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Useless. Totally, absolutely useless.

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I feel so angry.

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I can't put up with loose canons.

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You're fired.

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You're fired.

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You're fired.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Ah!

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Good evening. Good evening and welcome to You're Fired.

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I'm Rhod Gilbert.

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In this week's task,

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the six remaining candidates competing for

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a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar were tasked with

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creating a new gin brand and bringing it to market.

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A mammoth task, then, which Grainne managed to sum up perfectly.

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I-I keep forgetting I don't want it... I want it to... but I thi-think...

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I need to stop drinking this.

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In Apprentice news tonight...

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BELL CHIMES

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The girls go through Claude's man-bag and find his aftershave.

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Ooh!

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LAUGHTER

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Grainne regrets giving her mobile number to Karthik before he was fired.

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19 missed calls?

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LAUGHTER

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And Trishna demonstrates why she lost her job at the library.

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What they really want more than anything is

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a drink that means something.

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It takes them on a journey...

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CLATTERING ..of taste, so we've developed a journey of taste for them

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within our brand. It's about rejuvenation...

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CLATTERING ..excitement and spices.

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LAUGHTER

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And Karren tries to explain why Donald Trump's face looks that way.

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The colouring came from natural orange peel. Well, it didn't.

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It was added in as an additive,

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to turn it that sort of strange tangerine colour.

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And that is tonight's Apprentice news.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Let's meet our panel, ready to distil this week's gin task

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until their mouths go dry and their heads hurt.

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International entrepreneur Frances Dickens,

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broadcaster and Apprentice fan Sara Cox and comedian Nathan Caton.

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Welcome to You're Fired.

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APPLAUSE

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So the latest candidate to get slung out the saloon doors of

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the Apprentice was poor Trishna.

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Trishna, the failure of this task has a lot to do with the colour,

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and that was down to you,

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so it is with regret, Trishna, that you're fired.

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No problem.

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Please welcome Trishna Thakrar.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Listen to that! Listen to that! How amazing.

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Have a seat.

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What a response!

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Listen to that - whoops, cheers...!

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-What a response. Hear that?

-Yeah, amazing response. Thanks, guys.

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That's got to feel quite good, hearing that.

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Yeah, amazing, I think. Obviously gutted, but really good response.

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Every week I sit here going,

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"She said some sensible things," and then here you are.

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I didn't expect you to be here.

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-I didn't expect to be here, either, to be honest.

-No.

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I think that I obviously had some suggestions or things

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that I thought we should do that didn't quite work out and I think

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that was probably ultimately why I got fired, mainly because of the

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colour and that was my suggestion so can't really complain in that sense.

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-Hm.

-But I just feel, like, throughout the process,

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I'd done more and shown more

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than maybe Grainne, and I felt, like, that...

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LAUGHTER

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Just pluck a name from the air.

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Maybe Grainne, perhaps.

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So, yeah, I was disappointed, but looking at it,

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-I can see the reasons why I was fired.

-Yeah.

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Frances, you've been in a lot of boardrooms in your time.

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Ever seen one as blame-me as that? It got very blame-me, didn't it?

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Yeah, it did, yeah. Well, thankfully, no, I haven't.

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These guys are in a really super-heated situation

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and they're literally fighting for their lives, but I think,

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in the real world, you would definitely try and not let things

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-escalate to the level where your boardroom's becoming a complete war zone.

-Yeah.

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Sara, could you handle that pressure?

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I couldn't handle that pressure, no.

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I mean, at Radio 2, it's a nice lady smiling at me

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through some glass and we might put the kettle on and have a biscuit.

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I mean, I couldn't sit in that boardroom...

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But you've got five million people listening while you're having a biscuit.

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Yeah, but it is relaxing cos you're essentially there just talking to them through a microphone.

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You're not seeing the sort of whites of their eyes.

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There's been quite a few tears this series, and I'm not surprised,

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-cos I think I would dissolve into tears.

-I haven't cried.

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-You've not cried?

-All right.

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When Trishna was fired, Nathan, she said, "No problem."

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It looked quite casual. How would you feel in that situation?

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Er...I think I would've been a bit more...bit more rational.

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You know, like, if Lord Sugar went, "Nathan, you're fired,"

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I would have been like, "Yeah? Your mum's fired!"

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LAUGHTER

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Very cool. Very cool lady.

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Thanks.

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Courtney and Nebula had a jolly good knees-up while

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Grainne's Titans were left looking like a sticky pub carpet.

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Let's see where it went wrong.

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Who decided to make it coloured?

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-We should look at maybe doing orange as the colour of the gin.

-Yeah.

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-With the taste of the spices, it will fit really well.

-Yeah.

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The colour of the liquid looks a bit like, you know,

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a Scottish soft drink.

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We wouldn't want to take away the colour - that is what the brand is all about.

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This colour cost them orders.

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If you don't think that what's going to happen is effective, tell her!

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I just felt that that pitch didn't go very well because...

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Why don't you tell her yourself?

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I think the problems with the last pitch, we do need to learn...

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-There's an absolute lack of structure.

-What?

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She really created an atmosphere.

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Trishna, bad moods, having the hump...that's not the calibre

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of person that I could work with.

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Oooh! Bad moods, hump, atmosphere.

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On the morning of the second day, Grainne said you were in a honking mood, Karren said you were furious.

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What was the situation?

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I just think I was...I went into day two feeling like we'd already lost,

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and I just feel that that took an affect on my mood

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and I just felt that obviously the ingredients didn't go on the bottle

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and I just felt that the day didn't go well.

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I wasn't sure whether you were frustrated with how things

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-were going or whether you were just hungover, to be honest.

-Yeah. It just...

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-Was there a bit of that?

-Maybe!

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Do you know, in the supermarket pitch, Frances said, "Oh, we can change the colour."

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-Then you said, "Oh, no, the colour is a key element of the brand. We're not changing that."

-Yeah.

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Did you think that was, in retrospect, perhaps the wrong thing to do,

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-to contradict her like that?

-I still don't think so.

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If you're going to go in with a product that you believe in, that you've created,

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you can't just go in to a pitch and say, "If you don't like that, we'll change it."

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But once she's already said that, can you then come back...

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But the other lady said, "If you're going to change the colour, what's your brand all about?"

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Which is right. What have you gone in there to pitch if you're just going to change everything?

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So maybe I was wrong, but I think that I still should have said that.

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Frances, where do you stand on that one?

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You should've spent some time brainstorming what are the things they're likely to ask,

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how are we going to deal with it,

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and probably more importantly,

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-who is going to deal with those kind of questions.

-Questions, yeah.

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For me, that should have been Grainne.

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She's the PM, she should have stepped in and dealt with that.

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They were too busy, though, because they had to rehearse their Beyonce thing with...

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# Who runs the world? Girls. Who runs the world? Girls. #

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Talking of the pitches, Sara, did you enjoy, as I did,

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the wonderful comedy sketch of Frances trying to deliver

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a pitch while Trishna got...stormed around in the background?!

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It was like someone had pushed a drum kit down a flight of stairs.

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And also, in a past series of The Apprentice,

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does anyone remember when someone was stabbing that microwave meal?

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Like tok-tok-tok-tok-tok-tok-tok. Tok-tok-tok.

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And it was that similar thing, like, "Really, is this happening?!" It was brilliant.

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It was like a one-man band in the background. What was going on back there?!

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Cos I opened the ice box, ready to make the cocktail,

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which I had to make in time whilst Frances was delivering

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her part of the pitch and I opened it, and I'm not joking,

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it was like it was coated in duct tape.

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The stuff was wrapped so much, I couldn't get it out!

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I just couldn't get it out, and I was trying...

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By the time I got it out, she'd finished!

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You were like two men unloading a truck in the background.

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I had such a small space as well, and then I just was trying

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to get it out, everything was falling, it was just a catastrophe.

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Well, there can only be one winner of The Apprentice,

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and tension has been mounting in the house over the last few weeks.

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As this bit of unseen footage shows, the candidates have been

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employing all sorts of mind games to freak each other out.

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LAUGHTER

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HE MUTTERS

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I mean, that clearly worked on Sofiane. He's gone!

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Who was going to be next on your hit li... Was there a lot of pranks?

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-Cos we get a very serious side sometimes.

-Yeah.

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-Is there a lot of fun and games in the house?

-Yeah, definitely.

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I think the mood and everything came across on that task, but I'm not a moody person at all

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and I know how to have a laugh and in the house, yeah,

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I was very much a sort of prankster and, yeah, made people laugh.

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Right. We're going to talk about your product, the Colony Gin, the famous Colony Gin.

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This is it. Um... Why this colour?

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I don't know. I don't really know about gin.

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If I knew, I probably wouldn't have done that, but I thought it'd make it a bit unique,

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stand out and I thought, "Let's make it a colour." It was a suggestion I gave to the project manager,

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"Shall we make it a colour?", and she said, "Yeah." So had she been like, "No," we would have been...

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-Grainne agreed.

-Yeah, she said, "Let's do it."

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-I think the time you talked about getting the colour with the spices and the brand and sort of...

-Yeah.

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We thought there were going to be spices from different parts of the world and things like that,

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and I thought it tied in quite well to make it a colour.

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Frances, Trishna was, you know,

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fired in large part cos of the colour of this,

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but there's a lot of sense in what she's saying, isn't there, that you've got the spices,

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you've got...you know...why not have to follow through the brand with the colour? Why not?

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I think there is.

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It's just such a horrible colour, which I hate,

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and the other problem is they didn't really follow through.

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They talked about having an orange and brown label, as well.

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I don't see any orange and brown on that label.

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And then I also hated the shape of the bottle, so...

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-It's not great so far.

-No!

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-Sara, you famously enjoyed a party...

-Yes.

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..in times gone by.

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In my 20s, I used to take the odd dry sherry like Emily Bishop on Corrie.

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-I do like...

-Would that have put you off, the colour?

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You know what? I don't like the colour.

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It reminds me a little bit of the water that...

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If you was to sluice down a spray-tan booth,

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I think that would be the water that would be trickling away afterwards.

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OK, I've got the other product here. Courtney's team and his "giin".

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I found the whole thing a bit odd.

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The concept of it was...seemed to be this revolutionary new idea

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that it was...a drink that...a gin that you could drink...

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I think Jessica said, "Literally with your friends."

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-Yeah.

-I was thinking, "Is that going to work, like, a social thing?"

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What? Hang on a minute. What, like...?

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I can't see booze working in that environment.

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A gin you can have in the shed on your own, of course!

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I use mine in the toilet cistern, drink at work at lunchtimes...

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A drink you could literally drink in a social...almost like a pub, really.

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Can you see that happening?

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Yeah, I never thought of that, so hang on a minute...

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Yeah, so you'd be together with your mates and somebody would,

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I suppose, say, "Anybody want a drink?" and you'd all go, "Yeah!"

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It's new, out there... Have you ever heard of this, Nathan?

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Could you imagine a drink taking off in that way in a social environment?

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-No.

-No. But you like the concept?

-Yeah, I liked it.

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I think I would have liked it if there were three "I"s, not just two.

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Oh, yeah, but then it would've taken all day to pronounce.

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It was long enough. "Would you like a giiiiiin?

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"What's that? Happy hour's finished? Oh, bugger!"

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Get that out the way for the moment.

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In hindsight, given that they ended up with

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a map of Africa when they were talking about India,

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and a slightly controversial brand based on the Colonies,

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Nathan, was it a mistake to let Frances do the branding on her own?

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She said she got an A-star in Geography, apparently.

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INAUDIBLE

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It's also the name, as well, it's like,

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who was the target audience with that name, Colony?

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Cos I can't imagine me and my West Indian family going like,

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"Hey, guys, let's have some Colony."

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No, I can't imagine you, either.

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-This bloke that went round getting these spices from "afar"...

-Yeah.

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-Was meant to be, like, India, Africa.

-Yeah.

-But...

-Africa, mainly, by the look of it.

-Yeah.

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Also, it's weird, cos Frances is so young, so the minute she went,

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"Colony Gin" it was weird cos you'd expect, like,

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a 90-year-old Tory peer to go, "Colony Gin. The good old days."

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She's so young, and where did that come from?

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It was quite an odd brand for young people to come up with.

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-I think the whole thing was very odd, frankly, yeah!

-Yeah.

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It does stand out.

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I mean, it would stand out on the shelf and you might go,

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-"Ooh, what's that?" But I'm not sure you're going to want to drink it.

-Yeah.

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There were just six hardy souls left going into this week's task,

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but Frances found herself up against her foe,

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more formidable than any Apprentice candidate.

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I can honestly put my hands up and say I've tried a lot of gin.

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Oh!

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I'm going to try my team, see if we can hear from them.

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'This is the Vodafone voice...'

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PHONE CUTS OUT

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That's quite nice, isn't it?

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-'This is the Vodaf...'

-Why does my team ignore me?

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-Oh. That makes you...

-No-one's answering my calls whatsoever.

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-Really tastes like...

-So nice!

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'This is the Vodafone...'

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No-one's really listening to me today and it's actually starting to really piss me off.

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-Can I get a Colony Spice, please?

-Make that two.

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So there's five minutes going till the deadline,

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God knows what they are doing.

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19 missed calls?

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APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH

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Let's talk about the product itself, then.

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I'll have a Colony Gin, please. I'm going to give it a little whirl.

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I've seen how you do gin tasting.

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I've watched you and Grainne, the experts.

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Ah. It is spicy. Oh, they're from afar, aren't they, the spices?

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Oh, definitely... Don't worry! Stop writing.

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Put your pens down, Tunbridge Wells. We swapped the bottles.

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That is a fizzy Scottish soft drink.

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Although it has gone to my head a bit, I'll level with you.

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Why didn't you spit it out when you were trying it? The other team...

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I don't know if you noticed...

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Yeah, I just felt like, unless I swallowed it,

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I wasn't going to know how strong it was.

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I just thought I'd have to... LAUGHTER

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..I'd have to try it. How am I going to know?

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There's sort of logic in there somewhere, isn't there?

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APPLAUSE

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I think I forgot to swap the bottles.

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Did you not realise that drinking truckloads of gin would affect

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your ability to do the job?

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Uh, well, obviously, at the time, no, but looking back on it,

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I shouldn't have.

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I bet my dad's really upset about this.

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Dad, are you upset?

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-VOICE FROM AUDIENCE:

-No.

-No!

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But I shouldn't have, I should have been more professional

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and not done that, but what can I do? I done it.

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Yeah. "What can I do? I done it."

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Spiced gin, Nathan, is that your tipple?

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-Actually, I used to be a massive gin drinker.

-Did you?

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Then I had a really bad experience, so I stopped.

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Basically, I watched the episode.

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That's it, no more gin now.

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Well, Trishna may not have been firing on all cylinders this week,

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but Karren picked up the slack,

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firing on all her own cylinders, and a few more besides.

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SINGING:

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I don't know about gins. I'm completely...

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I don't drink gin, I don't know about gin,

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-OK? I try to just come up with suggestions.

-You drank enough of it.

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LAUGHTER

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So, we are down to the final five.

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Let's talk about some of the other candidates quickly. Jessica?

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Yeah, I love Jessica, I think she's amazing.

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I think she can definitely brighten up a room, she's just got

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so much positivity, she lifts morale and I think she's a real contender.

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Could you see her winning, Frances?

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Yeah, absolutely, she's in my top three.

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I think she's very strong.

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I think she needs to be quite careful in the interviews to listen

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and perhaps speak a little bit more cohesively,

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but I love her personality,

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her positivity and I think she has some great ideas.

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-Jessica, Sara, do you think she's a contender?

-I do like her.

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I think she's like a very beautiful cross between

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a labradoodle and Su Pollard,

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because I just think she's quite excitable.

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I'm sure she'll take that as a massive compliment.

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Su Pollardoodle.

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But I think she's really likeable and I think she is very warm.

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People seem to sort of like her, but I just...

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I can't see her with Lord Suges coping

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-with her exuberance.

-Yeah, is she too exuberant?

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Does she wear her heart on her sleeve too much?

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Yeah, I think perhaps she does a little bit

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and I don't know how long you'd be able to cope with that for.

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I think she could win just from exhausting Lord Sugar.

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"OK, you're hired, just stop talking. Oh, gosh!

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-"Please!"

-Just wear him down, you think?

-Exactly.

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OK. Frances didn't have a great week, again.

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How do you rate Frances?

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Um, I think out of all the other candidates,

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she's probably the most calculated.

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I think that she's really worked out how to kind of not be

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in the bottom three, she plays to the project manager a lot on tasks.

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She's lost eight times out of ten, I think,

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but only ended up in the bottom three very few times.

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Yeah, and I think that's because she knows what she's doing a little bit

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and she kind of plays up to the project manager

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to makes sure she doesn't go back in there.

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That's why I had to call her up on it on this task,

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I just thought she'd done it too much.

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Frances, do you think our Frances is in with a chance?

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Um, I think she is. She's quite a good all-rounder.

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She's quite creative, she presents well,

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and she does have some pretty smart business ideas.

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Nathan, her stats are the worst of anybody in terms of wins and losses.

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Do you still think she can win?

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She's probably got a one-in-five chance.

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-That's an accurate stat.

-Yeah!

-I don't know.

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I mean, I agree with you, she does play the game quite well,

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but I do think there are stronger candidates there, so I think...

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-I can't see her winning.

-Sara, can you see Frances winning?

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The first couple of episodes, I thought, "She's out quick."

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It's like when you watch a disaster movie and you think,

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"Yeah, she's dead, he's dead, she's going to fall off a building.

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"She'll fall down the earthquake," or whatever.

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You think, "They're all gone," and she's clung on, she's still here.

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Courtney's the last guy in, Nathan.

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Oh, he's a cool guy, he's a nice guy, but when he does his pitching,

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it's like, "Switch off, man."

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He seems to bring the same energy in front of 300 people,

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he's exactly the same as if he was making a cup of tea

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in his pants at home.

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-There's just no difference, he's got one gear, it seems.

-Exactly.

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But then what made it worse in this week's task is that you had Courtney

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and you had Jessica doing the same pitch, so you had two extremes.

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You've got Courtney, who's going, "Yeah, uh...uh..."

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and you've Jessica kind of just like MCs her way through the pitch.

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RAPIDLY: "Da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-da-ba-da-ba."

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HE CONTINUES GABBERING RAPIDLY

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down, girl.

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-Courtney has led his team to victory again this week.

-Yes.

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He's won I think eight, am I right in saying?

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I think it's unbelievable that he's done so well.

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I mean, he's a nice guy.

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I can't help think of him as a member of a boyband.

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I think he's kind of run away from a boyband

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and found himself on The Apprentice.

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There was bits this week where he went...

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-IN CHILDLIKE VOICE:

-"They like the taste of the gin."

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Then he was going, "I want to buy a heli-fopter,"

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at the end, and it's like he's regressing,

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he's like a four-year-old.

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It's like Benjamin Button, he's getting younger each week.

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Frances, very quickly, Courtney,

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-can you sum him up?

-I'm sure he's a nice guy and he's quite funny.

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-But if he's to...

-LAUGHTER

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You know, business, you don't have to be good at everything,

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but what you do have to do is recognise what your weaknesses are

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and mitigate them.

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-Don't keep putting yourself up to present.

-Yeah.

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What about Alana?

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I think she's really good. I think that she's been underestimated.

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I think she had a tough first few weeks, but as it's gone on,

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she's really come into her own and she's not been scared

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to say how she feels, she's provided opinions

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and I think she's a real, real contender.

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She's stood up for herself and been very composed under

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-a lot of pressure, I thought.

-Yeah, I think she can be really composed.

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I think, when she's pitching,

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she's really engaging, she's super-relaxed.

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When Courtney couldn't get the board up and he's giving it

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a touch of the Chuckle Brothers in the background and all that

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-and she was like, "Why don't we just pop this on here?"

-Yeah.

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You instantly relax and you instantly take on what she says

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and the same in the boardroom. I think she's really calm

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and she's got a really nice way about her.

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I think she does sometimes have a touch of the Princess Diana's,

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with the under-the-fringe sort of look up kind of thing

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that she does quite a lot.

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She does that kind of coy thing, which I find a bit strange.

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She did step in at the right moment and relax the situation.

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She sees things, what's going on.

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She got very excited this week when she went, "Final five, final five!"

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-Can she win?

-Definitely, most definitely.

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I think she is definitely one of the strongest in there.

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She's got so much to give

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and I think that she's started to show that

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as we went past the first few weeks, so, yeah,

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I definitely think she can win.

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Is she too meek, Frances, to be Lord Sugar's business partner?

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Uh, I don't think so, no.

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I was really heartened this week to see her be a bit more assertive.

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She made a pretty passionate pitch for wanting to be PM.

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I know she lost out to Courtney,

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but that was really a function of Jessica

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having worked with him before

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and having more confidence in him and sometimes

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in business it goes that way, but I think she's really smart,

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I think she's engaging, I think she has a smart brain on her

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and I'd like to see her in the final for sure.

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Well, Trishna, unfortunately,

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somebody who won't be in the final...

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-is you.

-Yeah, cheers, Rhod(!)

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That's one thing we do know - Lord Sugar won't, unfortunately,

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be investing in you, but he does have this advice for your future.

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Trishna - a very bright young lady.

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I picked that up because she seems to absorb things very well.

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Very good memory.

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I think Trishna went wrong in this particular task as they actually

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coloured the gin orange and I think it's certainly affected

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the level of orders for the product.

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My advice to Trishna is get a little bit more technical

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in the business that she's doing and become a recognised expert at it.

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-Become a recognised expert?

-Yeah.

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You're going to be recognised now, anyway.

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No, I think that's fair.

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I definitely will be an expert in my field.

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I already am, but I hold information really well.

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LAUGHTER

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"If I say so myself."

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What's your business plan? What would you have done?

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It was to set up a specialist IT recruitment business,

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something that I'm obviously really experienced in already and, yeah,

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I still plan to do that, so watch this space.

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Well, Trishna, Lord Sugar made his decision,

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but does our panel feel it was the right one? Frances.

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Um, I think it's unfortunate.

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You definitely weren't firing on all cylinders tonight, so I do,

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but I'm surprised that Grainne wasn't hot on your heels

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going out the door, as well.

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I think the orange was your undoing, which is a real shame,

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cos I really, really like you, so with regret, yes,

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it was right that you were fired.

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-Nathan.

-I think you've been one of the strongest candidates

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throughout the whole process, so I would have fired Grainne instead.

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TRISHNA: Thanks. Thanks, Nathan.

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OK, that's what the panel thinks of it.

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Let's see what the audience make of everything.

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

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and if you disagree, then hold up "Hired", please.

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That's definitely more "Hired".

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LAUGHTER

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Waay! Back in your box now.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Trishna, you are hired!

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Cheers. CHEERING

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I mean, you're not, obviously, you're fired,

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but, you know...

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you're not.

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Definitely hired from the audience,

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but, unfortunately, it was a red "Fired" from Lord Sugar.

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But no-one leaves here, Trishna, empty-handed.

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I've got you a rather wonderful gift.

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19 missed calls.

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Well, never miss a phone call again, Trishna,

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with this Apprentice answering machine.

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Beautiful, it's got your face on there, it's got Apprentice.

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Listen, there's one thing this needs, obviously,

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before I give you it. This will need a message.

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I'm going to record it for you

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so that it comes ready-loaded. Here we go...

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-BEEP

-This is Rhod Gilbert.

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I'm afraid Trishna can't come to the phone right now.

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She's getting bladdered on Colony Gin.

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Don't bother leaving a message, she's ignored 19 already. Goodbye!

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Thank you, thank you.

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Never miss a phone call again.

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You're looking on the back to see if there's anything else - that's it.

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"There must be something else on the back,

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"perhaps a puppy or a PlayStation."

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Nope, that is it, I'm afraid.

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Trishna, thanks for coming on the show.

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-Thank you.

-I hope you've enjoyed yourself.

-Absolutely loved it.

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Yeah, would recommend it to anyone.

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-Cool.

-LAUGHTER

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They're all saying, "No way!"

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-Let's have a look at your highlights.

-Thanks.

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We need to move really fast.

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Strawberry and champagne, £1!

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Do we think that the packaging is luxury enough?

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If I tell you I love it, I'm lying to you.

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Love Trishna to pieces, she's my little soul sister.

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Look at the camera.

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Trishna - what an absolute legend.

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Living with her, being in a room with her,

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she actually brought a ray of sunshine to my life.

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She can't just get knocked over and they break out

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all of a sudden into a dance.

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Waaay! Don't worry if, when you go in there,

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you don't feel like it's a good price. Just walk out of there.

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Thanks very much, Alison. Have a great day.

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It's, like, typical Liberty, those scarves.

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That woman has got a photographic memory

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that I would love to have.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Trishna Thakrar.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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And, also, please thank tonight's Apprentice fans and guests,

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Frances Dickens, Sara Cox and Nathan Caton.

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CHEERING

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And if you think you have what it takes

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to be Lord Sugar's next business partner,

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applications are still open to take part in next year's series.

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Head over to...

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..for more details.

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Next week, it's the final five, the interviews,

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when our candidates will dust off their business plans

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and go in front of Lord Sugar's most trusted aides.

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Today is all about your business plans.

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I'm genuinely cacking myself now.

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-This is like Christmas for Claude.

-Yes.

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-# It's the most wonderful time... #

-This is fast, innit?

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-Right.

-Hello, I'm Frances.

-Hello, there.

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Can you just sit back a bit?

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-How much profit did you make?

-It was a massive loss.

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I don't understand why you'd want to do that.

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Oh, God.

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Very amateurish.

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-I don't know what you're doing here.

-I think I've been pretty awesome.

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How much money did you make? HE MUMBLES

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God help us.

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I think you're dreaming.

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Come on!

0:28:040:28:06

HE SIGHS

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This is actually worse than childbirth.

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Right, we'll leave that alone.

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It's a grilling like no other,

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but who will come up a lovely, all-over golden brown,

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and who'll set off the smoke alarms?

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Join me next Thursday at 10pm for more You're Fired. Goodnight.

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APPLAUSE

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