Lord Sugar is not a man of the people.

So no one really expected his friends to be the type who put on another set of socks to stave off turning on the central heating or who re-gift that Lily Of The Valley bath set from Granny to save the pennies at Christmas.

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But no one could believe Lord Sugar managed to find two sets of parents willing to drop £2,000 (yes, TWO THOUSAND POUNDS) on their kids’ birthday party.

Should we have been surprised? Probably not. But they’re barmy if they thought putting two grand in the hands of the Apprentice candidates would get them a good time.

With ‘Gary the giraffe’ and dull David running the world’s safest assault course before their ear-splitting rendition of the Hokey Cokey, tight-fisted birthday Grinch Richard refusing to stretch to even some glitter for the party bags, and Charleine and Joseph placating their charges with a couple of glowsticks, these were undoubtedly the worst children’s parties ever thrown.

And Twitter was quite in agreement.

People saw it going wrong right from the beginning.

And Selina’s attitude wasn’t helping – turns out she doesn’t like children or letting them speak.

People saw the flaw in Selina’s mini Olympics plan straight away.

And when Gary’s team wanted to charge £15, graciously reduced to £9, for a party bag, everyone was furious.

Rule One of party planning, Selina: get the client’s phone number.

But then came Charleine’s lack of awareness of nut allergies.

And Gary told the clients the cake could contain Nutella. Idiot.

Finally, David gave them nightmares with their melted, twisted T-shirt faces.

Well done, teams. You successfully ruined these children’s birthday parties and their friendships with every child they invited.

Thankfully Lord Sugar, Claude and Karren were on fire in the boardroom to cut the candidates down to size.

Despite Charleine making Lord Sugar furious when she made a dash for the exit, it was David and his terrible T-shirts that got the chop.

Goodbye David. The only one who had nothing to do with the nut fiasco.