0:00:01 > 0:00:03This was mayhem.
0:00:03 > 0:00:04That don't look good.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06It is not rocket science.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery. Bloody clueless.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10You're fired. You're fired.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13You are fired. You're fired.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20# I bob un sydd ffyddlon
0:00:20 > 0:00:24# Dan Ei faner Ef
0:00:24 > 0:00:27# Mae gan Iesu goron
0:00:27 > 0:00:30# Fry yn nheyrnas nef
0:00:30 > 0:00:34# Lluoedd Duw a Satan
0:00:34 > 0:00:37# Sydd yn cwrdd yn awr
0:00:37 > 0:00:40# Mae gan blant eu cyfran
0:00:40 > 0:00:45# Yn y rhyfel mawr. #
0:00:45 > 0:00:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:49 > 0:00:55Our thanks there to the London Welsh Male Voice Choir.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58A special opening to greet our first ever Welsh-born candidate.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Good evening and welcome to The Apprentice - You're Fired
0:01:01 > 0:01:04We're three-quarters of the way through Lord Sugar's search
0:01:04 > 0:01:05for his new business partner.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08With the help of unseen footage, we'll be digesting the ingredients
0:01:08 > 0:01:12of the ready-meal task and casting our eye over the rest who are left.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15First, let's meet our specially-selected panel.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Ready-meal entrepreneur Charlie Bigham,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19The One Show's Alex Jones
0:01:19 > 0:01:20and comedian Fred MacAulay,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22welcome to You're Fired.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Tonight's task of creating a new ready-meal left one candidate
0:01:34 > 0:01:37not being to Lord Sugar's taste.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Alex, I think you're a young, enthusiastic chap
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and I want to send you off with a bit of advice.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48Try and stick to something and you're going to succeed, OK?
0:01:48 > 0:01:52But at the moment, Alex, it is with regret, you're fired.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Thank you very much for the opportunity. Karren and Nick as well. Thank you.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Let us have a special welcome for Alex Mills.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05# Guide me
0:02:05 > 0:02:08# O thou great Jehovah
0:02:08 > 0:02:13# Pilgrim through this Barren land... #
0:02:13 > 0:02:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:16 > 0:02:18# But thou art mighty
0:02:18 > 0:02:23# Hold me with thy powerful hand
0:02:23 > 0:02:26# Bread of heaven
0:02:26 > 0:02:28# Bread of heaven
0:02:28 > 0:02:32# Feed me now and evermore
0:02:32 > 0:02:34# And evermore
0:02:34 > 0:02:42# Feed me now and evermore. #
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Alex, a very special welcome to us.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48We felt we should do this because we know that you are
0:02:48 > 0:02:51of a nationality which is unusual to us on this show.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Yes, you're the first candidate born...
0:02:54 > 0:02:56You've mentioned this once or twice.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00You've mentioned it just once or twice during this long process.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02# We'll keep a welcome
0:03:02 > 0:03:05# In the hillside... #
0:03:05 > 0:03:06I'm from Wales.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08I'm from Wales, I am. I love it. Wales is amazing.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Fresh Viagra. I don't need any of that. I'm from Wales.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Don't worry. I don't think
0:03:14 > 0:03:17we're going to have any 50 Shades Of Grey nonsense.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Then again, I am Christian Grey of the Valleys.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27- You've been a magical ambassador for the principality.- Thank you.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30- Very proud of that. You're even wearing a pin now.- I am indeed.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33- Response has been very positive? - Yeah, it's been brilliant.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Wales has been behind me all the way, which is great,
0:03:35 > 0:03:37but I do feel as though I do have to clarify
0:03:37 > 0:03:40that I'm not from Transylvania
0:03:40 > 0:03:42so I do need to kind of force the point forward.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Alex, I'm sorry to get straight to this. Two questions.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Firstly, are you all called Alex? That's the question we have.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- Only the good ones. Only the good ones.- Only the good ones.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53On the way out, they present you with your Alex papers.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Have you been proud of what this Alex has done?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00As you said, Dara, a very good ambassador for the country.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Everybody's been right behind you. You've done amazingly well.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Still only 22 and got so far. Those eyebrows, we all love them.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09We've fallen in love with you.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12I think, you know, even though I'm gutted that you were fired,
0:04:12 > 0:04:15I'm so glad that you're here tonight and I get a chance to meet you.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18- I'm gutted as well.- Are you gutted? Are you gutted? Are you in bits?
0:04:18 > 0:04:22Look at this. I want you to take the stage. I want you to soliloquise.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26I want you to take a moment just to tell us of your disappointment
0:04:26 > 0:04:30- and take as long as you need.- The thing is, OK, sitting back there,
0:04:30 > 0:04:32I can completely understand from the commercial...
0:04:32 > 0:04:35LAUGHTER
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Don't ask me to microwave it. I don't now how to use a microwave.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49How many times did you need to do that?!
0:04:49 > 0:04:53To make sure it's blinking cooked. I'm not going to give them food poisoning.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55It's Deadly Dinners, a company with bloody salmonella.
0:04:55 > 0:05:00Oh, dear. Your pain at not being made manager as well.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04- That went on for weeks.- Yeah. At the end of the day, I put myself forward
0:05:04 > 0:05:07quite passionately on some tasks. But just cos you're not project manager,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- doesn't mean that you do not give full involvement.- Of course.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13- It's the team that wins, it's not the captain.- No-one could ever say
0:05:13 > 0:05:15you didn't give full involvement throughout this process.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- Committed individual. - Entirely. And should be.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21LAUGHTER
0:05:22 > 0:05:25For eight weeks, we felt the desperation,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27your desperate pain to be a project manager.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31When it finally happened tonight, it was gutting to see you choke on a deadly dinner.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I love the geography thing. Foods from around the world.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Educating kids. I think mums and dads
0:05:36 > 0:05:38and the shop owners will actually buy into it.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41A name I had is Popty Ping.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42The reason is that Popty Ping
0:05:42 > 0:05:44is actually Welsh for microwave.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48Look, here's an idea now. I've got Popty there on the gondola.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Italian, isn't it?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53- What does that tell you about geography?- Nothing.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Popty Ping , lovely little dishes.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Adults would prefer the geography thing.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01I'm going to go with the geography idea. I really am.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Why didn't you stick to your original idea? Are you weak?
0:06:04 > 0:06:07My mind is going so much on these two blinking ideas,
0:06:07 > 0:06:08it's tearing me apart.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09In the next five minutes,
0:06:09 > 0:06:12which have we got the most chance of doing a great job on?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Deadly Dinners.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- And in that moment, why didn't you stick with it?- The thing is that...
0:06:18 > 0:06:21The point is, as Lord Sugar's obviously demonstrated
0:06:21 > 0:06:24on some previous tasks, is that I do go quite gung ho, as you said.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- I'm happy to dress up as Herbert The Pervert.- Yeah, yeah.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29The point is that you go gung ho on these things and sometimes
0:06:29 > 0:06:32because I am a little bit enthusiastic,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34sometimes I may miss a crucial decision.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Obviously, listening to a parent within the group, I thought
0:06:37 > 0:06:40I should probably listen to him more and I shouldn't have.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43You possibly overcompensated in order to not SEEM as if you were gung ho?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46If being fired is proving two things as far as I'm concerned,
0:06:46 > 0:06:49one, clearly, my branding is always right.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Number two, Myles is clearly a bad parent.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55LAUGHTER
0:06:55 > 0:06:58That's our takeaway message from tonight.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02I think Popty Ping is brilliant. I think Popty Ping is a superb idea.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- It doesn't have to be the whole branding.- No.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09It just has to be the charming cartoon character in the middle of it.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Something like that... I mean, Charlie,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13they're under your name, the Bigham foods.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Popty Ping is a cute idea.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- Is nobody doing that? - That could work.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21You could build a nice character around that, a kids character.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24The big mistake was, if you're setting up a business,
0:07:24 > 0:07:28you have to have strength in your own conviction and Myles...
0:07:28 > 0:07:32Obviously, Myles talked you out of it. You shouldn't have let him.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Alex, you've actually mentioned that Popty Ping is the Welsh for microwave on The One Show.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Yeah, yeah, yeah. Popty Ping's a great word but even I can see, Alex,
0:07:40 > 0:07:43that it might be a little bit narrow in terms of the rest of Britain.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46I liked your geography idea and as you said,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48you should have stuck to your guns.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Myles clearly didn't know what he was talking about.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55- Parent or no parent. - Fred, parent. Did you think...?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Actually, we've got a character
0:07:57 > 0:08:00in Scotland called Popty Ping and we use it
0:08:00 > 0:08:03to teach our kids about passing wind in public.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05LAUGHTER
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Alex, you bit the dust tonight.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09But someone else almost had their skull cracked open.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Healthy, horrible food.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Kids, they love everything gruesome.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Bat's blood and prawn pasta.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Brussels sprouts become zombies eyeballs.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Lethal lasagne. Homicidal hummus.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24I do think the brand's really strong.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27I would be proud to show that to someone.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Deadly Dinners. What does that say to you?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Keep it away from kids.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33It's deadly and it's horrible.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35I, as a parent, tend not to buy anything with skulls.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Myles?
0:08:36 > 0:08:40The fatal error is you got your customer wrong.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42What you don't realise until you actually see it...
0:08:42 > 0:08:46This is the Deadly Dinners pack that was touted around so unsuccessfully to the retailers.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50That's the pack there. It isn't the fact that there's a large white skull there,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53but it's actually on another larger dark skull behind it.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56If you'd put the white skull on...
0:08:56 > 0:08:59It's horrible, dangerous food,
0:08:59 > 0:09:04but with an undercurrent of even more danger.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09If you hadn't made it grey as well. Grey is a bad colour in terms of...
0:09:09 > 0:09:13- It's like rancid meat.- Yeah, but the thing is though, as I said,
0:09:13 > 0:09:16you've got to follow something through with conviction.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Even though it wasn't the idea I wanted to do, the point is,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21I'm still going to do it as best as I can.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Let's be honest, that is the most gruesome thing you've probably seen.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28The secret to good packaging, surely... It's in the choice of the colours
0:09:28 > 0:09:30as much as in the choice of the images, presumably?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Grey is just wrong.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Getting noticed is important on the shelf.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37You walk into a supermarket, there are 18,000 items
0:09:37 > 0:09:39in the average supermarket.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- So getting noticed is really, really important.- OK.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43So, which path did you take to get noticed?
0:09:43 > 0:09:48We took the path of making our food taste nice to get noticed.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50This is genius. This is why...
0:09:50 > 0:09:52LAUGHTER
0:09:52 > 0:09:57I know. I know. I know. It's so obvious when HE says it.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Would you...? For an older child, even?
0:10:00 > 0:10:05I don't think it's that bad. It's the type of thing that I suppose...
0:10:05 > 0:10:07You know when you're little and you try and get things
0:10:07 > 0:10:09into the trolley without your parents noticing?
0:10:09 > 0:10:12It's that type of thing, isn't it? I think, you know...
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Your idea cos you said we should put more fruit and vegetables
0:10:16 > 0:10:19around the skull, you probably should have just covered the skull
0:10:19 > 0:10:20with fruit and vegetables.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24At least the big white one. The black one, it blends.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27It's all right. It's not the worst thing. It would stand out.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31The worst thing would have been if you'd have put a picture of you as Herbert on the front.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33LAUGHTER
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Nobody's going to eat that.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39It is slightly worrying that the branding is more important
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- than the foodstuff. - One of the things that surprised me
0:10:42 > 0:10:44in this task, actually, for both teams,
0:10:44 > 0:10:47was that the project manager decided to sit on the branding
0:10:47 > 0:10:51- not on the food.- Yeah. - To me, it's extraordinary.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52That's what I do all day.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56I taste food and I eat food. It's all about what it takes like.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58I understand that, but the point is, someone like myself,
0:10:58 > 0:11:02I don't deal with microwaveable... I don't do microwaves anyway.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04I especially don't have children or anything like that.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07- My skills are more set towards branding.- But do you eat?
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Yes.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Occasionally. No, the point is that my skillset is more based towards branding.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16As I said, I don't feel as though anyone else in the team
0:11:16 > 0:11:19would have carried out a job better than myself,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22even though it is a bad job, at least it's done properly.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Why don't you do microwaves? What's your problem with microwaves?
0:11:26 > 0:11:28I haven't had one for years. My mother doesn't use it.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32- She's a good cook, my mum.- Sorry, you live at home, don't you?- Yes.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35That would explain why you don't use a microwave.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Fair enough. Sorry. Apologies.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Man, two years' time. Ting.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41That's going to be your life.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Trust me. All right.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Even when it wasn't your pitch, you still made your presence felt.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Let's relive that beautiful moment.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52We're really passionate about what we've created...
0:11:52 > 0:11:53POPPING
0:11:53 > 0:11:57..we're here, we're so happy to show you what we've got.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Um, the industry itself, it really does seem to have gone through
0:12:01 > 0:12:03a bit of a revolution over the last few years.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05POPPING
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Excuse the noise in the background.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10His just preparing something nice for you to eat. Sorry.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14I think this has really been part of fuelling the market.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18- The microwave's not on.- You need to press the big button at the bottom.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20- Press that to start, is it?- Yes.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22We also looked at vegetarians...
0:12:24 > 0:12:26BEEPING
0:12:26 > 0:12:29LAUGHING
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Did you not know that was going hideously wrong?!
0:12:32 > 0:12:35- Were you unaware?- No, I didn't realise. It was quite loud.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39As I said, I haven't had enough practice with these microwaveable meals
0:12:39 > 0:12:42to quite get the fork pop, to get it right and discreet.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45You don't need to do it nine times!
0:12:45 > 0:12:47"I want no plastic. Damn the plastic.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- "Be gone, plastic. I want to get rid of it."- I want it cooked.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Have you ever screwed up at a pitch?
0:12:52 > 0:12:55I think my worst one was when I went to a supermarket
0:12:55 > 0:12:59and just about to start cooking and the fire alarm went off
0:12:59 > 0:13:02and we all had to evacuate the building.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Maybe because of something I'd done.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Then I had to do the pitch in the car park.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- While the burning food was still...- Yes.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11..being doused by the fire...
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Ever have an item go wrong on the show, The One Show?
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Jumping around, people presumably cooking all the time?
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Well, funny you should say that, Dara, because we've had a fire alarm live on the show.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25- Really? And did you do the show from the car park?- No, we just left.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28It was amazing. We could go home at 7.15 for once.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33- It was all because of a jacket potato.- Really?- In a microwave.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35You're right, you know. Stay away from them
0:13:35 > 0:13:39- Deadly.- Popty Ping. Evil Popty Ping.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42All right. We also got to see a side of Leah tonight
0:13:42 > 0:13:44that we haven't seen before.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47That is, what she looks like on the attack.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51I'm glad you brought Leah in because I've got a few questions to ask her, not just on this task here,
0:13:51 > 0:13:56but also about what you think you've contributed in the last nine weeks.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Week in, week out, I perform in whatever role I am given.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02I have delivered. I don't think you can say that I haven't performed.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06I am the most reliable, consistent person in this process.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08I am the person that will deliver. I am the type of person
0:14:08 > 0:14:11you would give £250,000 to and think, "She isn't going to do something crazy."
0:14:11 > 0:14:15I am a sensible person. I deliver task after task after task.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17I have performed in every single sector.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21I have outperformed Myles on every task. He's been in business for 23 years.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24- I have just about been on the planet that long.- Give me strength.
0:14:24 > 0:14:29You've spoken more in the last ten minutes than you've done in the last nine weeks.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32It was impressive though. It was impressive from Leah.
0:14:32 > 0:14:37Leah seems efficient but quiet and hasn't had to fight.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41Yeah, but Leah is a lovely, pleasant individual and suchlike that.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44I think that because she was brought back into the boardroom,
0:14:44 > 0:14:46I do feel as though she probably needed to give it a bit back
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- to reinstate her point. - Man, did she ever?- Oh, yeah.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Hey, listen, I know women from Northern Ireland
0:14:52 > 0:14:56and they're well capable of doing that. They'll fight their corner.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59- But this is impressive. This is the first time we've seen that from her. - Really impressive.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02I mean, the thing that really stood out for me,
0:15:02 > 0:15:04after she delivered this great speech on why she should stay
0:15:04 > 0:15:09and then Myles cut her off so unpleasantly at the end.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11I can't remember what he said but something like,
0:15:11 > 0:15:13"Save your advice and just be quiet."
0:15:13 > 0:15:16I think that really stuck with me and he needs to go.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20I think some of the polish is coming off Myles, do you think?
0:15:20 > 0:15:22He's very polished and we're just getting beneath that veneer
0:15:22 > 0:15:26and seeing a little bit of the manipulation, maybe.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29If we find out that he's actually not that ripped...
0:15:29 > 0:15:33If we find out actually he was wearing a see-through
0:15:33 > 0:15:35kind of girdle that had...
0:15:35 > 0:15:39- One of these blow-up suits. - Yeah, you know the ones,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42where you spray paint a six-pack on.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44It's great. Do you use Marcel? He's fantastic.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46He's exceptionally good at it.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50Your Welshness, by the way, has been one of your most notable features.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52But another thing has almost preceded it.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54# I feel pretty
0:15:54 > 0:15:55# Oh so pretty
0:15:55 > 0:15:57# I feel pretty... #
0:15:57 > 0:15:59I've got to keep them in shape.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01That's nice.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03My eyebrows are perfection.
0:16:15 > 0:16:20I can't ask this any other way. Why do you do that to your face?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24It's the way I was born so I can't really control that.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Seriously, if you let them run rampant, where would they go to?
0:16:27 > 0:16:31Basically, towards the edges here, they're kind of like spidery hairs,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34so basically, I just have those off, just to tidy it up a little bit.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39- They do look like seagulls in flight. It's great.- Get back here. Right.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43There's no way that... You've taken a little bit too much off here.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- No, that's where they end. Honestly.- Really?- They end there
0:16:46 > 0:16:50- and they kind of go down. - You're right to stop THAT.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53It's like an inverted Jason. It just goes down.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Really? You were born with that? I presumed that you had overdone it
0:16:57 > 0:17:00and then it's one of those things where you're like,
0:17:00 > 0:17:03"I've got to take a bit more off this. Now I've got to take more off this.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06"Now I've got to take more of this." Suddenly, you're left with THAT.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10It's a good look. Is it a good look?
0:17:10 > 0:17:14I think it's a good look because they are nearing a V,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17yet you manage not to look sinister.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- Weirdly.- Are you looking at me?
0:17:20 > 0:17:23I think he's definitely achieved sinister.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- You can over pluck.- Yeah.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28But I think you're just within the plucking boundaries there.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30You're all right.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Are the...? Are the...? We should say this very carefully.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Are the plucking boundaries at the point where you look
0:17:37 > 0:17:39astonished for no particular reason?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Is that what you've got to watch out for?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Yeah, you don't look TOO surprised.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46You look surprised, but not too surprised.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51Alex, please, show us surprised. I want to see surprise.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I will confess a certain jealousy.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56I don't have much in the way of eyebrows or hair.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59If I had those, I'd be growing them and combing over.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Let's hear now what Lord Sugar
0:18:03 > 0:18:07and your former colleagues have to say about you.
0:18:08 > 0:18:09I've been impressed in the way
0:18:09 > 0:18:12that Alex applied himself in this process.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16He's very energetic but I'm concerned that Alex loses focus
0:18:16 > 0:18:20and he jumps from one business idea to another.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22While Alex is great, he's really inconsistent..
0:18:22 > 0:18:26Alex I think can be slightly volatile and projectable.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31I think that Alex's face midway through day one told a real story.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35He was wearing the stress of the world on his shoulders.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- LORD SUGAR:- Alex is a young man with many admirable qualities
0:18:38 > 0:18:41but he didn't stick to his guns on this task.
0:18:41 > 0:18:46I need a business partner that has more self-belief and judgement
0:18:46 > 0:18:47and that's why Alex had to go.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51You're one of those who's come to this process and been left
0:18:51 > 0:18:56with a very, very clear message from Lord Sugar about focusing.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Was that important to you?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- Do you think there's something for you to take from this?- Certainly.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03The point is, Lord Sugar was completely right and I totally
0:19:03 > 0:19:07agree with the firing, but at the end of the day, if I'm not going to get £250,000 investment,
0:19:07 > 0:19:11at least I'm going to take that away. To be schooled by such a business icon at such a young age,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14it's an experience one can only dream of.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16So you've gone from a slate business, wasn't it?
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Yeah, the story behind it is the slate markets, what I was providing
0:19:19 > 0:19:22I felt had kind of peaked. The legal industry is always something
0:19:22 > 0:19:26that's very much interested me. I feel as though it's so complex,
0:19:26 > 0:19:28whether you're setting up a business or anything, you're going
0:19:28 > 0:19:31back and forth to different people and I wanted to unite that.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Are you not worried about the lack of training in law?
0:19:35 > 0:19:38I like to think the way that I think applies a different mentality to it.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41I'm not the one defending you in court and suchlike that.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44I'm just taking a mechanical look on the whole thing
0:19:44 > 0:19:47- and trying to make it a bit better and that's what my goal is.- OK.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51When you started the business, how long before you were comfortable?
0:19:51 > 0:19:54It's a long-term commitment.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57It's a long-term commitment but I think you have to get started.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01I admire Alex getting stuck in early.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04You have to adapt as you go along. You might make a few mistakes.
0:20:04 > 0:20:09We all do. But get stuck in and don't procrastinate.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12OK. Let's take a look at the winning team and the chef who forgot
0:20:12 > 0:20:15the most important stage of the cooking process.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16I have no idea about cooking.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18I genuinely wouldn't even know where to start.
0:20:18 > 0:20:24I've got a three-tiered recipe. I don't know what passata is. Patatas?
0:20:24 > 0:20:27- Passata?- It's exactly like you'd cook a stir-fry.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29I don't cook stir-fries.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33I've been royally stitched up by my team members. Can you burn chicken?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Yes.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Throw spaghetti at a wall. If it sticks, it's ready.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44Do you think people are disappointed that they liked the brand,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- but then when they tried it... - Come on, Luisa, keep stabbing me.
0:20:48 > 0:20:53- How did you think it tasted? - I didn't even taste it.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57- You didn't taste your own food?- I just made it as quickly as possible.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01That is the most bizarre explanation I have ever heard in my life.
0:21:02 > 0:21:07- It's astonishing. Who wouldn't taste their own food?- Astonishing.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Surely, it's the first thing. It's directly in front of you,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13you're about to feed it to other people..
0:21:13 > 0:21:17She said at the beginning that she's not a big cook,
0:21:17 > 0:21:19but, Charlie, correct me if I'm wrong,
0:21:19 > 0:21:23but if you're selling a ready meal, isn't it surely all about the taste?
0:21:23 > 0:21:27You would presume so, but then was she shafted by the other two?
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Yes, because Luisa should have... She had a background...
0:21:30 > 0:21:34- She runs a bakery shop.- Exactly.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36She's on the phone, giving her all these instructions,
0:21:36 > 0:21:41"Put paprika in it." Obviously, Francesca is out of her depth.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45So, had Luisa gone in and done it, it would have been probably...
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Even though they won, the actual taste...
0:21:47 > 0:21:52- It would have had SOME taste. - It was a gamble. It could have gone hideously wrong for them.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55It could have done, but I think we will see Francesca
0:21:55 > 0:21:58on a new TV show called Can't Cook, Don't Cook, Won't Cook,
0:21:58 > 0:22:02You're Not Hearing Me, I Don't Cook. Will Not Cook. I Do Eat Though.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04- I Do Eat.- But not her own food.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Not her own stuff. Neil and Luisa have cast themselves
0:22:07 > 0:22:09as the alpha male and female of the group,
0:22:09 > 0:22:14but tonight, they bonded over their unusually named Oh My Pow.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Funky food for funky people.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Oh My Pow is in the middle. Boom. - Effective. It's bold.
0:22:21 > 0:22:26- Really powerful.- It is powerful. We've done it.- Oh My Pow.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28High five.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30It's been fun, it's been enjoyable,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33but I think we've actually come up with a really great brand.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- I really, really liked working with Neil.- Are you powerful enough?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38- Damn right.- Yes, I am.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Neil, give me a cuddle.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43- Are we the dream team? Is that what it is?- We are a dream team.
0:22:43 > 0:22:44We love each other.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Oh, for God's sake. This is what they did.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54They're hugging each other over Oh My Pow.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Powerful food for powerful minds.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00But does it not look like the packaging you would see...
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Somebody saying, "Look what they sell in South Korea."
0:23:03 > 0:23:07"I was hammered in Tokyo, at three o'clock in the morning,
0:23:07 > 0:23:09"I found this. Can you believe it?
0:23:09 > 0:23:12"This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life."
0:23:12 > 0:23:16Almost a wow. Almost a wow but just without any taste in it.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20Yes. "We'll add flavour if you buy in bulk."
0:23:20 > 0:23:23It's almost like a threat.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27"If you only buy a few, no, you're not getting any flavour at all.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29"But if you buy a minimum 4,000,
0:23:29 > 0:23:31"then we MIGHT put some chilli powder in it.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34"But until then, nothing for you."
0:23:34 > 0:23:37But Karren did say, she saw something
0:23:37 > 0:23:39in Luisa for the first time.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44I see what she means. I mean, I'm a bit frightened of Luisa.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47She did seem to be a little bit more upbeat, a bit more positive.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Her and Neil did work well together.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52I mean, they came up with Oh My Pow which is not great.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56- What did you think of the concept, by the way?- The concept was flawed.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57The concept was hideous
0:23:57 > 0:24:00because it was the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your life.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04- Right?- I was being polite. - Thai noodles and Caribbean chicken?!
0:24:04 > 0:24:07- Appealed to nobody at all. - Take some of this and some of that.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11Some fusions work. Chicken Balti in a pie, magic. Lovely. That works.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15That works beautifully. Sushi on a roast potato. No.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19Some cultures were not made to cross over in any way.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24Hideous. What's the most far out you've gone in your business
0:24:24 > 0:24:28- in terms of mixing tastes? - Well, you know, it's difficult.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30If you push it too far, people don't like it.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32We actually once did a fantastic dish
0:24:32 > 0:24:35with duck and chilli and fig.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39It was delicious. It was delicious. But unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy it.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41But you didn't put it with vanilla ice-cream
0:24:41 > 0:24:44which is the kind of thing that Oh My Pow would have done.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Ridiculous thing.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48You were likened, by the way, at the start of this process,
0:24:48 > 0:24:51way back in week one, to one particular character.
0:24:51 > 0:24:56So we spent some time gathering evidence and yes, it is you.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Has anyone ever said you look like anyone?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01I sometimes get Freddie Mercury.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- Dracula?- Dracula?!
0:25:12 > 0:25:15I think some of the team maybe don't want to have me as project manager
0:25:15 > 0:25:18just because I'm a little bit short in the tooth.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25This is lovely, isn't it?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28I do have a very innocent face.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31My mum runs a nursery and some of the kids are frightened of me.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Good morning, girls and boys.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36SCREAMING
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Bottoms up.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44HE YAWNS
0:25:52 > 0:25:54OK. I'm going to go to the panel now.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59- Who do you think is going to make the final, if you could name two people?- I think Jordan.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Good, savvy on the business front.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05And my wild card is Luisa. I think she's cunning,
0:26:05 > 0:26:08she's played a clever game and is getting better and better.
0:26:08 > 0:26:13- OK. Alex?- I think it would probably be Neil for me.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16He seems to be quite feisty, but quite together
0:26:16 > 0:26:18and he seems like he's got a plan.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21I'd like to see a girl in the final who would be Leah, probably,
0:26:21 > 0:26:24because I think she's been quite consistent as well
0:26:24 > 0:26:28and under her quietness, she seems to have
0:26:28 > 0:26:29a sort of quiet confidence
0:26:29 > 0:26:32- which might come through in the next few weeks.- Fred?
0:26:32 > 0:26:37I think that Myles, having survived tonight, might go all the way.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40I thought he was close to being fired tonight.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43I think Leah because in one of the previous episodes
0:26:43 > 0:26:47somebody said she's got a very good business proposition.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49And for the gentleman beside us here, I'm going to ask you
0:26:49 > 0:26:52if you believe the right decision was made tonight.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Should Lord Sugar have fired Alex? - No, mistake.- Really?
0:26:55 > 0:26:58- Who should have gone? - Myles.- Myles. Alex?
0:26:58 > 0:27:02Definitely not because The Apprentice will be a duller place without him.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Fred?- Yep, it's a hat trick. I would have fired Myles as well.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Let's throw it out to yourselves.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11I'm exempting the Welsh London Male Voice Choir
0:27:11 > 0:27:12from this particular vote.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15There will be no block voting in this election.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18If you agree with Lord Sugar, hold up fired.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19If you disagree, hold up hired.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23I'm taking that as an endorsement of you. Congratulations.
0:27:23 > 0:27:28Very, very good. Yeah, absolutely. Hired it is. Well done.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Good man yourself.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33We were spoiled for choice, by the way,
0:27:33 > 0:27:35over what to give you as a gift.
0:27:35 > 0:27:40So we have created a range of Popty Ping instant meals.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42That's terrifying.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44APPLAUSE
0:27:47 > 0:27:52And it's been so popular, Popty Ping,
0:27:52 > 0:27:56that the merchandising range is already there.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00I bring to you the first-ever appearance of Popty Ping.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05- Thank you.- Enjoy.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Alex, you gave us nine glorious weeks.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Here are your highlights.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19Fresh Viagra. I don't need any of that. I'm from Wales.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22# Sex bomb Sex bomb... #
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Colonel. I aim to go further, harder, stronger,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26longer and exceed all expectations.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29I'm 16 stone and I'm still afloat. It's honestly that good.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Lovely jubbly. Shake my hand.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34I'm a very enthusiastic individual.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36I don't mind dressing up as a scarecrow.
0:28:36 > 0:28:37Come here, you.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Come on up to Fruity Cow!
0:28:39 > 0:28:42I'm not a shrinking violet. I'll dress how I want.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44I've actually got some leftover toilet roll.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47I was going to say, it's not reused or anything like that.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50Appearance is definitely very important to me.
0:28:50 > 0:28:51Focus on the eyes.
0:28:53 > 0:28:54- A comedian.- He's very funny.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55An unusual character.
0:28:55 > 0:28:56I just love him.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01# Baby, you can turn me on. #
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Mills.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:29:16 > 0:29:19Sadly, we've run out of time. Thanks to all my guests.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23Alex will be a guest on Fred's BBC Radio Scotland Show MacAulay and Co tomorrow morning.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26If you want the opportunity to be in the running to be
0:29:26 > 0:29:28Lord Sugar's business partner next year,
0:29:28 > 0:29:32then please go to our website...
0:29:32 > 0:29:35where you will find all you need to know and how to apply.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38If you've got a great business idea, then you could be in with a chance
0:29:38 > 0:29:40of securing £250,000 investment.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43Don't forget that Matt Edmondson's Awkward Conversations
0:29:43 > 0:29:45with the fired candidates are also on our website.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48Next week, the teams have to grow a retail business
0:29:48 > 0:29:50from a market stall to shop. But who will be left on the shelf?
0:29:50 > 0:29:54- We're going to wear smart jeans and a shirt?- Boring.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58- You go off and buy some stock for a stall.- Smell what sells.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01- Stack them high and sell it cheap. - We need to land something big.
0:30:01 > 0:30:07- Five of these. Four of these.- You go out and buy this? What is this?
0:30:07 > 0:30:12- Great gift ideas. Gift ideas.- We need to shift these dresses. £65.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16You're the most risky bloody investments on this planet.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20- We're here all day.- Did you sell it?- Bit of fun ceramic here?- No.
0:30:20 > 0:30:25- Don't really want to know, do they?- Nice look, isn't it?
0:30:25 > 0:30:27I know you're on the job but...
0:30:27 > 0:30:30I haven't got a bloody clue what you are talking about.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36See you next Wednesday at ten. Good night.
0:30:36 > 0:30:40CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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