{"id":6478,"date":"2011-12-06T00:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:59:55","slug":"young-apprentice-2011-semi-finals-lord-sugar-fires-four-candidates-after-popcorn-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/6478\/young-apprentice-2011-semi-finals-lord-sugar-fires-four-candidates-after-popcorn-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Apprentice 2011 Semi Finals: Lord Sugar Fires Four Candidates after Popcorn task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Lord sugar popcorns\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/realitytvspy\/lordsugar.jpg\" alt=\"Lord sugar popcorns\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Four candidates had their hopes of making the finals of this year\u2019s Young Apprentice series dashed after Lord Sugar showed them the door. Harry Hitchens, Harry Maxwell, Haya Al Dlame and Lizzie Magee were all fired in a brutal boardroom axe.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Sugar had warned the six remaining candidates that only two of them would make it through to next week\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s task the candidates had to design and pitch a new brand of popcorn to the retail trade, and win as much orders as possible.<\/p>\n<p>After the teams developed and pitched their new brands of popcorn, it was back to the boardroom to find out the results.<\/p>\n<p>Atomic received 10,000 orders from the cinema chain, 50,000 from the airline and 30,000 from the supermarket chain giving them a total of 90,000 orders<\/p>\n<p>Kinetic received 15,000 orders from the cinema chain, 0 from the airline and 100,000 from the supermarket chain giving them a total of 115,000 orders<\/p>\n<p>Lord Sugar offers the losing team \u2013 Harry M,, Harry H and Lizzie \u2013 with words of advice, saying: \u201cWell guys in life someone wins and someone loses but it\u2019s not all bad news.<br \/>\n\u201cHarry M in all the years I\u2019ve been working in this boardroom I\u2019ve never met someone as unlucky as you because you did not deserve to not have a win under your belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLizzie you are straightforward, honest and you say it how it is, so don\u2019t ever change because that\u2019s what I like to do too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarry H you\u2019ve been an all round great performer, you made some great negotiations and I\u2019m sorry that we\u2019re parting in this way. It\u2019s been a pleasure working with you and I wish you the best for the future.\u201d (We had tipped Harry H to win this series!)<\/p>\n<p>Lord Sugar gave the fired candidates his personal business card and urged them to keep in touch before turning his attentions to the winning team, who had to also lose one member.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\nLord Sugar wanted to know who the weakest link was. Without hesitation, PM James  said: \u201cIf I could pick someone who we could have probably done the task without that would have to be Haya\u201d but Haya hit back: \u201cHe didn\u2019t even give me a chance to pitch and that\u2019s the only reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when Zara concurred that Haya was the weakest link it seemed the odds were already stacked against her before Lord Sugar gave each of them a chance to plead their case before giving his verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Sugar explained: \u201cHaya you do seem to be determined, you\u2019re not afraid to take risks but I haven\u2019t seen any creativity.<\/p>\n<\/td>\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><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cJames it\u2019s your way or no way and I wonder whether a leopard will change its spots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZara, you\u2019re one of the most eloquent speakers I\u2019ve come across in this boardroom. My only concern is whether you\u2019re going to dirty your hands or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concluding, Lord Sugar said: \u201cIt\u2019s such a tough decision with three great people here. Haya I\u2019m really, really sorry to say this but I\u2019m going to ask you to leave the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It means James McCullagh will go head to head with Zara Brownless in next week\u2019s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four candidates had their hopes of making the finals of this year\u2019s Young Apprentice series dashed after Lord Sugar showed them the door. \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/6478\/young-apprentice-2011-semi-finals-lord-sugar-fires-four-candidates-after-popcorn-task\/\"> [...]<\/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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-apprentice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","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=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions\/6481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}