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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY...YOU'RE FIRED!

Thursday May 8,2008

By Catherine Boyle


Happy birthday Jenny...you're fired!

Jenny's birthday wasn't enough to save her

PHEW! Surely I can't be the only one breathing a sigh of relief that finally Sir Alan has seen sense and fired the horrendously irritating Jenny Celerier? And on her 36th birthday as well!

There have been moments in this series where I was concerned that big personalities as opposed to big talent were ruling the roost but with this decision my faith has at last been restored.

Hopefully with the feisty red head out of the competition there won't be a repeat of last weeks bullying.

It appeared the pressure was started to get to the ruthlessly ambitious group when last week's episode showed the bunch of supposedly mature professionals turning on poor Sarah.

Everyone, with the exception of the eternally well mannered Raef ganged up on Sarah chastising her for being too quiet and standing back from the action.

However, and rightly so, the tables have turned with this latest eviction.

Jenny may go down as one of the show's most memorable characters but surely even she didn't think that she should get away with cheating.

Watching a 36-year-old women try to blag her way through the board room confrontation with Sir Alan was uncomfortable to say the least. Do these people forget they have cameras following their every move?

In a stroke of genius the other Jenny was also given the boot in a double whammy of firing. Fed up with having to referee cat fights and slanging matches the businessman sent the Irish ice queen packing.

Despite my joy at those pair going I must confess I'm in two minds as to whether Michael "I'm only half Jewish" Sophocles should have been given his marching orders when he failed to know what a kosher chicken was.

And these are the best business brains our country has to offer?

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BYE JENNY!!.

08.05.2008, 7:20pm

I'm in a serious cleft stick. You see, I like Ms. Boyle, and here she bull'seyed in one. It.s just that having tried the feminist "Mali". the gutless Telegraph and other mundanes where female writers seem to compete for the "slag a man" top prize, I found this 'paper the best balanced of the lot, and so I patronisingly say (you may think) It's so good to know I can read good writers of my opposite sex. Do I sound insufferable? Honestly, It's not like that. That was a very accurate appraisal of the last "apprentice". I'll look forward to the next one.

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