Apprentice five feel the pitbull’s bite
Promising signs at the start of last night as Michaela Wain pondered the grilling she and her four fellow finalists were about to face.
“I haven’t had an interview for 13 years. I just say inappropriate things. Oh God, I’m just going to embarrass myself.”
Fingers crossed, Michaela – that’s why we enjoy this part of the process more than any other.
In the interviews the contestants have their dreams ripped apart by what Alan Sugar calls his “most trusted aides”. Judging by last night that might be shorthand for “most trusted to laugh at my rubbish jokes”.
They didn’t offer charity to the final five.
Things looked bleak from the minute they handed business plans to Claude Littner, looking like a hungry pitbull eyeing a fresh newspaper dropping through a letterbox. Each was duly shredded and my cringeometer blew even before Mike Soutar started building a wall out of the folders he had created for each of Michaela’s existing businesses.
Needless to say, Sugar decided Michaela already had enough on her plate. He also got rid of “bossy” Elizabeth and “punchy” Joanna.
Yes, the casting department really enjoys panto stereotypes doesn’t it?
As for who wins out of James and Sarah, let me remind you James inexplicably escaped Sugar’s black cab to oblivion a few weeks ago. You can work the rest out for yourselves. Claude chews up Michaela