Lord Sugar stunned viewers with a triple firing in the latest episode 6 of The Apprentice after a disastrous corporate away day task in Egypt.
The BBC One series contestants got another trip abroad in episode six of the 20th anniversary series, but failed to impress with team-building experience days littered with problems.
One team went for a desert dune adventure while the others offered a lagoon trip, and each team also had to cater their corporate client away day. Neither team carried it off without a hitch, but the lagoon team were significantly poorer performers.
Negotiations were tense in the losing team.
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Despite project manager Megan Ruiter having 25 corporate events under her belt from her day job, she led her team to a $290 loss after clients asked for a 50% refund for being served raw, cold food and for being left to eat dinner in wet clothes following the kayaking trip.
Lord Sugar called it one of the worst performances in a corporate hospitality task he had ever seen, and fired Megan along with her teammates, Carrington Saunders and Andrea Cooper.
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Carrington Saunders was blamed for serving raw wedges.
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Lord Sugar and his aides Karren Brady and Tim Campbell are keen to make the 20th series one to remember – and what could be more memorable than a triple firing, drastically whittling down the remaining candidates.
Megan was an obvious target given her experience in corporate events and her role as project manager.
Megan Ruiter took the heat as the project manager.
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“I was absolutely devastated,” she admitted. “I felt like there was a lot more that I could have shown to Lord Sugar. I feel like there was a lot more tasks where I could have shown more of the skill set that I’ve got. When I got fired, I was absolutely gutted and especially to be fired on a task that, on paper, is my most ideal task.”
Carrington might have been responsible for the raw potato wedges, but she said, “I don’t think I deserved to be fired. I made a mistake. The show isn’t based on your cooking skills; it is based on your business skills. So, that’s upsetting and also because I actually can cook! However, I suppose that the refunds were so high, it does make sense to an extent, but I don’t think I really deserved it, no.”
Andrea Cooper was fired for clashing during a negotiation.
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Lord Sugar also pointed the finger at Andrea for clashing with Kieran McCartney during a negotiation.
She confessed: “It were a terrible task for me, it were another one where I was in the kitchen, which is just not my forte at all. I’m not saying I was surprised because by my calculations, it could have possibly been a triple firing that week. But if there were only going to be one or two fired, I didn’t think that it should have been me.”
The shock move from the business mogul leaves 11 candidates still in the process next week.
The Apprentice continues on BBC One at 9pm on Thursdays and streams on iPlayer.
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