Episode 9 The Apprentice: You're Fired


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This was mayhem.

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That don't look good.

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It is not rocket science.

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Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery. Bloody clueless.

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You're fired. You're fired.

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You are fired. You're fired.

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# I bob un sydd ffyddlon

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# Dan Ei faner Ef

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# Mae gan Iesu goron

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# Fry yn nheyrnas nef

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# Lluoedd Duw a Satan

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# Sydd yn cwrdd yn awr

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# Mae gan blant eu cyfran

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# Yn y rhyfel mawr. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Our thanks there to the London Welsh Male Voice Choir.

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A special opening to greet our first ever Welsh-born candidate.

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Good evening and welcome to The Apprentice - You're Fired

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We're three-quarters of the way through Lord Sugar's search

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for his new business partner.

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With the help of unseen footage, we'll be digesting the ingredients

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of the ready-meal task and casting our eye over the rest who are left.

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First, let's meet our specially-selected panel.

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Ready-meal entrepreneur Charlie Bigham,

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The One Show's Alex Jones

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and comedian Fred MacAulay,

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welcome to You're Fired.

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APPLAUSE

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Tonight's task of creating a new ready-meal left one candidate

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not being to Lord Sugar's taste.

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Alex, I think you're a young, enthusiastic chap

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and I want to send you off with a bit of advice.

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Try and stick to something and you're going to succeed, OK?

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But at the moment, Alex, it is with regret, you're fired.

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Thank you very much for the opportunity. Karren and Nick as well. Thank you.

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Let us have a special welcome for Alex Mills.

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# Guide me

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# O thou great Jehovah

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# Pilgrim through this Barren land... #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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# But thou art mighty

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# Hold me with thy powerful hand

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# Bread of heaven

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# Bread of heaven

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# Feed me now and evermore

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# And evermore

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# Feed me now and evermore. #

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Alex, a very special welcome to us.

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We felt we should do this because we know that you are

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of a nationality which is unusual to us on this show.

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Yes, you're the first candidate born...

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You've mentioned this once or twice.

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You've mentioned it just once or twice during this long process.

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# We'll keep a welcome

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# In the hillside... #

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I'm from Wales.

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I'm from Wales, I am. I love it. Wales is amazing.

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Fresh Viagra. I don't need any of that. I'm from Wales.

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Don't worry. I don't think

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we're going to have any 50 Shades Of Grey nonsense.

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Then again, I am Christian Grey of the Valleys.

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-You've been a magical ambassador for the principality.

-Thank you.

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-Very proud of that. You're even wearing a pin now.

-I am indeed.

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-Response has been very positive?

-Yeah, it's been brilliant.

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Wales has been behind me all the way, which is great,

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but I do feel as though I do have to clarify

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that I'm not from Transylvania

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so I do need to kind of force the point forward.

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Alex, I'm sorry to get straight to this. Two questions.

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Firstly, are you all called Alex? That's the question we have.

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-Only the good ones. Only the good ones.

-Only the good ones.

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On the way out, they present you with your Alex papers.

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Have you been proud of what this Alex has done?

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As you said, Dara, a very good ambassador for the country.

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Everybody's been right behind you. You've done amazingly well.

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Still only 22 and got so far. Those eyebrows, we all love them.

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We've fallen in love with you.

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I think, you know, even though I'm gutted that you were fired,

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I'm so glad that you're here tonight and I get a chance to meet you.

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-I'm gutted as well.

-Are you gutted? Are you gutted? Are you in bits?

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Look at this. I want you to take the stage. I want you to soliloquise.

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I want you to take a moment just to tell us of your disappointment

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-and take as long as you need.

-The thing is, OK, sitting back there,

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I can completely understand from the commercial...

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LAUGHTER

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Don't ask me to microwave it. I don't now how to use a microwave.

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How many times did you need to do that?!

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To make sure it's blinking cooked. I'm not going to give them food poisoning.

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It's Deadly Dinners, a company with bloody salmonella.

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Oh, dear. Your pain at not being made manager as well.

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-That went on for weeks.

-Yeah. At the end of the day, I put myself forward

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quite passionately on some tasks. But just cos you're not project manager,

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-doesn't mean that you do not give full involvement.

-Of course.

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-It's the team that wins, it's not the captain.

-No-one could ever say

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you didn't give full involvement throughout this process.

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-Committed individual.

-Entirely. And should be.

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LAUGHTER

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For eight weeks, we felt the desperation,

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your desperate pain to be a project manager.

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When it finally happened tonight, it was gutting to see you choke on a deadly dinner.

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I love the geography thing. Foods from around the world.

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Educating kids. I think mums and dads

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and the shop owners will actually buy into it.

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A name I had is Popty Ping.

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The reason is that Popty Ping

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is actually Welsh for microwave.

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Look, here's an idea now. I've got Popty there on the gondola.

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Italian, isn't it?

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-What does that tell you about geography?

-Nothing.

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Popty Ping , lovely little dishes.

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Adults would prefer the geography thing.

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I'm going to go with the geography idea. I really am.

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Why didn't you stick to your original idea? Are you weak?

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My mind is going so much on these two blinking ideas,

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it's tearing me apart.

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In the next five minutes,

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which have we got the most chance of doing a great job on?

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Deadly Dinners.

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-And in that moment, why didn't you stick with it?

-The thing is that...

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The point is, as Lord Sugar's obviously demonstrated

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on some previous tasks, is that I do go quite gung ho, as you said.

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-I'm happy to dress up as Herbert The Pervert.

-Yeah, yeah.

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The point is that you go gung ho on these things and sometimes

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because I am a little bit enthusiastic,

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sometimes I may miss a crucial decision.

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Obviously, listening to a parent within the group, I thought

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I should probably listen to him more and I shouldn't have.

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You possibly overcompensated in order to not SEEM as if you were gung ho?

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If being fired is proving two things as far as I'm concerned,

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one, clearly, my branding is always right.

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Number two, Myles is clearly a bad parent.

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LAUGHTER

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That's our takeaway message from tonight.

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I think Popty Ping is brilliant. I think Popty Ping is a superb idea.

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-It doesn't have to be the whole branding.

-No.

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It just has to be the charming cartoon character in the middle of it.

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Something like that... I mean, Charlie,

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they're under your name, the Bigham foods.

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Popty Ping is a cute idea.

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-Is nobody doing that?

-That could work.

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You could build a nice character around that, a kids character.

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The big mistake was, if you're setting up a business,

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you have to have strength in your own conviction and Myles...

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Obviously, Myles talked you out of it. You shouldn't have let him.

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Alex, you've actually mentioned that Popty Ping is the Welsh for microwave on The One Show.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Popty Ping's a great word but even I can see, Alex,

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that it might be a little bit narrow in terms of the rest of Britain.

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I liked your geography idea and as you said,

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you should have stuck to your guns.

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Myles clearly didn't know what he was talking about.

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-Parent or no parent.

-Fred, parent. Did you think...?

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Actually, we've got a character

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in Scotland called Popty Ping and we use it

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to teach our kids about passing wind in public.

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LAUGHTER

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Alex, you bit the dust tonight.

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But someone else almost had their skull cracked open.

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Healthy, horrible food.

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Kids, they love everything gruesome.

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Bat's blood and prawn pasta.

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Brussels sprouts become zombies eyeballs.

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Lethal lasagne. Homicidal hummus.

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I do think the brand's really strong.

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I would be proud to show that to someone.

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Deadly Dinners. What does that say to you?

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Keep it away from kids.

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It's deadly and it's horrible.

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I, as a parent, tend not to buy anything with skulls.

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Myles?

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The fatal error is you got your customer wrong.

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What you don't realise until you actually see it...

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This is the Deadly Dinners pack that was touted around so unsuccessfully to the retailers.

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That's the pack there. It isn't the fact that there's a large white skull there,

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but it's actually on another larger dark skull behind it.

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If you'd put the white skull on...

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It's horrible, dangerous food,

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but with an undercurrent of even more danger.

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If you hadn't made it grey as well. Grey is a bad colour in terms of...

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-It's like rancid meat.

-Yeah, but the thing is though, as I said,

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you've got to follow something through with conviction.

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Even though it wasn't the idea I wanted to do, the point is,

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I'm still going to do it as best as I can.

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Let's be honest, that is the most gruesome thing you've probably seen.

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The secret to good packaging, surely... It's in the choice of the colours

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as much as in the choice of the images, presumably?

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Grey is just wrong.

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Getting noticed is important on the shelf.

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You walk into a supermarket, there are 18,000 items

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in the average supermarket.

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-So getting noticed is really, really important.

-OK.

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So, which path did you take to get noticed?

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We took the path of making our food taste nice to get noticed.

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This is genius. This is why...

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LAUGHTER

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I know. I know. I know. It's so obvious when HE says it.

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Would you...? For an older child, even?

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I don't think it's that bad. It's the type of thing that I suppose...

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You know when you're little and you try and get things

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into the trolley without your parents noticing?

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It's that type of thing, isn't it? I think, you know...

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Your idea cos you said we should put more fruit and vegetables

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around the skull, you probably should have just covered the skull

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with fruit and vegetables.

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At least the big white one. The black one, it blends.

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It's all right. It's not the worst thing. It would stand out.

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The worst thing would have been if you'd have put a picture of you as Herbert on the front.

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LAUGHTER

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Nobody's going to eat that.

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It is slightly worrying that the branding is more important

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-than the foodstuff.

-One of the things that surprised me

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in this task, actually, for both teams,

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was that the project manager decided to sit on the branding

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-not on the food.

-Yeah.

-To me, it's extraordinary.

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That's what I do all day.

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I taste food and I eat food. It's all about what it takes like.

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I understand that, but the point is, someone like myself,

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I don't deal with microwaveable... I don't do microwaves anyway.

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I especially don't have children or anything like that.

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-My skills are more set towards branding.

-But do you eat?

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Yes.

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Occasionally. No, the point is that my skillset is more based towards branding.

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As I said, I don't feel as though anyone else in the team

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would have carried out a job better than myself,

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even though it is a bad job, at least it's done properly.

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Why don't you do microwaves? What's your problem with microwaves?

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I haven't had one for years. My mother doesn't use it.

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-She's a good cook, my mum.

-Sorry, you live at home, don't you?

-Yes.

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That would explain why you don't use a microwave.

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Fair enough. Sorry. Apologies.

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Man, two years' time. Ting.

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That's going to be your life.

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Trust me. All right.

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Even when it wasn't your pitch, you still made your presence felt.

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Let's relive that beautiful moment.

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We're really passionate about what we've created...

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POPPING

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..we're here, we're so happy to show you what we've got.

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Um, the industry itself, it really does seem to have gone through

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a bit of a revolution over the last few years.

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POPPING

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Excuse the noise in the background.

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His just preparing something nice for you to eat. Sorry.

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I think this has really been part of fuelling the market.

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-The microwave's not on.

-You need to press the big button at the bottom.

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-Press that to start, is it?

-Yes.

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We also looked at vegetarians...

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BEEPING

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LAUGHING

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Did you not know that was going hideously wrong?!

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-Were you unaware?

-No, I didn't realise. It was quite loud.

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As I said, I haven't had enough practice with these microwaveable meals

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to quite get the fork pop, to get it right and discreet.

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You don't need to do it nine times!

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"I want no plastic. Damn the plastic.

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-"Be gone, plastic. I want to get rid of it."

-I want it cooked.

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Have you ever screwed up at a pitch?

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I think my worst one was when I went to a supermarket

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and just about to start cooking and the fire alarm went off

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and we all had to evacuate the building.

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Maybe because of something I'd done.

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Then I had to do the pitch in the car park.

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-While the burning food was still...

-Yes.

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..being doused by the fire...

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Ever have an item go wrong on the show, The One Show?

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Jumping around, people presumably cooking all the time?

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Well, funny you should say that, Dara, because we've had a fire alarm live on the show.

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-Really? And did you do the show from the car park?

-No, we just left.

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It was amazing. We could go home at 7.15 for once.

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-It was all because of a jacket potato.

-Really?

-In a microwave.

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You're right, you know. Stay away from them

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-Deadly.

-Popty Ping. Evil Popty Ping.

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All right. We also got to see a side of Leah tonight

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that we haven't seen before.

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That is, what she looks like on the attack.

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I'm glad you brought Leah in because I've got a few questions to ask her, not just on this task here,

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but also about what you think you've contributed in the last nine weeks.

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Week in, week out, I perform in whatever role I am given.

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I have delivered. I don't think you can say that I haven't performed.

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I am the most reliable, consistent person in this process.

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I am the person that will deliver. I am the type of person

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you would give £250,000 to and think, "She isn't going to do something crazy."

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I am a sensible person. I deliver task after task after task.

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I have performed in every single sector.

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I have outperformed Myles on every task. He's been in business for 23 years.

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-I have just about been on the planet that long.

-Give me strength.

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You've spoken more in the last ten minutes than you've done in the last nine weeks.

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It was impressive though. It was impressive from Leah.

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Leah seems efficient but quiet and hasn't had to fight.

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Yeah, but Leah is a lovely, pleasant individual and suchlike that.

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I think that because she was brought back into the boardroom,

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I do feel as though she probably needed to give it a bit back

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-to reinstate her point.

-Man, did she ever?

-Oh, yeah.

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Hey, listen, I know women from Northern Ireland

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and they're well capable of doing that. They'll fight their corner.

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-But this is impressive. This is the first time we've seen that from her.

-Really impressive.

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I mean, the thing that really stood out for me,

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after she delivered this great speech on why she should stay

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and then Myles cut her off so unpleasantly at the end.

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I can't remember what he said but something like,

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"Save your advice and just be quiet."

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I think that really stuck with me and he needs to go.

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I think some of the polish is coming off Myles, do you think?

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He's very polished and we're just getting beneath that veneer

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and seeing a little bit of the manipulation, maybe.

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If we find out that he's actually not that ripped...

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If we find out actually he was wearing a see-through

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kind of girdle that had...

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-One of these blow-up suits.

-Yeah, you know the ones,

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where you spray paint a six-pack on.

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It's great. Do you use Marcel? He's fantastic.

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He's exceptionally good at it.

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Your Welshness, by the way, has been one of your most notable features.

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But another thing has almost preceded it.

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# I feel pretty

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# Oh so pretty

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# I feel pretty... #

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I've got to keep them in shape.

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That's nice.

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My eyebrows are perfection.

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I can't ask this any other way. Why do you do that to your face?

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It's the way I was born so I can't really control that.

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Seriously, if you let them run rampant, where would they go to?

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Basically, towards the edges here, they're kind of like spidery hairs,

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so basically, I just have those off, just to tidy it up a little bit.

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-They do look like seagulls in flight. It's great.

-Get back here. Right.

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There's no way that... You've taken a little bit too much off here.

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-No, that's where they end. Honestly.

-Really?

-They end there

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-and they kind of go down.

-You're right to stop THAT.

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It's like an inverted Jason. It just goes down.

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Really? You were born with that? I presumed that you had overdone it

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and then it's one of those things where you're like,

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"I've got to take a bit more off this. Now I've got to take more off this.

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"Now I've got to take more of this." Suddenly, you're left with THAT.

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It's a good look. Is it a good look?

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I think it's a good look because they are nearing a V,

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yet you manage not to look sinister.

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-Weirdly.

-Are you looking at me?

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I think he's definitely achieved sinister.

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-You can over pluck.

-Yeah.

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But I think you're just within the plucking boundaries there.

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You're all right.

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Are the...? Are the...? We should say this very carefully.

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Are the plucking boundaries at the point where you look

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astonished for no particular reason?

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Is that what you've got to watch out for?

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Yeah, you don't look TOO surprised.

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You look surprised, but not too surprised.

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Alex, please, show us surprised. I want to see surprise.

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I will confess a certain jealousy.

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I don't have much in the way of eyebrows or hair.

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If I had those, I'd be growing them and combing over.

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Let's hear now what Lord Sugar

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and your former colleagues have to say about you.

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I've been impressed in the way

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that Alex applied himself in this process.

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He's very energetic but I'm concerned that Alex loses focus

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and he jumps from one business idea to another.

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While Alex is great, he's really inconsistent..

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Alex I think can be slightly volatile and projectable.

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I think that Alex's face midway through day one told a real story.

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He was wearing the stress of the world on his shoulders.

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-LORD SUGAR:

-Alex is a young man with many admirable qualities

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but he didn't stick to his guns on this task.

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I need a business partner that has more self-belief and judgement

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and that's why Alex had to go.

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You're one of those who's come to this process and been left

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with a very, very clear message from Lord Sugar about focusing.

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Was that important to you?

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-Do you think there's something for you to take from this?

-Certainly.

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The point is, Lord Sugar was completely right and I totally

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agree with the firing, but at the end of the day, if I'm not going to get £250,000 investment,

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at least I'm going to take that away. To be schooled by such a business icon at such a young age,

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it's an experience one can only dream of.

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So you've gone from a slate business, wasn't it?

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Yeah, the story behind it is the slate markets, what I was providing

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I felt had kind of peaked. The legal industry is always something

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that's very much interested me. I feel as though it's so complex,

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whether you're setting up a business or anything, you're going

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back and forth to different people and I wanted to unite that.

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Are you not worried about the lack of training in law?

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I like to think the way that I think applies a different mentality to it.

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I'm not the one defending you in court and suchlike that.

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I'm just taking a mechanical look on the whole thing

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-and trying to make it a bit better and that's what my goal is.

-OK.

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When you started the business, how long before you were comfortable?

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It's a long-term commitment.

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It's a long-term commitment but I think you have to get started.

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I admire Alex getting stuck in early.

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You have to adapt as you go along. You might make a few mistakes.

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We all do. But get stuck in and don't procrastinate.

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OK. Let's take a look at the winning team and the chef who forgot

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the most important stage of the cooking process.

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I have no idea about cooking.

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I genuinely wouldn't even know where to start.

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I've got a three-tiered recipe. I don't know what passata is. Patatas?

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-Passata?

-It's exactly like you'd cook a stir-fry.

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I don't cook stir-fries.

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I've been royally stitched up by my team members. Can you burn chicken?

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Yes.

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Throw spaghetti at a wall. If it sticks, it's ready.

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Do you think people are disappointed that they liked the brand,

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-but then when they tried it...

-Come on, Luisa, keep stabbing me.

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-How did you think it tasted?

-I didn't even taste it.

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-You didn't taste your own food?

-I just made it as quickly as possible.

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That is the most bizarre explanation I have ever heard in my life.

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-It's astonishing. Who wouldn't taste their own food?

-Astonishing.

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Surely, it's the first thing. It's directly in front of you,

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you're about to feed it to other people..

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She said at the beginning that she's not a big cook,

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but, Charlie, correct me if I'm wrong,

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but if you're selling a ready meal, isn't it surely all about the taste?

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You would presume so, but then was she shafted by the other two?

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Yes, because Luisa should have... She had a background...

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-She runs a bakery shop.

-Exactly.

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She's on the phone, giving her all these instructions,

0:21:340:21:36

"Put paprika in it." Obviously, Francesca is out of her depth.

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So, had Luisa gone in and done it, it would have been probably...

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Even though they won, the actual taste...

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-It would have had SOME taste.

-It was a gamble. It could have gone hideously wrong for them.

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It could have done, but I think we will see Francesca

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on a new TV show called Can't Cook, Don't Cook, Won't Cook,

0:21:550:21:58

You're Not Hearing Me, I Don't Cook. Will Not Cook. I Do Eat Though.

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-I Do Eat.

-But not her own food.

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Not her own stuff. Neil and Luisa have cast themselves

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as the alpha male and female of the group,

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but tonight, they bonded over their unusually named Oh My Pow.

0:22:090:22:14

Funky food for funky people.

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-Oh My Pow is in the middle. Boom.

-Effective. It's bold.

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-Really powerful.

-It is powerful. We've done it.

-Oh My Pow.

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High five.

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It's been fun, it's been enjoyable,

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but I think we've actually come up with a really great brand.

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-I really, really liked working with Neil.

-Are you powerful enough?

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-Damn right.

-Yes, I am.

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Neil, give me a cuddle.

0:22:380:22:40

-Are we the dream team? Is that what it is?

-We are a dream team.

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We love each other.

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Oh, for God's sake. This is what they did.

0:22:480:22:52

They're hugging each other over Oh My Pow.

0:22:520:22:54

Powerful food for powerful minds.

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But does it not look like the packaging you would see...

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Somebody saying, "Look what they sell in South Korea."

0:23:000:23:03

"I was hammered in Tokyo, at three o'clock in the morning,

0:23:030:23:07

"I found this. Can you believe it?

0:23:070:23:09

"This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life."

0:23:090:23:12

Almost a wow. Almost a wow but just without any taste in it.

0:23:120:23:16

Yes. "We'll add flavour if you buy in bulk."

0:23:160:23:20

It's almost like a threat.

0:23:200:23:23

"If you only buy a few, no, you're not getting any flavour at all.

0:23:230:23:27

"But if you buy a minimum 4,000,

0:23:270:23:29

"then we MIGHT put some chilli powder in it.

0:23:290:23:31

"But until then, nothing for you."

0:23:310:23:34

But Karren did say, she saw something

0:23:340:23:37

in Luisa for the first time.

0:23:370:23:39

I see what she means. I mean, I'm a bit frightened of Luisa.

0:23:410:23:44

She did seem to be a little bit more upbeat, a bit more positive.

0:23:440:23:47

Her and Neil did work well together.

0:23:470:23:49

I mean, they came up with Oh My Pow which is not great.

0:23:490:23:52

-What did you think of the concept, by the way?

-The concept was flawed.

0:23:520:23:56

The concept was hideous

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because it was the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your life.

0:23:570:24:00

-Right?

-I was being polite.

-Thai noodles and Caribbean chicken?!

0:24:000:24:04

-Appealed to nobody at all.

-Take some of this and some of that.

0:24:040:24:07

Some fusions work. Chicken Balti in a pie, magic. Lovely. That works.

0:24:070:24:11

That works beautifully. Sushi on a roast potato. No.

0:24:110:24:15

Some cultures were not made to cross over in any way.

0:24:150:24:19

Hideous. What's the most far out you've gone in your business

0:24:190:24:24

-in terms of mixing tastes?

-Well, you know, it's difficult.

0:24:240:24:28

If you push it too far, people don't like it.

0:24:280:24:30

We actually once did a fantastic dish

0:24:300:24:32

with duck and chilli and fig.

0:24:320:24:35

It was delicious. It was delicious. But unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy it.

0:24:350:24:39

But you didn't put it with vanilla ice-cream

0:24:390:24:41

which is the kind of thing that Oh My Pow would have done.

0:24:410:24:44

Ridiculous thing.

0:24:440:24:46

You were likened, by the way, at the start of this process,

0:24:460:24:48

way back in week one, to one particular character.

0:24:480:24:51

So we spent some time gathering evidence and yes, it is you.

0:24:510:24:56

Has anyone ever said you look like anyone?

0:24:560:24:59

I sometimes get Freddie Mercury.

0:24:590:25:01

-Dracula?

-Dracula?!

0:25:010:25:03

I think some of the team maybe don't want to have me as project manager

0:25:120:25:15

just because I'm a little bit short in the tooth.

0:25:150:25:18

This is lovely, isn't it?

0:25:220:25:25

I do have a very innocent face.

0:25:250:25:28

My mum runs a nursery and some of the kids are frightened of me.

0:25:280:25:31

Good morning, girls and boys.

0:25:310:25:33

SCREAMING

0:25:330:25:36

Bottoms up.

0:25:410:25:42

HE YAWNS

0:25:420:25:44

OK. I'm going to go to the panel now.

0:25:520:25:54

-Who do you think is going to make the final, if you could name two people?

-I think Jordan.

0:25:540:25:59

Good, savvy on the business front.

0:25:590:26:01

And my wild card is Luisa. I think she's cunning,

0:26:010:26:05

she's played a clever game and is getting better and better.

0:26:050:26:08

-OK. Alex?

-I think it would probably be Neil for me.

0:26:080:26:13

He seems to be quite feisty, but quite together

0:26:130:26:16

and he seems like he's got a plan.

0:26:160:26:18

I'd like to see a girl in the final who would be Leah, probably,

0:26:180:26:21

because I think she's been quite consistent as well

0:26:210:26:24

and under her quietness, she seems to have

0:26:240:26:28

a sort of quiet confidence

0:26:280:26:29

-which might come through in the next few weeks.

-Fred?

0:26:290:26:32

I think that Myles, having survived tonight, might go all the way.

0:26:320:26:37

I thought he was close to being fired tonight.

0:26:370:26:40

I think Leah because in one of the previous episodes

0:26:400:26:43

somebody said she's got a very good business proposition.

0:26:430:26:47

And for the gentleman beside us here, I'm going to ask you

0:26:470:26:49

if you believe the right decision was made tonight.

0:26:490:26:52

-Should Lord Sugar have fired Alex?

-No, mistake.

-Really?

0:26:520:26:55

-Who should have gone?

-Myles.

-Myles. Alex?

0:26:550:26:58

Definitely not because The Apprentice will be a duller place without him.

0:26:580:27:02

-Fred?

-Yep, it's a hat trick. I would have fired Myles as well.

0:27:020:27:05

Let's throw it out to yourselves.

0:27:050:27:07

I'm exempting the Welsh London Male Voice Choir

0:27:070:27:11

from this particular vote.

0:27:110:27:12

There will be no block voting in this election.

0:27:120:27:15

If you agree with Lord Sugar, hold up fired.

0:27:150:27:18

If you disagree, hold up hired.

0:27:180:27:19

I'm taking that as an endorsement of you. Congratulations.

0:27:210:27:23

Very, very good. Yeah, absolutely. Hired it is. Well done.

0:27:230:27:28

Good man yourself.

0:27:280:27:30

We were spoiled for choice, by the way,

0:27:300:27:33

over what to give you as a gift.

0:27:330:27:35

So we have created a range of Popty Ping instant meals.

0:27:350:27:40

That's terrifying.

0:27:400:27:42

APPLAUSE

0:27:420:27:44

And it's been so popular, Popty Ping,

0:27:470:27:52

that the merchandising range is already there.

0:27:520:27:56

I bring to you the first-ever appearance of Popty Ping.

0:27:560:28:00

-Thank you.

-Enjoy.

0:28:030:28:05

Alex, you gave us nine glorious weeks.

0:28:060:28:10

Here are your highlights.

0:28:100:28:12

Fresh Viagra. I don't need any of that. I'm from Wales.

0:28:150:28:19

# Sex bomb Sex bomb... #

0:28:190:28:22

Colonel. I aim to go further, harder, stronger,

0:28:220:28:24

longer and exceed all expectations.

0:28:240:28:26

I'm 16 stone and I'm still afloat. It's honestly that good.

0:28:260:28:29

Lovely jubbly. Shake my hand.

0:28:290:28:32

I'm a very enthusiastic individual.

0:28:320:28:34

I don't mind dressing up as a scarecrow.

0:28:340:28:36

Come here, you.

0:28:360:28:37

Come on up to Fruity Cow!

0:28:370:28:39

I'm not a shrinking violet. I'll dress how I want.

0:28:390:28:42

I've actually got some leftover toilet roll.

0:28:420:28:44

I was going to say, it's not reused or anything like that.

0:28:440:28:47

Appearance is definitely very important to me.

0:28:470:28:50

Focus on the eyes.

0:28:500:28:51

-A comedian.

-He's very funny.

0:28:530:28:54

An unusual character.

0:28:540:28:55

I just love him.

0:28:550:28:56

# Baby, you can turn me on. #

0:28:590:29:01

Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Mills.

0:29:010:29:04

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:29:040:29:06

Sadly, we've run out of time. Thanks to all my guests.

0:29:160:29:19

Alex will be a guest on Fred's BBC Radio Scotland Show MacAulay and Co tomorrow morning.

0:29:190:29:23

If you want the opportunity to be in the running to be

0:29:230:29:26

Lord Sugar's business partner next year,

0:29:260:29:28

then please go to our website...

0:29:280:29:32

where you will find all you need to know and how to apply.

0:29:320:29:35

If you've got a great business idea, then you could be in with a chance

0:29:350:29:38

of securing £250,000 investment.

0:29:380:29:40

Don't forget that Matt Edmondson's Awkward Conversations

0:29:400:29:43

with the fired candidates are also on our website.

0:29:430:29:45

Next week, the teams have to grow a retail business

0:29:450:29:48

from a market stall to shop. But who will be left on the shelf?

0:29:480:29:50

-We're going to wear smart jeans and a shirt?

-Boring.

0:29:500:29:54

-You go off and buy some stock for a stall.

-Smell what sells.

0:29:540:29:58

-Stack them high and sell it cheap.

-We need to land something big.

0:29:580:30:01

-Five of these. Four of these.

-You go out and buy this? What is this?

0:30:010:30:07

-Great gift ideas. Gift ideas.

-We need to shift these dresses. £65.

0:30:070:30:12

You're the most risky bloody investments on this planet.

0:30:120:30:16

-We're here all day.

-Did you sell it?

-Bit of fun ceramic here?

-No.

0:30:160:30:20

-Don't really want to know, do they?

-Nice look, isn't it?

0:30:200:30:25

I know you're on the job but...

0:30:250:30:27

I haven't got a bloody clue what you are talking about.

0:30:270:30:30

See you next Wednesday at ten. Good night.

0:30:330:30:36

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