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Sugar denies using booster seat
Wednesday 11 June 2008
A makeshift wooden platform has allegedly been seen under the 5'6" businessman's boardroom chair but he told the Press Association: "That's a load of rubbish.
"The chair is fixed to stop it moving backwards and forwards while allowing me to swing to the left and the right.
"Anyone who watches the programme will know that I stand next to Nick [Hewer] and Margaret [Mountford] and the candidates, and I'm seen getting out of the car thousands of times.
"It's a total joke. It's there to secure the four wheels to stop it moving backwards and forwards. It's a total joke."
Sugar made the comments ahead of tonight's 'The Apprentice' finale (BBC One, 9pm) in which Alex Wotherspoon, 25, Helene Speight, 32, Claire Young, 29, and Lee McQueen, 30, are the four contenders.
Speaking about the last episode, Sugar said: "It's obviously difficult when you're down to the last four people that have gone through the whole process of 11 weeks. The decision gets a bit difficult."
He said of the finalists: "Claire is a fantastic sales person. She's a very, very good presenter and also has a very good business brain.
"Lee is a great sales person. He has a fighting spirit and is determined to succeed, to get on with it. He is very focused."
On Alex, he said: "He's young and has been a very good sales person. He's very intelligent and you shouldn't underestimate his intelligence."
Speaking about Helene he added: "Helene has been brought up in a corporate environment and is a 'steady Eddie'. She's very strategic."
Sugar also said of the candidates: "They've all got weaknesses too. Claire jabbers too much sometimes, she can be a bit overpowering.
"Lee could get too excited from time-to-time, Alex gets a little bit sensitive, and Helene can also be a bit defensive, that's the blame culture of a corporate environment."
Sugar would not reveal the job that awaits the winner, saying: "That will boil down to the candidate choice at the end."
He said he had no regrets about his firings.
Sugar also revealed that he had an affinity for some of the fired contestants.
He said: "Certain candidates still keep in contact with me and I'm more than happy to continue a rapport with Simon (Smith), Raef (Bjayou) or Sara (Dhada)."
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