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00:00This is not a holiday camp, this is a business proposition from heaven.
00:09Lord Sugar is searching for a brand new business partner.
00:13We've got Brexit, but in this process I'm the one who decides who's going to remain and who's going to leave.
00:20Competing for his cash. Millionaire moguls in the making.
00:27This is a bloody shambles. It was boring, boring, boring. There was no bloody strategy.
00:33Go, go, go!
00:34It's a prize worth fighting for.
00:37One sec, one sec, one sec, one sec.
00:38How can you say you don't know whether it was underminded when you didn't hear the comment?
00:41Can we all just stop talking for a minute?
00:4318 candidates.
00:45Are you putting any input or are you just trying to stray away from actually making a decision yourself?
00:4912 tough tasks.
00:51Are we going to win this? Oh!
00:53One life-changing investment.
00:56You're fired.
00:57You're fired.
00:58You didn't follow the money.
00:59You're fired.
01:08Previously.
01:09You're going to manufacture your own burgers.
01:12For the boys.
01:13Make some patties.
01:15Can't sell nothing.
01:16A slow start.
01:18Can I say, it is quite quiet here.
01:20There's literally no one here.
01:21Charles was left bashing out burgers.
01:24Have you finished everything?
01:25No.
01:26Let me explain.
01:27I'm trying to speak.
01:28You're meant to be making the burgers and then getting on the road.
01:29Danny, you've made no decisions.
01:30This is awful.
01:31For the girls.
01:32Look at it.
01:33It's like you.
01:34A sticky situation.
01:35Did we not have our eyes on what was in here is what I'm asking.
01:38Made mincemeat of morale.
01:40Elizabeth's faffled quite a lot the whole task.
01:42What is faffling?
01:43I don't want to argue about it now anyway.
01:44You just said Elizabeth's been faffing.
01:45It's just not helpful.
01:46But succulent sales.
01:47Another steak burger, please.
01:49Meant in the boardroom.
01:51They made a profit of £236.
01:54A meaty win.
01:55The boys' team had a loss of £114.
01:58The boys looked like chumps.
02:00If you was working for my business, I would sack you.
02:03Well, your business would be bust if I wasn't there.
02:05Really?
02:06My business is doing alright, mate.
02:07Charles was almost dead meat.
02:09You're disruptive.
02:10But in the end.
02:11This was a disaster.
02:13Danny got the chop.
02:14Danny, you're fired.
02:15Danny, you're fired.
02:16Now 17 remain to fight for the chance to become Lord Sugar's business partner.
02:315am.
02:37Hello.
02:38Good morning.
02:39Lord Sugar would like to meet you at Steak Park Mansion House.
02:42The cars will be outside in 20 minutes.
02:44Okay, thank you.
02:45Guys.
02:46Stoke Park House.
02:4720 minutes.
02:48Geoff?
02:49Yeah, come on, mate.
02:50Otherwise, you're going to be late.
02:51What do you think's not that good?
02:52It sounds a bit race tracky.
02:53New beginnings today.
02:54Can't lose another one.
02:55No, it was definitely one.
02:56We won by such a huge margin.
02:57It's just going to be humiliating if they lose again.
02:59We're a task ahead.
03:00The boys now have to collectively come together and do what they should have done on the first
03:01task.
03:02They're not going to be able to do that.
03:03There's still too many live wires on their team.
03:04They already think they've won.
03:05Who are the girls?
03:06Yeah, it's morning.
03:07It's like they were celebrating.
03:08They haven't got a chance.
03:09But I actually generally think we're going to smash it.
03:10It's going to be humiliating if they lose again.
03:11We're a task ahead.
03:16The boys now have to collectively come together and do what they should have done on the first
03:25task.
03:26They're not going to be able to do that.
03:27There's still too many live wires on their team.
03:30They already think they've won.
03:32Who are the girls?
03:33Yeah, yeah, it's morning.
03:34It's like they were celebrating.
03:35They haven't got a chance.
03:36But I actually generally think we're going to smash it.
03:41Nestling in 300 glorious acres.
03:45Stoke Park Hotel, Buckinghamshire.
03:49Iconic location for films including James Bond's Goldfinger.
03:56Wow.
03:57This is nice.
03:59Oh, my God.
04:00It's beautiful.
04:01It's beautiful.
04:29Good morning.
04:30Good morning, Lord Sugar.
04:31Now, you may be wondering why we are at this beautiful place, Stoke Park Hotel.
04:42Well, because it's a luxury hotel, they are able to charge premium prices.
04:48But only if their bedrooms offer something very special.
04:52And that is what this next task is all about.
04:55Making money from interior design.
04:58Your client is the hotel manager.
05:01And what you need to do is to create a bedroom that he could sell to his guests at a premium price.
05:08Now, a word of warning, this task is not all about creativity.
05:14It's also about your profit margin.
05:17OK, everything clear?
05:19Yes, Lord Sugar.
05:20Good luck, and I'll see you back in boardroom in a couple of days' time, where at least one of you will be checking out of the process.
05:31Teams have two days to design, decorate and furnish their rooms.
05:35Each has a 13 grand budget.
05:39Once costs are deducted, anything that remains is profit.
05:44Does anyone have experience with interior designing?
05:47First task, find a project manager.
05:50I'm not a designer.
05:51I don't paint stuff and do colours and stuff.
05:53However, I am used to working with designers.
05:55I am used to mood boards.
05:56You want to be PM?
05:58I think I should be sub-team leader on the design side.
06:01Are we happy?
06:02But this is a design task.
06:03It's a design task.
06:04It's all about designing.
06:05It's the main part.
06:06It's not a main focus.
06:07Russ, are you comfortable being PM?
06:08I would be better focused purely on the design side.
06:11Mate, if you step up and take it, we'll have you back.
06:13I'm comfortable doing it.
06:14I don't do five-star.
06:16My experience of hotels has more been travel lodges.
06:18I still eat Pop-Tarts when I'm 29 years old.
06:22I'm happy with that.
06:23I'll support you 100%.
06:26All in favour?
06:27Yes.
06:28Carried.
06:29Heading up the girls team.
06:31Bushra.
06:32Quickly, just before I split the teams now, tell me what your skill sets are.
06:36I have designed mayonnaise and done a couple of projects like this.
06:39I've basically re-bought my own house from scratch.
06:42And I also feel it would be very useful getting my decorating done.
06:45Perfect.
06:46Siobhan, what about you?
06:47Well, I've spent a hell of a lot of time at these kind of hotels and in particular in hotel rooms.
06:51So I kind of know what's actually needed to make a room top-notch, yeah?
06:55Sarah-Jane.
06:56I used to be in a buying department for a high street retailer.
06:58Okay.
06:59I'm just going to go with my gut instinct.
07:01Can I appoint you my sub-team leader?
07:02Yeah.
07:03Yeah.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Siobhan, I'm going to place you with Sarah-Jane, because you'll know the furniture.
07:08And Elizabeth.
07:10And Michaela.
07:12Aid Sarah-Jane on the buying team.
07:15Yeah, yeah.
07:16Bushra has completely stitched me up with the people that she's put in the team.
07:19She's just basically put herself in a team for amicable and put me with all the rowdy lot.
07:24Get out there and let's smash it and the boys are going to lose.
07:27Yes!
07:28Woo!
07:29Guys, I'm going to try and structure this conversation a little bit now.
07:34We need someone on money.
07:36I personally think that smells like you.
07:38Geoff?
07:39There's no point in me being the numbers guy.
07:41These guys, these guys, I should be on the design.
07:44Guys, keep the conversation streamlined, please, just one at a time.
07:47I will, in that case, put you over in my team, Geoff.
07:50Even though you are remote, keep your eyes on numbers when we get them from the guys.
07:55Okay, let's do that.
07:56Design is everything in this task.
07:59We don't need four minus three equals one.
08:01And you're asking the guy who has a bachelor's of math to do it.
08:04I'm creative as well.
08:05How many bankers do you know that can break dance?
08:13Let's just be rational, get rid of all the chaos.
08:15Seriously.
08:16We're going to do really well here.
08:17Awesome.
08:18Sounds like we're good to go, guys.
08:19Do you want to, like, I don't know, touch each other, high five?
08:26Midday.
08:27Half the teams leave to start designing their rooms.
08:35We've got to have a look at the room size.
08:37Remaining at the hotel...
08:39Because, obviously, we can't buy the furniture if we don't know if it's going to fit.
08:42..the sub-teams size up for furniture.
08:44Siobhan, do you want to do the measurements with myself?
08:46Yep.
08:47All right, then.
08:48Shall we measure it?
08:50Are you measuring as well, Elizabeth?
08:51I will do some measurements, yes.
08:53OK.
08:55I've done that wall.
08:56I'll just check it again.
09:00Are we writing this down, though?
09:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:02So we need to just relay all this back to, obviously, the design team.
09:10I think Elizabeth just, um, lives on another planet.
09:14Elizabeth, just leave the wall.
09:15It's fine.
09:17There's no point in saying to all, come and do this,
09:19because she's just going to make everything worse.
09:20Just, like, go and do her own thing.
09:22Is there anything else you would like me to measure?
09:24As long as you've measured everything, no.
09:26Are there any particular areas in this room
09:28that you were concerned about that have not been measured?
09:30I'm fine.
09:31Are there any other measurements?
09:32What about for me to do?
09:33Have you measured every wall in this room?
09:35Yes.
09:36Perfect, no, then.
09:37Right, have you measured the dolls?
09:39Um, one second.
09:41She does, then.
09:46Upstairs.
09:47Bed there, with bedside tables either side.
09:49Dreaming up fabulous furniture.
09:51They'll sit there, have a table there, glass of wine,
09:53fire there, view there.
09:55The boys sub-team, led by James.
09:57They need to have at least two places they can sit,
10:00and we also need a drawer set where they can store clothes.
10:03The boys have worked out which items
10:05are usually found in a five-star hotel room,
10:07but that's not what makes someone pay a premium.
10:10It's how those things come together
10:12that make you pay the premium.
10:14Throughout the whole hotel,
10:15the colours of the walls are very, very similar.
10:17So we need to put down for the other team, yellow.
10:20West London.
10:24At an international design agency...
10:26If you guys don't mind, I'm going to jump onto that white board over there.
10:29Actually, should I do it?
10:30And then you can just stay here and then you can just focus on...
10:32If you don't mind, just leave it.
10:33OK.
10:34Cooking up a concept to design their room around...
10:37Let's just get loads and loads of ideas up there.
10:39Yeah.
10:40Hopefully two or three really pique our interest.
10:41Ross keeps a firm grip on his boys.
10:44So I think we can focus maybe on a celebrity.
10:47Sir Elton John.
10:48Tim Henman.
10:49Erm, let's just quash that immediately.
10:52If you move on to what the hotel stands for,
10:55it's tradition, big part of history and British heritage as well.
10:59Best of Britain. Are we happy with that?
11:00Yeah. Absolutely.
11:01So just Britain and Ross, I think we're good.
11:04Shall we move on to our next piece?
11:06Absolutely.
11:07Shall we do that?
11:08So it would be the pink colours and the mood board?
11:11That is indeed it.
11:12Yeah.
11:13OK.
11:16Back in Buckinghamshire...
11:17Welcome to the Great Hall.
11:19Fantastic.
11:20...a chance for sub-teams...
11:22It has over a thousand years of history.
11:24Wow.
11:25...to probe the staff.
11:26What is the main attraction?
11:27Is it for the golf course?
11:28Yes.
11:29So I'd say that it's definitely for the golf course.
11:31Yeah.
11:32Is it a leisure hotel?
11:33Is it more of a business hotel?
11:35They come from all over the world.
11:36From the States, guests from China.
11:39How it works here is you have to always exceed your guests' expectations.
11:42Quality and luxury...
11:43Absolutely.
11:44You have to.
11:45It's absolutely pinnacle.
11:48Time to feed back to the design teams.
11:51Hey, guys.
11:53Hey, Russ.
11:54What stuff do you need to know currently?
11:57James, it's Sergeant E.
11:58I just wanted to ask you of the type of people that come to stay in that hotel.
12:01I think people come from China.
12:02I think people come from Europe.
12:04I would love to tie that into travel, tourism.
12:07Can you confirm that for us? Travel is the theme.
12:09Travel is the theme.
12:10And we're using Britain as a destination to travel to.
12:13Anything critical to tell me that you haven't told me yet?
12:15Ross, Elliot here.
12:16Every wall within the hotel is a yellow colour.
12:19So that's a very important point to note.
12:21OK, we're going to have to jump.
12:24Bye.
12:25So, guys, we are going to go to travel.
12:27Destination Britain.
12:29I think it might be really important to stay trend-driven.
12:32One floor up.
12:34Still to settle on their concept.
12:36Maybe food-themed.
12:38Bushra's Girls.
12:39The chocolate room.
12:41These have beautiful gardens.
12:43I really, really love that.
12:44Something to do with the setting.
12:46Fir tree.
12:47Is there such thing as a tree with fir?
12:49It's F...
12:50It's F-I-R.
12:53Hello?
12:54Hello, who's that?
12:55It's your PM.
12:56Can you just give me the size of the room?
12:58For the wallpaper.
12:59It's 4-3-0-0 wide.
13:03OK, cool.
13:04How much would you like us to spend on the furniture?
13:06Listen, guys, I don't want to kind of constrict you.
13:09A recommendation.
13:10Are you still there, Bushra?
13:11Yes, yes.
13:12Hi, hi there.
13:13We can't use 13 grand, so we wouldn't have made any money.
13:16OK, so guys, don't spend anything over £5,000.
13:19We've been thinking for a theme.
13:21Do you have any...
13:22Landscapes that are currently on the ground.
13:24Yes, so the golf course.
13:26That's the main attraction of this hotel.
13:28Golfing as a sport rather than landscape.
13:31Sport would be better.
13:33We're not sure.
13:34I will get back to you, OK?
13:35You need to come up with an idea before we end this phone call.
13:38Otherwise, we will not have a clue what to buy.
13:40Garnt MC, I've listened to you.
13:42I think we should just go with golf,
13:44because you've got golf outside, OK?
13:46Don't come back with any golf clubs or golf balls.
13:49For sure, we're not idiots.
13:50What we want to know is what colour is it
13:52and what furniture do you want to get?
13:53Thank you, guys.
13:54I have to go.
13:55Landscape, greenery, water, stone bikes.
13:57She's gone.
13:58Well...
13:59She's a felon.
14:00That's ridiculous.
14:01We haven't talked one bit about sport, about golf.
14:04We've talked about nature, materials.
14:06It's all been a waste of time.
14:10Personally, I'm really annoyed with Bosher.
14:12The sub-team, heading for London and furniture shops.
14:16I have five grand then.
14:17Yeah, yeah, yeah, just buy whatever you want.
14:19Whatever's happened, we need to just let it go.
14:21Let it go. Let it go. Let it go.
14:22You know what? All we can do now is let it go and move on.
14:25She wanted us to make a decision, so if it's a wrong decision,
14:28she has someone to blame.
14:31The red and the blue for Britain and the yellow being the heritage.
14:34Yeah.
14:35Best of British. Are we happy with those guys?
14:36Awesome.
14:37Yep.
14:38Colour scheme selected...
14:39I think, given his experience,
14:41I think Sarge would actually be the best person to lead this.
14:44Next, for the boys,
14:45create a Best of British travel-themed mood board.
14:49In the pitch, a mood board is trying to tell a story
14:52about what we want the room to look like.
14:55Mm.
14:56I'm looking at this and I don't really see the travel.
14:59I can only see Big Ben in the Olympics.
15:01I actually think that Chinese tourists would look at the House of Parliament,
15:04the Olympic Games, as being travel.
15:06I completely agree with that.
15:07Out of everyone, I think I'm the only one that was a Chinese tourist.
15:11Five years ago, I am a Chinese tourist.
15:13True, true.
15:14You don't overthink a mood board, but you sort of give the creative touch.
15:17That's creativity. Okay, okay, cool.
15:19You guys tell me, do you see anything wrong at the moment so far that you've changed?
15:24I stand behind that.
15:26I've created some really original ideas.
15:29How the team decides to unfold it is not up to me.
15:33I give them the fruits.
15:35It's now up to them to make the juice.
15:37Nice to meet you, Ross.
15:39Alicia.
15:40Concept complete.
15:41And we've brought in a mood board just here.
15:43Next, design feature wallpaper to wow hotel guests.
15:47I'd like to try and accentuate travel.
15:50Suitcases in front of a London landmark, for example.
15:53Maybe the outline of the London Eye, hand draw.
15:55The London Eye becomes a circle.
15:57You know what I mean?
15:58Quick, I just...
15:59Why couldn't it be that with a suitcase?
16:01I'll just use it, just take it.
16:02And if you feel you need to strip out some detail, do that, please.
16:05White, silver, platinum.
16:08Yeah, that's it.
16:09That's it.
16:10Cool.
16:116pm.
16:12Let's build this picture.
16:13Still to create their golf-inspired mood board, Bushra's Girls.
16:17I'd like the story to move across the board.
16:20So, the story is...
16:22OK.
16:23We've got a limited amount of time, but...
16:25Let's just get it down.
16:27Look at that.
16:28Does that say golf to you?
16:30There's not much texture, colour.
16:33Bit disappointed in how Bushra has led the team today.
16:36Is there more whites here?
16:37We need to get this on, because I'm just worried we're not going to have a board.
16:40We've deliberated so long over some fairly small details,
16:44and you really have to make some decisions in those situations and move on.
16:49Oh, my God, you're killing me with that.
16:51OK.
16:52May cause dizziness.
16:54We need to get the right high-quality items, even if it's more expensive.
17:01We need the room to look the absolute part.
17:03Order something like a mini bonsai tree.
17:09On a dash to splash their cash, James's sub-team.
17:14Can't get more British than that.
17:15I think we should just get two of them, you know.
17:17975.
17:18Write that down, please.
17:19I'm writing all the prices down, don't we?
17:21Let's tag them all up now and get the prices done.
17:23These chairs look very luxury to me.
17:26They're about 1,500.
17:27So we need two of them.
17:29Look at that.
17:30That would be a really cool storage unit.
17:32Let's do it.
17:33So you're tossing it up?
17:34Just doing that now.
17:35We've spent 7652 already.
17:36No, that's not a lot.
17:37Trust me.
17:38They have a budget of 13,000, but that has to include their design fee.
17:42That's how interior designers make a living.
17:44It's 350.
17:45Tagged.
17:46There we go.
17:47Brilliant.
17:48They haven't really shopped around, and if they make a profit,
17:50I'll be really surprised.
17:522,026.
17:53It's an under budget.
17:54And we haven't negotiated yet.
17:55We're done.
17:57Set on top-drawer dressings, time to try and land a trade price.
18:02So, what do you think?
18:04Well, 12 items in total, which, from a calculation...
18:07It's £11,802.
18:09Is it?
18:10Is it?
18:11Um, what is the total from your side?
18:1412,722.
18:15We were sort of looking around the £8,500.
18:19That's way lower.
18:20Is it too low for you?
18:21Absolutely, yeah.
18:2210,600, and we take the stuff off you now.
18:2510,750, and then we're done.
18:2710,725.
18:2810,725 is five.
18:30Perfect.
18:31Thanks very much.
18:32What happened there with the telly note?
18:34It was, er...
18:35You must have just not written down.
18:38Why the hell did both of us do it?
18:40That's the thing.
18:41Bushra gave us 5K.
18:44Looking for a bargain, the girls' sub-team.
18:47We've got to stick within the budget.
18:48Would you like me to make a note of the prices?
18:50Yes, please.
18:51Holding the purse strings...
18:52This chair?
18:53No.
18:54Elizabeth.
18:55Shall we tag it?
18:56No, it's too expensive.
18:57Oh, this one's nicer.
18:59Sorry, guys, it's too expensive.
19:00And we're not going to find anything.
19:02Guys, one of these, because it's half the price.
19:05Yeah, but it's an executive room.
19:07Eyes on the budget.
19:08Let's go for that, because we don't have much time.
19:10We like cheaper.
19:12699, tag.
19:14Are we sure?
19:15Yeah.
19:16Table lights, 89.
19:17Right, let's go for that one.
19:18But there's a mirror.
19:19How much is it?
19:20It's £1,000, but look at it.
19:21It's too expensive.
19:22Can we have a loop downstairs?
19:23Let's go downstairs.
19:24I feel like I'm not even being listened to here.
19:28Right, how much is that?
19:29It's 495.
19:30At this point, I've got to put my foot down.
19:32You don't need to put your foot down.
19:33You can have a discussion, Elizabeth.
19:34Yeah, you're not project manager.
19:35Remember that.
19:36If you're going to be out of time, just tag it.
19:37I'll negotiate.
19:39Right.
19:40Have you wrote it down, the price?
19:41Yeah.
19:46The key to this task is purchasing quality, unique-type pieces.
19:51This is exactly the store to find that, but Elizabeth was obsessed with buying cheap products at prices that were just too low for the quality of hotel that they're aiming for.
20:00And that one's even cheaper.
20:03Your total spent is 6250.
20:07You need to get it for five.
20:09With Bushra's spending plans blown, Michaela must secure a markdown.
20:14So what's your budget?
20:153,500.
20:16So that's far more discount than we'd be prepared to give.
20:20You know, it is going somewhere.
20:21It's super at market.
20:22I'd be happy to do 5,500 for you.
20:24Do me a solid and do it for 5,000.
20:27Let's do it for 5,000.
20:28Brilliant.
20:29Fantastic.
20:31That was our target budget.
20:32That's what we spent.
20:33Job done.
20:356.45pm.
20:37We want it to have this art deco feel to it.
20:40Half an hour until feature wallpaper must be sent for manufacture.
20:45Enlarge that to a giant scale.
20:47If I could have the options of the...
20:49Sorry, I really, really...
20:50Like a baby bluish silver tone.
20:52Can I just ask?
20:53What I think you should do is drag this white out.
20:55Seriously.
20:56I just want to...
20:57Go on then, Joanna.
20:58What are you thinking?
20:59That just looks like bubbles or...
21:01Things are not always as they appear.
21:03Yes, it's like art.
21:04This is style represented.
21:05That's fine.
21:06I just wanted you to know what I was thinking.
21:07Can you let me speak now?
21:08That's fine.
21:09Let me finish my point, then, before you start speaking.
21:12That's it.
21:13That's fine, but just say it like that.
21:15God.
21:16No, I'm just...
21:17Let me finish my point.
21:18Can you let me speak now?
21:19Right.
21:20We've got our wallpaper.
21:23Probably got five minutes to get done.
21:26For the boys, a landmark decision.
21:31Melissa, if we went for something really, really freehand,
21:33can we just do that in 30 seconds?
21:35Are you really going to risk what we've just achieved?
21:37I don't think we can polish that.
21:39All right, let's go for super abstract,
21:41really, really light freehand.
21:43Two minutes to deadline.
21:46I'm hoping this gets over the line, that's what I'm saying.
21:49This will do the trick.
21:50We're going there, we're going there.
21:51Oh, this is nice.
21:52That's awesome.
21:53Ross, I'm championing this.
21:54I've got...
21:55It's art.
21:56Oh, that line just makes it all better.
21:58That's it, done.
22:00And that's perfect.
22:02We've thought it through nicely, you know.
22:04Furniture found.
22:06Paints and paper fixed.
22:08Tomorrow, bring their creations to life.
22:169am, Buckinghamshire.
22:19Teams have six hours to renovate their rooms...
22:22Let's look at the colours.
22:24..before pitching their designs to the hotel manager
22:27and an industry expert.
22:29It's got a metallic sheen.
22:31..leading the girls, Sarah Jane.
22:33These two walls, platinum.
22:35Right, ladies, gloves on.
22:37It's pretty basic, isn't it?
22:40It's just up and down.
22:42Perfect.
22:44This way?
22:46Yeah, right, you need to get a covering,
22:48or else we'll have to do a double coat.
22:49I'll come and check you every five minutes, Siobhan.
22:51Yes.
22:55We need to get as smooth a finish as possible.
22:57So, basically, what I want you to do...
22:59Just concentrate on your own things
23:00and leave everyone else alone.
23:02Am I clear, then?
23:04I'm not to help Siobhan.
23:05Do help her, but we're just thick already, you know?
23:08So, she just needs to...
23:09Do you know what?
23:10Maybe you give her a hand, then let me do this, yeah.
23:16Let's do this, boys.
23:17Upstairs.
23:18Whoa!
23:19Best of British for the boys.
23:21It's almost Union Jack.
23:23It's nice.
23:24Quite a bright yellow, isn't it?
23:26God, that's like a turquoise.
23:27Very turquoise, isn't it?
23:28These colours are very...
23:30I mean, look at that red.
23:31Look, we didn't pick the colours, did we?
23:33We've just been giving them.
23:35It's like someone just pukes rainbow in this place.
23:38It's very yellow, very red and very blue.
23:41Isn't that the flag of Romania?
23:44Definitely a Romanian flag there, boys.
23:46North London.
23:50250.
23:51The best I could do would be 310 and I'll chuck the balls in.
23:55The girls bag a statement piece for their golf-themed room.
23:59Three and five with the balls.
24:01Come on.
24:02Thank you very much.
24:03Yay!
24:04Um, didn't we say gold clubs wouldn't work?
24:09We'll make it work.
24:12Ross, this to me screams British?
24:14Yep, totally agree.
24:15I would also scream no.
24:16I think it's disgusting.
24:18On the hunt for a travel-inspired statement piece...
24:21What about this?
24:22..the boys.
24:23This is great.
24:24And it actually matches our feet.
24:25That's a yes from me.
24:26I second the suitcase.
24:27For the best price, PM Ross...
24:30Hello.
24:31..must charm the boss.
24:32We're interested in the suitcases.
24:34However, we do feel a little bit, um, light and cheap.
24:38I feel like 600 is a bit of a difficult thing for me to accept.
24:42We can sell them for that price.
24:44Can I just say, what you guys have done with it is actually pretty cool.
24:47And I would love this to be in my hotel.
24:50We're working to a really tight budget of £400.
24:52400 is really knocking quite a lot off.
24:54Your whole design could be in a five-star hotel.
24:57400.
24:58It's a deal.
24:59Well done.
25:00Well done.
25:05Back at the hotel...
25:06Let's roll it out and see what we've got.
25:08..three hours left to complete the rooms.
25:11Is this upside down?
25:12..for the girls' sub-team,
25:14first glimpse of their feature wallpaper.
25:17What is it?
25:18Maybe they've gone for golf balls.
25:21Do you ever know what art is?
25:22I never get it.
25:23Shall we start papering then, yeah?
25:24OK.
25:25Are you happy for me to take the lead on this, guys?
25:27First thing you've got to do is measure up.
25:30Right.
25:31We're over by 40 centimetres.
25:35So we will have to cut from one side or the other.
25:37How did you measure that wrong?
25:39I measured it.
25:40That's how I measured it.
25:41Wrong.
25:42You know, I'd prefer to waste the white than the green, by the way.
25:45I would.
25:46OK, come down.
25:47No, just stick it to it.
25:48Right, guys.
25:49Too many cooks.
25:50Do you want me to do this or not?
25:51I don't mean to criticise, but is that supposed to be the centre?
25:53Yeah.
25:54Is that correct?
25:55No, it's not.
25:56Right.
25:57This is the...
25:58Yeah.
25:59OK.
26:01Yeah.
26:02No, that's correct.
26:03Elizabeth, mate.
26:04Come on!
26:05An absolute disaster.
26:06Everything lopsided, not measured correctly,
26:08in spite of the fact that Elizabeth must have measured that wall 50 times.
26:12It was a fiasco.
26:14Elizabeth, are you sure you know what you're doing?
26:16Yeah.
26:17How do you think the girls are getting on?
26:20For the boys...
26:22Let's see what they've done.
26:23Best of British travel-themed wallpaper.
26:26What is that?
26:28It looks like the Olympic Stadium.
26:30Let's just start.
26:31Get the pace on the wall.
26:33Will your left one come over?
26:35I don't want to sound sexist, but when we heard painting and decorating,
26:39we all knew we'd get this one.
26:44Heading for the hotel...
26:46If we go to them with a strong enough pitch
26:48and suggest they maybe charge 750 a night,
26:51that isn't unreasonable at anything.
26:53Ross has a plan for the all-important presentation.
26:56Geoff, if you can be a bit more proactive in owning that financial side...
27:00Yeah.
27:01..in the pitch, I don't think we really need to go into any specifics on budget.
27:04Of course, of course.
27:05Cool.
27:06We're good.
27:072pm.
27:08Hi, guys.
27:09Hi.
27:10How's it going?
27:11How are you going?
27:12One hour until rooms are inspected.
27:15It actually looks good.
27:16What is it?
27:17It's a piece of art.
27:19That's what we were saying.
27:20It's dead Arthur.
27:22Nice.
27:23Very nice.
27:24Checking in upstairs.
27:26Geoff, where are you going on holiday, mate?
27:28The boys.
27:29You've got five suitcases.
27:30The statement piece.
27:31Nice, boys.
27:32Nice.
27:33Yeah, so I'm going to head off with Sarge, Geoff and James.
27:35That's for the pitch team.
27:36So, the rest of you guys, thanks a lot for all the hard work.
27:38Let's just crack on.
27:39Cheers, guys.
27:41Have you brought the statement piece?
27:43We have.
27:44If you haven't already seen it.
27:46No enough.
27:47No.
27:48You're tacking the pair.
27:51It's a bag of golf clubs.
27:53And we've got golf balls.
27:572.45pm.
27:59The next part is going to be here in 15 minutes, so let's just get ourselves...
28:02Room rating...
28:03Should be all in that corner.
28:04...imminent.
28:05We've got this, guys.
28:07We've got this.
28:08Looking awesome.
28:09Where's everything else going?
28:12Where's the phone going?
28:13It doesn't have to go.
28:14It's really good.
28:15I'm feeling actually too much chaos.
28:16Yeah, I know.
28:17Too much chaos.
28:18Guys, stop shouting.
28:19We're not shouting.
28:20We're just all talking at the same time.
28:22I don't know.
28:23No, no, no, no, no.
28:24Look at that desk, mate.
28:25It's awesome.
28:26Yeah.
28:27It looks class.
28:28It really does.
28:29Seriously.
28:30Room's complete.
28:41Before the team's pitch, the hotel manager...
28:44Interesting.
28:45...and a hotel design specialist...
28:47Should we guess the theme?
28:49...cast critical eyes over the rooms.
28:51The whole style is a bit mixed.
28:54Yes.
28:55Would it work if you were having a meal?
28:57Clearly not.
28:58That high, it would be better.
29:00I can't look at myself full length in the mirror...
29:02...unless I stand on the sofa.
29:04Yeah.
29:05The lighting doesn't work.
29:06Yeah, it's in your eyes, it's too, yeah.
29:07If I hadn't seen the golf balls...
29:09...I wouldn't know that that was golf.
29:11It was a golf, yeah.
29:12They could have done more with that thing, I think.
29:16It's British up to here and then...
29:18Then it's yellow.
29:19So I see the theme of London and travel.
29:22Yeah.
29:23It's certainly not British.
29:24Suitcases.
29:25I like it, but I don't see the practicality of it.
29:29The chair looks a little bit too low to me.
29:31I'm not sure you would be able to use this as a dining table.
29:34I completely agree with you.
29:35It's an interesting room.
29:36The word eclectic springs to mind.
29:42Good afternoon.
29:43Ross, nice to meet you.
29:44Delalio, nice to meet you.
29:45First to pitch their concept, Ross and the boys.
29:49We wanted everything to accentuate their heritage.
29:51We managed to fuse travel and Britain as a destination into one space.
29:56Sarge?
29:57So here are a few pictures that we played around with
30:00that will help to define the creative process.
30:03Everything about you felt British.
30:05Now the Union Jack is red, blue and white.
30:09However, when I walked into this hotel, I had a look.
30:12It was yellow.
30:13And that was so important that we didn't lose that colour.
30:15So it was now red, blue and yellow.
30:18What we wanted to say was, welcome to the home of Britain.
30:22I will now pass it over to Jeff.
30:24So we started off with an estimated budget of $13,000.
30:27I'm glad to say that we're actually within budget
30:29as the total value of goods was only around $11,470.
30:34Yes, the plan was to let you know exactly how much all the furnishings cost
30:38because obviously we need to account for our time and our talent.
30:41Per night, we want to be able to charge £750.
30:45We think you can break even within two months.
30:48We have stuck with the luxurious feel.
30:54Then you picked the wrong chairs.
30:56Should have been more comfortable.
30:57And a table you can eat from, people eating their rooms.
31:00Can I just say, I think it would be a mistake for people to actually sit in your rooms.
31:04Please, if I've paid £750 a night for my room, don't tell me how I should use it.
31:09Of course.
31:10Sure.
31:11You're planning to sell this room for £750 a night.
31:14It's unrealistic because we do have sweets and that's the price pretty much.
31:19I don't see the best of British.
31:21I see London.
31:22There's nothing really about, let me finish.
31:24Sorry.
31:25So in terms of Britain, I'm not so clear.
31:27Sure.
31:29Good job.
31:30Seriously.
31:31Guys, honestly, we all performed exceptionally well.
31:34So I'm pretty disappointed in Jess' performance in the pitch.
31:38His one task throughout this project was to stay on top of the finances.
31:42He didn't do that on either of the days.
31:43Vinyl team!
31:47Next, Bushra and the girls' golf-inspired room.
31:51Good afternoon.
31:52The consumers that come here, they have a love for golf.
31:55So let's bring it into your room.
31:57A mural on the back wall.
31:59Yeah.
32:00If it weren't for the golf balls in the room, I would have no idea what that represented.
32:03I mean, what's coming into trend at the moment is stuff that is visible, but it's not obvious.
32:09It's important to follow trends.
32:11I have a big problem with that because you don't want to renovate when something is no longer on trend.
32:18Hi.
32:19So, yeah, I'll just talk you through the furniture for the room.
32:21We've got the coffee table, which is perfect for room service.
32:24We've also got a long freestanding mirror, perfect for people who are getting changed,
32:29need to obviously see their whole body.
32:31If I could just make a few comments.
32:33You said the coffee table would be perfect for room service.
32:35Yes.
32:36It wouldn't.
32:37I couldn't eat my dinner off that.
32:39It's too low.
32:40The mirror, you could get a full view of yourself.
32:43I had to stand on the sofa bed to do that.
32:45What happened to the Chester drawer?
32:46So we've got the desk, which has drawers.
32:49I can't put my underwear in the desk.
32:52So that's something that was missing.
32:54OK.
32:55We did save a little bit of room in the budget.
32:57So anything you do feedback to us, we can make sure we do for you.
33:00Thank you so much.
33:01And we hope that you enjoy the room and take our concept on board.
33:04Thank you very much indeed.
33:06We have to choose between the boys and the girls.
33:10Well, that's a tough one, isn't it?
33:11It is a tough one.
33:13We didn't get a set of drawers, so they picked up on that.
33:17I'm afraid Sarah Jane let the team down.
33:20We had negative comments about the furniture.
33:22She was the sub-team leader.
33:24I've basically just ripped everything apart.
33:25I'm awful it's going to be all right, but just got to work.
33:28The boys have messed up.
33:31Tonight, the experts will feed back to Lord Sugar.
33:36Tomorrow, the boardroom.
33:52You can go to the boardroom now.
33:55Good morning.
34:13Good morning.
34:14Good morning.
34:19Well, this is a very interesting task.
34:22We had a free reign at this wonderful hotel in the countryside.
34:27You each were given a room,
34:29and the remit was that you would redesign the room
34:33to the satisfaction of the manager, a designer,
34:36and more to the point, to my satisfaction.
34:40But also, you have to make a bit of money, yeah?
34:43So, I'm going to start with graphene,
34:46and I understand, Bushra, you put yourself forward, is that right?
34:50That's correct, Lord Sugar.
34:51I heard that there was no big rush from anyone else.
34:55No, I mean, I actually expected there to be a little bit of a fight,
34:58because there's quite a few of us that come from a creative background.
35:01Hmm.
35:02Anyway, you decided, after deliberation, on golf.
35:06Golf was the main attraction of the hotel,
35:08so that's the reason why we put that one forward.
35:10OK.
35:11Erm, Elizabeth, it's usually rude to talk about a woman's measurements,
35:15but you had your tape measure.
35:17I did, sir.
35:18And you went a bit nuts, measuring here, measuring there.
35:21I like a little bit of detail, Lord Sugar.
35:23Detail, ATD.
35:24I think that's the thing.
35:25She'd go sometimes...
35:26Right, so then the team went off buying the stuff.
35:29Tell me about that, then.
35:30So we basically had a budget of 5,000.
35:345,000?
35:35Yes.
35:36But the hotel was prepared to pay 13.
35:38Correct, yes.
35:39We didn't want to go in and spend our budget all at once.
35:42I've got some pictures here of it.
35:45Is that it?
35:46And I did say if they needed me...
35:47I can see you've got a fireplace.
35:49Did you buy the furniture for firewood or what?
35:51No, we were told 5,000 was our budget, which was a little bit...
35:55It was a bit mean, don't you think?
35:57From what I can see from these pictures here,
35:59it doesn't leap out at me as luxury, quite frankly.
36:03The furniture was still all good, yeah.
36:05Well, the statement appears with these old golf clubs.
36:08Erm, what statement is that supposed to make, then?
36:11We give up, or what?
36:13No, no, no.
36:14Basically, the room is a golf-themed room.
36:16Golf-themed room, well, I can tell you what,
36:18this design is full of holes, that's for sure,
36:20as far as I'm concerned.
36:22I think it looked better, actually, in person, maybe.
36:24I don't know.
36:25Well, I think it's a little bit bare.
36:27He didn't spend enough money, actually.
36:29Yeah.
36:30Yeah.
36:31Erm, I think West Ham's trophy room's got more in it than this.
36:36Erm, you ordered this furniture,
36:39then we did some decorating, is that right?
36:41Yes.
36:42Now, I understand, Elizabeth, you ran the show a bit.
36:45I kind of took control of that a little bit.
36:47It was pretty chaotic.
36:49Erm, then you had to pitch to the hotel manager
36:54and to the designer.
36:56I think at first they didn't get the concept, but after we...
36:59Oh, my God.
37:00Yeah, I think once we started to talk to them
37:02about what we were trying to achieve,
37:04I think they did understand what we were doing.
37:06He did ask what the wallpaper was about.
37:08Yeah.
37:09And we did try to get him.
37:10I'd like to know, also, really.
37:11If I slept in that room, I'd woke up thinking I'm in some bubble wrap,
37:15or something.
37:16To be honest, Lord Sugar, erm, when we were making the wallpaper,
37:19I did say that and the team completely shut me down.
37:21But you also didn't offer a solution, did you?
37:22No, but...
37:23What was the solution that you came up with then?
37:24The point is I didn't even have the time to give you a solution.
37:27Yeah, exactly.
37:28You shut me down straight away.
37:29So I just said, OK, majority rules, so I made my point.
37:32You did that to cover your own back.
37:34How did I?
37:35I was the only one that could see that I did say bubble wrap,
37:38and I said beehive.
37:39Ladies, the thing is, this place was a bit sparse, OK?
37:44I've never really criticised people for making too much money,
37:47but this task is all about a balance, and you've made a big mistake.
37:51You should have spent more money.
37:53But, generally speaking, good project manager?
37:56Yeah, I think so.
37:58All right, thank you.
37:59Now, gentlemen, Ross, you became project manager.
38:05Yeah.
38:06You had the design team, and who was in that design team?
38:10I brought Charles with me, Sarge and Geoff with me.
38:13Sarge, the impression I'd gotten,
38:15was that he had a strong creative background.
38:17And Geoff, yeah?
38:18I had expressed that I'd be more comfortable with Geoff,
38:20being a mathematician on the buying side.
38:24You pulled out of that, Geoff,
38:25then you didn't want to get involved in the numbers initially.
38:27That's not what I said, I think.
38:29That's exactly what he said.
38:30That's exactly what you said.
38:31Ross asked you to be in charge of numbers, and you said no.
38:34But why is that, Geoff?
38:35First of all, I'm not just a numbers guy, I have a lot of different skills.
38:38On top of that, these people run businesses.
38:40They should also be numbers guys.
38:42Yeah.
38:43Let's move on, shall we?
38:44The theme.
38:45We went with travel in the end.
38:46Specifically?
38:47Britain is a destination.
38:48OK.
38:49So who went out buying?
38:50That was James and his sub team.
38:51I wanted them to buy scarce, but quality.
38:54But I didn't want to just blow the entire 13K either.
38:57Of course, because at the end of the day, you've got to make some money.
39:00I wanted 20% from that.
39:01Did you tell them that?
39:02The truth is, you didn't work out that you had to get a fee out of it,
39:07which is ludicrous.
39:08Well, no, that's not the case at all.
39:10It is the case, Ross.
39:11We didn't have a clear conversation where there was a set fee
39:14that we were trying to achieve, but we spent 10,720.
39:16I heard that you went into this shop and you were running round it,
39:20headless chickens, I'll have that, quick, no, take that and take this
39:23and take that.
39:24You couldn't even add them up right in the end.
39:26Well, yeah, we actually had two adding up the prices.
39:28It was Andrew and Elliot.
39:29I think they come back with a figure.
39:31It was about 11,700.
39:33I thought it came to 12,700.
39:35It did.
39:36What did you get it down to?
39:37It got it down to 10,720, so we got about 17%.
39:40So you spent quite a lot of money on some quality stuff.
39:43We went with quality.
39:44Yeah.
39:45So tell me, when you did the pitch, Sargent, you spoke about design.
39:50Yeah.
39:51Tell me what you told them.
39:52So I was talking about why we went for this theme.
39:54I also talked about this.
39:55Did you use that to help you out?
39:56Yes, I did.
39:57It was all linked to the British side and that's what I was trying to explain.
40:01And that's what I felt.
40:02Didn't they say to you that it was more London?
40:03At the end of the day, I think art is defined in different ways.
40:06It's a way to escape and sort of draw the way.
40:08Rubbish.
40:09You know, that's a mess.
40:11I mean, it's diabolical.
40:15Now, Geoff, you spoke about the finance to these papers, is that right?
40:18That's correct.
40:19So you did take on a financial right?
40:21I did eventually, yes.
40:22I told them that, like, you'll be able to break even within two months.
40:25How did you work that out?
40:26With the value that we've added on, you could start charging a 750.
40:30But for this room?
40:32We believe so with, you know, the creative...
40:34He laughed at you.
40:35Because he said he's got sweets that he said...
40:37Less money than that.
40:38750.
40:39Yeah.
40:40All right.
40:41How was he as a project manager, Chaps?
40:43Calm, patient.
40:44He brought the team together and made decisions.
40:46Thanks.
40:47Good.
40:49Well, I had a very long conversation with the manager and the designer.
40:55And we went through a lot of things.
40:57Particularly how much profit one should make.
41:00So let's talk about the finances.
41:03Girls team, Claude.
41:05Well, the girls team spent 5,675.
41:09Giving a profit of 7,325, a 56% margin.
41:16And, Karen, the boys team?
41:18Well, the boys spent considerably more, £11,495.
41:23Which gave them a much smaller profit of £1,505.
41:28So about 12%.
41:30OK.
41:31So you didn't make a good enough profit.
41:34You made perhaps too much profit, too sparse.
41:38Well, the designer and the manager thought that both designs weren't great.
41:44And so they left it up to me.
41:47And I think that the ladies have won this task.
41:52Yes!
41:53Well done.
41:54For sure.
41:56Yeah.
41:57I wouldn't get too excited.
41:59It's not a case of I liked it more.
42:01I hated it less.
42:02It's not a great win.
42:05So, ladies, as the winning designers, you're off to visit one of the best designed hotels in London.
42:11One of their rooms was designed with the world-famous cartoonist Gerald Scarfe.
42:17And I've arranged for him to draw your caricatures.
42:20Oh!
42:21OK?
42:22Well done.
42:23So off you go and enjoy yourself.
42:26Well done.
42:27Well done.
42:28Well done.
42:29Well done.
42:30Well done.
42:31Well done.
42:32Well done.
42:33Well done.
42:34Gentlemen, um, second task, your second loss.
42:44You have to go away.
42:46I've got a lot more to talk to you about when you come back.
42:50And at least one of you will be fired from the process.
42:54Yeah?
42:55Off you go.
43:03The Rosewood, luxury central London hotel.
43:10Hello.
43:11Hi.
43:12I'm Gerry.
43:13Internationally renowned Gerald Scarfe, cartoon royalty.
43:18I've got some cocktails for you.
43:20Yay!
43:22A boy is not going to win this year.
43:24Yeah.
43:25They are just irrelevant.
43:26Jesus.
43:27Task two, we've broken the boys so far.
43:30They haven't shown any strength.
43:31I think the women are stronger.
43:32I'm going to try and do some drawings very, very quickly.
43:34Joanna, yeah?
43:35Resting grumpy face.
43:36Just my normal face.
43:37It's miserable.
43:38Joanna, well, she was disruptive.
43:41It's just not helpful.
43:42It just brings down morale.
43:44I had a fallout with Jade.
43:46Things are kind of resolved.
43:50Mr Scarfe, would you be happy to do this?
43:51Yeah.
43:53Cheers to our second victory.
43:56Cheers!
43:58Deja vu.
43:59In not too long, we're going to be in a very, very difficult situation.
44:04Don't remember having any profit margin conversation.
44:07Margins were not discussed.
44:089,500 was already set in the beginning.
44:10Jeff, you really only had one job, and that was the numbers.
44:13If you'd said, James, this is how much you need to spend, that's the margin, go out and do it.
44:17He would have done that.
44:18We're not going to go through all the mathematical calculations for you.
44:20That's the point of the task.
44:21I'm feeling pretty pissed.
44:23Again.
44:24Why is it that these people keep on throwing me under the bus?
44:27The room was not right for the hotel.
44:29I think this comes down to the mood board.
44:31There's nothing about that mood board would have either made us win that task or lose that task.
44:34But he didn't like it.
44:35Do you know what a mood board is?
44:36No, I don't need to understand.
44:37Roger needs to understand it and says that that's good.
44:40I know there'll be brains put on me because I was leading the creative side,
44:43but there's a lot of dead wood, and I think they need to go.
44:46I have to be honest, I'm still struggling to trace accountability here.
44:58Yes, Lord Sugar.
44:59Can you send the candidates in place?
45:01Yes, Lord Sugar.
45:03Lord Sugar, we'll see you now.
45:16Well, gentlemen, you know the rules.
45:21For one of you, this is going to end up a heartbreak hotel.
45:28All of you, hand on heart.
45:31Are you happy with that room?
45:33You know, the colours, I mean, if I stayed in that hotel,
45:37I'd wake up in the night and think I was in the middle of a trifle.
45:40I am happy with the delivery of the room.
45:42I think the painting standard was great.
45:44I do think we pulled together as a sub-team
45:46and we definitely delivered.
45:48You can also remind everyone in the room that...
45:50Delivered what? Sorry.
45:51Well, I'm not with, you know...
45:52What did you deliver?
45:53A mishmash of a load of different colours here.
45:56Yeah, no.
45:57And this thing here, that's your feature.
46:00Yeah.
46:01Who wants to go into a room with a load of suitcases?
46:04What do you bring into a room? Suitcases.
46:06What's the point of this?
46:08You could potentially use it as a way of putting your clothes to the side
46:11instead of using a shelf as well.
46:12So take your clothes out of your own suitcase
46:14and put them in someone else's?
46:16It's a piece of art and there's obviously other props
46:19that we could have put in that room,
46:20but they could have completely destroyed the whole structure of that room.
46:23Oh, you don't think it's destroyed then?
46:25And whose idea was to add the yellow?
46:28If you're going British, it's red, white and blue,
46:30as far as I'm concerned.
46:32It was Elliot, actually.
46:34It was yellow throughout the whole hotel.
46:37We felt that that was something that should be present.
46:41Well, clearly they didn't like it.
46:44I don't like it from these pictures here.
46:48Tell me about this themed wall.
46:50Who drew that?
46:51That was the designer, but actually that was in about 90 seconds.
46:54Did you run out of time then?
46:56Well, this is how it happened.
46:57Who went to the designer?
46:59We just went in circles.
47:00I'm trying to actually explain, preferably not to be rude,
47:02but uninterrupted would be really helpful,
47:03just so I can get something across.
47:05So he went with the skyline and we had issues.
47:08I told the designer just to bin everything.
47:09I did take a risk.
47:10That's what we ended up with.
47:12James, where did it all go wrong?
47:15Was it you buying the wrong furniture or what?
47:17From my point of view, the reason we ended up losing this task,
47:20Geoff, you stepped forward for the pricing side at the start.
47:22You shouldn't have backed away from that.
47:24So why didn't other people step up for the pricing?
47:26Hang on.
47:27They'll come to you, Geoff.
47:28Sorry?
47:29I studied mathematics as a bachelor.
47:30That doesn't mean I'm a daughter.
47:31Please.
47:32They'll come to you, honestly.
47:33So the second reason was we didn't have a strategy on the margin.
47:36Absolutely.
47:37You know, did you have in mind £13,000 minus 20%?
47:43Don't spend more than that.
47:44If I'm being completely honest, I actually can't remember.
47:47You never discussed margin between you?
47:49No, I didn't think we did.
47:50You never talked about your design profit,
47:51you never talked about your margin,
47:52and you couldn't add up in the shop.
47:54Yeah.
47:55Hmm.
47:56Now, let's get back to these numbers and the maths and all that.
48:00Geoff, when you got up to give your speech,
48:04you actually spelt out that you spent £11,000 blah-blah-blah
48:08right in front of the customer.
48:10Is that what you think business is about,
48:12to tell people what your costs were?
48:14No, no, no, that was my mistake.
48:16But actually being really specific in saying,
48:18don't get into details,
48:19I was really disappointed when that figure came out.
48:22Yeah, and also the £750 a night,
48:24that room goes at £350 to £400, maybe.
48:28How did you get that...? Where did you...?
48:30Why are you doubling it?
48:31That came from the sub team.
48:33That definitely didn't.
48:34No, no, no, no.
48:35No, that wasn't from us.
48:36Guys, that was actually me.
48:37Yeah, I was going to say...
48:38You really don't know anything about first-class hotels, do you?
48:41At least I'm honest about it, Lord Sugar.
48:44Which two people are you bringing back into the boardroom?
48:46To be blunt, Geoff was a no-brainer for me.
48:48It's nothing personal, of course.
48:50Absolutely there were failings on the sub team part.
48:53So, unless you can convince me that somebody on the team
48:55was more responsible, James...
48:57I'm not the reason for the failure of this task.
48:59I led the team.
49:00Hang on one second.
49:01Hang on one second, Geoff, because you've had your time.
49:03From my point of view, the only thing went wrong on our side
49:05was the numbers.
49:06They didn't add up when we were in the furniture store.
49:08Well, the thing is, is that you were the sub team leader, right?
49:10Yeah.
49:11Well, that is my point.
49:12It just has to be you.
49:13OK, if you want to bring me in.
49:14Ross, bring me in.
49:15So I'm bringing in Geoff and James.
49:16Right.
49:17Gentlemen, look, this has not been very good for the first two weeks, OK?
49:23Go back to the house.
49:24Thank you, sir.
49:25You three remain here.
49:36Gentlemen, fundamental errors are occurring here.
49:39I'm going to have a discussion with Karen and Claude,
49:43and I'll call you back in shortly.
49:45At least one of you will be leaving the process today.
49:48Off you go.
49:49Thank you, guys.
49:57Well, Geoff, I find, it's always kind of passing the buck.
50:00It's never his fault.
50:02It doesn't matter whether you run a big business or a small business.
50:04If you own that business, you know about the finance, so why duck it?
50:08James can speak for himself.
50:11He thinks he did a good job buying the merchandise.
50:14Whilst it was good quality stuff, it wasn't cohesive.
50:17It didn't really hang together well.
50:18His sub-team didn't really perform as well as it should have done.
50:21Ross is an articulate fella.
50:24I'm not sure if he's a little bit naive or tough enough.
50:28I mean, he asks for complete silence.
50:30No-one else should interrupt him.
50:32Where does he think he is?
50:34Hmm.
50:35Yes, Lord Sugar.
50:36Can you send the three of them in, please?
50:37Yes, Lord Sugar.
50:38Yes, Lord Sugar.
50:39Can you send the three of them in, please?
50:40Yes, Lord Sugar.
50:41You can go to the boardroom now.
50:42Um, Jeff, in your paperwork that you put forward, you call yourself a chameleon and that you will adapt yourself to all different business situations.
50:55Correct.
51:09Well, when Ross asked you to be the numbers man, you certainly vanished like a chameleon.
51:15What have you got to say about that?
51:17I believe I'm a very creative man, sir. I'm not just about numbers.
51:21Okay.
51:22I have a background in break dancing and you have to be creative to do break dancing.
51:27Yeah, but look, I'm a very creative person, but if I was amongst a group of people who said to me, look, do me a favour, you deal with the numbers, I wouldn't say no.
51:37Of course, of course, but I think the issue was that...
51:39But you didn't even show any creativity.
51:41I did, I did.
51:42I didn't want to go with it.
51:43You did? Where?
51:44I went to go with the sports team, looking at people like Novak Djokovic, Tim Henman.
51:48If I may, dude.
51:49And looking about golf and all that sports element.
51:52That's not showing your creativity, though.
51:53He asked you a question of what do you do creative on this task.
51:56I thought, like, on the mood board.
51:58Don't talk about the mood board, please.
52:00But, sir, but, sir...
52:01If you're saying that displays your creativity...
52:04Absolutely not.
52:05...you're shooting yourself in the foot there.
52:07That mood board is useless.
52:09James, why shouldn't you be fired from this process?
52:13I led the sub-team well.
52:15I made sure that we stuck with the theme of the Britain within our purchases.
52:20You could have spent that.
52:21I also...
52:22I also delivered the bedroom to the standard of what we had.
52:26James, you'd never get that room on TripAdvisor as a five-star room.
52:30The only way you'd get that as a five-star room is on CrapAdvisor.
52:34The failure of this task comes down to the design, the paint, the feature piece was all of a low quality, didn't mix together very well.
52:42So, you know, Ross, you have to put your hands up and say most of that lies within your team and you should be responsible for it.
52:47Ross is a very indecisive person.
52:49I think he just, he didn't make a decision himself.
52:52It came out to a lot of bolting.
52:53Is that why you guys all stood up and said I was decisive?
52:55Sorry, can I just finish?
52:56On top of that, you know, there wasn't cohesiveness.
52:58It was just all mashed together from a design point of view and that's why the output is also very mishmashed.
53:02I think Geoff's showing his ignorance, his ability to read a situation and people.
53:05You are very indecisive.
53:06I make very quick decisions and you guys all stood there and said I was decisive.
53:10You have to be very, you have to be balanced on that.
53:13At the end of the day, we had a room which we turned up in the morning and there was paint which we couldn't even work out where we were going to put it.
53:19And then when we unraveled the wallpaper, we were shocked to see what we found.
53:22So as a non-designer.
53:24But you are a designer.
53:25You have a design background, right?
53:26To be honest, it's not really relevant to my point anyway, so let me just finish it.
53:29You guys, James, were the only ones that saw all the furniture.
53:32You were the only ones that knew exactly what you were working with and it was your responsibility as sub-team leader to put all that together.
53:37To be fair, the furniture was better than the wall feature.
53:40Yeah, I mean, let's not even bother trying to defend the wall feature.
53:43But you signed off on that, right?
53:45You're a design guy.
53:46Ross, can I just say, the favour of this task doesn't lay within the sub-team.
53:49Wasn't there some of your creativity in there?
53:52Well, it was driven by, it was driven by Ross.
53:54So what did you contribute to this task?
53:57I went in and I gave my ideas of what is British from an international tourist point of view.
54:02That was their big clientele.
54:04Right.
54:05In your opinion then, why did you lose?
54:07I personally felt like it was the overspent.
54:10Ross, do you think that James overspent?
54:13Yeah, I do think he overspent.
54:15As sub-team leader, in lieu of me being able to give him a specific figure, I expected James to come up with one.
54:20And I feel like the yellow is an issue that came out of your team, dude, so it does sit with you.
54:25I told you who it had come out of.
54:27No, I know.
54:28I told you where the figures went wrong as well, and I told you who the people responsible were.
54:31Absolutely, but like I'm trying to take responsibility for Mike.
54:34Anyway, I've had enough.
54:36I'm going to summarise, and here's how I see things.
54:40James, the furniture, in my opinion, is the biggest thing.
54:45And also we had this issue of not making enough margin.
54:49So I think that you were certainly delinquent in that area.
54:53Ross, I'm not sure whether you had the bull by the horns here.
54:58You should have been in that side of the team, listening to what the hotel manager wanted,
55:04and seeing what was being purchased, putting your input there.
55:09Geoff, you certainly talk well, but you've not been clear in telling me what you've done this week, let alone last week.
55:18But in my personal opinion, James, the furniture was the most important element of this task.
55:26Can I just say something, please?
55:28No.
55:29Having said all that, I have the feeling, Ross...
55:35Do you want me to be quiet or can I speak up?
55:37No, no, I'm not here anymore.
55:39OK.
55:40I've got a little bit of a dilemma here.
55:43Um, but despite your high qualifications...
55:48Geoff, I wouldn't trust you with a hotel in Monopoly.
55:53Geoff, you're fired.
55:56Thank you very much.
55:57James, I think you did miss a trick here.
56:13OK.
56:14OK.
56:15Yeah.
56:16But, Ross, I really do not know who you are yet.
56:20Um, but it is early in the process.
56:23So, the both of you, go back to the house.
56:28Thank you all so much.
56:29I don't feel responsible for the failure of this task.
56:43Ross and James threw me under the bus.
56:46Lord Sugar just lost an opportunity.
56:49Uh, 20 years from now, I'll be hosting The Apprentice because I'm damn that successful.
56:53You must submit it was a close one.
56:54It was a close one.
56:55It was a close one.
56:56It was a close one.
56:57It was a draw.
56:58It was a draw.
56:59It's a draw, but yet there's three lads in the boardroom.
57:04I want to see how you girls can argue so much and be so successful in this process.
57:11We know how to separate business and personal.
57:14Why, hello.
57:15Hey, Dave.
57:19It's so freakin' scary.
57:20It's unreal.
57:21Poor Jeff.
57:22He got shredded.
57:23They asked why he should stay and he said because he was a good break dancer.
57:28Honestly, fair play for the second one in a row.
57:32Cheers.
57:33Cheers, guys.
57:34Cheers, guys.
57:35Next time, it'll be a lot tighter.
57:39Now, 16 candidates remain.
57:43Lord Sugar's search for his next business partner continues.
57:51Next time.
57:52Your task today is that you'll be selling robots.
57:56New technology.
57:57I can be programmed to do some seriously impressive thing.
58:02The teams couldn't hack.
58:03All right.
58:04I'll just go with what you think, then.
58:06Siobhan, you need no help being brought down.
58:08Your behaviour is ridiculous.
58:10And in the boardroom.
58:11This is a bloody shambles, you lot.
58:13A total reboot.
58:14There were some fatal errors made here.
58:16You didn't follow the money.
58:18You're fired.
58:22Well, it's time for Jeff to relive that boardroom grilling all over again.
58:25This time over on BBC Two in The Apprentice, you're fired.
58:28Now, one of the best things about The Apprentice has to be this.
58:32Honest subtitles.
58:33Find out what people really mean.
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