The Apprentice 2008

[LostVoodoo]

can anyone else not believe that they kept saying Lucinda wasn't a serious businesswoman because she had an interest in aromotherapy?! its not like her degree was in it! and contary to what they were saying you can't be a dizzy silly woman and still earn £100k a year!

[Trinity]

I agree totally, Lucinda was a smart, capable woman, and a wonderful manager. Where she performed poorly as part of a team it was invariably down to poor management on someone elses part.

Unfortunately the business world is still a chauvanistic environment, and Lu is better working for herself. She would have hated the job anyway.

[Behemoth]

I think it would be a travesty if Alex won. Claire is a much stronger candidate and would make much more of an impact within SAS's company.

[Chloe O'brien]

If anyone apart from Lee win then it's a fix like last year. Lee was not my favourite but he is the best hardworking candidate out of the four. Helene and Alex are only there because they hid behind others shirt-tales throughout the competition and as for Clare she only survived due to .simon and Rafe hard luck

[LostVoodoo]

that's the thing, sometimes i wonder why they bother with the process. the whole point of doing a '10week interview" or whatever was that they got to know they canddates as people more and how they worked in a group environment. Claire might interview well and look good on paper but she's also proven she can't work well wth other people and will happily undermine anyone else at the first chance she gets.

[Chloe O'brien]

The runner-up in this year's Apprentice will be offered a job by Essex County Council, reports the BBC.

The position will be created and tailored towards the strengths of the second-placed candidate from the show.

Claire Young, Lee McQueen, Helene Speight and Alex Wotherspoon will all compete for a job at Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad firm in Wednesday's final.

Council leader Lord Hanningfield said: "Essex County Council is as ambitious as any private company. We unashamedly want the best and brightest to come and work for us.

"Perceptions need to change. Working in local government is every bit as challenging and rewarding, if not more so, than the private sector."

He added: "Sir Alan Sugar's company is based right here in Essex - so this is about the ambition of the county as a whole, both private and public sector working together, to deliver the best possible quality of life for the people of Essex."

The Apprentice final airs Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.

[Bryan]

judging by that news article i think i know who win's this series.

[Trinity]

judging by that news article i think i know who win's this series.

Go on then - who?

[parkerman]

The runner-up in this year's Apprentice will be offered a job by Essex County Council, reports the BBC.

The position will be created and tailored towards the strengths of the second-placed candidate from the show.

Claire Young, Lee McQueen, Helene Speight and Alex Wotherspoon will all compete for a job at Sir Alan Sugar's Amstrad firm in Wednesday's final.

Council leader Lord Hanningfield said: "Essex County Council is as ambitious as any private company. We unashamedly want the best and brightest to come and work for us.

"Perceptions need to change. Working in local government is every bit as challenging and rewarding, if not more so, than the private sector."

He added: "Sir Alan Sugar's company is based right here in Essex - so this is about the ambition of the county as a whole, both private and public sector working together, to deliver the best possible quality of life for the people of Essex."

The Apprentice final airs Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.

Presumably with salary to match. As an Essex Council tax payer myself I object!

[Siobhan]

judging by that news article i think i know who win's this series.

I reckon Claire wins and Lee is giving the above position