Wednesday, May 03, 2006

The Apprentice. Nearly...

The best show on prime-time TV (well the best show on prime-time BBC2 featuring Alan Sugar, as he does get about a bit) reaches its penultimate episode tonight with the four remaining contenders facing ‘gruelling interviews’ with some of the former Spurs’ head honcho’s business buddies to determine which two go through to the final next week.

Fans of the show will realise no-nonsense Ruth and dignified go-getter Ansell should be the successful duo as they’ve been the best performers on all the previous tasks so far. The two who should be booted higher than the still unsafe arch on Wembley Stadium should be smug Yorkshireman Paul, the sort of going-to-seed podgy thirtysomething you see chatting up teenagers in Leeds nightclubs, and professional whinger Michelle, who whines a lot but does wear designer spectacles surprisingly well.

The beauty of this show, however, is that Sugar decides who he wants – and, as this is the fella who thinks the Amstrad videophone is the future, then anything can happen.

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