Simon the Apprentice

In the UK, they have a version of the game show The Apprentice. In the US version, contestants vie for a chance to work for Donald Trump, one of the most successful business persons around. In the UK version, it's Sir Alan Sugar. Today, I've just been informed by a friend of mine that this guy Simon Ambrose, who we were hanging out with for about a week or so in Cape Town back in the fall of 2003, was the winner of the latest show in UK. I thought... what a small world. Too bad he wasn't one I'd kept in better touch with. What's more unbelievable tho, is how unexpected someone like him would win a show like that. Basically, my friend describes our last memories of him as being "pissed and moon walking in the bar in Cape Town." Actually, that's all we remember about him... being drunk at the Ashanti hostel just about every night. Crazy world....

Simon in 2003:

Simon after winning the Apprentice: