{"id":8422,"date":"2012-05-10T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2012-12-28T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:57:27","slug":"who-was-fired-by-lord-sugar-on-the-apprentice-in-week-eight-2012-laura-hogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/8422\/who-was-fired-by-lord-sugar-on-the-apprentice-in-week-eight-2012-laura-hogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was fired by Lord Sugar on The Apprentice in week eight 2012? Laura Hogg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Laura Hogg the apprentice\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/realitytvspy\/theapprentice\/2012\/laurahogg_full.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Hogg the apprentice\" width=\"260\" height=\"390\" \/>Laura Hogg has become the eight candidate to be fired by lord sugar on The Apprentice this series, after a task which saw the contestants buy and sell street art.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates had to represent two urban artists and sell their work to customers, collectors and clients, with mixed results.<\/p>\n<p>When the results were revealed in the boardroom, the teams were closely matched.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling \u2013 led by Gabrielle \u2013 had total gallery sales of \u00a311,630, giving a commission of \u00a34,579.65.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix \u2013 led by Tom \u2013 had total gallery sales of \u00a35,980, giving a commission of \u00a32,442. Together with a commission of \u00a32,000 from their client\u2019s sale, the total commission for the team was \u00a34,442<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix were devastated at their loss, with Project Manager Tom taking the responsibility, \u201cit was my strategy and we didn\u2019t get Pure Evil, so it\u2019s my fault, both of them, simple as that really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end he selecting Jade and Laura to return to the boardroom where Lord Sugar delivered his final verdict: \u201cTom \u2013 on this task alone, two massive big flaws, the loss of Pure Evil and the choosing of James (Jessop). Those decisions caused the fact that you didn\u2019t sell as much as the other people did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJade \u2013 stretching beyond this task a little bit is my worrying concern about your indecisiveness. In not pushing forward one of the other people from Bristol, that I think was another big error\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaura \u2013 you think you\u2019re a good person, you\u2019re certainly a good talker. I\u2019m not totally convinced that you should remain in the process so Laura \u2013 You\u2019re Fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As she was driven away in a black cab, Laura reflected: \u201cI\u2019m feeling pretty gutted at the moment, especially since I am so confident in my own sales ability and I can\u2019t believe that\u2019s what sent me home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Hogg has become the eight candidate to be fired by lord sugar on The Apprentice this series, after a task which saw \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/8422\/who-was-fired-by-lord-sugar-on-the-apprentice-in-week-eight-2012-laura-hogg\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-apprentice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/laurahogg_full.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","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=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}