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00:01We are in tough economic times and in this climate you need to stand out from the crowd.
00:09From across the country, 16 of Britain's brightest business prospects have come to London.
00:16I'm not interested in any steady eddies or cautious carols. I'm looking for someone who's exceptional.
00:23They're here to compete for a job with a six-figure salary working for Britain's most belligerent boss.
00:31Where's all your brains then? You, purported as useless. You, purported as doing naff all.
00:39Serial entrepreneur and multi-millionaire, Lord Sugar is once again on the hunt for an apprentice.
00:45Some of the stuff I've heard coming out of your mouth is a lot of hot air, so in the interest of climate change, I don't want to hear any more crap.
00:51OK. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
00:54To land their dream job.
00:56Hasta la vista, gravy.
00:58The candidates need to work as teams.
01:01I hope you're pleased with yourself because you've been rubbing on me all day.
01:05And you're being aggressive to me.
01:07But shine as individuals.
01:09I've got to jump. This is your DVD.
01:11Guten Morgen. Sprechen di English.
01:13Because in the end, there's just one job.
01:17You're fired. You're fired. You've talked yourself out of this. You are fired.
01:21You're fired.
01:22You're fired. You're fired.
01:23You're fired. You're fired.
01:28Previously on The Apprentice.
01:31Your next task is to set up and run a London tour company.
01:36It was Hop On for a ticket to the tourist trade.
01:39The River Thames is the second largest river in London.
01:43Joanna put her faith in Jamie's ghosts and ghouls.
01:48Sweeney Todd cut their throats.
01:51But Chris's gamble to boost ticket sales...
01:54I think that 20% of our total revenue is the highest that I could go to.
01:59..met with horror.
02:0020% of everything? Yes.
02:02Oh, jeez.
02:04On the other team, a Cockney sing-song for Stella.
02:07Knees up, Mother Brown. Knees up, Mother Brown.
02:11While Stuart and Liz went to war for customers.
02:14Can you get up our pitch, please?
02:15This is all of our pitch now.
02:17We're £4 cheaper than whatever prices go to you.
02:19In the boardroom, Chris's high-risk strategy paid off.
02:23You rolled the dice there with this rather innovative way of doing things.
02:28Stuart talked himself back on board.
02:31I'm a director of a company with a turnover of £3 million already.
02:34I've got my own telecoms company, which is up and coming.
02:36You sound too good to be true, really.
02:38So when the tour stopped...
02:40..I could say I'm going to open a new business of yours and do this and this,
02:43but there's no actual structure behind that.
02:45It was Liz who paid the price.
02:48As nutty as it sounds, what he said makes more sense to me.
02:52She became the tenth casualty of the boardroom.
02:55Liz, you're fired.
02:57OK.
02:58Now just five remain to fight for the chance to become...
03:03..the apprentice.
03:11One week left.
03:13Time for Lord Sugar to decide who will go into the final.
03:18Good morning.
03:19Lord Sugar would like you to meet him at Vigiland.
03:20The cars will pick you up in 30 minutes.
03:21OK, thanks.
03:22What was it?
03:2330 minutes and we're being picked up to go to their offices.
03:24Stuart, you're decent.
03:25Yeah.
03:26I think we're going to Vigiland.
03:27All right?
03:28It can only mean one thing.
03:30Interviews.
03:31I've never heard of that.
03:32OK.
03:33I've never heard of that.
03:34I'll work you up in 30 minutes.
03:35OK, thanks.
03:36What was it?
03:3730 minutes and we're being picked up to go to their offices.
03:40Stuart, you're decent.
03:42I think we're going to Vigiland.
03:45All right?
03:46It can only mean one thing.
03:54Interviews.
03:56I've never not got a job from an interview.
03:59I don't normally go for a job unless I fully expect to get it.
04:02Let's hope that I'm not going to break that tradition.
04:06I think it's going to be a very, very difficult day.
04:09Very long, hard questions, drilling questions.
04:12Leading a team to a record-breaking £120,000,
04:18Chris Bates has also sat on the losing side six times.
04:22I think Lord Sugar had the opportunity to fire me and hasn't done so,
04:25so clearly you see something in me.
04:28I think my CV is strong, actually.
04:30I think for my age, it's very strong.
04:32I did quite well at school and also my degree.
04:35I got a good job in my last job,
04:37so there's nothing on there that I would feel ashamed of,
04:39and I am desperate to get the job at the end of the day.
04:42With seven victories,
04:45the best record belongs to mum of twins Joanna Riley,
04:48a self-employed contract cleaner.
04:51The job interviews have been playing on my mind
04:53because, you know, I haven't had much experience
04:55in going to any formal or senior job interviews.
04:58I think that's what people have thought about me in this process,
05:00just the cleaner from Leicester,
05:01and they've definitely underestimated me,
05:03but it's my chance to go in there on my own merit
05:05and to show them what I'm made of.
05:07Do you really think that's the right clothes
05:11to come up and turn up for a £100,000 job
05:14that, you know, I'd expect them to...
05:15It's like a new interview, so?
05:17A lot more professional.
05:18That's not very nice.
05:19I'm being honest with you.
05:20Well, look at Chris.
05:21He's more... he means business.
05:23That's John Major.
05:26And this is new labour.
05:28Well, that looks a bit ominous today, boys.
05:44This is going to be one test of one's character.
05:49Top earner is Jamie Lester.
05:51He runs his own estate agency,
05:54selling property in sunny Cyprus.
05:56Right now, I know there are four other strong contenders
06:00in this process.
06:01However, I've got qualities that are, in my opinion,
06:07just a little bit ahead of everyone else.
06:10This is it.
06:12The moment we've been waiting for.
06:15Stella English left school at 15.
06:18Now, aged 30, she heads up business management
06:21at a top Japanese bank.
06:23I don't think anybody ever expected
06:25anything of me at all, quite frankly.
06:29And it's phenomenal to think that
06:32I grew up on the biggest council estate in Europe,
06:35had no qualifications,
06:36and, you know, some years later,
06:38I'm now in a position where I may have a job
06:40with Lord Sugar.
06:41It's going to be bloody grueling,
06:45but then he's not going to hand out 100 grand
06:47for nothing, is he?
06:48You've got to show you've got the balls
06:49and you've got the minerals to do it.
06:51At 21, Stuart Baggs is the youngest candidate
06:55to get this far.
06:57Two years ago,
06:58he set up a telecommunications business
07:00on the Isle of Man.
07:03Lord Sugar said last time
07:04that he actually saw a little bit of himself in me,
07:06and that really is the biggest compliment
07:08he could ever pay anybody.
07:09And, you know, I think I agree with him.
07:11There is something in me,
07:12something raw,
07:13and that passion to go out there
07:15and make him money
07:15that I'm glad he's seen
07:17because I think he only just has seen it
07:19for what it is.
07:19And, you know,
07:49Good morning.
08:08Good morning, little sugar.
08:10As we reach the end of this process, I have to think carefully about which one of you has what it takes to come and work for me.
08:19And so, I've asked four of my trusted colleagues to put you through a rigorous interview process, and they're going to give me their call on new people.
08:32Two of you are going to go through to the final, and three of you will be fired.
08:38Okay, so you're in for a big day today. Everything clear?
08:43Yes, little sugar.
08:44Off you go.
08:49Backgrounds researched.
08:55We're going to be here all day.
08:57Claims checked.
09:00Credentials scrutinised.
09:03It's time to face four of Lord Sugar's toughest business colleagues.
09:08Good morning. Take a seat, please.
09:09Claude Litner, once Lord Sugar's global troubleshooter.
09:15Ruthless when it comes to hiring and firing.
09:18I'm going to give you an opportunity, okay, to do it the hard way, and I'll rip you to shreds, or we can have a sensible conversation and a sensible interview, but then you've got to stop the bullshit.
09:27I prefer the easy way, without the bullshit.
09:34To test the candidate's strength of character, Lord Sugar has instructed hotshot litigation lawyer Alan Watts.
09:42So how have you got on with the other contestants then?
09:44I have found it very, very hard.
09:46There have been some comments that they find you rather cold, detached, standoffish.
09:51Quite frankly, you know, I'm here for the job. I'm not here to make friends with them.
09:56Ten years' chief executive of Bigland Computers, Borden Katchuk, a stickler for detail.
10:02So I was just looking through your CV here.
10:04Yes.
10:04You're looking nervous now.
10:06Go ahead.
10:06His job, dig deep, dig hard.
10:11And in your CV, you said you were solely responsible for market properties on an international scale.
10:16That's your words, in your CV.
10:18That's right.
10:18Not responsible.
10:19Yeah.
10:20Solely responsible.
10:21Definition of solely?
10:22Erm, the only one.
10:23The only one, right.
10:24He says, not true.
10:26Definition not true?
10:27Wrong.
10:27Wrong, right.
10:28So you weren't solely responsible.
10:30The smallest hole on your CV, and he put a stick of dynamite in it and blew it up.
10:41And finally...
10:43See you later, guys.
10:45To focus on the candidate's personal strengths, one of Lord Sugar's closest advisers.
10:54Good morning.
10:55Margaret.
10:56Nice to meet you.
10:58Stuart.
10:58Nice to meet you, but would you normally address an interviewer in this position by their first name when you haven't met?
11:03Perhaps not.
11:04I just feel like I've known you, because obviously I've seen you before.
11:06Yes, but you don't.
11:08Miss Malford.
11:09That's better.
11:14Now, if I asked, what is the most interesting thing about you?
11:18I own three properties in the UK, two in Cyprus and a Porsche, all before the age of 25.
11:24Did I mention I have a third nipple?
11:26Third nipple.
11:28Yes.
11:29Yeah.
11:29You're laughing.
11:30No, I'm not.
11:31One or two pages later on, what's the worst lie you've ever told that I have a third nipple?
11:38Is that supposed to make me laugh?
11:40No, it's just...
11:41Think of a word that applies to that response.
11:44Pure I'll.
11:44Yeah.
11:50You're actually not very nice, are you?
11:52Can I finish?
11:53Of course you can.
11:53You appear to be happy to do anything to further your career.
11:58You appear to have no ethics.
11:59You say that if you weren't caught, what would you be prepared to do?
12:02You'd be prepared to step on others.
12:04You say that the worst lie you ever told was telling the media a rival was going bust.
12:09Not only is that dishonest, but it's defamatory as well.
12:12Well, I am certainly a character of integrity, and I'll explain every single point that you've
12:16just raised.
12:17First off, you know, if there was, say, a promotion, and I was given the opportunity
12:22for it, along with, say, three other colleagues, then I would put them down.
12:25And I'd say, you don't want to select this person, you want to select me, and this is
12:27why.
12:28That's what I mean by stepping on others.
12:29Hold on.
12:29Why are you talking about them?
12:31All you should be doing is saying you should pick me because I'm the right person because
12:34of X, Y, or Z.
12:35This is it.
12:35I'm being honest.
12:36I'm not a dishonest person.
12:38Well, you keep saying that, but then the evidence is in your application form, which says
12:42that you are.
12:42Well, I think I've just explained a lot of it away.
12:44You haven't explained the defamatory statement about somebody going bust.
12:48We're all young once.
12:50We all do silly things, don't we?
12:55Sorry, guys, I've got the job.
13:02Vacancy filled.
13:05How long was I in it for?
13:06About 10, 15 minutes.
13:0715 minutes.
13:08What did he ask?
13:09The questions were probing, to say the least.
13:12Example questions would be, you wrote this on your application form, that you'd step on
13:18anybody to get here.
13:19What did you mean by that?
13:21And when you give your answer, it would be, it doesn't tally with what you said.
13:24It's very much what you say, it has to tally with your application form.
13:28Well, it depends on how you've approached filling out your application form, I suppose.
13:31I promise you, Stella, there is no way that you'll sail through there with not a bit of
13:34criticism.
13:36See you later.
13:40I think Stella will take criticism released well out of the final works of yours.
13:44What are you accomplished in?
13:49Well, I've got 10 years of experience in banking.
13:53The problem, though, is that having devoted 10 years to banking, isn't it a bit late to
13:57now decide that you're going to have a completely different career?
13:59Well, I disagree.
14:01I think that, you know, what it shows is that I'm ambitious.
14:04You know, when I arrived at the bank with no GCSEs, no qualifications to speak of, I proved
14:10a point to myself that I can do it.
14:12I can work in any industry.
14:14I wasn't phased by it.
14:15But you're going from an institution, a corporate institution, to something that clearly is much
14:20more entrepreneurial.
14:20I wholeheartedly see your point, but I am a very capable person.
14:24I can do more than this.
14:26I can create something.
14:27I can generate income from something, not just, you know, sort of assist in the process.
14:34Okay.
14:34I'm done with working in banking.
14:38Here we go.
14:42Good.
14:43Yeah?
14:44Yep.
14:46Going to elaborate at all?
14:48Erm.
14:50No, it was good.
14:53No curveballs at all.
15:00All right, Joanna, grab a seat.
15:03Sitting comfortably?
15:04Yeah.
15:05We'll begin.
15:06Obviously, if you're going to go and apply for a role in a company, you want to know what
15:10that organisation was and what it did and how it worked, wouldn't you?
15:15Yes, definitely.
15:16So you do know?
15:17What Lord Sugar does in this vigil in, in Vigiling.
15:21Vigilin, yeah.
15:21Vigilin, sorry.
15:22Yeah, what does Vigilin do?
15:23That's a good start.
15:24We'll start with that.
15:25IT communications.
15:26Yeah, quite a bit.
15:26What does that mean?
15:27Sell computers.
15:29To?
15:29To schools, medical industry.
15:32Are you asking me or telling me?
15:33I'm asking you.
15:34Well, I'm asking you.
15:35You should be telling me.
15:36That's what, that's as far as I'm, that's what I know.
15:39All right, what, and what other companies does he have?
15:41Well, I know now he doesn't have the Amzair.
15:43That's no longer going, going on.
15:46No, he does have Amzair.
15:47Oh, okay.
15:49That was, oh.
15:51Erm.
15:51Amstrad.
15:54Okay.
15:55That's the company he doesn't have anymore.
15:57Any other companies he's got?
16:09I don't.
16:11It's unprofessional of me, no.
16:13It's not unprofessional, is it, really?
16:16It's unprepared.
16:21Good afternoon.
16:21Dr Nguyen.
16:23Nice to meet you, Chris.
16:24You take a seat.
16:26So, the outstanding theology scholar.
16:30Erm, yeah.
16:31Can I read this bit from your application form?
16:34You can.
16:35What's the most interesting thing about you?
16:38The fact that without even being remotely religious,
16:41I am revered as one of the outstanding theological scholars
16:44for my age in the UK.
16:47Yeah, so I did do well at A-level,
16:49and it is something which I have been known
16:50to have a good debate about.
16:52Do you know what revered means?
16:55Erm, yes.
16:55To be a revered scholar is to be, erm,
16:58be kind of published and recognised by your peers
17:00as one of the leading scholars, so...
17:02Yeah, so people hold you in a sort of awed respect.
17:05Well, certainly at my school,
17:06people hold me in awed respect for the achievement.
17:09And, erm, equally, if you're in the top five in the country,
17:11then you still have to be, to a certain extent,
17:14respected by anybody who did the same course,
17:17who didn't get in the top five.
17:19Are you fixated with intellectual ability,
17:23with academic results?
17:25I'm not fixated with them at all.
17:27In actual fact, erm, you know,
17:28the idea of being able to brag about your achievements,
17:32it doesn't really mean that much to me.
17:34I am proud...
17:34You're good at it, though, aren't you?
17:36Yeah.
17:36Bragging about your achievements.
17:37I am.
17:46You're a special candidate.
17:48I believe I am, yes.
17:49All-round gifted young guy.
17:51I would say so.
17:52Throughout my life, I've excelled,
17:54firstly through academia,
17:55equally then I got a decent job during the recession.
17:58Well, let's stop with your academia,
17:59because whilst it's, you know,
18:01true that you've got a first-class honours degree,
18:03you've got it in a topic that wasn't your first choice.
18:06That is true, yes.
18:07So you flunked out of law?
18:08I didn't flunk out of it.
18:09I chose to change my course.
18:11Why'd you do that?
18:12Couldn't hack it?
18:13No, no, not at all.
18:14I don't see any point in pushing myself through something
18:16if I don't see myself doing the job at the end of it.
18:18What job would that have been?
18:19It would have been being a lawyer.
18:20Not necessarily.
18:21A law degree's a great skill to have in business.
18:24Well, I'm actually not so sure what it is, to be honest.
18:26Really?
18:27How interesting.
18:28Well, a lot of it would have been irrelevant.
18:29You know all about this, having not studied the subject?
18:31Well, I studied it for half a year.
18:33That makes you an expert, does it?
18:34No.
18:35So you're not such a brilliant bloke.
18:37You're not so gifted, because you screwed up right at the first hurdle, didn't you?
18:41It's not the first hurdle of my life, to be fair.
18:43You quit something that you started.
18:44I don't see it that way at all.
18:46You quit the law degree to do politics and American studies, OK?
18:50You didn't pursue that afterwards, so you didn't have a great interest in it.
18:53You then crow about how clever you are to have got into a wonderful company,
18:56which is in sort of investment banking.
18:58And the fact of the matter is, you've only been in this job for nine months,
19:01and if I understand correctly, you've actually left there.
19:03I have left, yes.
19:04How many new ideas are you going to be open to?
19:06You quit the law degree.
19:08You've quit this after nine months.
19:10You look to me a bit like a quitter.
19:11You don't know where you're going, you don't know what you're doing, you're a quitter.
19:15I disagree entirely.
19:16No way would I get an opportunity to work with somebody like Lord Sugar and then quit that.
19:20There's absolutely no way in hell.
19:22The only way you would get me out of the building would be by booting me out of it,
19:25because believe you me, I would not quit this.
19:27OK, we'll leave it there.
19:29Thank you very much for the opportunity, Sputti.
19:30All the best.
19:31Bye.
19:37Oh.
19:38Enjoy yourself.
19:39Well, it doesn't go easy on you.
19:42Claude.
19:42Oh.
19:43Oh, my God.
19:45Yeah, you get a bit of a verbal bashing.
19:47I think it's been all right, actually.
19:47I think I held my own, to be honest.
19:49Throughout, it stayed composed, and, you know, I think I answered the questions quite well.
19:53Good for you, mate.
19:58That was quite a tough interview, actually, more than a bit.
20:01I, at 16, realised that academically I wasn't enjoying and...
20:14Blame your parents for that, I think, don't you?
20:16You say you weren't encouraged by them to push yourself, so you think you lost out at school.
20:20I don't know, there wasn't any sort of pushing on education at all, and my GCSEs and all my grades have never been that good.
20:29That's putting it mildly, I think, isn't it?
20:31Well, Cs to Fs.
20:32Are you actually in employment now or not?
20:37I couldn't work out now.
20:38I know it's difficult.
20:39My company still exists today.
20:41I didn't get enough time to pass it over to the chap who's interested.
20:45Is this your ex-partner, is it?
20:46I work with him in Cyprus.
20:47He hasn't got any company shares or anything, but he has 50% of the profit that we create.
20:54I feel that I am doing much more than he is, 99% of the work, basically.
21:0199% of the work?
21:02Well, he closes the deal, and we're basically going to part company.
21:06I mean, Jamie, I'm just going through your quote.
21:08I'm bloody good at sales.
21:10I'm absolutely the best salesperson I know.
21:11Yeah.
21:11So you could sell, what, ice to Eskimos, presumably.
21:14The company has...
21:15But not property to Cyprus.
21:17No, no, no.
21:17The company is still actually making a small amount of money.
21:20It's breaking even, unlike a lot of companies out there.
21:23Sorry?
21:23If you're good at sales and you can bring the leads and prospects in, what's happened to it?
21:27That's your part of the deal, isn't it?
21:29Bringing in sales?
21:30And I have been.
21:31I mean, there's still people buying.
21:32Absolutely.
21:33My business is a tough business out there.
21:36It's minus 8% market growth.
21:38I'm doing plus 35.
21:39Yeah.
21:39So there's always winners and losers.
21:41Yes.
21:41But you're a loser then.
21:42No.
21:43There's two of you.
21:43Yes.
21:44One's showing the properties out there, finding the properties, right?
21:47Find, yeah, and shows, yes.
21:49And your job is to...
21:51Make the phones ring and get them out there, basically.
21:52Right.
21:52And the bit that's failing in the business is the properties are there.
21:56You're not making the phones ring and bringing the people out.
21:58I am, but what happens is that the level of interest has diminished.
22:03Now I'm beginning to understand why you might want The Apprentice.
22:06You're looking for an escape chute.
22:07Hmm.
22:10Jamie, Jamie.
22:12Good.
22:14Yeah?
22:14Really good interview.
22:16Shut up.
22:17They didn't give you a hard time.
22:19Yeah, oh, yeah.
22:20But, but, business hard time.
22:23You asked a business question, I gave them a business answer.
22:25There's no two ways about it.
22:26In my head, even as we speak right now, I've got literally hundreds of ideas floating around.
22:32And one of the products which I really would love to develop with Lord Sugar is actually a silicon chip,
22:37which allows you to track the location of the chip anywhere on the planet.
22:40And that's useful for things like dog collars, because it's absolutely tiny.
22:43And you can track, if you've lost your pet, you'd never lose it again.
22:45Well, my cat's already got a microchip in it.
22:48Yeah, but that needs somebody to find it, to actually scan it.
22:50You know, if you don't find the cat, you never find where it is.
22:53Whereas this can be tracked remotely.
22:54So, if your cat was in Bermuda, you could say where it was.
22:57And that's just one of my ideas.
22:58I've got so many.
23:00So, are you coming to him as an apprentice, or are you coming to him as a business partner?
23:03Absolutely both.
23:05Both?
23:05Both, yeah, absolutely.
23:06Because I'm not going to make this a nine-to-five job.
23:08I'm going to work 24-7 for Lord Sugar.
23:11But it's...
23:12And give it 110%, no doubt.
23:13Yeah, yeah, genuinely.
23:14There's so much potential here.
23:16£100,000 a year is my starting salary.
23:19You know, I want to end up on millions of pounds a year.
23:21And I want to be doing that by earning Lord Sugar tens of millions of pounds a year.
23:31Good afternoon.
23:31Yeah.
23:32Take a seat.
23:33Nice to meet you.
23:36It's a template.
23:36OK.
23:37I'm Stuart Bags, the brand.
23:44Yeah.
23:44What on earth are you talking about?
23:47Well...
23:47You're a 21-year-old kid.
23:49You're not a brand.
23:50Well, I think when you look at what a brand means, it is...
23:53No, don't tell me what a brand means, OK?
23:55You are not a brand.
23:57You're not a brand.
23:58I think I might be.
24:01Fine.
24:02Let's explore this a bit further, then.
24:04Why would somebody as successful, as innovative, as...
24:08Yeah.
24:08...big dreamer, as a brand, as you, why would you want to have a job with Lord Sugar?
24:13Because at the minute, I'm a big fish in a small pond.
24:15You're not a big fish.
24:16You're not a big fish.
24:17You're not even a fish.
24:21Right, guys.
24:21It felt like I'd knocked on his door and said,
24:25sorry, Claude, I've run over your dog.
24:27And he was, like, so pissed off at me, like, mad.
24:33Hi.
24:34Can you take a seat?
24:35OK.
24:38Let's just talk a little bit about your cleaning business.
24:40Yes.
24:41And so how big a company are you running now after a couple of years?
24:44I'm happy with how it's running.
24:46It's not a major company.
24:47It just...
24:48It gets me by.
24:49That doesn't sound like it's very kind of aspirational, if it gets you by.
24:53I mean, when you set the company up, did you just want to get you by, or was it...?
24:56Not at all, no.
24:57You know, I set the company up because I've never had any experience in business,
25:00and I thought this is going to be the most simplest one to take on.
25:04You know, I feel that I've reached so far, I've got to my peak,
25:07and I don't know where to go, and it's definitely not cleaning.
25:10I want to be a successful businesswoman, and hence why I'm here.
25:14It's a two-way process, working for Lord Sugar or for anybody else,
25:17in any kind of company, whereby you want direction, OK,
25:20but you've got to give something, and, you know,
25:23I'm not quite sure what it is that you're going to be giving.
25:26Myself, you know, I've proven you don't have to have good qualifications,
25:30you don't have to have experience.
25:31If you've got the business instinct and the know-how, you are...
25:34But you haven't.
25:35But you haven't.
25:36I have.
25:36You haven't demonstrated it.
25:38Why haven't I demonstrated it?
25:39Because you've got a cleaning company that's been going for two years,
25:41and you think you've come to the end of the road.
25:43You've started a business that's enterprising, good for you, OK?
25:47Not many people have got the gumption, the ability,
25:50the strength of character to do that.
25:51So having done that, it's ridiculous, ridiculous,
25:55that you're now saying, I don't want to grow it.
25:58That's a very great shame.
25:59That's a great shame.
26:03Let's leave it there, Jenna.
26:04Thank you very much indeed.
26:05I had Claude, so...
26:20Oh, my God.
26:21Oh, wow.
26:23This is like...
26:25mental torture.
26:27Good luck, Stella.
26:48You are obviously a very skilled and very qualified person
26:51at managing things, organising things,
26:53but in actual fact, you're just a very, very, very good PA.
26:58Well, I find that incredibly insulting.
27:00You know, I'm on the senior management team on the trading floor,
27:03the only woman in a Japanese bank.
27:05You did start off as a PA, and what you've done is actually
27:08managed to work your way up.
27:10I'd always set my sights much higher than that.
27:13You're not backwards and coming forward.
27:15By your own words, you're the strongest person ever
27:18to enter this process.
27:19Absolutely.
27:19I think at the end of the day, with me,
27:20you're getting somebody who isn't just a run-of-the-mill candidate.
27:23I've been a top salesperson in a variety of different tasks
27:25that we've done, a project manager team
27:27which has broken a record in this process.
27:29Whilst all of those things are taken for granted
27:31for somebody who is an apprentice,
27:32what you need to elevate yourself above
27:33is the intelligence and the kind of business acumen
27:36to think outside the box.
27:38All right.
27:38Really nice to meet you.
27:39Cheers.
27:39Thank you very much, Gordon.
27:40It's my pleasure.
27:42I've got to go into the boardroom tomorrow
27:43with Lord Sugar.
27:44What is it you want me to tell him about you
27:49that means that he should have you as an ex-apprentice?
27:51You can tell him I'm a decent person who wants to do well,
27:56who has succeeded so far with little qualifications.
28:00There's people that, you know, on paper,
28:02look a lot better than me,
28:03but they've gone out at week one, week two.
28:06I'm still here.
28:07With the right training and the right direction,
28:09I can do anything.
28:10It says here, this is your CV, in your words, right?
28:17I form Blue Wave Communications,
28:19a fully licensed telecoms operator in the Isle of Man.
28:22Yeah.
28:22That's not true.
28:23It is fully licensed in the...
28:25It's not a fully licensed telecoms operator.
28:28Sorry, it's not...
28:29It's fully licensed in the same respect as...
28:31In the same respect as...
28:33Any other telecoms company.
28:35So if I would say to you then,
28:37when I did my checking...
28:38Yeah.
28:39I spoke to a certain gentleman,
28:40who is the Licence and Compliance Officer
28:42of the Isle of Man government.
28:44So I'm assuming that he would know.
28:46Absolutely would know, yes.
28:47And I'll tell you what he told me.
28:49Okay.
28:49He confirmed that Blue Wave does not hold a licence
28:53for fixed or mobile communication.
28:55Blue Wave only holds an ISP licence for broadband.
28:58That's...
28:59Well, and again, let me phrase this in a way
29:02that doesn't sound like I'm trying to wheatle out of it.
29:03Well, Stuart, you're blagging to me.
29:06I know what ISP.
29:07Yeah.
29:07It's an internet service protocol.
29:09Absolutely.
29:09And that's what you're providing.
29:10It's not a telecoms operating licence.
29:12It's a protocol that allows telecoms over bandwidths.
29:16Yeah, exactly.
29:16And that's what I deliver.
29:17I deliver, you know, triple play services.
29:19Yeah, I'm sure you do.
29:20So that is a telecoms company, in my mind.
29:23Yeah.
29:23Okay.
29:24Well, that's maybe the trigger here, in your mind.
29:27Absolutely.
29:27But according to...
29:28But according to...
29:29Well, it's not my definition.
29:31It's the island man.
29:32Yeah.
29:33It's the licence and compliance officer's definition.
29:35Absolutely.
29:35I never caught your name.
29:37Sorry.
29:37So you haven't got attention to detail, either.
29:39No, sorry.
29:39What was your name?
29:40Borden.
29:41Borden.
29:42Do you...
29:42You're managing director of Viglin?
29:44Mm.
29:44I've been running Alan Sugar's companies for the last 25, nearly 25 years.
29:48Okay.
29:49All right.
29:49And so that's why I know a little bit about technology.
29:52Yeah, brilliant.
29:53Okay.
29:53Good, thank you.
29:54No, generally, it's nice to meet somebody that doesn't think I'm patronising them when I'm
29:56talking.
29:56No, no, I didn't think I was patronising them for one minute.
29:59No.
30:00No.
30:00So, Stuart, the bit that you said, a fully licensed telecom operator, that's not true.
30:04Can I...
30:05Is it true or not true?
30:06Not in the context.
30:07No, no.
30:08It's a yes or no.
30:09It's black and white.
30:10Okay.
30:10In that case, then the answer would be no.
30:12Right.
30:12Okay.
30:13So, no.
30:14That took a long while getting there.
30:16But...
30:16Seriously.
30:17I know.
30:18We wasted a lot of time.
30:19You could have been using that time to talk about positive things.
30:22You know, the problem is this, Stuart.
30:24You're bright.
30:24Yeah.
30:25No question about it.
30:26All right, you're on the money.
30:27But I'm seeing a little bit of a blagger.
30:29You might have been able to blag some of the others on your licensing.
30:32You haven't blagged me.
30:33Okay.
30:33Well, I hope I can work on that.
30:34Okay.
30:35And I hope I come and work here, because I really love it, actually.
30:37All right.
30:38Nice meeting you, Stuart.
30:38Good morning.
30:39Pleasure.
30:40Cheers.
30:40Cheers.
30:43Oh, my God.
30:44What?
30:45This morning was like a warm-up, wasn't it?
30:47Why?
30:47No, he's just like...
30:49He was really friendly.
30:50But he, you know, he's like, completely kill you.
30:53It's hilarious.
30:54I feel like I've gotten ten rounds with Mike Tyson, to be honest.
30:58My head's spinning, but there's nothing more I can do now.
31:01That's it.
31:01There's nothing you can do.
31:02I haven't gotten the foggiest of how I've done.
31:05It's been such a mixed bag.
31:06I've had one which was great, one which was awful, the worst thing I've ever experienced,
31:11and then two which I don't have a clue about.
31:13So I've come out of it, I'm not really feeling that much the wiser, really.
31:16I don't have a clue.
31:46I don't think that he's ever seen anybody like me.
31:48In fact, you know, I don't think there is anybody else out there like me.
31:52I need to get through to that final and I need to win,
31:55and then, you know, the real work starts.
31:57I need to get through to that final and finally, I know.
32:05I don't want to make abooks.
32:07I don't know.
32:37I don't know.
33:07Thanks for your assistance.
33:09So, ladies first.
33:12Margaret, start us off on Joanna.
33:14I like Joanna.
33:15She's succeeded in starting a business, albeit small still.
33:20She's making a good living for herself looking after her kids.
33:24I think she deserves a lot of credit for that.
33:27You've got to admire somebody who has got not much education, but has gone on and done something a little bit different.
33:32So, she has a business.
33:33I think she doesn't realise how fortunate she is to have created a business.
33:37I don't no longer want to be known as Joanna the Cleaner.
33:40I want a more successful business.
33:42Joanna, that's fine.
33:43First of all, there's nothing wrong with being a cleaner.
33:46Second of all, there's nothing wrong with being Joanna the Cleaner.
33:47But the fact of the matter is, you don't have to be Joanna the Cleaner.
33:50You can be Joanna the Managing Director of a cleaning company.
33:54And there's no discredit or anything like that.
33:56It doesn't matter whether it's industrial cleaning or anything else.
34:00She's running a business.
34:01And what she needs to do now, really, is to develop that business.
34:03She's a self-starter, Alan.
34:05She's taken the courage, made the big leap into business on her own.
34:09So, she's got tenacity.
34:10She's got some strengths.
34:11But I think there's another real bigger issue for you, Alan, to face.
34:15It's that when I questioned her about some really basic business fundamentals, she had no idea.
34:20I mean, when she came in to the process, just for your reference, I mean, she was a bit of a bull in a china shop.
34:27And I find her very defensive.
34:29I find that every question you ask her, she takes it in the vein that you're criticising.
34:34I think she needs to get out of that trait.
34:36She was very personable and controlled and spoke very well in interview.
34:40And if she did start out as being mousy and aggressive, then she has learned a lot.
34:45And she's shown she can learn and develop.
34:48So, Alan, Chris Bates.
34:52Chris.
34:52And Chris has got a very impressive academic record.
34:55He's got straight A's at A level, a first in his degree.
34:59He's not been in the job market very long.
35:01He's been at a bank for about nine months.
35:04He resigned that position to come into this process.
35:07When I questioned him about that, he felt that the bank wasn't recognising his talents.
35:12It's one of the issues with him, is he does have this need for recognition.
35:17And I said to him, I said, if you think that you're going to go and work for Lord Sugar,
35:20and he's going to come in every day and pat you on the head and say, well done, Chris.
35:23I said, you're barking up the wrong tree.
35:25I've worked with him for 15 years.
35:27He's never said well done to me.
35:28Well, quite rightly so.
35:30I've been 25 and I'm still waiting.
35:32Never mind the pat on the headboard, and it's the kick up the arse you should worry about, really.
35:36What do you think of this fellow?
35:39I've got to say, I found him really quite monotonous talking to him.
35:42I was just trying to crack him and trying to get some personality out of him.
35:46He's obviously intelligent, done well to get a job in these tough times with a bank of that stature, which he did.
35:53But he's jumped again.
35:54You know, I don't think he's got that tenacity.
35:58I don't think he's got the stone path.
35:58God, I'm so surprised, Borden.
36:00I mean, I've obviously worked closely with him during the process, and I found him remarkably adaptable in all of the things that he's done.
36:08I think, to be fair, I mean, although his presentation is quite monotonous, if you actually listen to him, he's actually very intelligent answers.
36:13That's exactly the point.
36:15He drones on, but actually he's bright as a man.
36:19Yeah, no, he's definitely bright.
36:20I think the one thing that has made Chris stand out from the others is the entrepreneurial streak that he has got.
36:27Margaret?
36:28He is fixated by his academic record.
36:32I wouldn't be surprised if he's putting certificates in frames and his idea of a fun night is to sit and admire them.
36:39Margaret, tell me about Jamie.
36:42Well, I don't think there's very much to say about Jamie.
36:45I find it quite hard to struggle through 15 minutes with him, actually.
36:47I want to...
36:49I am a key cog in a will, and if I can't...
36:54In any will?
36:55In a will, or...
36:56I'm a key cog.
36:59If I'm...
37:00That doesn't mean anything I'm a key cog, does it?
37:04Really?
37:04I'm sorry.
37:05No, no, don't apologise.
37:07It's a fact.
37:09I expected a really brash selling type, and he was strangely lacking in confidence, I thought.
37:15You see, he started off, Margaret, here, quite well.
37:19You liked him, didn't you?
37:20Very well.
37:20You liked him.
37:20We both liked him, yeah.
37:21But there was...
37:23A dip.
37:23A dip, wasn't there?
37:25There was.
37:25He lost his confidence, and I think someone like Jamie relies wholly on his confidence and his personality.
37:31I just wish he stopped worrying about what everyone thinks about him and actually gets on with doing the job and the tasks at hand.
37:38What do you think of him, Borden?
37:40I had a bit of a problem with him, his blame culture.
37:42When the pressure's on, it's never him.
37:46It's someone else, starting from his education, the fact he didn't do well in his GCSEs.
37:52It was his parents' fault.
37:53It wasn't his fault.
37:54It was his partner's fault that they're not doing well in their business now, why the business has gone down.
37:59It's not him, and I have a problem with that.
38:01And Claude, he has run a business, but I think it's more like a get-rich-quick brigade.
38:06Whilst everything was going well in Cyprus, he's brought himself a Porsche, he's lived extravagantly, but he didn't have the foresight to actually see that this was something that was not going to last forever.
38:14He hasn't reinvested.
38:15He hasn't gone to a different territory or tried to adapt his business.
38:18The positive thing about Jamie, he has got quite a bit of property experience.
38:22That is his background, and in your organisations, you have got companies that deal with that sort of thing.
38:27So there's a lot of skills that he's got there that you may be able to use and apply and get something out of it, and perhaps train him and bring him up to speed.
38:36Stella, Claude.
38:36She's a determined individual, strong personality, she's worked hard within a major sort of corporate environment.
38:43She seems like she's really risen to quite a responsible position.
38:47Having said that, of course, if you were running a major corporate, you'd find her incredibly useful.
38:53But bearing in mind the kind of type of companies you have, I'm not quite sure what role she'll fulfil.
38:57She's good, but she's the admin queen, you know, and I think she's really good at that.
39:01I don't think she's creative, and I don't think she...
39:03She's more than that, Borden.
39:04She's more organised, she's more than that.
39:07I can't see the creative part from her.
39:10She hasn't had the chance in the organisation she's worked in.
39:13She did start off as a PA.
39:15She could have just stuck at that, but she's obviously very intelligent, has picked up a lot of things,
39:20and she's created her own role within the companies in which she's worked,
39:24because she's shown herself to be completely indispensable.
39:27I think she's entirely decent, actually.
39:29I agree with Vary.
39:30I'm not against her, I just think she's...
39:32Hardworking, wants to improve herself.
39:34She's deeply organised, and you could transfer to the end of...
39:37Well, that's her role, Nick.
39:37That's her role, that's what she does, isn't it?
39:39Well, good for her for doing a role she can do.
39:41What did you see most of her, Karen, throughout the last 11 weeks?
39:44I actually found her to be a very professional woman who always gave a very good representation of herself.
39:51She never got down and dirty into slagging matches with people.
39:55When you gave her feedback, i.e., you're wooden, you're corporate, she went straight out.
40:00OK, seeing three choruses of Knees Up Mother Brown, as you put it, it doesn't, you know, completely disguise that.
40:06But she was prepared to take on board what you said.
40:09She's ambitious, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with an ambitious woman.
40:13No, no, no, no.
40:14I think it would be a gamble, but it might work, maybe.
40:17You might find little wings sprouting, actually.
40:19Yeah, I think so.
40:20OK, well, finally then, Stuart.
40:24What do you think, Margaret?
40:26Mr. Baggs greeted me like a long-lost friend, which, of course, he isn't.
40:30Well, there you are.
40:31Claude?
40:32Well, I think he's a maverick, a dreamer, although, of course, he claims he never sleeps.
40:38And he does offer you something that none of the others offer, in that he's a technical guy, he's not a salesman,
40:44but he has got that one skill that none of the others have got, and he's therefore worth consideration.
40:50I think if he's achieved the things he says he's achieved are correct, he's a very, very credible candidate.
40:56But that's exactly what I put to him last week.
40:59Yes.
40:59And he said to me, you know, I'm not a liar, so...
41:01Because you must remember, he's only 21 as well.
41:03Yeah.
41:03But, Karen, you said the word, if.
41:05If.
41:06And what have you got to say then, Balden?
41:08I mean, from a technical point of view, Balden, he must have walked a tightrope.
41:11Let me tell you, technology-wise, he's smart.
41:14He knows his beans.
41:15No question about it.
41:16That's not my problem with him.
41:19He says he has a telecom licence in the Isle of Man.
41:22When I pushed him on it, he tried to bluff his way through, in terms of actually explaining that he had a licence.
41:27What he had was just a very simple, uh, Broadcom licence.
41:31It's a licence they give away in the Isle of Man, value is 350 pounds.
41:36Anybody can.
41:36Anyone.
41:36You could have one, Karen.
41:38Is that...
41:38Seriously.
41:39Thank you so much.
41:40But you don't...
41:41What I'm...
41:41The point I'm making is you don't need to be technical to it.
41:44But he tried to bluff it, and to the point that when I pushed and pushed and pushed, I finally got him to admit, he didn't have a licence at all.
41:52Why lie?
41:53That's the point, isn't it?
41:53Why push it all the way through?
41:5521, he could have told the truth and been a hero.
41:57Had nothing to prove.
41:58He seems quite prepared to say anything he needs to say to get what he wants.
42:02Because he said the worst lie he'd ever said was to tell the media that one of his competitors was going bust when they weren't.
42:10I think he actually gilds the lily quite a lot.
42:13As ever, very interesting and very, very helpful.
42:21You know, obviously, I've got a bit of a task now on myself to choose which two I'm going to go through to the final.
42:27Very, very helpful.
42:43Yes, could you send the five of them in, please?
42:57Yes, Lord Sugar.
42:58Lord Sugar's ready for you now.
42:59Well, a tough day yesterday.
43:19The feedback I got about you, Chris, was rather mixed.
43:24And I was wondering whether you found the process daunting.
43:28Maybe yesterday in the interviews, you know, there were quite a tough grilling.
43:31And to be honest, possibly I've not conveyed my passion and my desire for the job.
43:36But I've always been told in an interview that you should be composed and you should deliver a precise, concise answer.
43:42That's what I tried to do.
43:43I don't think anybody questioned your academic ability.
43:46In fact, I think Margaret made the point that you were very proud of it.
43:49In fact, I think she went as far as to say that you were heavily engrossed in it, possessed with it, if you like.
43:55At the end of the day, at my age, you know, other than working for 10 months, I do have my academic record to fall back on.
44:01I don't have the same luxury as other people here.
44:03They can talk about their business experiences because I don't have them.
44:05Why didn't you follow the law degree through?
44:07As a young person, you don't always have your path paid out for you.
44:11You do change your mind when you're at a young age.
44:13And, you know, throughout my upbringing, I was told, you know, be a lawyer, be a banker.
44:17These are the kind of sound professions which, you know, are respectable and it's a way to go.
44:21I've listened to my own head now. This is for me, about now doing something for me.
44:25And I want to settle now and really get focused on building a career for myself.
44:31Stella, their view, they endorse what I thought without any prompting, that they could see you easily in a corporate environment.
44:42The problem that I've got, and this is the big problem, I don't have those situations, you know.
44:49Ours is more of a dynamic environment where we're starting new ventures from scratch and we're saying, you know, you can go straight in there, right in the deep end and get on with it.
45:00But I would do that. You know, that's what I would do.
45:02I think everyone here would say that, Stella, wouldn't they?
45:04Yeah, but I've proven that I do do that.
45:06I've proven that you throw me into a situation and I'll deal with it and I'll excel in it every single time.
45:11You know, that's what I've done everywhere that I've worked.
45:13It seems, or maybe a misunderstanding, but it seems to me that what you're saying is that I'm somebody that can just take instruction and that's it.
45:20And I don't think that that's true.
45:23I think that we might have detected that, in a sense, you're struggling to break out of what has been a very straightjacketed career.
45:31Do you think there might be any truth in that?
45:33Possibly. I think that I've had, you know, over the years, I've tried to adapt myself as much as I can.
45:41And, you know, the companies that I've worked for have created roles for me that didn't exist before.
45:46But I can't really excuse myself for doing my job well.
45:49That's what they pay me to do. I'm not paid to do anything else.
45:53Absolutely.
45:56Joanna, the message coming through is one of surprise.
45:59Surprise in the sense that having talked to you and tested you about simple things in business that you really are not familiar with them.
46:10Well, I'm 25 years old.
46:12I haven't had any direction and that's why my business skills aren't very strong.
46:17I made sure that I chose the simplest business to start up and that was cleaning and I managed to get by.
46:22Why not do what you've already done so well, so successfully and expand upon that?
46:27You know, I could go out tomorrow and I could get a large cleaning contract, but that's not what I want to do.
46:34I deserve to be a professional woman and I need direction, you know.
46:38I would have liked to have been a rocket scientist.
46:40No, but I can do this job, Lord Sugar.
46:42You know, if you don't know things about balance sheets and spreadsheets and all that type of stuff.
46:47But that comes with practice and I can easily digest that.
46:51You know, I'm confident that I can.
46:53I didn't know anything about business and one day I just woke up and I decided I wanted to do a cleaning business.
46:59So that shows me that I do have business instinct and because I'm so passionate, I will do whatever it takes.
47:06Jamie, interestingly enough, two of the colleagues said to me that you have kind of a blame culture about you.
47:15Really?
47:15You blame your parents for not pushing you hard enough in the education process.
47:20Is that really their fault?
47:21No.
47:22But what about your partner who I think you also blame that you seem to be doing all the work and he does what? Nothing.
47:29No, listen, I feel that I'm putting 99% of the effort in and that all he does is pick them up from the hotel, shows them the property and seals the deal.
47:39I mean, that's the kind of message that came through, this blame culture, really.
47:42No, if I can explain, the company is mine, 100%.
47:46I've got that.
47:47He wants 50%.
47:48I've got all that.
47:49Which I'm not happy with.
47:50I've got all that.
47:51I've got all that.
47:53The Cyprus market, which I know of, obviously because of my involvement in the real estate business, everybody jumped on the bandwagon when finance was available.
48:01It's a known fact that it's gone down the pan now, not just for you, but for everybody.
48:07Are you one of these opportunists that jumps into kind of things when they're fashionable and has got no long-term strategy?
48:14I can say that 50% of my competitors have gone by the wayside.
48:19Ones that are active in Cyprus, yeah, but other competitors that might have been...
48:22We had London overheads and we kept our heads above water.
48:25Yeah, but a clever competitor would have spread his portfolio, surely.
48:28Okay, after one year, I went to Bulgaria.
48:31I had stocked...
48:32Don't even mention that.
48:33Okay, the recession hit very, very hard.
48:36Not your fault, you're saying, basically.
48:38No, I'm not saying that.
48:39No, you are.
48:39I'm saying it is my fault.
48:41Nothing else other than it's not your fault.
48:42I'm saying it is my fault.
48:43It's about making mistakes, learning from it, and moving on.
48:48Stuart, how did you find the process?
48:51Really tough.
48:52Yeah?
48:52Genuinely.
48:53Why was that?
48:54I've never really had many interviews and I was actually shocked at how probing and hostile it felt, actually.
49:00Interesting, the regulator of the Isle of Man's Telecom, don't know anything about you.
49:04That's not the case, what they said.
49:05Well, it is the case, because, you know, my guy is not a mug, right?
49:09This was Borden.
49:10Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's not a mug, right?
49:12He's in the business.
49:13He knows people.
49:14We know people in the Isle of Man.
49:16Yeah, absolutely.
49:16So we phoned them out.
49:17Exactly, and the response that came back was that I was indeed licensed, but I was licensed for less than the scope that Borden felt that would implied in much of me.
49:23Using license with a license that costs 350 quid, that any of us can have, right?
49:28Not the case.
49:29Not a Telecom license.
49:30Licensing costs in the Isle of Man are irrelevant.
49:33If you're a full mobile phone operator, you pay 5,000.
49:35You're not, though.
49:36You're not.
49:36I never claimed to have been.
49:37I think you did.
49:38I said, I'm a wireless network.
49:39That's not a mobile phone network.
49:40It's a broadband license, which anybody and his dog can have for 350 quid.
49:44No, not the case at all.
49:44The thing is, is that my four advisors looked at me in this boardroom earlier today.
49:56They said to me that you're full of shit, basically.
50:02Yeah?
50:03And possibly you have been throughout the whole course of this process.
50:08And you know what annoys me even more, Stuart?
50:11What annoys me more that if I've misunderstood you with your claims and everything else that you've said that you've done,
50:21and someone like Liz last week left the process, I feel even further sick.
50:27Mm-hmm.
50:27Yeah.
50:28Well, it's not the case.
50:29Everything I've said I've done, I've done.
50:30I can show you everything I've done.
50:32No, I don't believe a word you say, Stuart, now.
50:34I'm annoyed with myself, Stuart.
50:36I'm annoyed with myself that you have been allowed to come this far through the process.
50:41And that is the first time that this weakness has come out.
50:44I'm annoyed with myself.
50:46Stuart, you are fired.
50:49That's the opportunity.
50:50Not sugar.
50:51I'm feeling gutted, naturally, that I've been fired.
51:14I thought I was the perfect candidate for the job,
51:16but more so the kind of dramatic way which I've been fired is entirely unfair.
51:21And I think maybe everyone's had a complete lack of understanding of what I'm really about.
51:25Well, we're down to the last four.
51:42Two more people are going to leave the process today.
51:45If I could hear from you why I should consider you in the final of this process.
51:52Stella.
51:53You know, I'm really...
51:56Succinctly as possible.
51:57I'm really aware that I've been pigeonholed into this banking thing.
52:00Give up that complex now.
52:01Excuse me for bringing it up so many times.
52:04So forget that, and let's just tell me what you're going to do.
52:07OK, well, you know, I do have a wealth of experience already.
52:12I'm not, you know, green as some other people are saying,
52:14but the thing is I've shown in my life that I can apply myself.
52:18You know, I'm not just intelligent.
52:19I make things happen.
52:20I've made my whole life happen, and I don't doubt that if you put me in one of your companies,
52:25I will do the same thing.
52:27Yeah.
52:29Jamie?
52:30I mean, since I've been here, I have wanted to break barriers, work at my full capacity,
52:39and throw myself in at every single opportunity.
52:44And actually, now we have finished...
52:46These are kind of cliched words, but go on.
52:48Well, now we've finished the task, and people have been asking me about what I've done.
52:52All the key moments in every single task, I have been there at the forefront, spearheading it,
52:58breaking barriers.
52:59Hmm.
52:59Joanna?
53:00I don't have a very strong CV, but what it is, is I'm raw, and I get it,
53:06and I do have business instinct.
53:08Working hard and having common sense, that is most definitely what I've stuck to.
53:12I'm ashamed and embarrassed that I'm not that clued up on all the business things around it,
53:17but that's something I can learn.
53:18And I'm sure there was a lot more professional people and stronger people with the CVs
53:23when we went into this process.
53:24But I'm still here, and that speaks volumes.
53:30Over to you, Chris.
53:32I'm nowhere near being the finished article, but what you do get with me is somebody who's incredibly driven,
53:36somebody who really has a burning desire to succeed,
53:38and somebody who has the shrewdness, the sharpness,
53:41that whenever they're in new situations which they've never seen before,
53:44they don't just do what they're told.
53:46Rather, I've shown that I can actually look at situations
53:48and think of something a little bit different, take a different slant onto things,
53:51and actually think about ways of doing something completely innovative and new to make you money.
53:56And I honestly believe that that is something which I will bring to you
53:59if I was given the opportunity.
54:02It's time now for me to make a decision as to who is going to be in the final.
54:06Joanna, we all admire what you've done here,
54:24and I'm going to give you what I think is the best bit of advice,
54:30and you should take it, right?
54:33And whilst you don't like what you're doing at the moment,
54:36get to like it and do more of it,
54:39because with regret, I have to say that I can't see where you can slot in the organisation.
54:49But you leave here with your head high.
54:53Let me tell you that.
54:53You leave here with your head high,
54:55because you're a prime example of someone who's prepared to work hard
54:59and sling yourself into things.
55:01You've done very, very well.
55:05Joanna, I'm sorry to say you're fired.
55:08The cruelty of this process is in the end that when I have four people in front of me,
55:33I have to make serious decisions like that.
55:42Stella?
55:47You're in the final.
55:48Oh, thank you so much.
56:01Jamie?
56:05I think you've come to the end of the road.
56:08I'm letting you go.
56:10Jamie, you're fired.
56:11Congratulations.
56:20Well done.
56:21Well done.
56:22Thanks.
56:22Thanks.
56:22well there you are you're in the final congratulations is the first thing we'll say
56:45thank you it's going to be tough i'll be in touch with you in a couple of days
56:52time and let you know what it's all about okay but well done for getting to this stage anyway
56:57i must admit because of what i've done in the past and because of the entrepreneurial
57:18flair i've shown in the past i really thought that i was through to the final i think i've
57:24got a huge amount to give so we'll see what the future holds i feel really really proud
57:32of myself that i've got this far before you know i was just joanna the cleaner from leicester
57:36but now as far as i'm concerned and what i know is i'm most definitely joanna the businesswoman
57:41from leicester one job now just two candidates remain lord sugar's search for his apprentice
57:50is almost over next there can only be one winner with a little help stella and chris go head to
58:00head so your final task is to create a brand new alcoholic drink action yeah for the loser the
58:09bitter taste of failure this is going to get us nowhere for the winner the fruit of sweet success
58:16alcoholic drinks represents big business we saw a gap in the market you're hired
58:22oh well they're out jamie joanna and stewart dara can't wait you're fired over on bbc two now
58:32and tomorrow lord sugar himself dishes the dirt why i fired them here on bbc one at 10 35
58:38and don't forget the all-important final of the apprentice is sunday at nine
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