The Apprentice… addictive tv?

I’d recorded the first episode of the new series of The Apprentice last week, so last night settled down - with the obligatory large glass of wine - for a relaxing evening of trash tv… OMG!!! within less than 5 minutes I could have happily strangled nearly all this years’ contestants… How, how, how did they manage to find a bunch of such unappealing idiots?

From the girls’ team leader Claire - who compares herself to her pet dog (with pride I might add!) and says that her family call her the rottweiler because of the way she lets nothing stand in her way… nice… (news flash for you hun, when people call you a dog its not usually a compliment!) - to posh boy Nicholas - the one who changed his surname from Brown to de Lacy-Brown because it sounded more sophisticated (!) - I don’t think they could have found a more dislikable group of people.

Of course this does make for a series that is already promising to be just as addictive as in previous years. But really, could they not at least try to include some contestants that you wouldn’t deliberatley cross the street to avoid if you knew them? Of course I understand that the show is edited to show the most ‘explosive’ and therefore entertaining moments but really - there must have been some ‘nice’ people in the thousands that applied… could they not have even included one or two, just to reassure us viewers that not all people who crave a 6-figure salary are complete cretins!

That said, I’m eagerly waiting for tonights episode. The shouting in disbelief at the tv pretty much every time most of the contestants open their mouths is - for me at least - the whole reason for watching