What is there to say about this week’s Apprentice? I was all set to dispense with any sort of write-up in favour of a brief ode in honour of the to-be-departed Tigger, when up pops Sugarman with one of his curveball firings. Blimey, he don’t ‘alf keep you on your toes.

The week’s challenge was to buy 10 items and spend the least money doing so: another marvellous never mind the quality, feel the width sort of task.

In a 12 hour war between Murdoch (Syed) and Tigger (Jo) as project managers, there was an all too real chance that one of them would have to go. Jo led the girls in an “I hear you, but I’m not listening or interested” manner, while Syed dispensed with planning in favour of roaming East London in optimistic pursuit of cooked Lobsters. The girls bickered, as Jo pissed them all off in turn, as if working her way through a mental list. No-one showed much aptitude for being The Apprentice, and that’s the sad truth of this crop.

And then, to the boardroom, where the girls lost for the second time, and Jo chose Karen and Alexa to join her. Sugarman made it perfectly clear he doesn’t need another corporate lawyer, or a planner, and when the crunch came, both Alexa (planner) and Tigger (nutter) defended themselves by basically saying “what you said about me is wrong”, and the mad one selected one of the larger knives in her collection for Karen, landing the cause of defeat firmly at her door, much to the bemusement of Karen and anyone who’d been watching. But, it turns out that Karen didn’t defend her cause, and was given her marching orders, out of the blue.

Quite why Sugarman thinks either Jo or Alexa would cut it as the apprentice is a mystery that only he can fathom. But we shall see. Perhaps he’s wiser than I give him credit for. After all, he’s the one with the business empire, and I’m just your run of the mill blogging hack: fair cop. Mark my words, though: neither of this week’s survivors will even come close to winning.

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