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Meet the new Apprentices

Name: Lucinda Ledgerwood FIRED
Age: 31
About her: A risk manager with a B.Sc in psychology and neuroscience and a diploma in traditional Chinese medicine, Lucinda is apparently privileged, quirky and controlling. She specialises in weird combinations, it seems.
Need to know: Her biggest regret was turning down a movie part as a Bond girl body double.
She says: "I always win so it's a natural conclusion, I will win."

Name: Jenny Maguire FIRED
Age: 27
About her: Dubliner Jenny specialises in advertising for the fashion and leisure industry and calls herself “an iron fist in a velvet glove”. And you wouldn’t want a smack from one of those.
Need to know: At the age of 14, she was champion show jumper.
She says: "I can sell pieces of paper for £50.”

Name: Lee McQueen
Age: 30
About him: Lee was 18 when he purchased his first house. He has worked in the IT area of the recruitment industry for more than eight years.
Need to know: His party trick is the “reverse pterodactyl", which is achieved by standing on a chair and screeching a lot. We’d be interested to see what Sir Alan thinks of it.
He says: "There is no airy-fairy stuff with me, I tell it how I see it."

Name: Lindi Mngaza FIRED
Age: 22
About her: An enthusiastic Mancunian, Lindi travels through the UK doing IT presentations for technology bods and assorted fatcats. Just 22, she’s already in the UK’s top 10% of earners. We have no idea whether that’s impressive or not, frankly.
Need to know: She claims to be descended from royalty and is dyslexic.
She says: "There is no I in team but there is an I in winner."

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