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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jason Deans

Live blog: The Apprentice

You can barely move for Surallun interviews in today's papers. He tells the Times:

"Be under no illusion. There are women employers who are more ruthless than men. They are more conscious of not employing other women because they feel they're not going to get the value of work out of them."


He adds, for good measure, in the Daily Mail, that employers must be able to ask women about their future plans, including having children and childcare arrangements.

"I think it's right for women to volunteer the information. Companies have no divine duty to help with childcare. Companies employ people. It's the Government's responsibility to provide childcare. You pay a person a salary and they cut their cloth accordingly."


The headline in a Daily Mirror Sirallun interview is "Business? Who cares" - eh? Are they talking about the right man? Apparently so:

"The biggest disasters in life are the people that die, and the murders and the killings and the atrocities in the world. That is bad and that is worrying. But business? Who gives a s***, who cares? It's just money. If I lost it all tomorrow I would go and make some more. So what? It is not my God."


And finally, in the Sun, Sirallun says he's not a bully. Come again? They're making this stuff up, surely:

"People always write about me being the bullying bruiser from Brentwood but that's unfortunately how I'm portrayed in the programme. It's frustrating for people who really know me -- friends and family -- who know I'm not really like that."


All of which can mean only one thing: The Apprentice is back. Tonight. 9pm. BBC1. Join Anna Pickard for our Watch with... live blog of proceedings.

Here's what Anna and Heidi made of Sport Relief Does The Apprentice a couple of weeks back.

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