[Tim Deegan]

After watching The Apprentice since the start, there have been very few candidates that I would employ. It seems that most of them don't live in the real world. An example is in the last series when they needed to get a top hat. Now I know you would be unlikely to get one from a market stall, but somewhere like Moss Bros would have been a fraction of the price they paid in the West End. In fact I suspect that even Harrods would have been.

Alan started off from humble beginings, and he likes people who are more street wise. But I sometimes wonder if they select these idiots for entertainment value.