We have had one or two anxious inquiries about the ritual performed by the Apprentice's Daniel Lassman before his boardroom ordeals. Surely the great Jewish hope could not be crossing himself?

No, he is not, you will be relieved to know. The gesture was "something I picked up on holiday," he said, "It's mind and body - that's why I touch my head."

He does it with "a prayer in Hebrew that I want to keep to myself" - a prayer to his father Michael who died five years ago, the Buckhurst Hill Chabad member explained. "I didn't know I was being filmed, otherwise I would have done it more discreetly."

And now let the mazeltovs ring out for the former King Solomon schoolboy, newly engaged to his girlfriend of seven years, Sophie Stoll, who was at JFS.

He proposed by spelling out the question "Will You Marry Me" in rose petals after an evening at the Shard.