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"It&amp;#039;s only been back for a week, but we at Digital Spy are already hooked on the new series of The Apprentice - and we&amp;#039;re not the only ones. Yasmina Siadatan, winner of series five (the one with &amp;#039;Pantsman&amp;#039;), is still a huge fan of the show and has some pretty strong opinions on this year&amp;#039;s candidates. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t believe I&amp;#039;m making all these assumptions about the contestants,&amp;quot; she told us as she gave her verdict on the class of 2013. &amp;quot;When people did this to me, I used to think, &amp;#039;Who are these people?&amp;#039; And now I&amp;#039;m sat here doing exactly the same.&amp;quot; Yes you are Yasmina, and you don&amp;#039;t mince your words... Yasmina on Rebecca  &amp;quot;I think she&amp;#039;s my &amp;#039;love to hate&amp;#039;. Anybody who can wind up other women like that so easily, and also take the bait, in week two - I don&amp;#039;t think they&amp;#039;re strong enough. It&amp;#039;s a shame because there&amp;#039;s so many different ways of reaching the top of The Apprentice, and one of those is by keeping everybody on side. That&amp;#039;s a real skill and I don&amp;#039;t think she&amp;#039;s got it. I think she&amp;#039;s going to crumble.&amp;quot; Yasmina on Zeeshaan  &amp;quot;I really like him. I really like those kind of people in my life anyway, young Indian men who are really hungry and have got the gift of the gab. They&amp;#039;re natural businessmen because often their parents are businessmen as well. But Sugar doesn&amp;#039;t ever see to hire anyone like that. He hasn&amp;#039;t gone for the &amp;#039;cheeky chappy, businessman Asian guy yet&amp;#039;. Maybe this time he will. With the gift of the gab sometimes can come too much joking around. I like that around me, but Lord Sugar is not really that kind of joker.&amp;quot; Yasmina on Alex  &amp;quot;I think he&amp;#039;s brilliant. I really like him. I think he&amp;#039;s got potential. He&amp;#039;s my one to watch, actually. I think he&amp;#039;s smart. I think he&amp;#039;s aligning himself well and from what I&amp;#039;ve seen of him on the task, I think he&amp;#039;s got quite a bit between the ears. With his appearance, I say fair play. I&amp;#039;m hoping that his appearance is not such a big deal to him and that&amp;#039;s just how he looks. Does he do a lot of grooming? I don&amp;#039;t know. Why would you intentionally want to look like that? Maybe I&amp;#039;ll ask Lord Sugar to find out.&amp;quot; Yasmina on Jason  &amp;quot;Oh my God, that comment when he was being interviewed where he said, &amp;#039;These two are the most moronic men I have ever worked with in my life&amp;#039;, or something like that. I think at that point the whole nation just went, &amp;#039;What a loser, get off my TV&amp;#039;. He&amp;#039;s destined for the chop, he&amp;#039;s got to be.  &amp;quot;But then again it&amp;#039;s just such a highly edited show. You can make all these assumptions, but really it&amp;#039;s not nice because we don&amp;#039;t know what these people are like. They must have seen him coming and thought, &amp;#039;Ah, we can make him say really long stupid words&amp;#039;. This posh guy, he could be really nice and that&amp;#039;s the first time he&amp;#039;s ever used the word moronic. I mean, I doubt it, but maybe.&amp;quot; Yasmina on Luisa  &amp;quot;So far I think she&amp;#039;s really good. I think she&amp;#039;s come across really well and on tasks she&amp;#039;s been great. The fact that she looks good - it doesn&amp;#039;t cause me any problems. These topless photos - if it is literally just people from her past trying to sell stuff to the press, that&amp;#039;s harsh. I&amp;#039;ve been on The Apprentice and I know how difficult it is to get on and how difficult it is to perform on tasks. You don&amp;#039;t get there because of your looks or because you&amp;#039;re fame-hungry. That&amp;#039;s not how it works. At the end of the day it is a BBC business show, it&amp;#039;s not a Channel 5 fly-on-the-wall documentary, it is quite a serious programme. The people who are running the show, they look for particular business traits. They don&amp;#039;t look for people that want to be on TV. I feel sorry for her actually. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s very beautiful, she&amp;#039;s clearly very capable and you need to keep people like that quite close, because no matter what anyone says, if you are beautiful and you are intelligent then you tend to go quite far in life. With girls like her, you just work with her and work with her strengths. Yeah, she&amp;#039;s quite shrieky and a bit annoying, but she&amp;#039;s not more annoying than that posh guy. If you had to go on a task with one of those two, which one would you pick - definitely the good-looking shrieky girl, right?&amp;quot; Yasmina on Leah  &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s my favourite. I think she&amp;#039;s going to win. She&amp;#039;s quietly focused. I think the fact that she&amp;#039;s a doctor has won us over a little bit, but at the same time I think she is good. I think she&amp;#039;s one to watch. I think maybe there&amp;#039;s going to be a girl that wins this year.&amp;quot; Yasmina on Uzma  &amp;quot;First off, that&amp;#039;s a weird colour she&amp;#039;s got. The make-up people need to sort that out. Her face is fluorescent. In the show, she&amp;#039;s like a little bulldog. She wouldn&amp;#039;t be competition. If you&amp;#039;re going to have an argument like that with Rebecca in the boardroom in week two, you are not going to go all the way through. That is not the way you should conduct yourself. Even when you get to the final and you have to fight, you don&amp;#039;t talk like that. You talk with a lot more elegance and you talk with a lot more respect. She&amp;#039;s going to flummox herself, make mistakes and go out by week five. She&amp;#039;s too yappy. She&amp;#039;s not a bulldog, she&amp;#039;s a yappy.&amp;quot; Yasmina is Head of Media for The Start-Up Loans Company, a government-funded initiative aimed at aspiring 18-30-year-old entrepreneurs giving them the chance to kick-start their companies. See www.startuploans.co.uk for further details. The Apprentice continues tonight (May 15) at 9pm on BBC One "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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