The Apprentice is back

The Apprentice Series 5 is to start on Wednesday, March 25.

Those who couldn't wait were able to catch Comic Relief Does The Apprentice last week.

I found the celebrities on the show irritating. Why is it every time we turn on the TV we are greeted with Jonathan Ross? The show, I think, did not have the same appeal as the real series, and lacked the tension.

It does not seem like a year ago that Lee McQueen was the surprise winner of series four, with the runner-up being Claire Young. Helene Speight and Alex Wotherspoon were in the final.

I missed the first series, but have been hooked since series two. As the weeks go by you get to know the contestants on the show and see the scheming unfold as the people try to assert their authority and ideas.

Some people are brilliant at certain tasks, but then are useless when asked to do something else.

The winners normally are tough and are steely.

My favourite part of the show is the tasks that the teams take part in. It is always difficult trying to guess who is going to win.

It was amusing one year when one of the teams tried, very unsuccessfully, to sell cheap English cheese to the French.

So, who will be Sir Alan Sugar's Apprentice of 2009?