“Carry on with your dreams”, Lord Sugar told him, adding that they should stay in touch.
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Armed with only a van full of tools and a little elbow grease, the candidates must set up their own handyman businesses and peddle their expertise to the residents of south London.
Apprentice candidate and former Brigidene School pupil Elle Stevenson said she felt “relieved” to be fired from the BBC One show tonight.
The 21-year-old appointed Mergim as sub-team leader, but Versatile got off to a bad start by missing the 9.45am deadline to print flyers for their business.
This week, though, the 23-year-old struggles with his attempts to put up a few shelves.
“I consulted my team and I was advised to go for £9”.
Butaja acknowledged that he’s no DIY man: “The episode speaks for itself, really! It was a bad day at the office”.
Lord Sugar then gave sub-team leader Mergim the chance to bring in two more candidates to face the music. He decided on April Jackson and David Stevenson. “But here we are, in week six, and I do believe that you have been standing back, I do believe I can’t see you as my business partner, so April…You’re Fired”.
The self-professed “geezer bird” added: “I believed that the failure of the task was down to me and I was quite happy to go and say it’s all my fault. Elle got away and left the s**t on me!” he laughed.
Versatile, also including Charleine Wain, Richard Woods and Joseph Valente, made a paltry £652, with much of that coming from their contract to refurbish a local theatre. They made £1170 and spent £119.92 leaving them with a profit of £1050.08 and earning them a pampering at an authentic Russian spa.
Elle, Mergim and April all caught the sharp end of the entrepreneur’s wrath as Team Versatile’s £530 profit was comfortably beaten by Connexus’s £1,050. “You learn a lot in the process as well, you find out different skills you didn’t know you had and you have so many opportunities to try things that a lot of people would never be able to do in their lives”. “Everything you want as a business partner, it’s Brett”. “He said no, but I couldn’t take no for an answer so I kept trying until he literally threw me out of the shop!”
“It’s either making something or constructioning”, and “I’m really an expertise”.
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“Even though I haven’t won the actual show, the actual experience of being on The Apprentice feels like the £250,000 prize. It has changed me completely as a person”.
