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00:00Previously...
00:08You're going to manufacture your own burgers.
00:11For the boys...
00:13Make some patties. You can't sell nothing.
00:15..a slow start.
00:17Can I say, it is quite quiet here. There's literally no-one here.
00:20Charles was left bashing out burgers.
00:22Have you finished everything? No. Let me explain. I'm trying to speak.
00:25You're meant to be making the burgers and then getting on the road.
00:27Danny, you've made no decisions.
00:29This is awful.
00:30For the girls...
00:31Look at it. It's like goo.
00:32..a sticky situation...
00:34Did we not have our eyes on what was in here?
00:36..made mincemeat of morale.
00:38Elizabeth's faffled quite a lot, the whole task.
00:40What is faffling? I don't want to argue about it now, anyway.
00:42You said Elizabeth's been faffing. It's just not helpful.
00:44..but succulent sales...
00:46Another steak burger, please.
00:48..meant in the boardroom...
00:50They made a profit of £236.
00:52..a meaty win.
00:54The boys' team had a loss of £114.
00:57The boys looked like chumps.
00:59If you was working for my business, I would sack you.
01:02Well, your business would be bust if I wasn't there.
01:04My business is doing all right, mate.
01:06Charles was almost dead meat.
01:08You're disruptive.
01:09But in the end...
01:10This was a disaster.
01:11..Danny got the chop.
01:13Danny, you're fired.
01:15Now 17 remain to fight for the chance to become...
01:19Lord Sugar's business partner.
01:28PHONE RINGS
01:305am.
01:34PHONE RINGS
01:36Hello? Good morning.
01:38Lord Sugar would like to meet you at Stoke Park Mansion House.
01:41The car's at the outside in 20 minutes.
01:43OK, thank you.
01:45Guys, Stoke Park House.
01:5020 minutes.
01:52Geoff? Yeah, come on, mate, otherwise you're going to be late.
01:56What do you think of Stoke Park?
01:58It sounds a bit racetrack-y.
02:00New beginnings today.
02:02Can't lose another one. No, definitely.
02:04We won by such a huge margin.
02:06It's going to be humiliating if they lose again.
02:18We're a task ahead.
02:19The boys now have to collectively come together
02:21and do what they should have done on the first task.
02:23They're not going to be able to do that.
02:25There's still too many live wires on their team.
02:29They already think they've won.
02:31Yeah, it's morning. It's like they were celebrating.
02:33They haven't got a chance.
02:35I actually generally think we're going to smash it.
02:39Nestling in 300 glorious acres,
02:43Stoke Park Hotel, Buckinghamshire.
02:46Iconic location for films, including James Bond's Goldfinger.
02:54Wow, this is nice.
02:58Oh, my God, it's beautiful.
03:24DRAMATIC MUSIC
03:33Good morning. Good morning, Lord Sugar.
03:36Now, you may be wondering why we are at this beautiful place,
03:40Stoke Park Hotel.
03:42Well, because it's a luxury hotel,
03:44they are able to charge premium prices,
03:47but only if their bedrooms offer something very special.
03:52This next task is all about making money from interior design.
03:58Your client is the hotel manager,
04:01and what you need to do is to create a bedroom
04:04that he could sell to his guests at a premium price.
04:08Now, a word of warning, this task is not all about creativity.
04:13It's also about your profit margin.
04:16OK, everything clear?
04:18Yes, Lord Sugar.
04:20Good luck, and I'll see you back in the boardroom in a couple of days' time,
04:24where at least one of you will be checking out of the process.
04:30Teams have two days to design, decorate and furnish their rooms.
04:35Each has a £13,000 budget.
04:38Once costs are deducted, anything that remains is profit.
04:43Does anyone have experience with interior designing?
04:46First task, find a project manager.
04:49I'm not a designer. I don't paint stuff and do colours and stuff.
04:52However, I am used to working with designers. I am used to mood boards.
04:55You want to be PM?
04:57I think I should be sub-team leader on the design side. Are we happy?
05:01But this is a design task. It's all about designing.
05:04It's the main part. It's not the main focus.
05:06Russ, are you comfortable being PM?
05:08I would be better focused purely on the design side.
05:10Mate, if you step up and take it, we'll all have your back.
05:12I'm comfortable doing it.
05:14I don't do five-star. My experience of hotels has more been travel lodges.
05:17I still eat Pop-Tarts when I'm 29 years old.
05:21I'm happy with that. I'll support you 100%.
05:25All in favour? Yes. Carried.
05:27Heading up the girls' team... Thank you.
05:29..Bushra.
05:30OK, quickly, just before I split the teams now,
05:33tell me what your skill sets are.
05:35I have designed bayonets and done a couple of projects like this.
05:38I've basically re-bought my own house from scratch.
05:41And I also feel it would be very useful getting my decorating done.
05:44Siobhan, what about you?
05:45Well, I've spent a hell of a lot of time at these kind of hotels,
05:48and in particular in hotel rooms,
05:50so I kind of know what's actually needed to make a room top-notch, yeah.
05:54Sarah-Jane.
05:55I used to be in a buying department for a high-street retailer.
05:58OK, I'm just going to go with my gut instinct.
06:00Can I appoint you my sub-team leader? Yeah. Yeah.
06:02Siobhan, I'm going to place you with Sarah-Jane,
06:05because you'll know the furniture.
06:07And Elizabeth...
06:10..and Michaela.
06:11Aid Sarah-Jane on the buying team. Yeah, yeah.
06:15Boshra has completely stitched me up with the people she's put in the team.
06:18She's just basically put herself in a team for Amicable
06:21and put me with all the rowdy lot.
06:23Get out there and let's smash it, and the boys are going to lose.
06:26Yes!
06:30Guys, I'm going to try and structure this conversation a little bit now.
06:33We need someone on money.
06:35I personally think that smells like you.
06:37Geoff?
06:38There's no point in me being the numbers guy.
06:40These guys are... I should be on the design.
06:42Guys, keep the conversation streamlined, please, just one at a time.
06:45I will, in that case, put you over in my team, Geoff.
06:48Even though you are remote, keep your eyes on numbers
06:51when we get them from the guys.
06:53OK, let's do that.
06:55Design is everything in this task.
06:57We don't need 4 minus 3 equals 1.
06:59And you're asking the guy who has a Bachelor's of Maths to do it?
07:02I'm creative as well.
07:04How many bankers do you know that can breakdance?
07:11Let's just be rational, get rid of all the chaos, seriously.
07:14We will. We're going to do really well here.
07:16Awesome. Sounds like we're good to go, guys.
07:18Do you want to, like, I don't know, touch each other, high-five?
07:24Midday.
07:26Half the teams leave to start designing their rooms.
07:34We've got to have a look at the room size.
07:36Remaining at the hotel...
07:38We can't buy the furniture if we don't know if it's going to fit.
07:41..the sub-teams size up for furniture.
07:43Siobhan, do you want to do the measurements with myself?
07:46Yeah. All right, then.
07:48Are you measuring as well, Elizabeth?
07:50I will do some measurements, yes.
07:52OK.
07:54I've done that wall. I'll just check it again.
07:58Are we writing this down, though?
08:00Yeah, yeah.
08:02So we need to just relay all this back to, obviously, the design...
08:06..the design team.
08:08I think Elizabeth just...
08:11..lives on another planet.
08:13Elizabeth, just leave the wall. It's fine.
08:15There's no point in saying to her,
08:17come and do this, cos she's just going to make everything worse.
08:20Just let her go and do her own thing.
08:22Is there anything else you would like me to measure?
08:24As long as you've measured everything, no.
08:26Are there any particular areas in this room that you were concerned about
08:29that have not been measured? I'm fine.
08:31Are there any other measurements?
08:33Have you measured every wall in this room? Yes.
08:35Perfect. No, then. Right. Have you measured the doors?
08:38Um, one second.
08:44Upstairs...
08:46Bed there, with bedside tables either side.
08:48..dreaming up fabulous furniture...
08:50They'll sit there, have a table there, glass of wine, fire there, view there.
08:54..the boys' sub-team, led by James.
08:56They need to have at least two places they can sit,
08:59and we also need a drawer set where they can store clothes.
09:02The boys have worked out which items are usually found
09:05in a five-star hotel room, but that's not what makes someone pay a premium.
09:09It's how those things come together that make you pay the premium.
09:13Throughout the whole hotel, the colours of the walls are very, very similar,
09:16so we need to put down, for the other team, yellow.
09:22West London.
09:24At an international design agency...
09:26If you guys don't mind, I'm going to jump onto that whiteboard over there.
09:29I do it and then you can just stay here and then you can just focus on...
09:32If you don't mind, just leave it. OK.
09:34..cooking up a concept to design their room around...
09:37Let's just get loads and loads of ideas up there.
09:39Hopefully two or three really pique our interest.
09:41..Ross keeps a firm grip on his boys.
09:44So I think we can focus maybe on a celebrity.
09:47Sir Elton John, Tim Henman.
09:49Let's just quash that immediately.
09:52If you move on to what the hotel stands for,
09:55it's tradition, a big part of history and British heritage as well.
09:58Best of Britain? Are we happy with that?
10:00Yeah, absolutely. So just Britain.
10:02Ross, I think we're good. Shall we move on to our next piece?
10:05Absolutely. Shall we do that?
10:07So it would be the pink colours and the mood board.
10:10That is indeed it. Yeah. OK.
10:15Back in Buckinghamshire...
10:17Welcome to the Great Hall. Fantastic.
10:19..a chance for sub-teams...
10:21It has over 1,000 years of history. Wow.
10:23..to probe the staff.
10:25What is the main attraction? Is it the golf course?
10:27Yeah, so I'd say that it's definitely for the golf course, yeah.
10:30Is it a leisure hotel? Is it more of a business hotel?
10:33They come from all over the world, from the States,
10:35guests from China.
10:37How it works is you have to always exceed your guests' expectations.
10:41Quality and luxury are the pinnacle of everything.
10:43Absolutely. It's absolutely pinnacle.
10:47Time to feed back to the design teams.
10:51Hey, guys. Hey, Ross.
10:53What stuff do you need to know currently?
10:55James, it's Sajani.
10:56I just wanted to ask you the type of people that come to stay in that hotel.
10:59I think it's people who come from China.
11:01I think it's people who come from Europe.
11:03I would love to tie that into travel, tourism.
11:05Can you confirm that for us? Travel is the theme?
11:07Travel is the theme.
11:08And we're using Britain as a destination to travel to.
11:11Anything critical to tell me that you haven't told me yet?
11:14Ross Elliott here.
11:15Every wall within the hotel is a yellow colour,
11:18so that's a very important point to note.
11:20OK, we're going to have to jump. Bye.
11:23So, guys, we are going to go with travel, destination Britain.
11:28I think it might be really important to stay trend-driven.
11:31One floor up, still to settle on their concept.
11:35Maybe food-themed.
11:36Bushra's girls.
11:38The chocolate room.
11:40These have beautiful gardens.
11:42I really, really love that.
11:43Something to do with the setting, fir trees.
11:46Is there such a thing as a tree with fir?
11:48It's F-I-R.
11:51Hello? Hello, who's that?
11:54It's your PM.
11:55Can you just give me a size of the room?
11:57For the wallpaper?
11:58It's 4-3-0-0 wide.
12:01OK, cool.
12:02Bushra, how much would you like us to spend on the furniture?
12:05Listen, guys, I don't want to kind of constrict you...
12:08A recommendation!
12:09Are you still there, Bushra?
12:11Yes, yes, hi, hi there.
12:12We can't use £13,000 or else we wouldn't have made any money.
12:15OK, so, guys, don't spend anything over £5,000.
12:18We've been thinking for a theme.
12:20Do you have any landscapes that are currently on the ground?
12:23Yes, so the golf course.
12:25That's the main attraction of this hotel?
12:27Golfing as a sport rather than landscape.
12:30Sport would be better.
12:32We're not sure. I will get back to you, OK?
12:34You need to come up with an idea before we end this phone call,
12:37otherwise we will not have a clue what to buy.
12:39You've got him, see, I've listened to you.
12:41I think we should just go with golf, because you've got golf outside, OK?
12:45Don't come back with any golf clubs or golf balls.
12:47Bushra, we're not idiots.
12:49What we want to know is what colour is it and what furniture do you want to get?
12:52Thank you, guys, I have to go. Landscape, greenery, water, stone bikes.
12:56She's gone. Well... She's a felon.
12:58That's ridiculous.
13:00We haven't talked one bit about sport, about golf,
13:03we've talked about nature, materials, it's all been a waste of time.
13:08Personally, I'm really annoyed with Bushra.
13:12The sub-team, heading for London and furniture shops.
13:15Have five grand then. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just buy whatever you want.
13:18Whatever's happened, we need to just let it go.
13:20Let it go, let it go.
13:22All we can do now is let it go and move on.
13:24She wanted us to make a decision, so if it's a wrong decision,
13:27she has someone to blame.
13:30The red and the blue for Britain, the yellow being the heritage.
13:33Yeah. Best of British. Are we happy with those guys?
13:35Awesome. Yep.
13:37Colour scheme selected.
13:39Based on his experience, I think Sajj would actually be
13:41the best person to lead this.
13:43Next, for the boys, create a Best of British travel-themed mood board.
13:48In the pitch, a mood board is trying to tell a story
13:51about what we want the room to look like.
13:55I'm looking at this and I don't really see the travel.
13:58I can only see Big Ben and the Olympics.
14:00I actually think the Chinese tourists would look at the House of Parliament,
14:03the Olympic Games, as being travel.
14:05I completely agree with that. Out of everyone,
14:07I think I'm the only one that was a Chinese tourist.
14:10Five years ago, I am a Chinese tourist.
14:12You don't overthink a mood board,
14:14but you sort of give the creative touch.
14:16That's creativity. OK, cool.
14:19You guys tell me, do you see anything wrong at the moment so far
14:21that you'd change?
14:24I stand behind that.
14:26I've created some really original ideas.
14:29How the team decides to unfold it is not up to me.
14:33I give them the fruits, it's now up to them to make the juice.
14:37Nice to meet you. Ross. Alicia.
14:39Concept complete.
14:41We put in a mood board just here.
14:43Next, design feature wallpaper to wow hotel guests.
14:47I'd like to try and accentuate travel.
14:49Suitcases in front of a London landmark, for example.
14:52Maybe the outline of the London Eye, a hand drawer.
14:54The London Eye becomes a circle, do you know what I mean?
14:57Quick, I just... Why couldn't it be that with a suitcase?
15:00I'll just use it, just take it.
15:02And if you feel you need to strip out some detail, do that, please.
15:05White, silver, platinum.
15:07Yeah, that's it, that's it, cool.
15:096pm.
15:11Let's build this picture.
15:12Still to create their golf-inspired mood board, Bushra's Girls.
15:16I'd like the story to move across the board.
15:19So the story is...
15:21OK, we've got a limited amount of time, but let's just get it down.
15:26Look at that. Does that say golf to you?
15:30There's not much texture, colour.
15:32Bit disappointed in how Bushra has led the team today.
15:35Is there more whites here?
15:36We need to get this on, cos I'm just worried we're not going to have a board.
15:39We've deliberated so long over some fairly small details
15:43and we really have to make some decisions in those situations and move on.
15:48Oh, my God, you're killing me with that.
15:50OK. May cause dizziness.
15:56We need to get the right high-quality items,
15:58even if it's more expensive.
16:00We need the room to look the absolute part.
16:02What about something like a mini bonsai tree?
16:08On a dash to splash their cash, James' sub-team.
16:13Can't get more British than that.
16:14I think we should just get two of them, you know.
16:16It's 975. Write that down, please.
16:18I'm writing all the prices down, don't worry.
16:20Let's tag them all up now and get the prices done.
16:23These chairs look very luxury to me.
16:25They're about 1,500.
16:27So we need two of them. Look at that.
16:29I think that'll be a really cool storage unit.
16:31Let's do it. Just doing that now.
16:33We've spent 7652 already.
16:35No, that's not a lot, trust me.
16:37They have a budget of 13,000, but that has to include their design fee.
16:41That's how interior designers make a living.
16:43It's 350. Tagged. There we go.
16:46They haven't really shopped around,
16:48and if they make a profit, I'll be really surprised.
16:512,026. We're still under budget.
16:53And we haven't negotiated yet. We're done.
16:56Set on top-drawer dressings, time to try and land a trade price.
17:01So, what do you think?
17:03Well, 12 items in total, which, from a calculation,
17:06comes to about £11,802.
17:09Is it?
17:11What is the total, from your side?
17:1412,722.
17:16We were sort of looking around the £8,500.
17:19That's way lower than we'd be able to go.
17:21Is it too low for you? Absolutely, yeah.
17:23We'll take the stuff off you now.
17:25£10,750, and then we're done.
17:27£10,725? £10,725 is fine.
17:30Perfect. Thanks very much.
17:32Why aren't they with the telly now?
17:34It was... You must have just not written down what I said.
17:38Why the hell did both of us do it? That's the thing.
17:41Bushra gave us 5K.
17:43Looking for a bargain, the girls' sub-team.
17:46We've got to stick within the budget.
17:48Would you like me to make a note of the prices? Yes, please.
17:51This chair? No.
17:53Elizabeth.
17:54Shall we tag it? No, it's too expensive.
17:56Oh, this one's nicer.
17:58Sorry, guys, it's too expensive. We're not going to find anything.
18:01Guys, one of these, because it's half the price.
18:04Yeah, but it's an executive room.
18:06Eyes on the budget.
18:07Let's go for that, because we've not got much time.
18:09We like cheaper.
18:11£699, tag.
18:13Are we sure? Yes.
18:14Table lights, £89.
18:16Right, let's go for that one. There's a mirror.
18:18How much is it? It's £1,000, but look at it.
18:20Shall we have a look downstairs? Let's go downstairs.
18:22I feel like I'm not even being listened to here.
18:26Right, how much is that?
18:28It's £495. At this point, I've got to put my foot down.
18:31You don't need to put your foot down. You can have a discussion.
18:34You're not a project manager, remember that.
18:36If we're going to be out of time, just tag it. I'll negotiate.
18:39Have you wrote it down, the price? Yeah.
18:42The key to this task is purchasing quality, unique-type pieces.
18:47This is exactly the store to find that,
18:49but Elizabeth was obsessed with buying cheap products
18:52at prices that were just too low
18:54for the quality of hotel that they're aiming for.
18:56And that one's even cheaper.
19:00Your total spend is £6,250.
19:03You need to get it for £5.
19:05With Bushra's spending plans blown,
19:08Michaela must secure a markdown.
19:10So, what's your budget?
19:12£3,500, so that's far more discount than we'd be prepared to give.
19:16You know, it is going somewhere. It's super at market.
19:19I'd be happy to do £5,500 for you.
19:21Do me a solid and do it for £5,000.
19:24Let's do it for £5,000. Brilliant. I love you.
19:27That was our target budget. That's what we spent job done.
19:316.45pm.
19:33We want it to have this art deco feel to it.
19:36Half an hour until feature wallpaper must be sent for manufacture.
19:40Enlarge that to giant scale.
19:42If I could have the options of the grey...
19:44Sorry, I really, really...
19:46Or, like, a baby bluish silver tone.
19:48Can I just ask? What I think you should do is drag this white out.
19:51Seriously? I just want to...
19:53Come on, Joanna, what are you thinking?
19:55That just looks like bubbles or...
19:57Things are not always as they appear.
19:59This is style represented.
20:01I just wanted you to know what I was thinking.
20:03Can you let me speak now? That's fine.
20:05Let me finish my point then, before you start speaking. That's it.
20:08That's fine, but just... Let's just say it like that.
20:11Let me finish my point. I'm like, OK, let me speak now.
20:14Right. We've got our wallpaper.
20:18Probably got five minutes to get done.
20:21For the boys...
20:23Erm...
20:24..a landmark decision.
20:26Elisa, if we went for something really, really freehand,
20:29can we just do that in three minutes?
20:31If we went for something really, really freehand,
20:33can we just do that in 30 seconds?
20:35Are you really going to risk what we've just achieved?
20:37I don't think we can polish that.
20:39All right, let's go for super abstract,
20:41really, really light freehand.
20:43Two minutes to deadline.
20:46I'm hoping this gets a line, that's all I'm saying.
20:48This will do the trick. We're going there.
20:50Oh, this is nice. That's awesome.
20:52Right, I'm championing this.
20:54It's art. Oh, that line just makes it all better.
20:57That's it, done.
20:59And that's perfect. We thought it through nicely, you know.
21:03Furniture found, paints and paper fixed.
21:07Tomorrow, bring their creations to life.
21:159am, Buckinghamshire.
21:18Teams have six hours to renovate their rooms...
21:21Let's look at the colours.
21:23..before pitching their designs to the hotel manager
21:26and an industry expert.
21:28I've got metallic sheen.
21:30Leading the girls, Sarah Jane.
21:32These two walls, platinum.
21:35Right, ladies, gloves on.
21:38It's pretty basic, isn't it? Just up and down.
21:42Perfect.
21:44This way.
21:45Yeah, right, you need to get a covering
21:47or else we'll have to do a double coat.
21:49I'll come and check you every five minutes, Siobhan.
21:51Yes.
21:54We need to get as smooth a finish as possible,
21:56so, basically, what I want you to do...
21:58Just concentrate on her own things and leave everyone else alone.
22:01Am I clear, then? I'm not to help Siobhan.
22:04Do help her, but we're just thick already, you know,
22:06so she just needs to...
22:08Do you know what? Maybe you give her a hand, then let me do this.
22:15Let's do this, boys.
22:16Upstairs.
22:17Whoa!
22:18Best of British for the boys.
22:20It's almost Judy and Jack. It's nice.
22:22Quite a bright yellow, that, isn't it?
22:24God, that's like a turquoise. Very turquoise, isn't it?
22:27These colours are very... I mean, look at that red.
22:30Look, we didn't pick the colours, did we? We've just been giving them.
22:33It's like someone's puked rainbow in this place.
22:36It's very yellow, very red and very blue.
22:39Isn't that the flag of Romania?
22:42Definitely a Romanian flag there, boys.
22:47North London.
22:49250.
22:50The best I could do would be 310 and I'll chuck the balls in.
22:53The girls bag a statement piece for their golf-themed room.
22:57305 with the balls.
22:59OK, fair enough. Thank you very much.
23:01Yay!
23:03Erm, didn't we say golf clubs wouldn't work?
23:06We'll make it work.
23:10Ross, this to me screams British.
23:12Yep, totally agree. I would also scream no.
23:14I think it's disgusting.
23:16On the hunt for a travel-inspired statement piece...
23:19What about this?
23:20..the boys...
23:21This is great. It actually matches our feature wall.
23:23Yes, for me, I second the suitcase.
23:25For the best price, PM Ross...
23:28Hello.
23:29..must charm the boss.
23:30We're interested in the suitcases.
23:32However, we do feel a little bit light and cheap.
23:36I feel like 600 is a bit of a difficult thing for me to accept.
23:40We can sell them for that price.
23:42Can I just say, what you guys have done with it is actually pretty cool.
23:45And I would love this to be my hotel.
23:49We're working to a really tight budget of £400.
23:51£400 is really knocking quite a lot off.
23:53Your whole design could be in a five-star hotel.
23:56£400.
23:57It's a deal.
23:59Well done.
24:03Back at the hotel...
24:05Let's roll it out and see what we've got.
24:07..three hours left to complete the rooms.
24:09Is this upside down?
24:11For the girls' sub-team, first glimpse of their feature wallpaper.
24:16What is it?
24:18Maybe they've gone for golf balls.
24:20Do you ever know what art is? I never get it.
24:22Shall we start papering then, yeah?
24:24OK, are you happy for me to take the lead on this, guys?
24:27First thing we've got to do is measure up.
24:29Right, we're over by...
24:31..40 centimetres.
24:34So we will have to cut from one side or the other.
24:36How did you measure that wrong?
24:38I measured it, that's how I measured it.
24:40Wrong.
24:41You know, I'd prefer to waste the white than the green, by the way.
24:44I would. OK, calm down.
24:46No, just stick it to it. Right, guys, too many cooks.
24:48Do you want me to do this or not?
24:50I don't mean to criticise, but is that supposed to be the centre?
24:53Yeah, is that correct?
24:54No, it's not.
24:56Right, this is the... Yeah, OK.
25:00Yeah, no, that's correct.
25:02Elizabeth, mate, come on!
25:04An absolute disaster.
25:05Everything lopsided, not measured correctly,
25:07in spite of the fact that Elizabeth must have measured that wall 50 times.
25:11It was a fiasco.
25:13Elizabeth, are you sure you know what you're doing? Yeah.
25:16How do you think the girls are getting on?
25:19For the boys...
25:20Let's see what they've done.
25:22..best of British travel-themed wallpaper.
25:25What is that?
25:27It looks like the Olympic Stadium.
25:29Let's just start.
25:30Get the paste on the wall.
25:32Your left will come over.
25:34I don't want to sound sexist, but when we heard painting and decorating,
25:38we all knew we'd get this one.
25:43Heading for the hotel.
25:45If we go to them with a strong enough pitch
25:47and suggest they maybe charge 7.50 per night,
25:50that isn't unreasonable, I don't think.
25:52Ross has a plan for the all-important presentation.
25:56Geoff, if you can be a bit more proactive in owning that financial side...
25:59Yeah. ..in the pitch.
26:00I don't think we really need to go into any specifics on budget.
26:03Of course, of course.
26:04Cool, we're good.
26:082pm.
26:09Hi, guys! Hi! How's it going?
26:11One hour until rooms are inspected.
26:13That actually looks good.
26:15What is it?
26:16It's a piece of art.
26:18That's what we were saying, it's dead art.
26:21Nice, very nice.
26:23Checking in upstairs.
26:25Geoff, where are you going on holiday, mate?
26:27The boys.
26:28You've got five suitcases, the statement piece.
26:30Nice, boys, nice.
26:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:32So I'm going to head off with Sarge, Geoff and James.
26:34That's the pitch team, so the rest of you guys,
26:36thanks a lot for all the hard work, let's just crack on.
26:38Cheers, mate. Thank you.
26:40Have you brought the statement piece?
26:42We have, if you haven't already seen it.
26:44No, we haven't.
26:46You're catching the pair.
26:50It's a bag of golf clubs.
26:52And we've got golf balls.
26:562.45pm.
26:58The expert's going to be here in 15 minutes,
27:00so let's just get it done.
27:01Room rating...
27:02Should be all in that corner.
27:03..imminent.
27:05We've got this, guys, we've got this.
27:07Looking awesome.
27:08I've been upside down.
27:10Where's everything else going?
27:14Too much chaos.
27:16Too much chaos.
27:17Guys, stop shouting.
27:18We're not shouting, we're just all talking at the same time.
27:21I don't know, no, no, no, no!
27:23Look at that desk, mate, it's awesome.
27:25Yeah, it looks class, it really does, seriously.
27:29Rooms complete.
27:39Before the team's pitch,
27:41the hotel manager...
27:43Interesting.
27:44..and a hotel design specialist...
27:46Shall we guess the theme?
27:48..cast critical eyes over the rooms.
27:50The whole style is a bit mixed.
27:52Yes.
27:53Would it work if you were having a meal?
27:55Clearly not.
27:56That high, it would be better.
27:58I can't look at myself full-length in the mirror
28:01unless I stand on the sofa.
28:03The lighting doesn't work.
28:04Yeah, it's in your eyes, it's too...
28:06If I hadn't seen the golf balls,
28:08I wouldn't know that that was golf.
28:10It was a golf, yeah.
28:11They could have done more with that theme, I think.
28:15It's British up to here and then...
28:17Then it's yellow.
28:18So I see the theme of London and travel.
28:21It's certainly not British.
28:23Suitcases.
28:24I like it, but I don't see the practicality of it.
28:27The chair looks a little bit too low to me.
28:29I'm not sure you would be able to use this as a dining table.
28:33I completely agree with you.
28:34It's an interesting room.
28:35The word eclectic springs to mind.
28:40Good afternoon.
28:41Ross, nice to meet you.
28:42Delario, nice to meet you.
28:44First to pitch their concept, Ross and the boys.
28:47We wanted everything to accentuate the heritage.
28:50We managed to fuse travel and Britain as a destination
28:53into one space.
28:55Sarge?
28:56So here are a few pictures that we played around with
28:59that will help to define the creative process.
29:02Everything about you felt British.
29:04Now, the Union Jack is red, blue and white.
29:08However, when I walked into this hotel, I had a look.
29:11It was yellow.
29:12And that was so important that we didn't lose that colour.
29:14So it was now red, blue and yellow.
29:17What we wanted to say was, welcome to the home of Britain.
29:21I will now pass it over to Geoff.
29:23So we started off with an estimated budget of £13,000.
29:26I'm glad to say that we're actually within budget
29:28as the total value of goods was only around £11,470.
29:33Yes, the plan was for Geoff to let you know exactly
29:36how much all the furnishings cost,
29:38because obviously we need to account for our time and our talent.
29:41Per night, we want to be able to charge £750.
29:45We think you can break even within two months.
29:49We have stuck with the luxurious feel.
29:53Then you picked the wrong chairs.
29:55It should have been more comfortable,
29:57and a table you can eat from, people eating in their rooms.
30:00Can I just say, I think it would be a mistake
30:02for people to actually sit in your rooms.
30:04Please, if I've paid £750 a night for my room,
30:07don't tell me how I should use it.
30:09Of course. Sure.
30:11You're planning to sell this room for £750 a night.
30:14It's unrealistic, because we do have suites,
30:17and that's the price, pretty much.
30:19I don't see the best of British, I see London.
30:22There's nothing really about... OK, I mean... Let me finish.
30:24So, in terms of Britain, I'm not so clear.
30:26Sure.
30:28Good job, seriously.
30:30Guys, honestly, we all performed exceptionally well.
30:33So I'm pretty disappointed in Jeff's performance in the pitch.
30:36His one task throughout this project was to stay on top of the finances.
30:40He didn't do that on either of the days.
30:42It's £750!
30:45Next, Bushra and the girls' golf-inspired room.
30:49Good afternoon.
30:51The consumers that come here, they have a love for golf.
30:54So let's bring it into your room.
30:56The mural on the back wall... Yeah.
30:58..if it weren't for the golf balls in the room,
31:00I would have no idea what that represented.
31:02I mean, what's coming into trend at the moment is stuff
31:05that is visible, but it's not obvious.
31:08It's important to follow trends.
31:10I have a big problem with that, because you don't want to renovate
31:13when something is no longer on trend.
31:16Hi. So, yeah, I'll just talk you through the furniture for the room.
31:20We've got the coffee table, which is perfect for room service.
31:23We've also got a long freestanding mirror,
31:26perfect for people who are getting changed,
31:28need to obviously see their whole body.
31:30If I could just make a few comments,
31:32you said the coffee table would be perfect for room service.
31:34Yeah. It wouldn't.
31:36I couldn't eat my dinner off that. It's too low.
31:39The mirror, you could get a full view of yourself.
31:42I had to stand on the sofa bed to do that.
31:44What happened to the chest of drawers?
31:46So we've got the desk, which has drawers.
31:48I can't put my underwear in the desk.
31:50No.
31:51So that's something that was missing. OK.
31:54We did save a little bit of room in the budget,
31:56so anything you do feedback to us, we can make sure we do for you.
31:59Thank you so much, and we hope that you enjoy the room
32:02and take our concept on board. Thank you very much indeed.
32:06We have to choose between the boys and the girls.
32:08Well, that's a tough one, isn't it? It is a tough one.
32:13We didn't get a set of drawers, so they picked upon that.
32:16I'm afraid Sarah-Jane let the team down.
32:18We had negative comments about the furniture,
32:21and she was the sub-team leader.
32:23I've basically just ripped everything apart.
32:25I'm hopeful it's going to be all right,
32:27but just got to hope the boys have messed up.
32:30Tonight, the experts will feedback to Lord Sugar.
32:35Tomorrow, the boardroom.
32:47You can go to the boardroom now.
33:08Good morning. Good morning, Lord Sugar.
33:12Good morning. Good morning, Lord Sugar.
33:18Well, this was a very interesting task.
33:22We had a free reign at this wonderful hotel in the countryside.
33:27You each were given a room,
33:29and the remit was that you would redesign the room
33:33to the satisfaction of the manager, a designer,
33:36and more to the point, to my satisfaction.
33:39But also, you have to make a bit of money, yeah?
33:42So I'm going to start with Graphene,
33:45and I understand, Bushra, you put yourself forward, is that right?
33:49That's correct, Lord Sugar.
33:50I heard that there was no big rush from anyone else.
33:53No, I mean, I actually expected there to be a little bit of a fight
33:57because there's quite a few of us that come from a creative background.
34:00Hmm. Anyway, you decided, after deliberation, on Golf.
34:05Golf was the main attraction of the hotel,
34:07and that's the reason why we put that one forward.
34:10OK. Elizabeth, it's usually rude to talk about a woman's measurements,
34:15but you had your tape measure. I did, sir.
34:18And you went a bit nuts, measuring here, measuring there.
34:21I like a little bit of detail, Lord Sugar.
34:23Yeah. Detail, A-T-D. I think that's the thing.
34:26Sometimes... Right.
34:27So then the team went off buying the stuff.
34:30Tell me about that, then.
34:31So we basically had a budget of 5,000.
34:345,000? Yes.
34:36And you were prepared to pay 13? Correct, yes.
34:38We didn't want to go in and spend our budget all at once.
34:41I've got some pictures here of it.
34:44Is that it? I did say if they needed me...
34:46I can see you've got a fireplace.
34:48Did you buy the furniture from Firewood or what?
34:50No, we were told 5,000 was our budget, which was a little bit...
34:54It was a bit mean, don't you think?
34:56From what I can see from these pictures here,
34:58it doesn't leap out at me as luxury, quite frankly.
35:02The furniture was still all good, yeah.
35:04Well, the statement piece was these old golf clubs.
35:07What statement is that supposed to make, then?
35:09We give up, or what?
35:11No, no, no.
35:12Basically, the room is a golf-themed room.
35:15Golf-themed room? Well, I can tell you what,
35:17this design is full of holes, that's for sure, as far as I'm concerned.
35:20I think it looked better actually in person, maybe.
35:23I don't know.
35:24I think he's a little bit bare, he didn't spend enough money, actually.
35:27Yeah. Yeah.
35:29I think West Ham's trophy room's got more in it than this.
35:34You ordered this furniture up, then we did some decorating,
35:38is that right? Yes.
35:40Now, I understand, Elizabeth, you ran the show a bit.
35:43I kind of took control of that a little bit.
35:45It was pretty chaotic.
35:49Then you had to pitch to the hotel manager and to the designer.
35:54I think at first they didn't get the concept, but after we...
35:57I wonder why.
35:58Once we started to talk to them about what we were trying to achieve,
36:01I think they did understand what we were doing.
36:03He did ask what the wallpaper was about. Yeah.
36:05And we did try to get him. I'd like to know also, really.
36:08If I slept in that room, I'd wake up thinking I'm in some bubble wrap.
36:12What's that mean?
36:13To be honest, Lord Sugar, when we were making the wallpaper,
36:16I did say that and they didn't completely shut me down.
36:18But you also didn't offer a solution, did you? No, but...
36:20What was the solution that you came up with then?
36:22The point is I didn't even have the time to give you a solution.
36:25Yeah, exactly, none of us had any time. You shut me down straight away.
36:28So I just said, OK, majority rules,
36:30so I made my point. You did that to cover your own back.
36:32That's why you did it. How did I?
36:34I was the only one that could see that I did say bubble wrap
36:36and I said beehive. You had more than enough time.
36:38Ladies, the thing is, this place was a bit sparse, OK?
36:42I've never really criticised people for making too much money,
36:46but this task is all about a balance and you've made a big mistake.
36:50You should have spent more money.
36:52But generally speaking, good project manager?
36:55Yeah, I think so. All right, thank you.
36:59Now, gentlemen, Ross, you became project manager.
37:04Yeah. You had the design team.
37:07And who was in that design team?
37:09I brought Charles with me, Sarge and Jeff with me.
37:12Sarge, the impression that I'd gotten,
37:14was that he had a strong creative background.
37:16And Jeff, yeah?
37:17I had expressed that I would be more comfortable with Jeff
37:20being a mathematician on the buying side.
37:23You pulled out of that, Jeff,
37:24then you don't want to get involved in the numbers initiative.
37:27That's exactly what I said. That's exactly what he said.
37:29That's exactly what you said.
37:30Ross asked you to be in charge of numbers and you said no.
37:33But why is that, Jeff?
37:34First of all, I'm not just a numbers guy,
37:36I have a lot of different skills.
37:37On top of that, these people run businesses,
37:39they should also be numbers guys.
37:41Let's move on, shall we? The theme.
37:44We went with travel in the end. Specifically?
37:46Britain as a destination. OK.
37:48So who went out buying? That was James and his sub-team.
37:51I wanted them to buy scarce but quality,
37:53but I didn't want to just blow the entire 13K either.
37:56Of course, because at the end of the day,
37:58you've got to make some money. I wanted 20% from that.
38:01Did you tell them that?
38:03The truth is you didn't work out that you had to get a fee out of it,
38:07which is ludicrous.
38:08Well, no, that's not the case at all. It is the case, Ross.
38:11We didn't have a clear conversation where there was a set fee
38:14that we were trying to achieve, but we spent £10,000.
38:17I heard that you went into this shop and you were running round it,
38:20headless chickens, I'll have that, quick,
38:22no, take that and take this and take that.
38:24But you didn't even add them up right in the end.
38:26Well, yeah, we actually had two adding up the prices.
38:28It was Andrew and Elliot.
38:29I think they come back with a figure, it was about £11,700.
38:32I thought it came to £12,700. It did.
38:35What did you get it down to in the end?
38:37Got it down to £10,720, so we got about 17% off.
38:40So you spent quite a lot of money on some quality stuff.
38:42We went with quality. Yeah.
38:45So tell me, when you did the pitch, Sergeant,
38:48you spoke about design, did you? Yeah, I did.
38:50So tell me what you told them.
38:51So I was talking about why we went for this theme,
38:53I also talked about... Did you use that to help you out?
38:55Yes, I did. Really?
38:56It was all linked to the British side,
38:58and that's what I was trying to explain and that's what I felt.
39:00Didn't they say to you that it was more London?
39:02At the end of the day, I think art is defined in different ways.
39:05It's a way to escape and sort of draw the way you want. Rubbish.
39:08You know, that's a mess. I mean, it's diabolical.
39:13Now, Geoff, you spoke about the finance to these people, is that right?
39:17That's correct. So you did take on a financial role?
39:20I did, actually, yes.
39:21I told them that, like, you'll be able to break even within two months.
39:24How do you work that out?
39:25With the value that we've added on, you could start charging a 750.
39:29What, for this room? We believe so, with, you know, the...
39:32He laughed at you, because he said he's got suites that he's...
39:35Less money than that. A 750.
39:37Yeah.
39:38All right, how was he as a project manager, chaps?
39:41Calm, patient, he brought the team together and made decisions.
39:44Thanks.
39:46Good.
39:48Well, I had a very long conversation with the manager and the designer,
39:54and we went through a lot of things,
39:56particularly how much profit one should make.
39:59So let's talk about the finances.
40:02Girls' team, Claude.
40:04Well, the girls' team spent 5,675,
40:08giving a profit of 7,325,
40:12a 56% margin.
40:15And, Karen, the boys' team?
40:17Well, the boys spent considerably more, £11,495,
40:22which gave them a much smaller profit of £1,505,
40:27so about 12%.
40:29OK. So you didn't make a good enough profit.
40:33You made perhaps too much profit, too sparse.
40:37Well, the designer and the manager thought that both designs weren't great,
40:43and so they left it up to me.
40:46And I think that the ladies have won this task.
40:51Yes!
40:53Well done, for sure.
40:55Yeah. I wouldn't get too excited.
40:58It's not a case of I liked it more.
41:00I hated it less.
41:02It's not a great win.
41:04So, ladies, as the winning designers,
41:07you're off to visit one of the best-designed hotels in London.
41:11This room was designed with the world-famous cartoonist Gerald Scarfe,
41:17and I've arranged for him to draw your caricatures.
41:20Oh!
41:22So off you go and enjoy yourself.
41:24Thank you, thank you.
41:28Well done. Well done.
41:30Well done. Well done.
41:40Gentlemen, second task, your second loss.
41:44You have to go away.
41:46I've got a lot more to talk to you about when you come back,
41:50and at least one of you will be fired from the process.
41:54Yeah? Off you go.
42:03The Rosewood, luxury central London hotel.
42:07Hi, I'm Gerry.
42:09Internationally renowned Gerald Scarfe.
42:12Cartoon royalty.
42:14I've got some cocktails for you.
42:16Yay!
42:18A boy is not going to win this year.
42:21They are just irrelevant.
42:23Task two, we've broken the boys so far.
42:26They haven't shown any strength. I think the women are stronger.
42:29I'm going to try and do some drawings very, very quickly.
42:32Joanna. Resting grumpy face.
42:34It's just my normal face that's miserable.
42:36Joanna, well, she was disruptive.
42:38It's just not helpful, it just brings down morale.
42:41I had a fall-out with Jade.
42:43Things are kind of resolved.
42:47Mr Scarfe, would you be happy to do me?
42:49Yeah.
42:51Cheers to our second victory.
42:53Cheers!
42:55Deja vu.
42:57In not too long, we're going to be in a very, very difficult situation.
43:00I don't remember having any profit margin conversation.
43:03Margins were not discussed.
43:05£9,500 was already set in the beginning.
43:07Geoff, he really only had one job and that was the numbers.
43:10If you'd said, James, this is how much you need to spend,
43:13that's the margin, go out and do it, he would have done that.
43:16We're not going to go through all the mathematical calculations.
43:19That's the point of the task.
43:21I'm feeling pretty pissed, again.
43:23Why is it that these people keep on throwing me under the bus?
43:26The room was not right for the hotel.
43:28I think this comes down to the mood board.
43:30There was nothing about that mood board
43:32that either made us win that task or lose that task.
43:34But he didn't like it. Do you know what a mood board is?
43:36I don't need to understand.
43:38Roger needs to understand it and says that's good.
43:40I know there will be blames put on me
43:42because I was leading the creative side,
43:44but there's a lot of dead wood and I think they need to go.
43:47I have to be honest, I'm still struggling to trace accountability here.
43:51PHONE RINGS
43:56Yes, Lord Sugar.
43:57Can you send the candidates in, please?
43:59Yes, Lord Sugar. Thank you.
44:02Lord Sugar will see you now.
44:16Well, gentlemen, you know the rules.
44:19For one of you, this is going to end up a heartbreak hotel.
44:26All of you, hand on heart, are you happy with that room?
44:31You know, the colours, I mean...
44:33If I stayed in that hotel, I'd wake up in the night
44:36and think I was in the middle of a trifle.
44:38I am happy with the delivery of the room.
44:40I think the painting standard was great.
44:42I do think we pulled together as a sub-team
44:44and we definitely delivered.
44:46I can also remind everyone in the room that...
44:48Delivered what? Sorry, I'm not with you.
44:50What did you deliver?
44:52A mishmash of a load of different colours here.
44:55Yeah, no.
44:56And this thing here, that's your feature. Yeah.
44:59Who wants to go into a room with a load of suitcases?
45:02What do you bring into a room? Suitcases.
45:05What's the point of this?
45:06You could potentially use it as a way of putting your clothes to the side
45:09instead of using a shelf as well.
45:11So take your clothes out of your own suitcase
45:13and put them in someone else's?
45:15It's a piece of art.
45:16There's obviously other props that we could have put in that room
45:19but they could have completely destroyed the whole structure of that room.
45:22Oh, you don't think it's destroyed, then?
45:24And whose idea was to add the yellow?
45:27If you're going British, it's red, white and blue, as far as I'm concerned.
45:31It was Elliot, actually.
45:33It was yellow throughout the whole hotel.
45:37We felt that that was something that should be present.
45:41Well, clearly, they didn't like it.
45:44I don't like it, from these pictures here.
45:47Tell me about this themed wall. Who drew that?
45:50That was the designer, but actually that was in about 90 seconds.
45:53Did you run out of time, then?
45:55Well, this is how it happened. Who went to the designer?
45:58I'm trying to actually explain.
45:59Preferably, not to be rude, but uninterrupted would be really helpful
46:02just so I can get something across.
46:04So he went with the skyline and we had issues.
46:06I told the designer just to bin everything. I did take a risk.
46:09That's what we ended up with.
46:11James, where did it all go wrong?
46:14Was it you buying the wrong furniture or what?
46:16From my point of view, the reason we've ended up losing this task,
46:19Jeff, you're a step forward for the pricing side at the start.
46:21You shouldn't have backed away from that.
46:23So why didn't other people step up for the pricing?
46:25They'll come to you, Jeff.
46:27I studied mathematics as a bachelor. That doesn't mean I'm a daughter.
46:30They'll come to you, honestly.
46:32So the second reason was we didn't have a strategy on the margin.
46:35Absolutely.
46:37Did you have in mind £13,000 minus 20%?
46:42Don't spend more than that.
46:44If I'm being completely honest, I actually can't remember.
46:46You never discussed margin between you.
46:48You never talked about your design profit,
46:50you never talked about your margin and you couldn't add up in the shop.
46:53Yeah.
46:55Hmm. Now, let's get back to these numbers and the maths and all that.
47:00Jeff, when you got up to give your speech,
47:03you actually spelt out that you spent £11,000 blah-blah-blah
47:07right in front of the customer.
47:09Is that what you think business is about,
47:11to tell people what your costs were?
47:13No, no, no, that was my mistake.
47:15I'd actually been really specific in saying,
47:17don't get into details.
47:19I was really disappointed when that figure came out.
47:21Yeah, and also, the £750 a night,
47:23that room goes at £350 to £400, maybe.
47:26How did you get that? Why are you doubling it?
47:30That came from the sub team.
47:32That definitely did. No, that wasn't from us.
47:34Guys, that was actually me.
47:36Yeah, I was going to say.
47:37You really don't know anything about first-class hotels, do you?
47:40At least I'm honest about it, Lord Sugar.
47:42Which two people are you bringing back into the boardroom?
47:45To be blunt, Jeff was a no-brainer for me.
47:47It's nothing personal, of course.
47:49Absolutely, there were failings on the sub team part,
47:52so unless you can convince me that somebody on the team
47:54was more responsible, James.
47:56I'm not the reason for the failure of this task.
47:58I led the team. Hang on one second.
48:00Because you've had your time.
48:02From my point of view, the only thing that went wrong on our side
48:04was the numbers, they didn't add up when we were in the furniture store.
48:07The thing is, is that you were the sub team leader, right?
48:09Yeah. Well, that is my point, it just has to be you.
48:12OK, if you want to bring me in, Ross, bring me in.
48:14So I'm bringing in Jeff and James. Right.
48:16Gentlemen, look, this has not been very good for the first two weeks, OK?
48:21Go back to the house. Thank you, Lord Sugar.
48:23You three remain here.
48:31Gentlemen, fundamental errors are occurring here.
48:35I'm going to have a discussion with Karen and Claude,
48:39and I'll call you back in shortly.
48:41At least one of you will be leaving the process today.
48:45Off you go. Thank you, guys.
48:53Well, Jeff, I find, is always kind of passing the buck.
48:56It's never his fault.
48:58It doesn't matter whether you run a big business or a small business,
49:01if you own that business, you know about the finance, so why duck it?
49:04James can speak for himself.
49:07He thinks he did a good job buying the merchandise.
49:10Whilst it was good quality stuff, it wasn't cohesive,
49:13it didn't really hang together well.
49:15His sub team didn't really perform as well as it should have done.
49:18Ross is an articulate fellow.
49:21I'm not sure if he's a little bit naive.
49:23Or tough enough. I mean, he asks for complete silence.
49:27No-one else should interrupt him.
49:29Where does he think he is?
49:31Hmm.
49:35PHONE RINGS
49:37Yes, Lord Sugar? Can you send the three of them in, please?
49:40Yes, Lord Sugar.
49:42You can go to the boardroom now.
49:54Um, Jeff, in your paperwork that you put forward,
49:58you call yourself a chameleon,
50:00that you will adapt yourself to all different business situations.
50:05Correct.
50:07Well, when Ross asked you to be the numbers man,
50:10you certainly vanished like a chameleon.
50:13What have you got to say about that?
50:15I believe I'm a very creative man, sir.
50:17I'm not just about numbers. OK.
50:19I have a background in brain science,
50:21OK? I have a background in breakdancing
50:23and you have to be creative to do breakdancing.
50:26Yeah, but I'm a very creative person,
50:28but if I was amongst a group of people who said to me,
50:31look, do me a favour, you deal with the numbers,
50:34I wouldn't say no.
50:36Of course, of course, but I think the issue was...
50:38But you didn't even show any creativity.
50:40I did, I did. You did? Where?
50:42I wanted to go with a sports theme,
50:44looking at people like Novak Djokovic, Tim Henman.
50:47If I may, dude...
50:48I was looking about golf and all that sports element.
50:51That's not showing your creativity, though.
50:53He asked you a question, what do you do creative on this task?
50:56I thought, like, on the mood board...
50:58Don't talk about the mood board, please.
51:00But, sir, if you're saying that displays your creativity...
51:03Absolutely not. ..you're shooting yourself in the foot there.
51:06That mood board is useless.
51:09James, why shouldn't you be fired from this process?
51:12I led the sub-team well,
51:14I made sure that we stuck with the theme of the Britain
51:17within our purchases. You could have spent...
51:19I also delivered the bedroom to the standard of what we had.
51:24James, you'd never get that room on TripAdvisor as a five-star room.
51:29The only way you'd get that as a five-star room is on CrapAdvisor.
51:33The failure of this task comes down to the design, the paint,
51:36the feature piece was all of a low quality,
51:39didn't mix together very well.
51:41So, you know, Ross, you have to put your hands up and say
51:43most of that lies within your team and you should be responsible for it.
51:46Ross is a very indecisive person.
51:48I think he just, he didn't make a decision himself,
51:50it came out to a lot of voting.
51:52Is that why you guys all stood up and said I was decisive?
51:54Sorry, can I just finish? On top of that, you know, there wasn't cohesiveness.
51:57It was just all mashed together from a design point of view
51:59and that's why the output is also very mish-mashed.
52:01I think Geoff's showing his ignorance,
52:03that ability to read a situation and people.
52:05You are very indecisive. I make very quick decisions
52:07and you guys all stood there and said I was decisive.
52:09You have to be very... I don't know where you're coming from.
52:11You have to be balanced on that. At the end of the day, we had a room
52:14set up in the morning and there was paint which we couldn't even work out
52:17where we were going to put it and then when we unravelled the wallpaper,
52:20we were shocked to see what we found.
52:22So as a non-designer... But you are a designer.
52:24You have a design background, right? That's not a mindset.
52:26It's not relevant to my point anyway, so let me just finish it.
52:28You guys, James, were the only ones that saw all the furniture,
52:31were the only ones that knew exactly what you were working with
52:33and it was your responsibility as sub-team leader
52:35to pull all that together.
52:37To be fair, the furniture was better than the wall feature.
52:40Yeah, I mean, let's not even bother trying to defend the wall feature.
52:43I'll find out, right? You're a design guy.
52:45Ross, can I just say the failure of this task doesn't lay within the sub-team.
52:48Wasn't there some of your creativity in there?
52:51Well, it was driven by Ross.
52:53So what did you contribute to this task?
52:56I went in and I gave my ideas of what is British
52:58from an international tourist point of view.
53:01That was their big clientele. Right.
53:04In your opinion, then, why did you lose?
53:06I personally felt like it was the overspend.
53:09Ross, do you think that James overspent?
53:12Yeah, I do think he overspent.
53:14As sub-team leader, in lieu of me being able to give him a specific figure,
53:17I expected James to come up with one.
53:19And I feel like the yellow is an issue,
53:21that came out of your team, dude, so it does sit with you.
53:24I told you who it had come out of. No, I know.
53:26I told you where the figures went wrong as well
53:28and I told you who the people responsible were.
53:30Absolutely, but like I'm trying to take responsibility for my...
53:33Anyway, I've had enough.
53:35I'm going to summarise and here's how I see things.
53:39James, the furniture, in my opinion, is the biggest thing.
53:43And also we had this issue of not making enough margin.
53:47So I think that you were certainly delinquent in that area.
53:51Ross, I'm not sure whether you had the bull by the horns here.
53:56You should have been in that side of the team,
54:00listening to what the hotel manager wanted
54:03and seeing what was being purchased, putting your input there.
54:08Geoff, you certainly talk well,
54:11but you've not been clear in telling me what you've done this week,
54:15let alone last week.
54:17But in my personal opinion,
54:20James, the furniture was the most important element of this task.
54:25Could I just say something, please? No.
54:28Having said all that, I get the feeling...
54:32Ross...
54:34Do you want me to be quiet or can I speak up?
54:36No, I don't want to hear any more. OK.
54:39I've got a little bit of dilemma here.
54:44But despite your high qualifications,
54:48Geoff, I wouldn't trust you with a hotel in Monopoly.
54:52Geoff, you're fired.
54:56Thank you very much, Richard.
54:58Cheers.
55:07James, I think you did miss a trick here.
55:10I learned from it. Yeah.
55:12But, Ross, I really do not know who you are yet.
55:17But it is early in the process.
55:20So, the both of you, go back to the house.
55:24Thank you very much. Thank you.
55:37I don't feel responsible for the failure of this task.
55:40Ross and James threw me under the bus.
55:43Lord Sugar just lost an opportunity.
55:4620 years from now, I'll be hosting The Apprentice
55:49because I'm damn that successful.
55:54You must admit, it was a close one. It was a draw.
55:57Wait, it was a draw? It's a draw.
55:59Yet there's three lads in the boardroom.
56:02I want to see how you girls can argue so much
56:05and be so successful in this process.
56:07We know how to separate business and personal.
56:09Why, hello.
56:14It's so freaking scary, it's unreal.
56:16Poor Geoff, he got shredded.
56:18They asked why he should stay
56:20and he said because he was a good breakdancer.
56:25Honestly, fair play for second one in a row.
56:27Cheers.
56:29Next time, it'll be a lot tighter.
56:34Now, 16 candidates remain.
56:37Lord Sugar's search for his next business partner.