has my vote.

[@BillyButcher91]

The best looking one this year..

[@serialclone]

Say what you want about her, she's exactly the kind of person you'd want to partner with if you want a successful business. And yes, she's pretty damn hot.

[@manatole_]

The way she smiled and chuckled when she said she's been kidnapped makes me feel that her version of a kidnapping is having a sleepover at a friends

[@MrFrankieXIII]

The first time ever in an interview I've heard someone bragging about being kidnapped haha xD

[@786buzzy]

i just love herr soo much , she is fit and comes from iran , where i am originally from wooohooo x go melody x

[@Super_GT]

"It felt so good yesterday to see dirt on me, to see my fingernails dirty, to see dust in my eyes" A nice quote from last nights apprentice.

[@MrEnlighteneddespot]

One of the hottest candidates ever to appear on the The Apprentice. I'd love to share an office with her.

[@mutinyonthekitkat]

She's pretty. She's probably got an award to prove it.

[@ToolofMen]

she talks about being held at gunpoint and being kidnapped as if it's something to be proud of

[@FIFAnun96]

she's fit!

[@aneeshkapil8422]

so fit, so so so fit!

[@hicm1of12]

I get the impression that Lord Sugar had a bit of a crush on her....given his gushing praise for her as he was firing her, and the comments he made to the surviving candidates after she had left the boardroom. Imagine what he might have said to her, and the others, if she had survived, and then gone on to win the competition?

[@charmer786]

Seems like a genuine nice person. I have a feeling me and melody could make sweet music together:)

[@xSweetHoneyBeex]

Er what has kidnapping and being held at gun point got to do with this show? How on earth did she get through with this?! Madness!

[@Talonades]

She is so hot

[@StridentOnanist]

I'm pulling for Melody, all the way.

[@Fuzion180]

@eldictator1 what is a suralan? is that meant to be sir alan or?

[@tenseman08]

That gap between her eyebrows is impecably cut to hypnotic levels

[@jjoeshaw]

I think the only reason people dislike her is because of the way she talks...

[@IMRANx21]

she aint annoying, shes fhuking fit.

[@DonShacks]

She was a good candidate very clever woman i think if she pushed more in the series she could of been in the last 3 possibly. Excellant Series Overall this year. I would say 1 of my fav series over the years of watching the apprentice. DS.

[@Cybrus07]

Super hot. Pretty disappointed she's gone!

[@yourpete]

Bombs, kidnapping and held at gun point...I don't want to be near somebody that unlucky

[@FantasyEntertainable]

i dont understand how you can hate someone who hasnt done anything to you & dont know..just look at her achievements she is so acommplished & determined to win. people who call her arrogant wouldnt last 2 seconds in that boardroom..you need to be up yourself to handle lord sugar..he even liked her. so many weak people out there its unbelievable..

[@hyllaf]

all others average 13 k at this stage, Melody is 50k

[@ExplodingBumfluff]

The music in the background is discrimating against her speech.

[@11Legendkiller]

She is the total package. She has the qulaifacitons and the brains to back it all up and not to mention how sexy she is. I'm not just rooting for her to win cus she's smoking hot, i'm rooting for her cus i feel she has the right tools to be lord sugar's next Apprentice.

[@Sids60sSounds]

Her anagrams are 'Shim Loony Ideas', 'Oh Mission Delay', 'Miss One Holiday' and 'Home On Dialysis'

[@brachikamoko]

i wonder how much competition there really is in the show and how many directions lord alan gets from the film crew so as to keep the most adversary characters in the game

[@TheSymeister]

"She is ruthless, she'll walk over and tread over anybody; she'll eat them up and spit them out for breakfast. . . That's what I like about her really." Alan Sugar acknowledging the requirement for Sociopathic behaviour for 'success' in the Corporate arena! A sad reflection on 21st Century Humanity.

[@ibrahimahmed6739]

Simon McDermott like her or not in business she has killer instinct and gets the job done. Unlike you she knows that business and life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. ❄️

[@ukz1punjabiprincess]

i want to see her to the end!

[@0nannette]

BLESS U MELODY 4 LEADIN THE WHOLE CHOUIR TO VICTORY

[@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx]

She is so pretty! I wanted her to win :(

[@BlizzardBunny55]

If she wins, She'll be the 2nd Iranian woman to win The Apprentice! Yasmina won in 2009 (I think) and she was Iranian.

[@Hindusht]

omfg fit as fuck

[@birdman3120]

@wilfio What's wrong with Oxford Brookes?!?

[@sleepypoodle]

Her accent reminds me of an Iranian Alison Steadman from 'Abigail's Party'.

[@Bill_Stranix]

@araza786 there is no interview stage this time

[@witzypg]

FIRED!

[@EkaterinaRukovskaya]

Can anyone tell me what she does in her business?

[@LankanLionz]

she forgot 'ive been doggied' lol

[@eldictator1]

Despite what nick and suralan said, she didn't "bring home the bacon" She had the oppurtunity to buy a whole farm of pigs, a sure fire hit that any moron could have forseen but deceived the team for her own glory, which ultimately lost the task... One has to question suralans business acumen, anyone who bought an amstrad pc surely knows what I'm on about

[@OhMaDayzz]

@TheJimFoster How did she not get into a 'proper university'. And for your information, being a successful businessman/woman has no relation to how well you can do at school. In fact a lot of the richest people in the world are high school drop outs.

[@calrocz]

I hope she does very well, she seems very good, I feel quite sorry about her past though.

[@charmer786]

Melody has such a sexy voice

[@JBiscuitesq]

She'll make someone a lovely little wife once she gets rid of all these silly ideas.

[@sacultik]

she still couldn't explain to Dara O'Briain what her business was in the follow-up You're Fired show

[@nath909]

@TheSymeister acknowledging?

[@FantasyEntertainable]

@NoPainNoSpam well i respect your views & never tried to change it in the first place..

[@Professional_Youtube_Commenter]

When she says all those things in a posh accent it sounds like she's really exxagerating and making it up. "I've been held at gunpoint" read: On the departure at the airport, we were questioned by customs officers who were armed.

[@TheNadz1993]

oh babyy

[@Kittylitzxo]

She'll probably be a close runner-up.

[@Fuzion180]

She shouldn't have gone! Natasha is the lucky one, full of herself and blames others

[@khananand3075]

Okay she was speaking her truth and the background music dejected for this was mocking the seriousness of what she was saying. This was edited to make her look stupid. Shameful BBC editorial standards.

[@hicm1of12]

I must confess she did make me cringe when I initially first saw > heard her.....however, the more I've watched her > got to know her, and seen what she can actually deliver as an Apprentice Contender....the more I've grown fond of her to the point where I've now got a crush on her. It's that exotic > sultry eastern look; that voluptuous body, and the way she walks with that fierce stride, and confident swagger which always get me.....Oohhhhhhhhhhhh Melody!!!!

[@Kayc217]

She's fucking gnarly!!!((: hahah she should be on the show

[@hicm1of12]

Her head might be the size of Jupiter, but she's a real firecracker >>> winner, and this year's apprentice star. In many ways she is like a good looking; female version of Stuart Baggs "The Brand": but with genuine gumption; business acumen, natural flair, and an ability to inspire. I love watching her in action; such is her precocious character; style; attitude, and mesmeric charisma.

[@IMRANx21]

shes so fit

[@johnm957]

DRY YOUR EYES MELODY. There's always an opportunity to be useless somewhere else, don't worry.

[@kamaal_i]

incredible woman, an excellent candidate. she should've at least made it to the final 5 but unfortunately stumbled at the very last step. sugar had to fire one of them and it wouldn't have been the WInner tom or Helen who won every single task previously

[@artyvandelayed]

what kind of British accent does she have?

[@mizzpurpose]

Cute dress Melody, very cute!

[@hicm1of12]

I just heard her being interviewed on Radio 5 Live a short while ago by Victoria Derbyshire.....Melody came across as such a charming; inspirational; aspirational > overall awesome young woman...If only she could have performed in practice as well as she talks in theory. Even so, if I was running a multinational corporation I would still hire her in an instant!!! As a girlfriend she would be high maintenance: however, If one could keep her sweet, then the payoff would be spectacular!!!

[@MrSeppo2010]

@garethkielty erm no she's refering to the Persian Gulf War between Iraq and Iran

[@marthafarquar]

The winner will be the one who pitched the best business idea in their application form. Sugar's made his mind up already. He'll just keep the idiots in as long as possible for lol value

[@boneyboyco]

omg really?!?!?! i watched that episode and never saw that was it the one where they turned rubbish into money?? PLZ TELLS :D

[@Geraint3000]

Wow. It's like her eyebrows have full stops. She is a beauty tho.

[@thebigfly124]

Challange: Try and find a interview with someone who isn't full of themselves!

[@sacultik]

@OhMaDayzz After watching the recent Channel4 docu "For Neda", I agree with you that by Iranian standards, Melody's is below average looking and doesn't have the classical beauty of Persians like Rudi Bakhtiar. Is Melody a Kurd?

[@ketmod]

saw her today, she is tiny in person

[@Coruscant98]

She wasn't as bad as Stuart Baggs in 2010...

[@brettterence]

@Edam3000 So where are you an Edna off to tonight!? Tip: Keep her on the lead when entering public places.

[@garply101]

She sounds like Ed Milliband.

[@AMARUT180]

@xInsanePanda I must admit - I have the same feeling about Melody to.

[@OhMaDayzz]

@littleenglish Her accent is a bit of a mixture between British and Iranian.

[@OhMaDayzz]

@sacultik I'm not sure where in Iran Melody is from, but I doubt she is Kurdish. If she was Kurdish she would probably have mentioned it. But yes, Iranian women are generally very attractive.

[@pakhoucheung]

She been kidnapped? Not surprised the kidnappers didn't want her, she probably talked to them and that released her.........

[@Coruscant98]

@supasaiyn Very observant of you sir...

[@birdman3120]

@wilfio Best new uni the last 10 years running. I went there, it is highly rated for what I wanted to do. It's quite highly rated in quite a few subject areas, but law, what Melody did, is not one of them. She is the typical girl you would see at Brookes. She isn't from a middle class background but she acts like it, it is actually more of a middle class uni then most. I know what you mean thought, she talks about herself as though she went to Oxbridge. As long as you not slagging off Brookes.

[@birdman3120]

@TheHamedArif If your saying that her or Jim are the most likely to win, then I most definately agree.

[@evilsnakes1]

@anitatime ...nonsense. an apprentice win does a hell of a lot for the winner's career no matter whether they stay on with sugar or not. I don't think that anyone, including sugar, expects the winner to stay on for long.

[@WillScarlet1991]

@darkaudiovideo Lool!! - I was thinking just that :D

[@Fuzion180]

@TheFinalPage ah right and other languages too, just the accent really.

[@BlizzardBunny55]

@raajue3 Just to let you Iran is NOT an Arabic country. Not all countries in the Middle East are Arabic. You could be right about the muslim bit though.

[@Fuzion180]

Natasha should've gone instead.

[@hyllaf]

a sexy psycho if EVER u seen one!!! she could be a character from 24!!!! love you Melody - a flustered male

[@AnGeLpHo3NiX]

*creeps back in* ...She never learns. She's good at talking, playing herself up and sounding sophisticated but she's still unable to properly admit her mistakes. All she's doing is covering her ass with waterworks and about how she's vulnerable. Go American lady with black hair for pointing out that Melody's trained in leadership skills!

[@BlizzardBunny55]

@UmeshBx Actually, she lived in Iran, but you're about the joking thing.

[@ktkbar]

@KellyK0028 I was thinking the same :)

[@blognewb]

@LoneRookRS1 so how much money are you making?

[@Fuzion180]

@xInsanePanda nice lol

[@anitatime]

@A7productionzz someone sounds jealous, I think melody will do well in life.

[@hicm1of12]

@bucar80 My thoughts entirely!

[@hicm1of12]

I must confess, even though her pretentious character & narcissistic demeanour rather turned me off her initially, as the weeks have passed I've found myself growing more & more fonder of Melody! She has by far the the of the show this year in terms of top telly. It's just a shame that she was too unwilling to listen, in order to make the right decisions, and hence avoid being in the firing line for 3 times in succession. Lord Sugar had no option but to fire her in the end.

[@aji08]

SHE IS FITT!

[@stupidintellect90]

@Rohloffp Totally agree. She praised herself 3 times in about 2 minutes when thet went into the board room. She just seems like a superficial, shallow human being who cannot stop talking about herself. I doubt she will get far, she's was an average team leader and the other contestants will probably hitch a plan to get her out by week 3. Being a teenage girl myself, on the role model scale, she's about level with Jordan, the total opposite of inspiration, she makes me cynical of man kind.

[@AMARUT180]

@tonester09 So true!