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Britain’s brightest lie and they can’t spell either. That’s the conclusion you can draw from The Apprentice that speeds to its conclusion next week with four, rather than two candidates who are, the programme makers tell us, the tycoons of tomorrow.

They include Lee McQueen who’s a likeable chap, tall, good looking, funny and enthusiastic, he also gets the thumbs up from fired candidate Lucinda.

He’s obviously had a tough life, dragged himself up from a council estate through sheer grit and along the way has found a bizarre aptitude for dinosaur impersonation.

But what a mistake he made on what is arguably the most important document he has ever written – his CV to enter The Apprentice.

Not only did he lie, saying he had spent two years rather than four months at university. Then in just one sentence he strung together a series of spelling mistakes including ‘tommorrows’ which also – quelle horreur! - excludes an apostrophe!

What’s worse? The deceit, or the idiotic perception that spelling just doesn’t count?

We all know about spell check, or Lee must have at least one friend who can spell and could have proofread it for him. Unless, of course, he didn’t dare admit this to a friend.

Pretending to have spent longer at university than was the case, and can’t spell, perhaps both reflect Lee’s deep-seated insecurity about his own background and education.

We forgive you Lee for being brought up on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn’t matter that you can’t spell and are, perhaps, borderline dyslexic. But it’s harder to forgive the idea that you think it’s not that important!

More alarming is the thought that Sir Alan Sugar, doesn’t rate them either or he’d have fired the lovely Lee on the spot. Fancy instead firing Lucinda, for being ‘zany’ and being a good leader! I’ll bet she spell ‘tomorrow’ and ‘beret’.

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