This week's Apprentice preview

Posted by Tom Murphy

The Apprentice is rushing headlong towards its dramatic conclusion, and the ‘semi-final’ is usually one of the highlights of the series, as the final five wannabes are subjected to a gruesome grilling by some of Srralan’s bolshy business chums. 

In the firing line tonight is Lorraine “two accents” Tighe, who comes a bit of a cropper when Birmingham City FC managing director Karren Brady susses out that she’s fibbed about her employment dates.

When the tough footie executive find that Lorraine has claimed to work for an employer for a year longer than she really has, she turns on the bespectacled candidate. “If intuition is your gift,” she snarls, “why didn’t you use it to put down your correct dates of employment?”

Still, it might not be the end for Lorraine. Last year’s winner, pterodactyl-impersonator supreme Lee McQueen, got a dressing down for saying he’d spent two years at university when he actually only lasted four months.  

And Lorraine isn’t the only one to take a hit. Businessman Claude Litner gives Yasmina a hard time for not knowing her own company’s turnover, while Evil Debra is somehow judged “rude and aggressive” and sole remaining chap James is slated for his “gibberish”.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the only candidate who doesn't seem to have been savaged is hot favourite Kate Walsh, who seems to have just said nice things about her mum.

So, which of them will make it through to Sunday's head-to-head final? Tune in to BBC1 tonight at 9pm to find out.

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