Jenny has been fired. Rejoice!

Then why did I feel sympathy for the woman whose look was described as a cross between Lady Macbeth and the snake Kaa in “The Jungle Book”?

Well, perhaps not quite sympathy, but a little more patience.

After all, this is the woman who turned on her colleagues in the boardroom, reduced team mates to tears, had the gall to ask for tips despite losing customers’ laundry, came up with the daft idea of an environment greeting card, tried to bribe a shopkeeper and didn’t know the meaning of kosher.

Financial pundit Alvin Hall had it about right when he said she had ”distorted the idea of survival”.

But afterwards,  as she explained her demonic behaviour on the post-programme analysis with Adrian Chiles, she didn’t criticise her former team mates and even appeared contrite for her brutish behaviour towards Lucinda.

“Miserable,” was how she herself described her callous boardroom tactics.

“I thought I was being shrewd,” she said. “Covering my back. I can’t believe it.”

Aggression can help in the business world, but it can also hinder, she observed.

Am I being soft? Going all American in the face of a public confession?

The other panelists hardly let up.

“You should’ve been fired last week for the environmental card,” columnist Vanessa Feltz told her.

If Alan Sugar wanted to show that integrity and skill wins a deal,  he should also have fired Michael.

The 25-year-old telesales executive said he was a “good Jewish boy” on his CV to impress Sugar, but came a cropper when he didn’t know what kosher was during an exercise in Marrakech.

Worse than that, he mixed up kosher with halal.

“I’m only half-Jewish,” Michael later explained.

This time it was Sugar who went soft, going all dreamy-eyed over his own enthusistic youth.