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Jenny's real boss leaps to her defence over bully tag

MILLIONS of viewers this week saw her as a super-bitch, bullying her fellow contestants on TV show The Apprentice.

But the local businessman who is the boss of reality show star Jenny Celerier says she is not the hectoring hellcat portrayed on screen, and he says she should not be fired by Alan Sugar.

Senior sales manager Ms Celerier was castigated in the latest show for her treatment of fellow candidates Lucinda Ledgerwood and Shazia Wahab, but her Mark Group boss Bill Rumble has said the show has not shown her in her best light.

Mr Rumble is writing a weekly web blog on the Mark Group website and is dismayed at the way his colleague has so far been shown in the hit BBC1 show.

Mr Rumble, commercial director at Mark Group, said: 'It's not a view I share. I think Jenny has been depicted as someone a million miles away from the Jenny that I know.'

While based at the energy efficiency company's head- quarters in Leicester, Ms Celerier, 36, works closely with the sales team at the branch office at Matrix Park, Segensworth, coming down at least twice a month for sales updates and developing new business.

Mr Rumble admits that his colleague may have gone over the top in her approach to Lucinda Ledgerwood – who was reduced to tears by a persistent barrage of barracking and criticism – but insists she was nonetheless making a good point about Ms Ledgerwood's reluctance to fully work with the team.

'I hope the backlash against her does not last too long as I genuinely feel that we have yet to see her in her best light,' he said.

'Strong minded and with desire to succeed, yes she's guilty of that, but a bitch and a bully, no way.

'Hopefully the next episode will begin to redress that.'

Source:Portsmouth News