One 18-year-old girl, an apprentice pastrycook with no previous convictions, was given an eight-month sentence for attempting to set light to a car.

ECONOMIST: France

Lord Sugar has "no intention" of paying out to The Apprentice winner Stella English "unless instructed to do so by the law", he has told a tribunal.

BBC: Stella English

The Apprentice host Donald Trump comes in at No. 3, while The Office's Steve Carell and Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen round out the top five.

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Sir Alan is in no doubt as to what would have happened if The Apprentice had been around when he began his working life, from his family's council flat in Hackney, London.

BBC: Sugar's Apprentice back in business

When I was twenty years old, I became a kind of apprentice to a man named Andrew Lytle, whom pretty much no one apart from his negligibly less ancient sister, Polly, had addressed except as Mister Lytle in at least a decade.

NEWYORKER: Reality Effects

On the other hand, I saw no evidence of him protecting the feelings of those he fired when I watched Apprentice.

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