Jennifer is an ex-beauty queen. This year's must-have reality show backstory! She's also the one whom Donald hand-picked over the producers' protests that she was excessively beautiful. I have the same problem myself: excessive beauty. It's hard to know what to do with the leftovers. Jennifer is mega-qualified, loves Broadway showtunes, but sadly loses points for choosing Donald on her desert island.

Jennifer W has the usual gleaming resume, but describes herself as the "mommy" to two children. Why the quotation marks? Very suspicious. Perhaps she wasn't "hand-picked". The explanation of her leadership style is a bit intimidating. Apparently it's a combination of being a 'visionary', a 'manager of execution' and one who 'builds relationships'. Someone's been hanging round in the management section of her bookstore too long.

Josh is natty in his glasses and his checkered shirt. His photo also makes him look like he's been caught with coffee in his mouth and hasn't yet swallowed. Ironically, he's the CEO of a company called GoSmile. Nothing jumps out from his interview, except that "they're all already winners". Uh huh.

Kristi was a single mother at 16, but managed to juggle all her responsibilities, get a soccer scholarship, and become a top sales executive for a high profile golf course. Our 'plucky battler' contestant.

Mark has a sort of challengingly superior stare, and talks in a lot of empowerment cliches. Be better: I dare you! That's what his picture would say. If it talked. Not surprisingly, he lists self-help books as his fave reads. He's kind of scaring me a little, in a Tony Robbins way.

Markus is the old man of the group, at 41. He's also an odd bundle of contradictions. I don't know quite what to make of him. He likes Led Zeppelin and European house, Rushmore and Fox News. He sounds humble, then makes a point of letting us know that he's coined a special word, all by himself: multipreneur. Hmmm. I'm sensing troublemaker, but that's just a hunch.

Marshawn is another beauty pageant veteran. She's got a good resume, but has the slightly off-putting tendency to speak in aphorisms, perhaps because she heads a public speaking agency. To wit: "Champions view challenges as chances, obstacles as opportunities, problems as possibilities, and turn adversity into advantage." And "difficult times are designed to define you, not destroy you." Eeeeeeeek.

Melissa has an extremely high-powered career, which doesn't seem to fit with the passive answers she gives to some questions. She talks of flying under the radar, and has an interesting reaction to the desert island question: she'd pick The Donald, because he'd create a comfortable environment for them while they waited to be rescued. This highlights a fun psychological aspect of the island question for me - which contestants assumed they'd wait for rescue? and who thought they'd get themselves off the island? Hmm. More on this to come.