Has she been fired??

Sir Alan use to ask Francis to send the teams in; he doesn't seem to know the name of the new girl on the switch.

I think her mummified corpse is in a cupboard with boxes of unsold email phones.

Francis is the name of Siralun's real secretary - an elderly lady from Essex who has been with him many years (and who may now be retired). They kept the name for continuity reasons.

The "secretary" is one of the production secretaries; I did know her name; all I can remember is she apparently smokes roll-ups.

JJ ( whose got a head full of s....t)

Im sure she was there in week 1..

Frances used to be played by a girl from Telford called Mandy because the real Frances was considered to be too old and frumpy for TV. I've just noticed the back of a blonde head this series.

Heres a whole article on her, revealing who she really is ..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...secretary.html

Theres also a pic of the real Fraces lol

If the real Margaret is OK for TV, why not the real Frances?

I think people are forgetting the original receptionist in series 1 and 2 was called "Jenny", not Francis.

Maybe she didn't want to be on TV?

Nope, i have been watching the rerun of series 1 on Dave at 2AM and its Frances.

Well I saw her referred to as Jenny.

Nope when the candidates walk in they all say "hi Frances", even Sugar says "Frances send them in".

Its on again at 1:30 AM tonight on Dave.

He definitely has called her Jenny at least once.

Regardless of the name, it's not the same woman who sits there in every series. "Frances" from series 3 and 4 is not the same person as the secretary in series 1, for example.

I have it on good authority that Frances is The Stig

That's the credit crunch biting

Yes but series 1 she has been called Frances all the way through, Jenny maybe her real name, but she has been referred to Frances since the first show.