The Apprentice - Week 10

Having 'The Apprentice' on at the same time as the Champions League final was not a good idea (for the BBC) as there was only going to be one winner as far as I'm concerned. Therefore I only watched the last 20 mins. of Week 10, after Barcelona had made United look rather silly.
Apparently those bright sparks at the BBC have now learnt from this (schoolboy) error and the episode scheduled to be shown on 10 June has now been brought forward and will be broadcast on Sunday 7 June.

Soooo... Howard is gone. Not much of a surprise as he was up against two of the strongest candidates in my opinion, Kate and Lorraine. In fact now with only 5 candidates left I struggle to find any weak links in the penthouse.
Why did Howard go?? Well.... 'Surallan' claims that in these difficult times he needs a risk taker, as he branded Howard a 'Steady Eddie'. Certainly those eyelids permanently at half mast didn't do Howard any favours. And probably neither did the fact that he uttered more words in the studio later with Adrian Chiles than in the previous nine weeks, when Howard seemed to have less personality than a paper clip.

Howard's team (Ignite) lost this week's task despite picking one of the highest selling items, according to the teleshopping channel experts. This item consisted of a metallic leather jacket, which I wouldn't pick even if I had to go to a Liberace-themed fancy dress party. Why the hell did Ignite pick this very dodgy item?? Did they think that (whilst they were in the penthouse all these weeks) human cloning had been given the go-ahead and a multitude of little Chers is now boosting the demand for very loud jackets?? Or perhaps more simply Ignite thought that this teleshopping channel would not be watched far beyond the salubrious streets of New Cross??

Highlight of the week..... definitely Surallan commenting 'What a plonker!!' when a giggling James gets all confused and cheerfully tries to flog a product at the wrong price.
On a final note... can someone please show Lorraine how to apply lipstick properly?? Honestly, it looks like it had been applied by a rather sozzled Andrea Bocelli .