The Apprentice 2008

*Lee McQueen won the fourth series of The Apprentice on Wednesday, June 11

Sir Alan Sugar will be telling more young entrepreneurs "You're fired!" when The Apprentice returns to BBC1 for a fourth nail-biting series.

Since its first series in February 2005, The Apprentice has followed 16 of the brightest business brains in Britain as they compete for a 100,000 pound-a-year job as an apprentice to multi-millionaire business tycoon Sir Alan Sugar.

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