On the Apprentice ast night we saw Satellite TV engineer and former soldier Simon Smith get the boot from Sir Alan as the business moghul declared that he was out of his depth.

The teams in last night’s show had to set up their own photography stands in a busy shopping centre and Simon’s team seemed to be plagued by Claire Young and Alex Wortherspoon from the off. The pair tore Simon’s team apart, rather than backing their leader and though the three ended up in the boardroom with Sir Alan decided that being a grafter just wasn’t enough, so he sent Simon the squaddie home.

I was disappointed in Sir Alan once more last night as I actually thought that Simon was a breath of fresh air in the show. He was willing to work hard and put his neck on the line, with very little macho posturing in comparison to the other men.

I believe that Alan Sugar saved the other two last night because Claire is inflammatory and will make good TV in the coming weeks by pissing off just about everyone else in her team, and of course he couldn’t get rid of Alex whose boyish good looks are drawing loads of attention from magazines such as Heat etc. So Simon was sent to pasture. Can Alan Sugars reputation as a business genius survive this show as he makes bad decision after bad decision? He has certainly dropped in my estimation. What about yours?