Exciting times for America, as Alan Sugar issues a come-and-get-me plea to producers of the US version of The Apprentice. Following presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s comments about Mexicans, a vacancy has suddenly arisen on the NBC show – and his lordship has declared: “I would like the challenge.”
Well. LiS is glad to see him come out fighting after that disparaging passage in Richard Desmond’s newly published autobiography, in which the Express owner claimed he had been first choice for the UK Apprentice gig, with Philip Green as second, and Sugar himself gifted with sloppy thirds only by dint of the two men having put in a good – if pitying – word for him.
Whether his boardroom booster seat will be shipped stateside remains to be seen, but we wish Lord Sugar luck on this belated attempt to take the United States. As he explained to the Mirror last year: “People said that had I moved to America in the mid-80s, I’d have gone on to rule the world.”
