Shibby Shot

Think you don’t need business insurance, then Melissa, the one that got away on this week’s The Apprentice, should change your mind?

It was Shibby who got the chop of course – good business insurance can’t always guard against that – but his impressions of the rest of his colleagues turned out to be better than his business acumen.

Mind you, having the eternally optimistic Paloma and the gone-out-to-lunch Laura at your side selling and presenting, couldn’t have made things easier for the surgeon Shibby. So when he promised a 1,000 bread rolls to the posh hotel (and delivered 16), Shibby was firmly in the cross-hairs and no business insurance can counter that.

The bigger culprit was possibly Sandeesh, whose can’t-do-that attitude scuppered things for Shibby from the first minute she set foot in the bakery. Shibby should have given her the equivalent of the corner office and got Paloma on baking the buns. Sandeesh, who knew she was sailing close to the wind under the scrutiny of Lord Sugar, has to be firing fodder.

But Melissa was firmly the one who wriggled out of Lord Sugar’s firing line this time. A professed food industry expert, seeing her working out the unit cost of a bread roll in front of the client brought everyone out in a cold sweat. Her cost of £1.80 a bread roll was met with looks of horror from the hotel’s managing director.

Business insurance won’t save Melissa – whose card is now firmly marked – but it might just help the person who ends up employing her in later years.