I decided that I wasn’t going to watch this series.  I find Alan Sugar annoying - can’t stand the way he interrupts people all the time and how he insists on being called ‘Sir Alan’.  However, last night, I was home alone and had nothing else to do.  I was channel hopping and stumbled across a repeat of the first episode of the series.  And I’m sorry to report that I think I may already be hooked.

The first episode was a real cracker.  Isn’t Alex sexy?  Wasn’t Raef annoying?  And doesn’t Lucinda look older than her 31 years? 

The villain of the piece was definitely Nicolas de Lacy Twat Features.  He got my goat as soon as he opened his mouth and I heard his posh boy squawk.  I gave myself a metaphorical slap and told myself not to pre-judge … but I’m afraid I lost any sympathy I had for him when he said that his biggest failure in life was getting a B at GCSE French! 

Later he said he felt that the boys’ group had divided into those who were ‘educated’  and those who were not.  What he actually meant was, he thought the boys’ group was split along the lines of those who used R.P. and those who didn’t: he was equating being educated with being posh. 

Needless to say I was really glad when Nicholas (who it turns out was born plain old Nicholas Brown!) was the first one to get fired.  And now I can’t wait for the next episode.

As an addendum to the above, I have just been checking out Nicholas’s website.  Although a posh twit, it seems that he is actually quite a talented artist, too.