Good morning.
ALL: Good morning, Lord Sugar.
This task was all about negotiation...
59 euros, please.
Would you do it for 58.99?
LORD SUGAR: ..logistics...
Have you already got it? Cos we're right outside the shop.
ON PHONE: We're ready.
LORD SUGAR: ..and identification of the products.
We're not looking for an actual octopus, are we?
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LORD SUGAR: I think I'll start with the ladies first.
There was a real impatience in the team
in wanting to sit down and plan.
An assault place on a market. Much closer to where we are.
We're wasting time.
- You lost control then, did you? - I didn't lose control,
but I felt forced to split the team. It was impossible.
This is a classic example of the blind leading the blind.
I've got your CV here.
'Communication and pitching I will do well.'
- Absolutely. - He sort of fell apart.
- Um... - Forgetting my name.
Um...
I believe that we had an out-of-date product. That comic...
The other team got orders.
- Gentlemen, now, Frank... - Yes, Lord Sugar.
..you are the project manager.
Yeah. So I wanted to put myself forward
because I have some creative skills.
David also put his hat in the ring.
He has experience writing stories.
In order to get inspiration, you actually playacted with Frank?
FABRIC RIPS
Can you not see it?
We ended up with you splitting your trousers.
You must have shown your parts there also, I think. Um...
Who was doing the massaging?
- Us, the sub team. - Kurran, with one hand,
you didn't fancy challenging anyone to an arm wrestle up there, then?
- No, I stayed clear of any of that. - Oh, right.
Did you sell any of these things?
Mate, do you want to buy a back-massager?
Kurran is looking very lost.
Not those, no.
I'm just trying to find out what you did, really,
because even with this task, you could have still done quite a lot
- in driving people into your stand. - Yeah.
And I certainly tried my absolute best.
WOMAN: Very lost.
LORD SUGAR: Yeah.
The story was written by your lot, right?
That's correct, yeah.
I get more original ideas off my photocopier, to be honest with you.
Are you placing the blame on David, then, for the bad story?
I think the pitching was terrible.
You said, 'Let me tell you the negative points.'
- That was your exact words. - No, it wasn't.
It was. It was.
A couple of negative points...
HE SIGHS
David, you go into a pitch,
you read out the negative parts of your own product,
you've got no business acumen,
and for that reason, David...
We are going to pull something fantastic together, I really feel it.
..you're fired.
So, talk me through what you did.
So, we needed to decide on a concept,
so right from the outset I wanted something that was educational.
From what I understand from Karren, you carried on
like Kim Jong-un or Putin.
- You... - It's too educational.
OK, that's enough. How about you just do what I've just asked you?
You led it with an iron fist.
I mean, you know, you were making a comic here,
you weren't invading Poland.
We had a really bad first task,
and I felt that everybody needed to be pulled in,
and ultimately, you know, I think we worked really well together
following that.
Working with Khadija was one of the worst experiences.
OK. So now we've got to get on to the story team.
Yeah. So it was myself, Sarah and Sabrina.
We picked the setting to be France, or...well, Paris,
for our first edition
because, to be honest, it's the only language that I knew
at least a couple of words from.
We don't know that many French words.
Well, the grammar is wrong in a lot of cases here.
- We did. That was... - You've missed a dot out here
for MC, for example.
As far as I'm concerned, MC doesn't need any dots.
Yeah. 'Ça va' is not spelled like that.
So this is an educational thing of what not to do.
The sub team, your team, you set off to the craft village
- and you found the boat. - Yes.
It started off at 110 euros,
so I just went in and said 75,
- and then I looked around... - I heard a different story, actually.
Claude tells me that you were hijacking the negotiation, really.
Whoever gets in first does it.
- I just went in... - Look, guys...
You.
- Was it me, that? - It was you.
OK. Well...
But how do you know...?
So this task was all about making these high-quality doughnuts
that people would pay quite a lot of money for, OK?
And that was what this task was all about.
- They don't look very appetising. - They look really funny.
So, who wants to talk to me first?
- I don't mind. - Sure?
- Yeah. - OK.
What's the name of your team?
Collaborative.
You didn't even know yourself, did you?
- I was mainly focusing on the task. - Collaborative?
Sounds like a kibbutz, Claude.
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OK. Now, you go back to the kitchen
and you start making them, is that right?
I don't know much about cooking but I know to place people
in good positions and have a good system.
You got a bit upset, didn't you, Frank, in the kitchen?
No, I didn't. I definitely didn't.
No, can you just get on and let me do it?
Sometimes you can get a bit emotional.
Anyway, you go back to the corporate customer,
and what happens there?
She wasn't too happy with the shape of the bees,
so she only went with 17.
So that was a bit of a hit.
HE EXHALES
What did you do with the rest?
Oh, that's bloody lovely, that is.
We sold all of them, yeah.
LORD SUGAR: Hmm. Well, OK.
I asked you to brand... make an advertising campaign
for a budget airline,
- so what did you do? - Shall we start with the name?
Welcome aboard Pop Jet.
- Jet Pop! Jet Pop! - She said 'Pop Jet'.
Yeah.
- So we landed on Jet Pop. - LORD SUGAR: Jet Pop?
No, so it's more, like, you know in comics and things,
where there's, like, an excitement and there'd be an explosion of fun.
The strapline should have said 'probably won't blow up'!
Hmm.
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OK. Now let's get on to the pitch here, shall we?
Who actually led the pitch?
- I opened. I started. - Kayode opened, yeah.
I heard that there was a lot of laughter.
The laughing came from... mainly when Kayode was speaking.
I think there was a struggle answering some of the questions.
Yeah. I did try to definitely put across the points I needed to make.
But, Kurran, I think you've got to admit
that I've given you a good opportunity.
I wish you a lot of luck for the future but...
I'm stepping up. 100% I'm stepping up.
..you're fired.
This was a very interesting task,
where you had to go on a live television selling channel.
There was not just the skills of the presenters, who are upfront...
- Oh, shit. - Your mic is live!
LORD SUGAR: ..but also skills behind the scenes.
The quality's really bad. It's just poor.
So I'm going to start with Tom.
- Yes. - You put yourself forward.
I was surprised about this when I saw
that Jackie wasn't actually presenting.
I thought it's about time people saw that I'm also strong at pitching.
Khadija looked like she was in pain half the time.
Look at this. It's...
Well...
So...
..s-s-s-s...
I mean, what's she doing in this boardroom?
She ended up being disruptive, wasting time.
I became disruptive at one point, bit it was just a disagreement
and it will never ever happen again.
So why did it happen in our post-boardroom discussion?
THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER
Look at you. Look at you!
Well, this task was to design a shoe
targeted at the ladies' market.
- Would you buy this shoe? - No.
- No? - No.
- So, whose idea was the bow? - I think that was my idea.
The idea behind that is that it's interchangeable.
Yes.
So I think that's one of our key USPs in this task -
customisable is definitely all the rage at the moment.
Sabrina, Tom and Khadija, the first time you saw that shoe,
what did you think?
It kind of looks like something I'd give to a four-year-old girl.
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OK, so let's get on to day two, shall we?
Jackie was quite adamant that she would be good in the mobile team.
I asked Jackie and Khadija if they could work professionally together,
and they both assured me they could.
- Just so rude! - Why are you still talking?
You work well together, then, you two?
We did...
Like matches and petrol, it sounds like to me.
Did they do enough for you, as far as you're concerned,
- on the mobile stuff? - Absolutely not.
I was extremely disappointed. When I called them at four o'clock,
they hadn't even completed a single job.
- Oh, shit. - Lift from the bottom.
It was difficult, to be honest,
especially the lady with the courtyard.
We couldn't do the jet washing because she had no outdoor tap.
KARREN: You made a mess there, didn't you?
LORD SUGAR: Ended up a load of mud.
Made it ten times worse.
LORD SUGAR: All right.
Anyway, Kayode, you put yourself forward as the project manager.
By the end of that phone call, you knew what your products were?
Absolutely. We knew what all our nine items were.
So we're after an octopus with a 40-inch hose.
Did you know what the octopus was?
We didn't understand exactly what the 40-inch hose referred to,
- but we found that out later on. - Did you?
Are you saying 'nose' or 'hose'? Is she saying 'hole'?
We didn't actually get that confirmed.
An octopus with a 40-inch hose,
it's a piece of diving equipment, OK?
It's something to help people breathe under water.
But you bought an actual real, live octopus, right?
Well, it was dead.
OTHERS LAUGH
I think we've debated this enough.
I have to make a decision based upon
who I believe has got the capability
of progressing in this process.
And so...
..Sarah...
I'm not getting fired today.
..you're fired.
Off you go.
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