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Many of us will be glued to our screens for the next few weeks to see the latest bunch of recruits try their hand at pleasing Sir Alan Sugar in The Apprentice , but chat show king Michael Parkinson won't.

"I have an aversion to that programme," he said. "I find it distasteful. It's full of vulgar, loud people, who, for all the wrong reasons, are dobbing each other in."

Speaking about Sir Alan, Parky added: "When he tells someone, 'You're fired', what's funny about that? You're fired. There's nothing funny about it."

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