Because she became, in the penultimate episode of the third series of The Apprentice, the first person to get to the final and then walk away. You knew fairly quickly something was up when Sralan told her she was in the final, given that the camera continued to linger on her long after she’d had the seemingly life-changing news that she’d been insistent she wanted. And as her face slowly changed colour, she had the look of a person – admittedly in a way that seemed part of the act – that’d been given the wrong news down the clap clinic rather than someone who’d made the final of a major reality TV show. Earlier in the episode, she’d been boasting of wrecking someone’s marriage because she wanted their husband, and offering promise that she could be even more ruthless. Comedy highlight was when she said in the board room that she didn’t believe she’s tramped everyone to get to the final five, whereupon every eyeball in the room seemed to leap out of its socket, and all the pictures on the walls started spinning. It was unsurprising, given that this was the episode when three of Sralan’s buddies were interviewing the candidates, that Tre finally had to give up the ghost, although we did get the delight of his international conglomerate beforehand. Lohit was never going to be Sralan’s Apprentice, so it was no surprise when he went either. In fact, we can’t remember a single thing he said. Which all seems to clear the path for Kristina, nemesis of Katie but one of the early frontrunners. Unless Simon – whose face was priceless when a list of complaints from one his tenants was read out – can do something we’ve simply not seen yet, you have to say that next week’s final is looking like a bit of a formality.
