The Apprentice

After 12 gruelling weeks battling it out against Britain's brightest business hopefuls, Simon Ambrose, a 27-year-old internet entrepreneur from London, has been named as Sir Alan Sugar's third Apprentice.

Simon walks away with the prize of a six-figure salaried job with the self-made multi-millionaire and boss of Amstrad, Sir Alan Sugar.

In the concluding episode, screened last night on BBC One, Simon beat off stiff competition from 36-year-old pharmaceutical sales manager Kristina Grimes, by managing a team of fired apprentices in the toughest task yet – they had to come up with ideas for a replacement building to Sir Alan's recently acquired £120million IBM building on the South Bank.

Although some said Simon's design looked like a flaccid-looking phallic symbol, he won over a room full of architects and property gurus during his presentation. Sir Alan later credited Simon with delivering a presentation about his building design which had "hard-nosed business people ... eating out of his hands."

The job interview from Hell is almost over for the 16 applicants who have travelled to London from all across the country in the hopes of landing the £100,000 job and become Sir Alan Sugar's next apprentice. Sir Alan Sugar's global empire is worth in excess of £800m and now he's ready to hire another apprentice.

Last week, Sir Alan had to fire three of the remaining five applicants but only had to fire Lohit and Tre in the end as Katie resigned. That left Pharmaceutical Sales Manager Kristina Grimes and Internet Entrepreneur Simon Ambrose to fight it out for the coveted title of The Apprentice.

Kristina has previously beaten Simon two weeks ago in the Selling on TV task. Rather that conceeding defeat, Simon thinks therefore that he owes her a beating in the upcoming challenge.

In the boardroom, Sir Alan sits once again between Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford. He shows them a building that he'd just bought in London for £120m. He wants them to create a concept for the building that turns it into a London landmark. In four days time they will present their ideas to some of the countries leading property developers.

Kristine Lefebrvre, who recently became Donald Trump's newest Apprentice after the Los Angeles series of the famous reality TV series, has taken up a secondary apprenticeship - she's taking all of her clothes off for Playboy magazine.

However, this leggy attorney from LA is not just a typical Playboy bunny, she's actually got a story to tell - her Playboy poses came as a way of spreading the word about the dangers women face with cancer. Kristine was diagnosed with cervical cancer just a year and a half ago, and underwent a radical surgery to make sure that the cancer didn't spread. At this stage, the new TV star is in the clear, but she feels the need to spread the word about the trials and tribulations that women with cancer are facing every day. Her spread in Playboy magazine is a way of bringing attention to the plight of women everywhere.

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Sir Alan Sugar - owner of Amstrad - is about to see (well, really - we are about to see...) the 16 contestants that are lining up for an interview. But not the usual sort of interview - here we see them on the very popular reality show The Apprentice where they will do all that they can to become the ultimate apprentice...

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