A few words from Rob Mansfield

Social media is a fairly big part of my life.

I’m a member of various social networks, such as last.fm, Facebook, LinkedIn and Plaxo to name but four and am connected to a variety of friends, business contacts and other people I’ve only ever met online.

But, and here’s a big but, I don’t connect with anyone I don’t vet or know first.

Thus, it was a minor irritation that I got at least three separate invites on different social networks over the weekend from someone I didn’t know called, get this, Joe Respondto.

How ridiculous is that? What a pitiful attempt at spam - calling yourself Respondto! It’s not even clever…

It also seems as if I’m not the only person who’s been getting similar invitations.

So, for those of you out there who have been silly enough to accept this person as a friend, make sure ‘he’ can’t get hold of any important, or sensitive information!

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I love The Apprentice - it always takes me a while to ‘warm’ to the characters every year (and let’s face it, it’s tough to warm to some of the egos that apply to the show), but it’s far more entertaining than many other ‘reality’ shows on TV.

I also adore Sky+ - as anyone who has it knows, it’s revolutionised TV watching and means in our house we never face a night being forced to watch 10 Years Younger or Pet Rescue or some other such naff ‘lifestyle’ programme.

Unfortunately, The Apprentice and Sky+ aren’t happy bed-partners, as it were.

For various reasons this series, I’ve not been able to watch The Apprentice on the night. Yesterday, for example, The Champions League final was on, so I decided to watch that in preference.

Now, I don’t actively try to avoid knowing who’s been fired if I don’t watch it straightaway, unlike The Likely Lads in the famous episode from the 70s, when they spend all day avoiding news about the result of the England football match, only to find out it was called off because of a waterlogged pitch.

But this morning, as soon as I turned on the radio, the DJ immediately started talking about last night’s episode and gave the game away. Aaarrgghh!

I know there’s more to it than the firing, but knowing who it is before you start simply means that you know which team loses and it spoils everything.

Anyway, I felt a bit sorry for Raef. It seemed to me that Sirallan took against him because he was posh, no matter what he might say. I think Michael deserved to go far more, especially after Kosher-gate the other week!

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One of the joys (or downsides, depending on your view) of the burgeoning celebrity culture over the past few years is the little snippets of trivia about famous people that you probably wouldn’t otherwise know.

So we know about Liam Gallagher’s extra toe, Ashton Kutcher’s webbed feet and Kate Bosworth’s different-coloured eyes.

And now, thanks to Holy Moly, we know about Anthony Head’s damaged right hand.

Yes, the man from the Gold Blend ads, Buffy or Little Britain, depending on your awareness, apparently has a damaged hand and makes a very subtle, yet concerted effort not to get it into shot.

And the fortunate thing was that Anthony Head appeared as a guest on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross that same evening.

We spent ages trying to catch a glimpse of his hand and, amazingly enough, it was almost impossible to do so, because he does indeed keep it out of sight.

More amusing was the fact that I then spotted other people on talkboards discussing the very same thing. It was clearly a new piece of gossip for many people. Ah, the power of the internet!

It clearly hasn’t harmed his career, so it can’t be that terrible. Good luck to him!

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