In case anyone's interested Lucinda will be taking calls very shortly on Victoria Derbyshire's talk show on Five Live....

Just hit it on now.

Awww, that's lovely that Paul phoned SAS and apologised for being so hard on her.

He also said that as a result that she was the best interviewee.

Still not wanting to talk about her family and the interviewer respectfully didn't push it further.

She also agreed that she was better off out of it, and that the others were a better "fit" to SAS's organisation!

I've missed it all as I had to take a call! :yawn:

How was she Laura?

Very charming and articulate. Just as you would expect her to be.

She's back at University studying (sorry I didn't catch the name of the course) and this will be her second degree. I only mention that as the interviewer asked her if she already had a degree.

The only part I found a little cheesy was when she said "what lovely listeners you have" after the interviewer read out the marriage proposals.

Thanks, I'm sure she'll do well whatever she decides to do.

So he should of done, he was appalling.

I didn't get to listen to the interview but wanted to say, I think its a very sad world we live in when we have someone with Lucinda's qualities being appallingly treated. A few years back someone with her honesty and integrity would have been an asset to anyone's business.

Oh and that tirade by Jenny in the taxi lasted 45 mins! Which makes me wonder how long that episode with Sara lasted.

I'm sorry but this year the show has sacrificed credibility for ratings and I would imagine that SAS is embarrassed for allowing himself to be associated with this sort of behaviour. I know he doesn't see the programme until it's aired but hopefully next year he'll make it quite clear that he will not accept a repeat of what has happened in this series.

This year's Apprentice really has fully highlighted what some companies define as normal business etiquette nowadays. The sheer bullying and pushing around of some of the "softer" candidates (by softer, I mean the ones that weren't backstabbing hard faced business b*****ds all the time) like Lucinda and Sara was appalling.

Most businesses I've worked in and with (and I've been a freelance and a contractor so have gone into work at quite a lot, in many different sectors) are nothing like as they are potrayed in The Apprentice and I don't think it's like that working for Alan Sugar either. There are maybe some areas in the financial sector that are a bit too testosterone based for their own good but even that's changing albeit slowly.

This is probably a reflection of how things were in the 70s-90s in some places (I'm thinking Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes here ) but multiplied by 100 - it is a television programme aimed at getting and entertaining viewers and on that level it works excellently.

I do worry about it sometimes as it gives a very distorted view of business and what qualities are needed to do well as an employee or entrepreneur. I worry that the exaggeration it portrays, whilst understood by those who already work in business, could attract the wrong type of young people into it and put off the right type.