The Apprentice: Worst Decisions Ever, 9pm, BBC2, Thursday

Posted by Jane Murphy
Why is The Apprentice so successful? After all, the power-suited wannabes are mostly the kind of self-important muppets any sane person would actively seek to avoid - so why should we give a monkey's who gets the six-figure job at the end of it? (Lest we forget, last year's winner ended up working on a hotel complex near Stansted Airport. Oooh - the glamour!)

Having considered this question at some length (yes, I know I should get out more), I've realised the main attraction of Sir Alan Sugar's "job interview from hell" is the spectacle of seeing ridiculous people having ridiculous ideas without ever realising how ridiculous they look. It's a bit like the early auditions on The X Factor but without the sob stories.

And it seems I'm not the first person to have realised this because Auntie Beeb has cobbled together a whole show devoted to Apprentice candidates' worst decisions.

So there's the ever-delightful Katie Hopkins trying to sell sausages to a halal butcher in the middle of Ramadan; prize berk Syed Ahmed ordering 100 whole chickens to make 100 pizzas; and, of course, Simon Ambrose demonstrating the sturdiness of a trampoline leg while holding it close to his crotch so it, snigger, looked a little bit like a willy.

All in all, this one-off show is fast, compelling and provides the perfect opportunity to laugh and point at other people's temporary misfortune... Brilliant!

Picture: PA

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Comments

[A company director]

Jenny has fallen into the all too common trap of believing that to succeed in business you have to be a vicious sh**!
It may win her the show (Alan Sugar loves tough posh totty) but this is not how to succeed in business in the long term. I just hope the other contestants suss her out & stab her in her back before she does the same to them. Oh & don't give her any shirts to wash!