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00:00This is not a game. This is a 12-week job interview. Never, ever, ever, underestimate me.
00:1514 people came to London in search of a job.
00:19I don't like liars. I don't like cheats. I don't like bullshitters. I don't like schmoozers.
00:30I don't like arse lickers.
00:35They've come to battle it out for a job with Sir Alan Sugar.
00:38I would have told you to piss off.
00:40Tough and uncompromising, Sir Alan is at the top of his game with a global empire worth 700 million pounds.
00:50He's offering one job with a six-figure salary.
00:53I'm gonna fucking win this night if it kills me.
00:56To get it, they'll have to work and live together and face a weekly business task.
01:01You can't fucking fire me!
01:03Do you feel the pressure is building?
01:05This is the ultimate job interview.
01:07You're fired. You're fired. You're fired.
01:09Last week on The Apprentice, James and Syrah had the last laugh.
01:22Faced with the challenge of selling on TV.
01:28We're gonna move on to the next item because this is the wolf jacket.
01:34It's too warm, dry and calm.
01:36Syrah was keen to show she was more than just a saleswoman.
01:40James was the presenter but Syrah still had a lot to say.
01:44Well done. Now play with your toy. Show them the big face at the front.
01:49It's got a wonderful, wonderful big face at the front.
01:53On the other team...
01:54I've got some amazing products for a...
01:56Project manager Miriam was such a natural...
01:58We're already selling, Min. We're already selling.
02:00...that Tim and Paul felt confident enough to limit their comments to compliments.
02:05Brilliant smile.
02:06Start off by...
02:07Miriam looked the part on screen but her team still lost.
02:11In the boardroom, Sir Alan asked Miriam who deserved to be let off the hook.
02:18Probably Tim.
02:20Paul, you are a renegade.
02:24I'm sorry, Paul. I'm very sorry. I do like you as a person.
02:28I'm sorry to have to say these things to you.
02:31But I'm even more sorry when I've got to tell you, Miriam, you're fired.
02:38You're fired.
02:43Miriam became the tense casualty of the boardroom.
02:48You know I've made mistakes in the past.
02:50Maybe I've made a mistake here, but we'll see.
02:52What the hell happened there? But when he came straight to me,
02:55I thought, that's it. You know, I started straightening my tie.
02:58I see a lot of you in me, but Paul, it breaks my heart.
03:01Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
03:02I thought, stop the engine.
03:04Min, you're fired.
03:06Now only four remain.
03:09To fight for the chance to become The Apprentice.
03:23It's getting a bit scared. I feel a bit scared about things now,
03:27because it's like the last four, and it's all getting a bit too pressured.
03:31I agree.
03:32At the house, Syrah and James have no idea who will be returning.
03:38If I was Sir Alan, and I was looking for the final four,
03:41I would have got rid of Paul.
03:43Sir Alan has had plenty of opportunity to fire Paul before, and he hasn't.
03:46He hasn't, yeah.
03:47And he saved him.
03:48I just, every time he goes into that boardroom, he fights so hard.
03:52Sir Alan only sees what he sees in the boardroom.
03:56So in terms of trustworthiness, respect, telling the truth, all that,
04:01Sir Alan doesn't see all of that.
04:02I know.
04:03And Paul just defies every single one of those things.
04:15Hey!
04:17I am my thorn!
04:20We knew you were coming back in the Cheshire Cat.
04:23You've done it again.
04:24How many lives have you got?
04:27Five left.
04:28This is a story I want to hear.
04:30Well done.
04:31Final four.
04:32Well done, mate.
04:33Not all of you.
04:34I'm glad to see you here, mate.
04:36Well done, Paul.
04:38Was it between you and Miriam?
04:40No.
04:41He said to Miriam, if I let one of you three swim away, Miriam,
04:46who shall I let swim away?
04:48Hypothetically.
04:49Yeah.
04:50And she said, Tim.
04:51So he said to me, Paul, does that surprise you?
04:53I said, no, it doesn't surprise me.
04:54He said, why?
04:55I said, because Miriam doesn't really like me, but she likes Tim.
05:00And then Sir Alan went back to her and said,
05:01you think Paul is an arrogant gif?
05:03And she went, not a gif.
05:05Not a gif, but yeah, he's an arrogant gif.
05:09And Paul went back and said, well, the fact is,
05:13when I'm good at something, I'll tell everybody I'm good at it
05:16and I'm not afraid of everything I'm good at it.
05:18I'm good at it.
05:20I'm good at it.
05:21I'm good at it.
05:23I'm good at it.
05:24I'm fine.
05:25I'm good at it.
05:35I'm good at it.
05:36I'm good at it.
05:37I'm good at it.
05:38I'm good at it.
05:39I mean, it's not a gif.
05:40only is it where you're bad at it.
05:41Hello, Sarah speaking.
05:52Hello, it's Frances here from Sir Alan's office.
05:54Hello, Frances.
05:55Hello, can you please be ready to leave the house tomorrow morning at 6.45am?
06:00Yep.
06:01You need to have your suitcases packed.
06:03Suitcases packed.
06:05Guys, we've just got a phone call.
06:07Boys.
06:08Yeah?
06:09We've got a phone call.
06:10What happened?
06:11Frances.
06:12Yeah?
06:12Where's Paul?
06:13He's coming.
06:14He's in the garden.
06:156.45am.
06:16We're leaving tomorrow morning.
06:18And all she said is have your suitcases packed.
06:21We're leaving the house.
06:23I'm going to better start packing.
06:24Better start packing.
06:25Okay.
06:25Okay.
06:40This week, the candidates face a very different challenge.
06:58They've been called to Sir Alan's Business HQ for a briefing.
07:01You may be wondering what we're going to get up to today.
07:05You may also be wondering about some of these new faces that you see here.
07:09And what's going to happen is, is that you lot are going to go through a gruelling interview.
07:14And at the end of the interview session, they're going to sit down with me, and they're going
07:19to give me their opinion about whether any of you here are worthy of working for me.
07:25Nick and Margaret are very well known to you.
07:29Now, Claude, he's actually been in Denmark for me.
07:31He's been in Paris.
07:32He's actually ran Tottenham Hotspur for quite a while.
07:35That's why he's lost a bit of hair.
07:37Borden has been in Australia.
07:39He's been in Italy, and currently runs our computer organisation at Vigeland.
07:44Paul doesn't actually work for me, but he's associated with me.
07:48Okay.
07:48He's a very successful businessman in his own right.
07:51And he's here to give me a view from a younger perspective.
07:55This whole process has never, ever been a joke, as far as I'm concerned.
07:59Okay.
07:59And I don't want any of you to think that I personally are going to be persuaded by what
08:05television companies and production companies want to see and want to hear in choosing the
08:09person that's going to come and work for me.
08:11Okay.
08:12Get that right in your heads.
08:13Get it right in your heads, because I mean it.
08:15Because seriously, there's a job here for somebody.
08:18Okay.
08:19And if you might have thought throughout the course of this exercise that it's been a bit of a
08:23game.
08:23Well, I can understand you having those feelings, but look at me, look at my eyes.
08:27I'm telling you, I don't give a monkey's about what they think.
08:31I don't listen to what they tell me, and I don't listen to what any television company
08:34tells you what to do.
08:35I'm looking for somebody to work for me.
08:38All right?
08:38Serious.
08:39Dead serious.
08:40Got it?
08:41Got it.
08:41Dead serious.
08:42Yeah.
08:42Dead serious.
08:43Dead serious.
08:43Okay.
08:43Well, you know, at the end of this process, any one of you is going to be fired.
08:49Over the next few hours, each candidate will be interviewed by Sir Alan's three new advisers
08:56and by his trusted aides, Nick and Margaret.
09:07The interviewers will grill the candidates on both their professional and personal lives.
09:15Hello.
09:16Hi.
09:16Hello, Paul.
09:17Oh, it's not too bad.
09:19Good to meet you.
09:19You too.
09:22Who do you think is going to win?
09:24Me.
09:25I've got a problem with you.
09:26Okay.
09:26Okay?
09:27I mean, yes, I'm Italian.
09:29I do have a temper, definitely.
09:30That's not an excuse for having a temper.
09:33I don't think it's any mistake that out of the ten tasks that we've done to date,
09:37I've been on the winning team eight times.
09:38You're not really interested in money?
09:39You are interested in money.
09:40I am interested in money, but it's not the main thing.
09:42Are you here for the money?
09:43Money's a part of it.
09:45There isn't any bullshit factor.
09:46Mm-hmm.
09:47Sorry, you're a self-confessed liar, aren't you?
09:50Um, not really.
09:52Not really.
09:52You're deceived in your CV.
09:53I mean, it says it quite clearly here.
09:55Yes, I lied on my CV.
09:57I changed the dates so that it looked like I was in a role for 12 months when, in fact,
10:01I was in a position for six months.
10:02People look at things and they make a judgment on, you know, what it says on your CV.
10:08Now, I know I'm capable of doing most things that I put my mind to.
10:12Um, and in order to get a foot through the door, um, I had to make sure that I wasn't kind
10:19of discriminated against in any way.
10:21Um, and I know I'm not the only person that does that, um, and I...
10:24So you're prepared to lie to get on in life?
10:26I'm not prepared to lie.
10:27I'm prepared to bend the rules within reason.
10:31That's what I'm prepared to do.
10:32Right.
10:33At the end of the day, I want to work for Sir Alan Sugar, um, and why I want this job is
10:39because I respect Sir Alan.
10:41I like his values.
10:42I like the fact that he's straight-talking, um, and I can...
10:44Do you think you're straight-talking?
10:46Absolutely.
10:46You do?
10:47Absolutely.
10:47You don't think you just tell people what they want to hear?
10:50Um, I'm a saleswoman, and let's be very clear.
10:52I know that, I can see from you.
10:53I'm a saleswoman, and if I can read body language, I have to think what other people want to hear
10:58sometimes, um, but...
11:00So what's my body language telling you?
11:02I think your body language is saying she's got to convince me a bit more.
11:05I'm not that convinced by her at the moment.
11:07No, you're right, I'm not convinced by you.
11:11On a scale of ten, where would you grade yourself?
11:14Sales and marketing, I would say nine and a half.
11:16So you're that good?
11:18I'm that good, but there's room for improvement.
11:19Right.
11:20What I've demonstrated so far is that any situation that you want to put me in,
11:23I think I could probably cope, survive, and thrive.
11:26Right.
11:27However, I think there are things which I'm very good at.
11:31Mm-hmm.
11:31Fire list of the young property personality of the year 2004.
11:35Yes.
11:35Well, that's fairly recent.
11:36Yes.
11:37So you have got a flair for property.
11:39Yes, but I don't think it's as challenging or as exciting as what's...
11:43As being on television?
11:44I didn't pick this because I wanted to be on telly.
11:46Oh.
11:46If I wanted to just be on telly, there are other things I can go and do.
11:49I've got an actor brother and a cellist brother.
11:51Yeah.
11:51And, you know, I think to pick...
11:53I think all the people who started on this, none of them were aspiring wannabes.
11:58I want this job.
12:00I'm not here for TV.
12:01I've said to people before when they asked me in an interview, would you do this without TV?
12:05A hundred percent, yes, because this is a unique opportunity.
12:07Mm-hmm.
12:08It's a...
12:09Yeah, I want it, basically.
12:10Right, and what's unique about you, then?
12:12What's unique about me is that my personality is effervescent.
12:16It's magnetism, just see what I mean?
12:18I can work with anybody from shop floor to boardroom, on the street, in an office, whatever it needs, and I can mix with everybody because of where I've come from.
12:26So you consider yourself a bit of a chameleon, in order to change the fact of situations, yeah?
12:32Yeah, definitely.
12:32Now, because you've had a fairly limited past in terms of career successes and achievements, you've managed to describe what essentially is somebody who works in the ticket office at a train station as a lot more than that.
12:48Do you think you're trying it on today?
12:50Well, I'm trying to impress you. I'm trying to impress everybody that I've seen.
12:52Mm.
12:54Do you think you've got a nerve to come for this job?
12:55Of course I have. I have a right to come for this job. There was like 6,000 people I applied, I got through, and it wasn't by accident, and I've got through to the last four, not by accident either.
13:03How do you feel about being in the last four?
13:04Um, excited, nervous, um, eager for the challenge.
13:10Do you keep your cool?
13:11Um, yeah, there's times when I lose my temper, definitely.
13:14Well, I mean, there's a particular time I'm talking about in your background and resume where you really lost your temper, isn't it?
13:19Is there?
13:19I don't know, you tell me.
13:21I thought you just said that there was a time.
13:23Yeah, well, there is a time, isn't there, in your background.
13:24Being drunk and disorderly. I mean, is drinking a big part of your life or not really? I mean, do you drink when you're under pressure?
13:31You've got that completely incorrect.
13:32Right.
13:33I wasn't drunk and disorderly.
13:34Right, what were you then?
13:35Uh, I've had my colour felt twice. Firstly, I had some property in North America.
13:40So you weren't convicted of being disorderly?
13:42Uh, it was a section...
13:43Disorderly behaviour.
13:44It was a section B public order offence.
13:45Right.
13:46Nothing to do with drinking.
13:47Right, it was nothing. So you were disorderly without drink?
13:49Yeah.
13:49I'm really happy that I've got this far, but I do believe that I am one of the...
13:56The chosen?
13:57One of the chosen few, yeah.
13:59Okay.
14:00Do you get on well with the other candidates?
14:02I do. I haven't had a single argument or altercation with them.
14:06They know that you think you're the best?
14:09They know that I think highly of myself, yeah.
14:11No, you think you're the best. You think you're the winner.
14:13I do think that I am the one that will get the job.
14:17You do?
14:18Definitely.
14:19Thank you very much. Nice to meet you.
14:21Finally, after four long hours...
14:23It takes your time.
14:24Thank you very much.
14:27It's all over.
14:30And the candidates have a moment to gather their thoughts.
14:35This was the best task to do, because you don't have to rely on anybody else.
14:40No, this is down to you.
14:41It's down to you.
14:41If I go, I couldn't have done any better in those interviews.
14:45I just gave it my best, you know, my best shout.
14:47I agree.
14:48You pee?
14:49I found it all quite boring.
14:52Really?
14:52Yeah.
14:53Why?
14:53Because it just was.
14:54Why?
14:55All four were exactly the same.
14:56They didn't take a different approach with me, I've found.
14:58They just, they picked the CVs, you know, you've done this and you've done that.
15:02And I thought to myself, you can go in there with a script and come out of there with eight out of ten from each interview.
15:07And they didn't really dig into me.
15:10They tried to, but, you know, they didn't.
15:12And at 34, I've been in situations 20 times harder than that in my life.
15:17I'm going to look a right wally now if I get fired.
15:19But by the same token, I couldn't have performed any better.
15:21It was just, to me, it was just a bit run of the mill.
15:23The candidates must wait outside the boardroom, while Sir Alan consults the consultants.
15:36People may have a stereotypical view of what I might be like, either from how I talk or how I present myself, to indeed, you know, some of the smiles and the flippancy.
15:55And they may not necessarily want to or take the time to get to know the real James.
16:02The real James has been on the winning team in eight out of ten tasks.
16:07That makes him the most successful candidate.
16:10He's also the only one to have been paid a six-figure salary as an investment banker.
16:17Well, Alan, I'm not that positive about James.
16:21I don't even know what he was doing here this morning.
16:23I mean, to me, he's not an apprentice, yeah?
16:25He's a graduate surveyor.
16:28I've seen hundreds of them.
16:29I'm sure you have.
16:31I didn't see any raw talent in him.
16:32I think he's bright, but I think if you put an advert in the standard, you'd see plenty of those guys.
16:40I also don't actually think that he's here for the right reasons.
16:43That was the feeling I got.
16:44What do you mean by that?
16:45I think he's here for the cameras, Alan.
16:47I don't think he's looking at this job.
16:49I think he had an air of aloofness around him, as if he was better than what you were looking for, and I don't think he is.
16:56So switching completely to the other end, to Nick and Margaret, same guy, James.
17:02He's a very presentable guy.
17:03I asked him how long it would take to get from Knightsbridge to Brentwood in his Aston Martin, and he wasn't altogether sure.
17:12One of the things on his resume was that when he'd been asked what he didn't like, and one of the things was this group of initials, H-K-L-P, and I thought, well, I don't know what that means.
17:24But then nobody knew what it meant, so we asked him.
17:26This is very rude, but nevertheless, H-K-L-P is actually holds knife like pen, and I was always taught to hold my cutler in a certain way, and it just brings me out in bristles when people don't.
17:41So, I mean, overall, what message am I getting from you two, really?
17:47Overall, if you had it in mind to really grow your property business in a big way, and you wanted somebody to go out looking for acquisitions of the four, he's the only one that could do it.
18:01Borden?
18:01I absolutely concur with what you're saying. It struck me he wasn't here to win. There's something else that's in his agenda. You know, financially, he's obviously earning a lot more than this position.
18:13Yeah, that's an interesting one. Did anybody broach that?
18:16Yeah, he said he wanted to learn something new, didn't he? He didn't want to do another property fund, which is sort of the last thing he's done.
18:22I'm not sure he totally understood where you're at and what you're doing and how he could contribute to that.
18:28I think in terms of, does he want to be an apprentice? Does he want to get stuck in? Does he want to deliver something? I'm not sure.
18:35OK. Let's talk about Sarah.
18:40Over the past ten weeks, 34-year-old saleswoman Sarah Khan has enjoyed spectacular success and dismal failure.
18:50I think I'm a strong person and I'm equal to any man out there and I've shown stamina and strength, stand up for myself and I'm proud and I hope all the women out there are going to root for me and, you know, kind of say, well, yeah, well done, Sarah.
19:05You know, good for you for representing us.
19:07Let's start off with Margaret and Nick here again. Margaret, perhaps?
19:10Yeah, I think, I mean, she's first and foremost a salesperson that's come through. She's had a lot of different jobs. She's moved around a lot.
19:18She's loud, she's aggressive and forceful and sometimes people just don't much care for that sort of thing.
19:24You refer to yourself as being somebody who is impulsive, impatient, unreasonable, stubborn, confrontational.
19:30Now, to an employer, that is red rag.
19:35I don't think they're negative skills. People can look at those and say, well, you know, blimey, I can't handle that.
19:42Put me in a business situation. Those skills then become actually quite important.
19:46When we started off, I looked at her resume and I thought, I'm not going to like this person.
19:49Too aggressive, too combative. But as I got to speak to her and discuss things with her, I could see that she is a forceful salesperson.
19:57So if you've got a sales role in mind for her, I think she'd be a fine choice for you.
20:00Anything else? She's unproven.
20:03Unproven.
20:04Her comfort zone is sales.
20:05I saw the saleswoman in her and she wasn't selling to me. I liked her, but I just think there's a lack of substance there.
20:15She's just a good sales lady and I don't know if that constitutes what I would call a good apprentice.
20:22Let's go to the youngest candidate, Tim.
20:2427-year-old Tim Campbell has only ever worked for London Underground.
20:32A graduate trainee, he's fought his way up to middle management.
20:38I'm completely excited. I'm so excited about being in the final four, it's unbelievable.
20:42It was always a goal to make sure I got to this stage and then be ready to go into the final stage.
20:48But when you're actually going through the task, you meet the people who you think, you think,
20:51bloody hell, there's a lot of clever people around here. Not to say that I'm any stupid idiot,
20:55but the fact is, these people have got a lot more experience than I ever had.
20:59So why are you so driven? What is it in your character and makeup that makes you want to achieve more?
21:04I think it comes from my mother. Basically, she brought three kids up by herself and she was,
21:10she never complained working three jobs with three kids and making sure that she gave everything that was necessary to us.
21:17To turn around now and be a lazy bum would be disrespectful to my mother.
21:22He's 27, so a 27-year-old man, you can't expect a lifetime of experience.
21:27I think, though, that his experience is very limited.
21:30I'm just concerned about how you're going to be able to get anything worthwhile out of him.
21:35Paul?
21:35If our job was to unearth a gem today, I think Tim's the gem.
21:43When the lights go down and everybody's stopped watching you, are you going to cope?
21:47Or are you just good in front of the cameras?
21:49The fact is, the cameras haven't been on me 24 hours a day.
21:53And the fact is, I've worked 100% of the time throughout those 24 hours a day.
21:56You ask anybody I've worked with in any single team and they'll tell you Tim doesn't stop.
21:59If Tim's on the task, Tim doesn't go to the toilet, Tim doesn't eat, Tim doesn't smoke, Tim just goes full on.
22:03And how tough have you found today in relation to the rest of the tasks that you've undertaken?
22:08Today's been the easiest for me.
22:09It's been the easiest, has it?
22:10The easiest for me for the simple reason, it's me against somebody else.
22:13I don't have to worry about it.
22:14You think you're against me, do you?
22:15To a degree, yes.
22:16There is a kind of battle in terms of, not an antagonistic battle,
22:20but there's a challenge there in terms of you need to get something from me and I have to give you something.
22:25And if they don't match, then that's it.
22:27Curtains.
22:28Right.
22:30In my business, I have to go and find deals, yeah?
22:32He would be my deal.
22:33Really?
22:40Okay, um, Paul.
22:4534-year-old Paul Teresi has never been afraid to speak his mind.
22:50I can sell anything.
22:51Well, you didn't.
22:51No, I resent that.
22:53He's ended up in the firing line four times.
22:58Why shouldn't I fire you, Paul?
22:59I haven't done anything wrong.
23:01Why should you fire me?
23:03But his confrontational style has won him favour with Sir Alan.
23:07If I were Sir Alan, I would employ me.
23:11But Claude?
23:11Well, my view is that you've got a complex character, very aggressive, unnecessarily fiery, and I think that clearly you'd have trouble with him, he'd have trouble with you.
23:24It's not a marriage made in heaven, this one.
23:26Frankly, I'm surprised he's made the semi-finals.
23:29I've got serious issues with this young man.
23:33He came into the interview very, very aggressive.
23:36I own some property in Newcastle.
23:40Some offices, shops, that kind of thing.
23:43What value?
23:46Three, three and a half.
23:47Three, three and a half million pounds worth of property you've got?
23:49Yeah.
23:50And what sort of mortgages have you got on that?
23:51I have mortgages on them.
23:57You've got mortgages on them?
23:58Yeah.
23:58What level of mortgages?
23:59I'm trying to establish, Paul, what you've achieved before you came for this job.
24:03Right.
24:03And whether or not you in fact need this job.
24:05Yeah.
24:05You've got three, three and a half million pounds worth of property in Newcastle.
24:08Yeah.
24:08Surely it's a perfectly reasonable question for me to ask.
24:12Yeah.
24:12If you've been successful in property, what are the fruits of that success?
24:17What do you own?
24:18So you've said you've got some office buildings and some residential units, particularly in Newcastle.
24:23Yeah.
24:23Yeah.
24:24I've got some property in London as well.
24:25You've got some property in London.
24:26And the Caribbean.
24:26I mean, you sound a bit of a...
24:27And the Caribbean.
24:28And in France as well.
24:29Wow.
24:30I mean, you sound quite successful, Paul.
24:31I've not done bad, but I don't want to sound like...
24:33I mean, the reason I say that is I happen to be in the property business too.
24:36Right.
24:36Yeah, and I wouldn't be sitting here looking for a job with Alan Sugar.
24:40Yeah, because I've got an existing successful business.
24:42Right.
24:43You strike me that you have two.
24:46Yeah?
24:46Unless, of course, you've got carried away and we've gone down an avenue, perhaps you
24:51didn't plan on going down.
24:53And you may have exaggerated things a little.
24:55No, not at all.
24:55I don't know.
24:56What I've said is utterly the truth.
24:58The fact that I'm not prepared to discuss finance should lead you to think that I'm not
25:02here for the cameras, but I'm here, you know, for proper means.
25:05But it doesn't need me to believe that at all as it happens, but it doesn't matter.
25:08You've said in your...
25:10Towards the end of the interview, I've started to like him a bit more.
25:13But I think that with him, I just got the impression that he felt, you know, he'd achieved everything
25:19and actually, if you were lucky, he might consider joining you.
25:23That's the impression I got.
25:25I see.
25:25I think that the fact that he's looking for someone shows that there is something that
25:31he's not happy with within his organisation.
25:34Why do you think that?
25:35Because he's going down this road.
25:37He's taking time out himself.
25:38I can imagine just how busy he is.
25:40I'd be quite intrigued to see that he's going to take someone off the street on an apprentice
25:44and actually start taking instructions or their view.
25:47I don't think he's too big for that.
25:50I think he's magnanimous enough to realise that if there's something wrong, and you see,
25:55I'm guilty of the same thing.
25:56When someone has their own company, it's their little baby.
25:59But it shows a lot about his character that he can stand back and say, right, I need someone
26:03to be able to look in here and say, right, what's the problem here?
26:06Why aren't we making...
26:07Why aren't we turning over...
26:08So I'm a bit confused then, because I thought the name of the programme was The Apprentice.
26:12I thought you were coming to learn.
26:13Yes, but in that case, why doesn't he get some spotty-faced teenager at 17 years old,
26:18rather than someone that's 34 years old, or 36, or 39, or 40?
26:21You tell me, it's called The Apprentice.
26:23That's what you've come here for.
26:24Yes, we've come here to be apprentices to Sir Alan.
26:27But by the same token, I think he wants someone with some experience.
26:31I think he got confused.
26:33I don't think he knows that he's here to be an apprentice.
26:36I think he's here.
26:37In fact, to be your troubleshooter to help put all your wrongs and ills to right.
26:42Troublemaker, maybe.
26:43I haven't met troubleshooter.
26:43But certainly, you know, the thing was, he was here to fix the group's issues.
26:49A fixer?
26:49A fixer?
26:50He thinks we've got problems?
26:51Yeah, absolutely.
26:52He said, oh, I think he got confused.
26:54He thinks I need him, is that what you're saying?
26:56I think he got confused.
26:57Is that the impression you've got, like, I need him?
26:59Can I just say one thing in Paul's defence, yeah?
27:01I'd like to say something in defence, yeah.
27:02Because I think he's taken a terrible hammer in this afternoon.
27:04When you fight fire with fire with Paul, when it's clear that you're not going to listen
27:11to his crap, yeah, and you tell him to calm down, or he learns that he needs to calm down,
27:16then he becomes far more personable and better to talk to.
27:21Actually, I'd like to add something in his favour as well.
27:23I mean, if you were prepared to put the time in with him, I think he's got the attributes
27:28that could be, could be tamed, but it would need your time.
27:32It looks to me, it doesn't matter who I pick here, there's going to need to be a lot of
27:37investment.
27:38Alan, if you're going to spend time with someone, there's no point in spending time with someone
27:42like A. Paul, who thinks he knows it all, and James, who's probably too long in the tooth
27:47to be taught, you know, he's a graduate.
27:49He's only 34.
27:50He's a graduate, he's been taught in a certain way, and if Alan's going to spend time with him,
27:53Alan's going to teach them his way, you've got to start with a raw product, yeah, and
27:58the raw product is not James.
28:00I don't agree.
28:00James is a graduate surveyor who, if it wasn't The Apprentice, he would apply for Blind Date
28:06or any other show, yeah, that's what I saw in James.
28:09Margaret and Nick.
28:11Who?
28:12Who?
28:12Who do you think?
28:13Let me tell you, let me tell you, I'm discounting, I'm discounting Paul, if I can just kick off.
28:18It's up to you.
28:19Sarah, I think you could, you could, you could put into a sales situation and not actually,
28:23need to spend too much time with, because I think it would be a waste of your time, because
28:27that's where she's good and, you know, just popping up.
28:30Well, the point is, is sales enough?
28:32I mean, you know, the thing is, is sales enough?
28:34Is, you know, the sales, you know, you see, you see, the importance of people, like Borden
28:41is a good salesman, but he's also, he's a seller and a buyer.
28:46I think she, I think she's a buyer as well.
28:49I think she's, she's very good at negotiating, so I think she'd negotiate well buying as she
28:55would selling.
28:56Claude?
28:57You can't ask for something of somebody who hasn't got it.
29:01So, um, Tim can be a very, very quick learner, but I...
29:04You don't think he's got it?
29:05I'm not, I'm...
29:06You haven't given him a chance to get it, Claude?
29:07I'm not.
29:08Have you?
29:08That's fine.
29:09Look, it's just a perception.
29:10I saw the guy for half an hour.
29:12One has to make judgments.
29:13My judgment for seeing him half an hour, and I haven't had the benefit of Margaret and Nick's
29:16opportunity of seeing them actually doing tasks, is that he's an extremely nice, likeable
29:21fellow who's done very, very well.
29:23I'm not sure how much further he's going to go, even with, you know, the input that you
29:28might be able to give him.
29:29And if you were going to spend some time with somebody, um, well, I mean, it depends on the
29:34job, but I would have thought that James is the kind of person who...
29:38is intellectually, um, more able than the others, and even though, um, you know, you,
29:44you, you sort of think that he's got ulterior motives for being here, the fact is that if
29:48he is here, um, he's going to be expected to do a job, and I'm concerned that Tim, if
29:53we're just sort of talking about him for a moment, might struggle.
29:57He's a, he's a risk.
29:58You've got, well, you've got to remember what the role is here.
30:01It's an apprentice role here.
30:02You know, you've got to find out whether the guy's up for it, whether he's got the grade.
30:06Okay.
30:06Well, look, guys, this, again, this has been great.
30:09I've got to tell you, it's been much better than I thought.
30:12Uh, it's been very useful to take your brains because you know me, and I think I've got a,
30:17a clear direction.
30:18After two hours, the waiting is over.
30:32The guy with the beard didn't think much to me.
30:50No?
30:51How do you know?
30:51Didn't make eye contact with me.
30:53Oh, shut up.
30:54You didn't look at anybody.
30:54You didn't look at me.
30:55No, you did.
30:56You didn't?
30:56And even earlier on, I felt something about him.
30:59Oh, shut up.
31:00You didn't look at me, wasn't it?
31:01Having successfully completed ten weeks of The Apprentice, the candidates are used to
31:07entering the boardroom knowing that one of them will be fired.
31:11But this time, they've been told that two will be going home.
31:19James, um, why on earth do you want to take a pay cut?
31:42I can't get my brain around it, and neither could some of my colleagues.
31:45What this opportunity is, to me, is a chance to work with you and with your team, who are
31:51very experienced and, um, have a very wide array of business activities.
31:57But, James, come on, look, look, we're, we're, we're not...
32:00I see it as a platform, to be honest.
32:02We're not black, though.
32:02I mean, this is Alan Sugar and his organisation, okay.
32:05But you're very entrepreneurial in what you do and what your company does, and I see it
32:09as a springboard and a challenge, which I can't get within a big, you know, lovely, cuddly
32:14organisation.
32:14And what I would like is, I would like somebody who says, right, okay, you think you're good
32:18enough, prove it.
32:20And I think you would do that.
32:21Because I don't think you want your...
32:22But you see, in a game, in a game, prove it, and so you prove it to me.
32:26No, it's not a game.
32:26And then you piss off, piss off a year later because you've proved it.
32:29No.
32:29It's, it's not a, it's not a game, and it's not a game to give up your job.
32:34And I, and I'm not taking this as a joke.
32:35I'm not taking it as something that I just want to arrive in your office, swan about for a
32:39bit and then bugger off.
32:39Because in all my jobs to date, I would say that I've shown commitment and I would like
32:45to take it further.
32:46And I, I want to find a position that allows me to develop my career.
32:50Paul, similar question to you.
32:53So, you have told my interviewers that, you know, you've got a good business, um, you
32:58ran your dad's business.
33:00You know, it seemed to me that you're quite well, well-to-do at the moment, set up, well-to-do.
33:04What do you want to come and work for me for?
33:07Um, I want to work for you because I always thought that I was a capable chap.
33:11And the problem that I've had sometimes is that I've had to work for myself because I
33:18wasn't given opportunity to work for big companies.
33:21And I always thought that I had a lot to give a big company.
33:24But Paul, Paul, excuse me, excuse me, you took the giant leap of working for yourself.
33:29To me, that was a fantastic thing when I did that myself, right?
33:32It was a brave move.
33:34And I'll tell you what, wild horses would have dragged me back to working for someone else
33:39again.
33:39Ultimately, the companies that I have are property-based companies and they can run
33:43themselves.
33:44So the way I see it is that working for you, I can put to effect the experience that I've
33:47learnt.
33:48But also, I'm not going to go downhill, I'm going to go uphill because I'm taking on an
33:52extra salary and everything else is still coming in as before.
33:55What are you going to be doing with someone's phoning you up, telling you about you've got
33:58a leaking roof somewhere?
34:00Where's your attention going to be?
34:01With me or with your business?
34:03Sir Alan, I wouldn't waste anybody's time by being here.
34:05I've sacrificed a lot to be here.
34:07I have a pregnant wife at home, I have a nine-year-old boy and I have businesses.
34:11So the fact that I've sacrificed that to be here shows you.
34:14They don't cut with me all that crap.
34:16They don't give me all that personal crap here, right?
34:18Because there's also another reason why some people will be here.
34:22Some people might want to come here for the same reason as they go on Big Brother, right?
34:26They want personal fame.
34:27I'm looking for somebody who wants a job.
34:29I'm asking you the question, why do you want to work for me?
34:32And if you've got a good business yourself, why don't you stick to working for yourself?
34:37If I don't get this job, I will.
34:39But working for you, working for a large organisation, is something that I've always wanted to do,
34:45but I was never in the position to do it.
34:46That's why I've had to be self-employed.
34:48Tim, the general theme from my advisers and my colleagues that came through their discussions with you
35:02was that you lack real commercial experience.
35:07Would you go along with that?
35:09Totally.
35:10There's nothing I can say my CV talks volumes in terms of compared to other individuals
35:15who have been here from the very beginning.
35:16Yeah.
35:19My lack of commercial experience is an issue, and I've identified that as myself.
35:25But as I've said, in terms of wanting somebody who has a desire to do the job and can do the job,
35:31I think I have those skills within me.
35:33I can do that.
35:34All I need is direction from somebody to put me in the right direction to say,
35:38do this, this is how you do it, get on with it.
35:41And I don't have a problem with doing that.
35:46I don't have a problem with doing that, but young.
35:52Sarah, are you going to piss off everybody that works for me?
35:55No.
35:56You sure?
35:56Yeah.
35:57Because you did not do a good job here with some people, you know.
35:59I don't think I've pissed anybody off, Sir Alan.
36:01Do you have a bit pissed off?
36:02Well, my worry is, is that I don't sell flowers in the street.
36:07Right.
36:07And, you know, I don't stand shouting with megaphones.
36:11What I do is I have to deal every day of my life with the buyers of the major chain stores.
36:17Mm-hmm.
36:18Shouting at them is going to get you, no, well, it will get you somewhere.
36:21It will get you through the bloody door.
36:22That's where it will get you, and you'll never, ever be able to walk in there again.
36:27Okay?
36:28Is that going to happen with you?
36:29While I can sell and tackle people to the ground to buy flowers,
36:32I've also stood in a boardroom environment with the toys
36:35and presented professionally to a corporate group of people.
36:39And I think the feedback you would have got from them would have been very good.
36:42Because I'm looking for more than a salesperson, as you would appreciate.
36:46I think salespeople come with a lot more, Sir Alan.
36:48What I want you to tell me about is anything apart from selling,
36:52tell me about where you demonstrated to me that you're not just a one show-in-town person,
36:58or sales only.
36:59The farm task that we had to do, the chutney idea,
37:03I think I demonstrated a lot of commercial awareness
37:06and a good bang for business,
37:08because we want that task by a lot of money,
37:11and I was a key pinpoint in that.
37:17A difficult decision, a very, very difficult decision.
37:21Sarah, have you got the skills, all-round skills?
37:25James has got the all-round skills,
37:27but I'm worried about whether he wants to come to Brentwood Towers.
37:30Just to clarify, I'm happy coming to Brentwood Towers.
37:33I understand that.
37:36Tim, I've read your resume.
37:38Mm-hmm.
37:39An East End boy.
37:44Hard upbringing.
37:46Your mum.
37:48She did well.
37:48Oh, she must be very proud of you.
37:50She is.
37:52As another East End boy, I'm also very proud of you,
37:54to see what you've done.
37:57In difficult circumstances.
37:58I've got to know me now, as a person,
38:11whether I've got the time
38:12or the wherewithal and the patience.
38:17That's what I'm struggling with.
38:18It's a very, very tough thing, you know,
38:28for me to say.
38:37I'm going to let you stay.
38:38I'm going to let you stay.
38:38James,
38:55you haven't convinced me.
38:59I don't think you're a...
39:00I don't think you've got a long-term player for me,
39:03to be perfectly honest.
39:04That's my only reason.
39:06I think you've been excellent,
39:07very professional.
39:08I'm letting you go.
39:10You're fired.
39:34OK.
39:35Thanks.
39:37Paul, I'm an obstinate person.
39:52But even I've learned that when
39:5310 people are saying something to you,
39:56and you still want to do something else,
39:58then even me,
40:00I've got to turn around and say,
40:01all right,
40:03I've got to go with what the other people are saying.
40:06And without a question of a doubt,
40:08every single one of my advisors,
40:11including these two that sit here,
40:12find you aggressive.
40:14They find you a person
40:16that's not going to mould with other people.
40:19And some of them believe
40:20that you have an air about you,
40:22that actually you're not coming here to learn.
40:25You know it all.
40:25You're coming here really to help out problems that I'm in,
40:30to be a troubleshooter and all that type of stuff.
40:33Well, let me tell you,
40:34I haven't got any problems that need troubleshooting,
40:37certainly not by a 34-year-old gentleman like you.
40:40What have you got to say about that unanimous statement about you, Paul?
40:48Because, you know, the other day,
40:49I backed you, you know?
40:52I said I see a lot of me in you.
40:55I see a lot of me in you when I was your age.
40:58But I'm getting this kind of message from everybody.
41:01He's aggressive.
41:02What have you got to say about that?
41:05I am 34 years old.
41:07I haven't just done one thing in life.
41:09I've done lots of things in life.
41:10I've been in sales.
41:12I've dealt with manufacturing.
41:13And in manufacturing and production,
41:15you learn an awful lot.
41:16I think possibly the way it's come across
41:18is that I have nothing more to learn,
41:19which is ridiculous,
41:20because you learn every day of your life.
41:22But the fact is that I was coming here
41:24to show you that I wasn't just one bag of tricks.
41:26I had a lot to offer.
41:28And so, consequently,
41:30the fact that you're looking for an apprentice,
41:32you're looking for somebody,
41:34A, to learn,
41:35but B, I'm not a spotty 17-year-old.
41:37You know, you surely must be looking for someone
41:39with some experience,
41:41so that rather than you spending eight hours a day
41:44with that person,
41:45moulding them into exactly what you want,
41:47you'll think to yourself,
41:48this guy already has some standing,
41:50but he needs to learn some more,
41:52which is why I'm here.
41:53Have you got some standing?
41:55Well, I have some experience
41:56in the things that I've listed.
41:58If you had standing,
41:59if you had standing in the old,
42:01in the businesses that you've started of your own,
42:03I'd go back to,
42:04what the hell do you want to come and work for me for?
42:07Because I'll tell you,
42:09when I started my business at the age of 18,
42:11I would have never, ever gone back to work
42:13for anybody else in my life.
42:15But we're different.
42:22Well, if we're different then, Paul,
42:24maybe you've just answered it for me,
42:26because I can't afford to gamble on you, Paul.
42:30As experienced as I am,
42:33I've got to listen to what other people are saying to me.
42:37And there's too many vibes coming through
42:39that says to me,
42:40Paul,
42:43I'm going to have to let you go.
42:45You're fine.
42:51Do you know, before I came here,
42:53I didn't know a single person
42:54that had a bad word to say about me.
42:56And I've taken nothing but criticism
42:58in the whole time that I've been here.
43:00Why is that?
43:01That I don't know anyone
43:02with a bad word to say about me,
43:04yet here I haven't got a single person
43:05to say a good word about me,
43:06apart from the people that I lived in the house with.
43:08Why is that a good question?
43:11Well, go and think about it.
43:13Well, I've got nothing better to do now, have I?
43:26Okay.
43:27I just want me to.
43:38You're responsible
43:39for those last two going.
43:43I put my trust
43:44in you two
43:45because it's not been an easy task,
43:47I tell you.
43:49Okay?
43:50You've got a lot on your shoulders now, you two.
43:52A lot resting on your shoulders.
43:54I'm going to give you a call
43:58as usual.
44:01We'll meet soon
44:02and I'll let you know
44:03what the final task is going to be.
44:09Okay.
44:21Oh, my God.
44:22Okay.
44:23Oh my God.
44:24You ready?
44:25I'm just like.
44:26I know come, let's go.
44:27Come.
44:28Oh my God.
44:29I just can't stop smiling.
44:52I gave it my best shot.
44:58In a sense, I think it's slightly disappointing
45:01that people didn't break through
45:04perhaps their perception of me and my aspirations.
45:09Maybe he just thought I wasn't right personality-wise
45:13for him or his team, and I respect that.
45:15Yes, sometimes I am tough in my approach,
45:25but I definitely don't see it as being aggressive,
45:27and a good salesman, a good entrepreneur,
45:31and a good businessman has to be aggressive.
45:33Sir Alan never made a £700 million fortune by being soft,
45:37and when he said to me in one or two boardrooms
45:40that there are elements within me
45:42that he saw many years ago in himself,
45:45so consequently I thought, well, that's going to stand me
45:47in good stead, because that shows him
45:48that I am built of the same kind of stuff.
45:52But obviously, that didn't count for shit, really,
45:56because, you know, he fired me.
46:01One job, now just two candidates.
46:06Sir Alan's search for his apprentice is almost over.
46:12Next week on The Apprentice, look who's back.
46:15The point is, I'm quite happy to fire you, Paul,
46:17if you are going to take this kind of...
46:18Oh, fuck off.
46:18You can't fucking fire me.
46:20I can't. I can't.
46:21Everyone takes to the boats for the grand finale.
46:27It's sink or swim,
46:29as Tim goes head-to-head with Siren.
46:32I knew we were fucking around.
46:36The skipper comes aboard.
46:37Give me a drink at least, come on, hurry up.
46:41But the crew is all at sea.
46:44Oh, shit.
46:46And when the party's over,
46:47someone is going to get hired.
46:49And Alan Sugar is set to be Jonathan Ross's guest on Friday
47:00over on BBC One at 10.45.
47:03And Rabiar Parekh will be talking to Saira about The Apprentice
47:08tomorrow morning from 11 on the BBC Asian Network.