{"id":5366,"date":"2011-07-07T00:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T23:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2011-07-07T00:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T23:41:40","slug":"the-apprentice-2011-melody-hossaini-fired-by-lord-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5366\/the-apprentice-2011-melody-hossaini-fired-by-lord-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apprentice 2011: Melody Hossaini Fired by Lord Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The apprentice\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/realitytvspy\/theapprentice\/theapprentice.jpg\" alt=\"The apprentice\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Melody Hossaini\u00a0 became the latest contestant to be axed from <em>The Apprentice<\/em> on Wednesday night, after overseeing a disastrous effort in a simple buying and sales task.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Sugar gave the candidates their starting orders at Enfield wholesalers where he spelt out what the task entailed.<\/p>\n<p>Melody then took charge of Team Logic, in charge of Helen and Tom, while Natasha led Jim and Susan Ma on Team Venture.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Sugar gave both teams \u00a3250 worth of wholesale goods which they had to shift whilst \u201csmelling what sells\u201d. With two days to spend on the task, the candidates were told to build up their profit by reinvesting the money made from selling goods in more stock of the most popular items.<\/p>\n<p>The next day Helen was unhappy with the way her team was being run and tries to take over as leader, but a firm Melody told her: I\u2019m project manager and I actually want to lead on this.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI want to take responsibility because that\u2019s what I\u2019ve put myself forward to do and that\u2019s it.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the boardroom Lord Sugar fumed at both teams&#8217; efforts and refused to give the winning team &#8211; Natasha Scribbins&#8217;s Team Venture &#8211; their planned treat, despite their triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Team Logic\u2019s disappointing profit of only \u00a3728 meant that they had to return for a boardroom showdown.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nHowever, it was Karren Brady who helped Lord Sugar come to his final verdict over who should be fired, arguing that Melody&#8217;s talkative manner would be a nightmare in board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar agreed with Brady, revealing that he had difficulty understanding what business he could ever go into with the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Pellereau escaped the chop for another week, but continued to frustrate the Lord Sugar with his soft nature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sound like a broken record now,&#8221; he told the inventor, as he contemplated his final verdict.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Before axing, Melody, Lord Sugar concluded: &#8220;The person going today doesn&#8217;t necessary mean that they&#8217;re a failure in any way or form. It means they&#8217;re not made for me really and on that basis, I have to say that it is with regret that Melody &#8211; you&#8217;re fired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the infamous black cab home, the axed Midlander said: &#8220;Lord Sugar and I won&#8217;t be going into business right now but perhaps our paths will cross again and I can tell him what I do, which is more than just talking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Apprentice<\/em> continues next Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melody Hossaini\u00a0 became the latest contestant to be axed from The Apprentice on Wednesday night, after overseeing a disastrous effort in a simple \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5366\/the-apprentice-2011-melody-hossaini-fired-by-lord-sugar\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reality-tv-spy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}