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Synopsis:

My fight to save my fertility (and how I survived Sir Alan).

She's still wearing that beret. Even in a crowded park in Marylebone it's hard to miss Lucinda Ledgerwood, the blonde risk analyst fired from The Apprentice for being "too zany".

Our own Brian Sewell described her as "dressed like an amateur French tart". But in the flesh, Lucinda, 32, looks achingly young. And that wardrobe is far less pantomime. Today she's wearing a black column dress accessorised with vertiginous heels.

Ledgerwood was the contestant who least needed to win The Apprentice. Her salary already topped £100,000. A smart self-starter, she won our hearts by claiming you don't need to be a bitch to succeed. But we watched in horror as her accent and her wardrobe were mocked. Her competitors' "gang mentality" made the experience one of the "most horrific" she has encountered.

Publish date:

12 August 2008

Author:

Liz Hoggard

Source:

Evening Standard

Media:

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