Collectables The Apprentice: You're Fired

This programme contains some strong language.

Useless, totally, absolutely useless. I feel so angry.

I can't put up with loose cannons.

You're fired. You're fired.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Good evening.

Good evening and welcome to The Apprentice: You're Fired,

I'm Rhod Gilbert. Yes! A new series of The Apprentice,

a new host, new unseen footage and 18 shiny new candidates

competing for a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar.

As always, they're a humble, modest and self-effacing bunch.

I'm an emperor, a true leader. A country's not enough.

A continent is not enough. I'm after the world.

Yes, Karthik, you will have countries at your feet,

you WILL be emperor!

But the world has different plans for you.

Today, you're an IT consultant from Kettering.

LAUGHTER

In tonight's Apprentice News... BIG BEN CHIMES

For the first time in Apprentice history, Lord Sugar gives out

his personal e-mail address to help any candidates

who are finding the process a bit tough.

If you want to moan, you can send me an e-mail

at Lord-Sugar@I-Don't-Care.com.

LAUGHTER

Courtney comes to Sofiane's rescue,

as he tries to describe a mysterious object.

Why don't you tell Lord Sugar

about your very large sale at the car boot?

There was this garden, sort of porcelain thing.

It was a vase.

LAUGHTER

And finally, Rebecca reveals an amazing ability

to identify the front of someone's head.

Ah, I can see your face!

LAUGHTER

That was tonight's Apprentice News.

APPLAUSE

Let's meet tonight's panel.

Here to help us separate the antique wheat from the tatty old chaff

in week one's collectables challenge,

antiques expert and star of Bargain Hunt, Anita Manning,

Radio 1 DJ and friend of the show, Matt Edmondson,

and comedian and apprentice fan, Hal Cruttenden.

Welcome to You're Fired.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So, the first candidate to feel the full force

of Lord Sugar's fearsome firing finger

was poor Michelle.

-AUDIENCE:

-Awww...

-LORD SUGAR:

-Michelle, it's very easy

for the finger to be pointed at you as the project manager.

But I do think there's a lot of stuff you are responsible for.

Michelle, you're fired.

Thank you very much for the opportunity.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Michelle Niziol!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Are you OK?

-Yeah, good, yeah.

You got an "awww" from the audience!

You got a spontaneous "Awww!"

-Aw, did I? What, when I was fired or just now?

-LAUGHTER

When you were fired, they were upset!

-I'm upset!

-LAUGHTER

-Are you still upset?

-I'm still in shock, to be honest. Yeah.

-Are you??

I literally packed my life away for 12 weeks

and I've been on longer girlie holidays!

LAUGHTER

You packed your life away for 12 weeks...

-Yeah.

-Waved goodbye to the family...

-Yeah. The businesses...

-Turned round, came back, waved hello...

-Literally, they were like,

"Where've you been, Chelle? Long weekend to Marbs?"

Still drinking the same cup of tea as when you left...

Did they think you'd forgotten something? Is that what happened?

That's got to hurt, week one. That has got to hurt, though.

Yeah, in all honesty, you know,

I went in to win and I was not expecting to get fired first at all.

-So...

-Did you think Rebecca was going to go in the boardroom?

-Yeah.

Honestly, I'm thinking, "Ha-ha, she's off!"

-Seriously, that's what I was thinking.

-I thought she'd go.

Did you think Rebecca was...? There was a moment...

I think loads of people could've gone from right at the beginning.

I was hoping, "You're wearing a bowtie, you're fired."

I really wanted to see, when Big K opened his mouth,

"You can call me K." "Yeah, you're fired."

I think Lord Sugar should just start firing

the people who are being annoying in the first meeting.

You wouldn't have any left by the end of it!

-That's a short show, admittedly.

-Yeah.

Let's have a look at where it all went wrong for you, though.

Don't rush out like lunatics.

Run! Come on!

-Where are you?

-I don't where we are.

It was a fire sale, right from the first item to the last.

-How much will you give us for the rest of it?

-£80.

They couldn't wait to get rid of it, at whatever price,

to whoever actually approached them.

Girls, I know Ian is obviously the expert

and he suggested we go to Portobello. I'm going with Camden.

-He said go to Portobello.

-He did.

-He said it over and over and over and over again.

-Yeah.

I do not feel that I should be fired.

Michelle, you're fired.

Harsh? Fair?

-Mmm...

-Somewhere in between?

Yes, somewhere in between.

I think that it's too early in the process for him

to really know my skills and what I'm all about.

So, I think it was a really hard decision for him to make.

But he made the wrong one!

LAUGHTER

It was all about the fire sale, though, wasn't it?

Claude said it was a fire sale from start to finish.

Lord Sugar said, "Don't rush out like lunatics."

That's kind of what you did. You did stick two pencils up your nose

and pants on your head and rushed off.

You were practically throwing things out of the van at passers-by.

That was the car-boot sale.

-The car...the market team.

-Yeah, the market team.

-And I was obviously on the trade team, that, can I just say...

-Go on.

..beat the boys' trade team.

So, if it was a trade team-off, I would've won.

-Unfortunately, it's not.

-No.

LAUGHTER Anita, you've got 40 years of experience

buying and selling antiques.

Do you do car-boot sales?

No, but I've been to plenty of them.

And I always find that

if there's someone who brings stuff along to their car-boot sale

and they know nothing about pricing,

then the people, the traders, will be attracted to it,

like bees round a jam pot.

And because they didn't know the price or hadn't discussed the price,

they thought that everything that they sold was a victory!

-And it wasn't.

-MATT:

-You did take good items.

-Yeah.

-You took better items than the boys' trade team.

They're wheeling around that huge trolley no-one wants at an antiques fair.

-You'd chosen genuine antiques.

-But that was a 20th-century design!

But not for an antiques shop.

Not for one of those fancy ones they went to!

They took it into somewhere

that looked like they normally work with Louis XVI.

LAUGHTER

OK, let's take this...

You followed your gut - you've got to follow your gut -

you went to Camden, when you were told to go to Portobello.

Camden's got bigger footfall, as far as I'm concerned.

-Bigger footfall?!

-I went with my gut! I've got to go with my gut.

If I'm going to get fired, just got to go with my gut.

What is this gut thing? What is this obsession with your gut?

Have you had some experience in the past

where your gut told you to do something and it worked out so well

-that you now always trust your gut. Is that what it is?

-Yeah!

Well, it hasn't done me too badly so far, has it?

No, it's stood you in pretty good stead so far.

Well, you have been fired, week one. Sorry to bring it up.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Surely, Anita, she should have gone to Portobello?

Portobello - and I've been there many, many times -

is the biggest antiques market in the whole world.

And you have dealers who deal in high-end stuff,

if you'd found the diamonds,

and there are dealers who deal in lower-value collectables.

So, it's all there. And it's always packed.

That would have been the place to go.

-The antiques dealer...

-You idiot! LAUGHTER

He didn't say DON'T go to Camden!

He didn't say don't go to Ethiopia either!

Then you had this great idea. In theory, brilliant idea.

Let's stop off - we don't even need to go to Camden - let's flog this stuff off en route!

Go to an antiques dealer. Giddy with excitement and...

-Let's have a look at this.

-Yeah...

There you are in the car. Let's go to an antiques expert on the way!

Brilliant, we can sell all this stuff. Brilliant, where's the van?

Where's all our stuff? There it goes to...

See, that van driver was going with his gut!

That's what he was doing.

APPLAUSE

That is exactly the kind of thing, in your defence, that I would do.

-Thank you.

-I'd be so excited about this great idea

that I would then mess it all up.

But when you're moving antiques about the world,

transport is a big issue there.

So you should always know where your goods are,

-where they're going to...

-Thanks for that.

LAUGHTER

What you're saying here...

I should have had you on my team!

To be fair, Michelle, you don't listen to experts at the best of times.

Very true! I don't listen to anyone, Matt.

What you are saying, Anita,

is one of the first rules of selling is to take your stuff with you.

Is that what you're saying? That's the gist of it.

That's the gist of it.

Now, week one and everyone's in the firing line.

It did seem as though a few people had lucky escapes.

But our one that got away this week is Natalie, who sold

a pair of antique vases worth £300, for the price of two kebabs.

LAUGHTER

Natalie, you didn't bring her back to the boardroom. Why didn't you bring her back?

-No, because...

-That was quite a big mistake,

cos she sold two vases worth 300 quid for £15...

But that that could have been any of the girls, I think.

I don't think the result of the marketing team

doing so badly was because of Natalie.

Er, Rebecca only sold £25 all day.

I sell more than that at, you know, in half an hour in a car-boot sale.

So... Yeah, I think it should have been Rebecca.

-Matt, should Michelle have brought Natalie back?

-Definitely.

I love her reaction at the end, when she is told by Lord Sugar

that you've sold something that's worth £350.

She goes, "Sorry..."

"Sorry, not sorry."

She wasn't actually in it that much,

apart from making a massive cock-up, was she?

I think she was doubly lucky cos you said, in the boardroom,

when the mistake that she's made, selling the vases, £300, for £15,

when that mistake is made,

Lord Sugar points it out and at first he says, "Who sold the vases?"

And she goes, "Yes! I did!"

Then he says they were worth 300 quid

and she doesn't say "Sorry," actually.

Let's have a look at what she does say,

because I think she got away with muttering a certain something.

Almost inaudible but if she had just said it a decibel louder,

-I don't know if you picked it up?

-No, I did.

One little smidge louder, I think she might have been

sitting here tonight instead of you.

Let's have a look. Listen very carefully

cos she will say this only once.

-Who sold those green vases?

-Me.

-You did. And you sold them for...

-£15.

-£15.

-Do you know how much they were valued for?

-No.

-£300.

-(Fuck...)

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Natalie! Not in the boardroom!

I did hear her say that and I was like, "Oop!"

So, Hal, do you think Natalie should have gone back in?

I don't know, I just thought it was sort of one mistake.

I thought all of them were just massively overconfident.

There was so much of that selling.

Everyone's going, "It's a DEAL! Deal!"

"I want it for free..." "Deal!"

They were hugely confident. They were basically giving stuff away!

So I thought lots of them were to blame.

I think she was just very unlucky.

"I'll take your vase and I'll have your jacket. DEAL!"

I'm walking home naked - did pretty well there!

I can tell you, I've worked it out and Natalie actually achieved

a remarkable 1,900% markdown.

I do love the idea that people who were watching The Apprentice

and bought those vases will be like, "dum-dee-dum, those vases..."

And then, "300 quid?!"

Best news ever.

Or somebody sitting there... that chair that was worth £300,

they sold that for £17.50 or something.

There'll be a lot of people sitting going, "This is fantastic!"

And one guy with a big vase, going, "What?! It's worth WHAT?!"

APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

They put it in bubble wrap as well!

It's early in the process. It's week one. The teams needed their names.

Fair to say, Lord Sugar wasn't mad keen on the girls' name. Nebula.

-Were you a fan?

-No, I hated it. I thought it was an awful name, yeah.

It wasn't one that I wanted at all.

What were your ideas? What did you put forward?

-Pinnacle.

-Pinnacle?

-Yeah.

Gut Feeling...

-LAUGHTER

-Yes! Go with your gut!

-It should have been!

-Yeah, but I didn't like Nebula.

-I thought it sounded awful.

-Yeah, because it sounds...

You think of nebulous as being something sort of vague.

-Cloudy...

-Woolly and indistinct.

But that was how the team behaved. So, in a way,

it was the correct name for the team!

They were like, "Ah! Buy this! Yeah! Team Nebula!

"Team Nebula's over there..."

-An insane unpredictable gas!

-Exactly!

I think it was Alana, was it Alana, that said in the meeting,

-"It sounds like a disease or something."

-Yeah.

And I can tell you because as it happens,

I always carry a pocket medical dictionary.

And I can tell you, that a nebula, Neb-, nebu-, nebula...

..is... This is what you called yourselves, effectively...

Team "clouded spot on the cornea causing defective vision".

-About right.

-That sounds about right.

You might as well have gone for "Team Stye".

Or "Team Conjunctivitis".

Fair to say, Lord Sugar didn't like the girls' team name

but he preferred the boys' humble and understated approach.

What about Titans? Titans, as in Titans of industry, leaders of men.

-That's what we are, gentlemen.

-I actually like Titans.

-I like Titans.

-I'll go with that.

Titans, is that right? Named after Greek gods.

They're in mythological...Greek...badasses...

-Give me six quid for the two. Done.

-£4.75.

-Got a deal? Good stuff.

-Done Deal.

-Deal! Done!

-We sold the lot!

-Heh-heh!

Well done, lads.

DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS

HELMETS CLANK

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

There we go!

Obviously, Titans won the task. Were you impressed with the boys?

I was impressed with the boys. I mean, I thought Paul was good.

Team leader. I too watch Bargain Hunt.

I could do that job.

And I think he delegated well.

-Sofiane was the man to lead that sub-team.

-He was, wasn't he?

And actually, he did the thing that I think your instinct goes against.

I totally get why the girls went, "Sell, sell, sell,

"It's The Apprentice, we've got to make money, we can't be left with anything!"

You've got to leave that to later in the day.

And him being so firm on it, it was absolutely the right thing to do.

Yeah. Hal?

I thought that, with respect, both project managers had a dodgy week.

But I think he was just as dodgy as you were.

-Not that you're dodgy!

-LAUGHTER

Praise indeed! Praise indeed, Michelle, there.

-I think he was saved by Sofiane.

-Yeah, absolutely.

I think Sofiane was fantastic. He was just so...

And he almost took over.

Paul was like - do you remember when Paul...

He phoned him and said, "How have your lot been doing?"

Paul starts going, "We tried to sell this thing..."

"I don't need the details." Sofiane took over that group,

and ran the whole thing.

-I thought Paul was... I thought Paul...

-Lucky winners.

Really lucky winner.

I mean, they did make a lot of mistakes.

I mean, we talked about trying to sell that trolley in the...

in that high-end sort of Chelsea...

But there was also - I mean, I quite enjoyed Olly's...

-Sausage Olly's contribution.

-Oh, yeah...

He did very well negotiating - pretty much sold all their stuff

to somebody who didn't have any money.

That was... LAUGHTER

That's the second rule of selling - always find somebody

who's got enough money to buy the stuff you're selling.

They were lucky - they WERE lucky, I think they were lucky.

Were you impressed with Sofiane, particularly?

Sofiane was great.

He'd thought about things - he was an experienced market trader.

-He was great.

-Yeah, I agree.

He totally led that boys' team.

I wish I had him on my team, I wouldn't be sitting here now.

I felt like I had a Sofiane, in Alana,

but they just didn't perform, you know? So, yeah.

He was brilliant,

and I think he definitely was like the project manager

of that task, for the boys.

I wonder if he watched more Bargain Hunt than Paul.

LAUGHTER

He's watching Dickinson's Real Deal.

What a shame!

Anyone else that stood out?

-For you...

-Karthik!

-..on the boys' team?

I mean, Karthik does...

Got to be Karthik, The Big K to friends and fans -

I'm a fan, not yet a friend, but I hope there one day.

LAUGHTER

Don't you love the fact he said friends and fans?

-He didn't mention his family...

-No.

..who I think are pretending they don't know him.

Don't you think? Going, "What, Karthik?

"No, he's not our relation."

I think he's certainly raised a few eyebrows in the competition -

not least of all, his own one.

LAUGHTER

He's so...

I know it's awful, I'm sure he's a nice guy,

but I'm looking forward to seeing him get fired.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

I know that's wrong...

Please do not disrespect the future Prime Minister of Britain.

LAUGHTER

Emperor!

Of the world, yeah.

Anyone else? Jessica, I thought, was...

Is Jessica as annoying in real life as she is on the TV?

She is - what you see on the TV...

Cos that's like a task in itself.

Just surviving a day with her.

She made the experience very, very fun.

I tell you what, it's only week one, but I can tell you,

she's already got her own highlights package.

LAUGHTER

# Express yourself... #

They say I'm like the female version of Jim Carrey.

I believe it's because I'm quite animated with my face,

and, like, ohh, a bit crazy with my hands.

You won't get too many smiles from me.

-The pair of them...

-Got a nice pair of jugs, there, Trish.

Ooh!

This is not an antique, is it?

-Er, no.

-Ooh!

Catch!

APPLAUSE

She, er... She seems like a... like a...laugh?

-She is brilliant fun, honestly.

-Is she?

-She is absolutely hilarious.

-Exhausting, come on.

No, she's just so funny.

Like, in an intense situation, she just, you know,

really breaks the ice, and, yeah, she's really good...

-But, I think she...

-How does she break it, like this?

-Waah!

-Yeah!

LAUGHTER

But she is a great businesswoman, though.

-I don't think...

-Is she?

-Yeah, she really is, yeah.

-How do you know that?

-She told me.

LAUGHTER

Oh, well, fair enough(!)

I guess people are going to fall into two camps with Jessica -

they're going to be, you know, charmingly kind of...

What's a fair word for her?

-Excitable.

-Excitable, perfect.

I do think she's nice - she did apologise when she messed up

on the thing - I think you could tell she's got a heart of gold...

-Yeah.

-..but you have to keep putting that you in head,

"She's got a heart of gold, got a heart of gold."

-"Don't shout at her."

-Is it an act, though,

is it a strategy, or is it just...?

-You can't maintain that over 12 weeks.

-No.

Did she ever have a power down...

moment, though?

Or was she just go, go, go, all the time?

Go, go, go, all the time.

That's what she's like in real life.

But, yeah, she was lovely.

I mean, she does seem lovely,

-but someone that you'd try and avoid at a party.

-Mm.

-Or anywhere.

-Or anywhere.

-I think she IS the party.

At the beginning, you were all going in the bedroom, she was like,

"This is the bedroom of the winning team!"

and I think, "You're going to be in the corridor or non the landing."

-LAUGHTER

-"The boys are going to kick out Big K,

"they're going to be sleeping on the...!"

Well, I had - Trishna was my bed buddy -

she, we slept next to each other...

Ooh! LAUGHTER

-Well...

-Wow, the revelations on this show!

It's turned into a whole new show!

-MATT:

-Tell us more about that frosty relationship...

Can I just clarify the term "bed buddies"?

Sorry, so, she slept in the bed next to me,

-and then I had Jessica in there, as well.

-In the...?

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Oh, dear!

-It's an Apprentice first!

-It's all going wrong!

-It's all going wrong.

-What has this show become?!

-It's become Big Brother!

-Something for the dads.

I was picturing you all top to toe.

-MICHELLE:

-Of course we were!

Er, we've mentioned quite a few candidates,

but only one of us here has met them all...sort of.

Matt, what did you make of this year's crop?

Well, yes, I haven't met the candidates, but I have seen

all their audition tapes, and I've edited myself into them.

I think it's a very interesting crop this year.

Every year I think it can't get better than last year,

but I think we've achieved it this time round.

Let's have a look at what happened when Matt met the candidates.

I'm a man's man.

Mm, I can see that, Paul.

So, how would you react if Lord Sugar criticised you

in the boardroom?

Oi, Sugar, no!

Yeah...that might not go down too well.

I can speak cat.

HE MEOWS

SHE MEOWS

HE MEOWS

SHE MEOWS

SHE HISSES

HE MEOWS

SHE YOWLS

I have entered various different beauty pageants -

Miss Nottingham, er, Miss Great Britain,

I've placed at a few, haven't yet won a crown...

Yeah, good luck with that, honey.

APPLAUSE

Who's really standing out for you?

Well, apart from the obvious ones,

Karthik and Jessica, I think people like Courtney

are interesting to me, because, as Lord Sugar said,

he modelled himself on Leonardo DiCaprio -

he thinks he's a good looking guy,

I think he thinks that he can operate differently to the rest,

but we didn't really see much strength from him

in this first episode,

so intrigued to know where his strengths do lie.

Well, he can identify a vase when he sees one.

-That is true.

-Yes.

-That is true.

That was... He's quite helpful in that situation,

if somebody's struggling!

Now, I know he's wasting his time,

you will follow your gut anyway, Michelle, but, for what it's worth,

here's some advice just for you from Lord Sugar.

Michelle stepped up in the first task, first week -

that's not an easy thing to do, that's very brave.

Unfortunately, she missed my instructions,

she just let the girls run wild,

they just started selling - as soon as they unloaded the lorry,

they were just taking any price for anything,

like that, there was no thought.

Completely disorganised.

The only advice I could give to Michelle in the future

is listen to the task in hand,

find the bullet points of the key issues

that are going to make something a success or not,

and concentrate on that, and don't be sidelined by other issues.

-Oh, some nice stuff in there.

-Yeah, fair point.

-Brave.

-Yeah.

-That's cool.

-Yeah, that's cool.

-Is that advice you could use,

-or are you just going to follow your gut, ignore it?

-Nah, just going to follow my gut.

Do you think you'd have made a good business partner with Lord Sugar?

I...

I would have wanted to win, but I find it really difficult

with anyone telling me what to do, so I'm not sure. Not sure.

-But I would have liked to have won.

-Yeah.

-There's nothing I can do about that.

-No.

LAUGHTER

What was your business plan, should things have turned out differently?

So, I own a mortgage company,

an estate agency and a lettings business -

my business plan was to expand on that,

and Lord Sugar is in property himself, so I thought,

who better to have a business partner

who is someone who is very knowledgeable in property?

So, yeah, my business plan was to expand that business.

OK, so, Lord Sugar made his decision -

but does our panel feel it was the right one?

Anita, do you think Lord Sugar was right to fire Michelle?

I hate to say it, but, yes!

Oh.

LAUGHTER

Brutal.

Matt?

I think it's so tough, it being week one -

being a project manager, I think you should be...

-Oh, just spit it out, man!

-I think Rebecca should have been fired.

-Yeah!

-AUDIENCE MEMBER:

-Yeah!

Oh, Rebecca - ooh, and that got some response from our audience here.

-Hal, what do you think?

-I think...

-This is the casting vote,

-I'm going to treat this as a casting vote.

-Ooh, I'd say...

-I think... I...

-LAUGHTER

I think.... No, I think it probably was the right decision,

but I also think it was close with Rebecca,

-and I think it's that thing of you being project manager.

-Yeah.

I know you said you think they chose you cos you were a danger,

but they were desperate.

You know, you said, "I work in mortgages,"

and they went, "You can be our project manager!"

-It was like, nothing to do with the thing, so...

-Yes or no, Hal?

She's sitting right there, Rhod!

Um...

-I...

-I'm sure you knew that before you came on the show, though.

-Yes...!

-LAUGHTER

I think it was...

I think it was the right decision, but only just, really,

and Rebecca - Rebecca's...

-Rebecca's quite scary...

-Yes or no, Hal.

-OK, it was...

-LAUGHTER

Yes, sorry. Sorry, yes, it was the right decision...

Why didn't you just say, "Yes, sorry," in the first place?

-Yes.

-You saw how Anita did it.

-"Yes."

-"Yes!"

LAUGHTER

Anita just went...

LAUGHTER

So, two to one - but only slightly, from our panel.

It's over to the audience.

Audience, time for your turn to vote.

If you agree with Lord Sugar, hold up "Fired",

if you disagree, hold up "Hired".

Er...

Ugh...!

Ooh, it's a difficult one!

Don't you... It's nothing to do with you.

LAUGHTER

-It is a red, it is Fired, but only just.

-Ahh!

-Only just.

-Only just.

-AUDIENCE:

-Ahh.

It is very, very marginal. Only just.

AUDIENCE BOOS

Boo!

Does it ever kick off here?

It's just about to!

Only just, the audience agree, and the panel, only just.

Unfortunately, Michelle, Lord Sugar won't be investing

in your business venture - but, as you know,

no-one goes away from You're Fired empty handed -

you've made a BIG thing about following your gut -

"I follow my gut!"

We thought we would get you, so that you can follow your gut...

with supreme confidence in the future...

we have got you this probiotic yoghurt...

LAUGHTER

.."For a Healthy Gut You can Follow with Confidence."

We've also got you a spoon - an antique spoon...

Keep your hands off.

I realise you'll probably rush off and sell this to somebody...

LAUGHTER

-..straight away.

-Ohh!

-Feel free to tuck in.

Thanks very much for being on the show,

-you've been a great sport.

-Thanks, Rhod.

Let's have a look at your highlights, Michelle.

Yeah, let's go.

Oh, poor Michelle.

My heart goes out to her.

It's a shame, because I think Michelle would have been really good

in this process.

Hello!

She was a very strong woman,

came from a very sort of smart and successful background.

Don't do that to me, Jessica!

Well done, girls!

The whole experience,

I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

THEY LAUGH

-Every single minute - all four of them?

-Yeah!

-Ladies and gentlemen, Michelle Niziol!

-Thank you.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And also please thank tonight's Apprentice fans and guests

Anita Manning, Matt Edmondson and Hal Cruttenden.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You can watch Matt's Meet The Candidates in full-on BBC iPlayer,

and you can watch exclusive clips and find out everything

you need to know about this year's series at...

Next week, it's task two -

for the remaining candidates, it's all in the jeans.

Jeans made from Japanese denim.

-You can't vote for yourself.

-Oh, I suppose that's stupid.

I'm sorry, I'm going to kind of veto that.

Where the hell are the jeans?

Where's the jeans?

# The Jean Genie lives on his back... #

What do you mean, you can't find the jeans?

We haven't got any information, we don't know when they're coming.

That looks ridiculous.

Guys, come on, let's not argue.

We need to get this done.

# ..let yourself go... #

For the love of God, stop talking.

You're coming up with problems to my solutions.

So, you're doing photographs for your jean campaign

without your jeans?

Er...

Dimwits.

LAUGHTER

That all seemed to have gone pretty well(!)

I'll be back next Thursday at 10pm for more You're Fired,

when I'll be joined by advertising guru Zaid Al-Zaidy,

journalist Grace Dent and comedian Phil Wang.

Goodnight.

APPLAUSE