Two souks and you're out!

What a brilliant episode and a notoriously great task. We saw cameraderie and foolishness, good leadership and absolutely hilarious chicken antics - will there ever be a series where meat doesn't cause a furore?! Series 2: Said orders 100 chickens for 100 pizzas, Series 3: Katie and Paul try to sell pork sausages to a halal butcher on Ramadam and Series 4: Michael and Jenny get a muslim butcher to bless and slaughter a kosher chicken!

Before I get to the ins and outs of last week's show, I must comment on something a dear Cornish friend said to me whilst I was back home last week - she (who will remain nameless) said that my blogs were 'harsh', that I don't give anyone an inch and quite frankly I didn't win so who am I to talk. There's something about the fresh air and straight-talking in Cornwall that can bring a city girl back down with a bump.

Whilst I appreciate I didn't win; this blog really isn't intended to be horrible or to attack the candidates. I have the utmost respect for all the candidates; I know only too well that the Apprentice is more than a TV show, it's a mental, physical and emotional challenge. It is 100% self inflicted and primarily linked to a vanity which drives these people (and me) to want to achieve more and more. But, do people really want to read a critique which sits on the fence and doesn't really say anything about anyone? If you do, let me know and I'll tone it down a bit!

Anyway, a genius episode and a double firing; as if by magic I predicted it only hours before the show last week and I wouldn't be surprised if we see another in the coming weeks.

The two Jennies were out the door pretty quickly. Alex was saved and sent back to the house, I was so pleased he saw some of Sir Alan's wrath, of all the people, I feel that he is the one with the biggest gameplan - he does very little and distances himself from everything yet places the blame with the skill of a seasoned judge.

SAS is on form, he spotted ginger Jenny as the 'bad egg' and clearly wanted her out the week before last; I think he secretly liked the bribery produced by Michael and her (which is why Michael survived), he just wanted a reason to get rid of her.

Snow White Jenny (dark hair, irish accent) did a pretty bad job as a project manager but so did I. It would seem that Sir Alan had listened to the bad press she received from other candidates and fired her aswell, unwilling to give her another chance. Of all the candidates she is the first to take the whole experience with a pinch of salt and came out smiling - the way it should be done!

Clare seemed to leave the boardroom smelling of roses (still my favourite for the final) whilst Michael the 'good jewish boy' seemed to come unstuck - brilliant!

Lee was excellent, although I question how much of the winning was down to him, I have a sneaky feeling that Lucinder helped with the logistics. Having been rather horrid to Sara when she returned from the boardroom the previous week, he admirably put himself with the 2 shirkers and realised that you shouldn't just listen to other candidates. Both Sara and Lucinder seemed to work hard and well - I definitely like the underdogs!

The real star of the show this week was Margaret, her scathing comment about Edinburgh was brilliant - she's such fun 'on-task' but you do have to look out for her in the board room, if you've done something wrong on task, it doesn't matter how much she likes you, she'd going to tell the boss!