The Apprentice UK S03E12 (2007)
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00:00Previously, on The Apprentice.
00:15Today, it's not going to be a task.
00:18It's going to be a gruelling interview process.
00:21Three of you are going to get fired.
00:23The candidates faced a grilling from Sir Alan's most trusted associates.
00:29Some candidates stood out.
00:32I'm relentless. There's no way that anybody can ever say to me,
00:35you can't do something, because if they do,
00:37I'll turn around and prove to them that I can.
00:39I know Amstrad's sales were 100 million in the last financial year
00:42and I know that their write-downs were 5.7 million.
00:45Right, you know. I've done my research properly.
00:47Others were on shaky ground.
00:49You didn't Google Alan?
00:51No, I didn't. Do you think you should have done?
00:53I probably should have, yeah.
00:55You know, when you run a company,
00:57it's a big, bad world of business. Sure.
00:59And they'll cut your fucking legs off to make a few quid.
01:02I earn 90k a year. I work for a global business consultancy.
01:05I've got a gold card for BA.
01:07I don't really understand why you're here.
01:10In the boardroom, it came down to three.
01:14And Sir Alan questioned Katie's commitment.
01:17My guys, they think you have the capability,
01:20but they said they don't know what you're doing here.
01:23It would really, really annoy me
01:26if you took the opportunity away from someone else.
01:30I think it's more important to get my plans in place first.
01:35And therefore, I suggest you stand down.
01:42What you saw there was someone who couldn't give me
01:46the commitment I needed,
01:48the commitment that I know that you're going to give me.
01:51You're in the finals.
01:57Now, two remain to fight for the chance to become The Apprentice.
02:1612 weeks ago, 16 candidates entered this house.
02:22Two have survived.
02:27So how many tasks did you win overall, Christina?
02:30I won five, and therefore I lost five.
02:33In fact, I beat you already.
02:35Just remember that.
02:37Well, I beat... The term that you lost is PM.
02:39I was PM, and I beat you.
02:41You beat me, so... Are you scared?
02:43I owe you one. I owe you one.
02:45You're spurring me on. Keep talking.
02:48It's my dream to win The Apprentice.
02:50I would love to win the competition. I would absolutely love it.
02:53I would love a chance to work with Sir Alan.
02:55I thought you were a walkover.
02:59I am going to win The Apprentice.
03:01I haven't come here to be second or third or whatever.
03:05I've come here to win.
03:07You're giving me an extra reason to beat you.
03:09But I feel confident.
03:11Don't you start talking like that.
03:13If you want me to get nasty, I can get nasty.
03:16Next day, Simon and Christina are summoned to the boardroom.
03:23And this time, they're travelling business class.
03:29At the end of this week, one will be Sir Alan's apprentice,
03:34with a six-figure salary.
03:38I think I'll be the next apprentice.
03:40I think Christina's a great girl.
03:42I think in terms of what Sir Alan might be looking for,
03:44I'd probably fit the bill a bit better.
03:46A lot of the time, even if people don't particularly like what I say,
03:51I gain respect from the team that I work with,
03:53and I don't think Simon gets the respect.
04:12Good morning.
04:22Good morning.
04:26Well, congratulations.
04:29From over 10,000 applicants, we're down to you.
04:33Final two.
04:35But you've got a very big hurdle to overcome.
04:38OK.
04:40Your task is all about coming up with a landmark for London.
04:46I'm going to show you a video.
04:51See that building there in the middle?
04:54I recently bought that for £120 million.
05:00What I'm looking for is some conceptual ideas
05:05for what you're going to replace it with.
05:08A meaningful, innovative building.
05:14And, of course, it's got to make me some money.
05:20OK, this is a massive task.
05:23You've got no time to lose.
05:25Good luck. Off you go.
05:30Sir Alan's property is a real site in a real place.
05:34Nothing will get built.
05:36He just wants to use it to test Simon and Christina's creativity.
05:40I used to have a Lego set,
05:42and I used to dream about building things when I was younger.
05:45When I was a child, I wanted to be a builder.
05:47If you look at the whole thing in total,
05:50you think, oh, my God, you know, where do I start?
05:55In four days' time, they'll present their vision
05:58to Sir Alan's invited audience of top property executives
06:02in Old Billingsgate Market,
06:04now refurbished as a premier London venue.
06:09Quite clearly, this is conceptual.
06:12This is not a real planning application
06:14because such a thing takes up to five years
06:17and one has to consult with various agencies and departments.
06:22What I'm out to do is to see how they organise themselves,
06:25how they can run a team of people, how creative they are.
06:33At the house, their teams,
06:35eight of the candidates already fired by Sir Alan, are back.
06:40You'll recognise some old friends.
06:43How are you doing, everybody?
06:45Oh, my God!
06:48To help them, Christina and Simon must pick four each.
06:52Right, well, which one would you choose most?
06:55Out of everybody that you've chosen.
06:57Trey's my boy, obviously.
06:59OK, if I allow you to have Trey.
07:01I can have Naomi, yeah?
07:03So, nay Trey.
07:08Christina picks Naomi, Adam, Natalie and Paul.
07:13Simon picks Lohit, Jadine, Trey and Rory.
07:18But Rory and Trey have some history.
07:21None of this back-chat and the rest of it, enough.
07:24Stop talking to me, I'm going to stop talking to you.
07:27Don't wind me up.
07:28I'd just like you to do as you're told.
07:31Guys, guys, guys, guys, good to have everybody back together.
07:34ALL CHEER
07:36Pivo brings you.
07:38LAUGHTER
07:46Cheers, Trey.
07:48Here's to a victory, guys, OK?
07:51ALL CHEER
07:548.30am.
07:59Simon and his new team tour Sir Alan's latest purchase.
08:04They must come up with a replacement to this 25-year-old building.
08:09Already, Simon and Trey are inspired.
08:13I'll just let you know what Trey and I have just been thinking of initially.
08:16The idea that we come together within the space of five minutes.
08:19We thought about having a boat-type structure, big glass walls,
08:22to maximise the fact that it's quite a narrow front,
08:25but a long...
08:27When you say boat, don't think, oh, my God, it's a land-based ship.
08:30Nothing like that.
08:32Is there an ark in Hammersmith?
08:34Yes, there is. There is an ark in Hammersmith.
08:36It has to be.
08:38So let's go and do the research first.
08:40See you later on.
08:42All right, listen, can I...
08:44About the whole boat thing.
08:46Keep all your ideas a little bit curbed right now,
08:48because otherwise they're going to think that, you know...
08:56It looks rather as if he's split the team into the A team and the B team,
08:59and the B team have gone sort of drifting off,
09:01thinking about design sort of ideas.
09:04And Trey and Simon have already got an idea
09:07about a building that looks like a ship and has a luxury hotel in it.
09:1111am.
09:1311am.
09:15Leaving the rest of his team behind,
09:17Simon takes Trey off to work on their boat idea.
09:21I think Trey's one man, you know, he's worth three men alone,
09:25in terms of ideas, creativity, energy.
09:28There's no real need to combine him with anyone else,
09:30cos he doesn't need to...
09:32He's getting a pay-off later on.
09:34He doesn't need anyone to support him, I don't think.
09:36A bit not, really.
09:38You're just kind of... They're already scheming.
09:40They haven't really done anything yet.
09:42There's some bloody great big boat and stuff.
09:44It's just predictable. That's just the way it is with Simon and Trey.
09:47Simon believes that Trey is his most loyal companion
09:50and he doesn't want to offend Trey in any way.
09:53I felt the boat was a bad design because it's just so bloody obvious.
09:58We're next to the Thames.
10:01It's just sort of kind of the uninspiring thought,
10:05I would imagine, from a chap like Trey.
10:07It's just all so...naff.
10:11I can see it all kicking off this evening.
10:14Yeah, I'm planning on having a kick-off.
10:21Working for Christina,
10:23Naomi and Adam target the Science Museum,
10:25hoping to find a futuristic shape for her building.
10:31I like that.
10:33Are you seeing a building in that ad?
10:35Yeah.
10:37Can you not?
10:39That concept there at the top of the building,
10:41right down towards the river.
10:44In fact, to build it, you can actually buy a space shuttle
10:47off the Russians that they don't need anymore
10:50and build inside the space shuttle.
10:52I don't think you'd be allowed a nuclear plant
10:55on the edge of the Thames.
10:58And then the top part is your building.
11:01These are all metal structures that keep it held up.
11:04So we have, like, a hot air balloon on the skyline?
11:07Yeah.
11:08The base could be a box...
11:10Christina also has Paul.
11:12She's discovered the former army officer is a trainee building surveyor
11:17and wants to tap in to his expertise.
11:20Basically, you want to build as much square footage as possible
11:23and get the most amount of return to that square footage, you know?
11:26Yeah, yeah, I agree.
11:27And the most efficient shape to use to maximise the square footage
11:30is a box, boringly enough.
11:32Right. OK.
11:34But they haven't always worked well together,
11:37falling out when Christina blew the whistle on Paul's affair with Katie.
11:42It's always him and Katie and...
11:44Do you know, half of me wants us to get into the boardroom
11:47because I've nailed them.
11:48They've got a personal relationship.
11:50Are you telling me they're carrying on in the house?
11:52Yes, they are.
11:53If she sits on your lap and you're stroking each other and God knows what,
11:56that constitutes a relationship as far as I'm concerned.
11:59That's pretty big.
12:00In the back of my mind is the thought,
12:02well, she kind of fucks you over in the past
12:04and now you're working, you know, as much as you can for her.
12:06But at the end of the day, I'm a professional.
12:08I've worked with people I've disliked more than Christina
12:10and I've done a fucking good job for them in the past.
12:142pm.
12:15Convinced their boat concept can work,
12:18Simon and Trey visit the London Aquarium
12:21to immerse themselves in watery shapes.
12:25By the end of the day, it's going to be nailed.
12:27It's going to be absolutely nailed.
12:28We should do this for a living. Yeah.
12:32It attacks prey twice its size.
12:36Are they piranhas? Yeah.
12:38God, they look so friendly.
12:40You haven't seen the teeth.
12:46I just really like the way the whole thing looks
12:48in terms of the environment.
12:49It gives it such an amazingly natural kind of watery theme, doesn't it?
12:54There's so much shit in my head that I'm interested in doing.
12:57I mean, I practically want to make this thing look like it's floating on water.
13:01And I can do that.
13:02Then all I've got to do is go back to Rory, Jadine and Lohit
13:05and sell it to them,
13:06because Simon will go along with it shortly.
13:11He's a good boy.
13:13It's amazing how many species live in harmony, isn't it?
13:16Yeah.
13:17Whereas humans find the smallest difference to fight about.
13:22The rest of Simon's team is at Kew Gardens.
13:26Jadine and Lohit need a shape to stop Trey's boat idea going ahead.
13:31I think what we should try and do is look for, like, really simple shapes,
13:34like maybe close-ups of leaves, grass,
13:37any sort of shapes in terms of flowers.
13:39Definitely.
13:41Well, what if the building was shaped like a finger?
13:44I don't know, could you have somehow something pointing into the sky?
13:48Is that a little random?
13:52Wow.
13:56Design graduate Rory spots a shape he likes.
14:01People will come and see that.
14:03If what Simon's looking for is a legacy,
14:05then this really kind of follows the theme, innit?
14:07And it doesn't look like a boat!
14:09It doesn't! Well done, Rory!
14:12I'd love it if Alan Sugar suddenly turns around and says,
14:14gosh, Rory, design-wise, you've probably saved this project for Simon.
14:20And I'd love to sort of say something like,
14:22yeah, well, thanks for fucking seeing this, week 12.
14:27Wow, that's lovely.
14:296pm.
14:31By tomorrow morning, Simon and Christina's teams
14:34must have come up with concepts to take to a team of architects.
14:40Simon and Trey head back to the house,
14:43already thinking up names for their boat building.
14:47Anchor point, anchors, ship, boat,
14:50ship's anchor, riverway, south bank,
14:54shores, clippers, Britannia.
14:56So, when we put the ideas on the tables, what do you think we're here?
14:59So, here's the ideas we came up with.
15:01What will Simon and Trey say?
15:03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:05Here's a lovely boat.
15:06What about the floater?
15:11When we say organic and shapes and da-da-da, what do they say?
15:14Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's a lovely boat.
15:16Right.
15:19Back at the house, Christina calls a meeting
15:22to discuss her team's concepts.
15:24What I'd really like to see is what Naomi and Adam have done today.
15:30That was the first idea that I had.
15:33Let's have a look at that one.
15:35Now, it's a hot air balloon.
15:38Right.
15:39You're just looking at that one.
15:41So, what the idea was, if there would actually be steel
15:45that would actually hold it up,
15:47the majority of the building would be coming out again.
15:52We've got the footpaths here, but at quite a high sort of level.
15:59OK, we'll move to the next one.
16:03Adam is sort of a bit out of his depth.
16:05I'm sure that, you know, in the world that he works in,
16:08he's great at what he does,
16:09but I just don't think he cuts the mustard here intellectually.
16:12Paul, looking at the designs that we've gone through,
16:15which ones will work with the space, the type of space we've got?
16:18The best use of that space in terms of purely getting
16:21the maximum amount of usable space there
16:24is just to do an oblong building.
16:26What we should do is have something visual at the front
16:29that fronts onto the river and uses that river view
16:32and then maybe have something a bit more conventional
16:35towards the rear of it that is increasing the sort of the market.
16:38Currently, Paul's been given all the attention because he's a surveyor.
16:42The only times I've come across surveyors
16:46have been when they've come out to value the house
16:49and invariably got it completely fucking wrong.
16:52So whether he's the most qualified person for a design part of the task
16:56right now, I don't know.
16:58Upstairs in the playroom,
17:00Simon and Trey try to float their big idea to the rest of the team.
17:04Trey and I are talking about today
17:06about making sort of a boat-shape style design.
17:09More just like a nautical theme as such,
17:11to kind of fit in with the river.
17:13There's nothing, like you said, that fits in as such.
17:15And in terms of water features,
17:17you could do loads of water features as such.
17:19Dinger, you are not going to be the apprentice with that design.
17:22OK. OK?
17:24You've got to have one chance to do what the hell you like.
17:28Exactly. It doesn't matter.
17:30It doesn't matter about anything.
17:32You've just got to make something that's bloody marvellous.
17:35Really fucking spunky, really gutsy.
17:37This is something people will come and see.
17:40Rory has his own vision,
17:42inspired by the organic shapes in Kew Gardens.
17:46And it comes right up like that.
17:48It comes back up like that.
17:50And there's the final kind of...
17:52I mean, work on that sort of shape.
17:54This is London design. It is amazing, right?
17:56Which is something that people are actually going to come and see.
17:58Getting on a plane and coming and seeing.
18:00I'm sorry, that is just nothing.
18:02Guys, I'll go with a group vote.
18:04If you think this design is good and you like it,
18:06then let's run with it, certainly.
18:08I wish I'd never bothered coming.
18:10It's a complete waste of my time.
18:12I came here to help Simon.
18:14I just don't understand it.
18:16Maybe it's me that doesn't understand things properly,
18:19but it's just...
18:21I just think he's gone way, way, way off track.
18:24I would like to wind Trey up a little bit,
18:26but I don't want to get punched.
18:28So I've always had to be careful.
18:30Although I know they don't want a straight-up punch fight.
18:33He kicked my ass.
18:35But there are lots of fire extinguishers around this building.
18:38It's more complicated than being wrapped round his head.
18:41Christina has followed Paul's advice for a large oblong.
18:45But with angels on both ends.
18:48Is there an issue, do you think, with calling it the Angel?
18:52The only problem is you've got Angel in London.
18:55In London, isn't it? As in Angelism.
18:57You've got the Angel in the North.
18:59What about Phoenix? Phoenix?
19:01Oh! That's quite good.
19:03Well done.
19:05I'll tell you, that play don't incubate ideas.
19:08From the ashes of Sir Alan's old building.
19:11Indeed.
19:13It's almost got a religious quality, hasn't it?
19:15And Phoenix risen from the flames,
19:17it's kind of like Jesus coming back to life.
19:19Right, OK. That's that done.
19:23Later that evening, with the boat idea finally scrapped,
19:27Jadine takes Simon to one side.
19:30It's not their time, Simon, it's your time, yeah?
19:33It's either people are here now
19:35to prove something to the rest of the world,
19:37or prove something to Sir Alan and all that kind of bullshit.
19:40I don't think Trey's in it necessarily to prove anything.
19:43I don't know, yeah? What I do know is that you're in the final.
19:46When people get to positions like this,
19:48you can get a lot of people around you, Simon,
19:50that pretend they have your best interests at heart and they don't.
19:53Worry about what you're doing, fill your brain with it,
19:56consume yourself with it and make this your best task you've ever done.
19:59OK, all right.
20:01Thank you for your effort, you've done very well.
20:06CLOCK TICKS
20:12Day two. 48 hours before the presentation to Sir Alan.
20:17With their concepts agreed, the teams must now work with experts.
20:23Christina has split her team.
20:25Paul and Adam are at the architects,
20:27hoping to develop a computer visualisation of the Phoenix.
20:31It's 30 storeys high.
20:3330 storeys.
20:35The main body of the building extends 30 storeys
20:38and they were thinking of putting another storey on top
20:41to sort of create penthouse apartments.
20:44Have you been to Gateshead?
20:46Yeah, the Angel of the North.
20:48Yeah, I've been and seen that.
20:50People were originally saying sort of Angel,
20:52but then we sort of went for Phoenix.
20:54The idea is, you know, we're regenerating the area.
20:57Regeneration is the big thing with the Phoenix.
20:59And we're next door to a theatre,
21:01so it's not like somebody's taking a bow at the end of the floor.
21:04It just seems very odd to put these things on the end.
21:07It really looked like the Angel of the North to me.
21:09And it's very formalistic in a way.
21:12Imagine some of those, like, Mussolini-type buildings,
21:16you know, in the sort of neo-fascist buildings,
21:19had that sort of, you know, the big eagle.
21:22Think of the Nazi eagle.
21:24It just has that, I think it has the wrong connotations as an image.
21:27You design something that's going to outlive all of us, yeah?
21:30It's not so much about money.
21:32It's more about, is it something that I'm going to be really proud of
21:35to show my kids? Yeah.
21:37And to say, I did that, would be fantastic. So think about that.
21:40So it's back to the drawing board for Adam and Paul.
21:43..casting a shadow down.
21:44I mean, you could use different colours, different lighting.
21:47So the larger one here is casting a shadow down to the front.
21:55Still at the house, with his team divided,
21:58Paul calls an emergency meeting.
22:02Yesterday was a fucking shambles,
22:04and I'm not going to put up with it any longer.
22:07There's no incentive for people to work as hard as they could.
22:11There is an incentive for me, cos it's my fucking job on the line, OK?
22:15And that's why I expect people to pull their weight
22:18and to not be negative and make catty remarks
22:20or sit there with sour faces going,
22:22like fucking children.
22:24If we win this task,
22:26I'm going to send everyone to Barcelona for the weekend, at my expense.
22:30That's how much I want to win this.
22:32So I don't want any more fucking about.
22:35To say to me, I'm going to take you on a holiday
22:37with Rory, Jadine and Loic,
22:39is like telling me I'm going to stab you in the eye
22:41with a rusted screwdriver.
22:43So as far as incentives go, I've kind of blocked that out of my brain now.
22:47My real incentive is just making him win.
22:5111am.
22:53Loic has sent Rory's drawings to the architect, without Rory.
22:57Is this one doable, in terms of this was three different buildings,
23:00one, two and three, so are you making the full use of the length?
23:03Very good question.
23:05I think it would be a good way to go.
23:08When we saw these amazing drawings,
23:10it was very disappointing for the four of us next door
23:14to not have the person that created those drawings with us,
23:18because I think that we would have progressed the scheme
23:21a lot more rapidly if he'd been around.
23:25I don't like being a complete fucking snob all the time,
23:29but actually, this guy, Trey, is fucking self-taught.
23:34He's self-help.
23:36There's nothing there that's disciplined from a design point of view.
23:40He can just chat shit for England about how he's this, that and the rest of it.
23:45Bottom line, he hasn't got a grounding in design.
23:48My relationship with Trey has always been closely scrutinised.
23:51A lot of people have had different opinions about it,
23:54whether we're too close, whether I take too much of a lead from him,
23:57whether he controls me.
23:59But I think with somebody like Trey,
24:01you have to let him feel that he's in control.
24:03He wants to be top dog. He wants to feel like he's top dog.
24:06But it's important for me to remember that I'm the human with the lead.
24:10Can you help?
24:14Over the next few hours, the teams and the architects
24:17get down to producing computer simulations of the buildings.
24:22Raise one wing so it collects more of the sun and lure the other.
24:27While the finalists search out what sells at the top end of the property market.
24:32Would you go for more residential within that, or would you go 50-50?
24:3560-40, 70-30, residential office.
24:39At their presentations, Simon and Christina will have to convince Sir Alan
24:44that their buildings can make a profit.
24:47I've realised £1,000 per square foot,
24:49that means we're selling it for half a million.
24:51That means we're making 400 grand profit.
24:53A deal, I'm done. Easy money!
24:56To maximise income, Christina's keen to get her percentages right.
25:01Let me just tell you what I've been told, OK,
25:03and this will give you an idea, right? Yeah.
25:05We're going to be going about...
25:07Right, 70% residential.
25:0970% residential.
25:1130% officers.
25:14At the moment, the residential area is 40%
25:17and the retail area is about...actually, wrong.
25:22You've got residential down as what, 40%?
25:25Officers are about 50% of the total area of the building.
25:28Right, it does need to be changed around.
25:30Christina, the way the building's designed,
25:33it's not exactly like it was this morning.
25:37I've been...
25:40The floor goes all the way across.
25:43Just stop, stop, stop, darling. Darling, stop for a second.
25:46No, Christina, you're not listening to me.
25:48What I'm saying is it's almost two buildings.
25:50Adam, Adam, Adam, can you just put Paul on for a second?
25:52I need to speak to him about something.
25:54OK, what we'll do is we'll shift it back to one...
25:57We'll change it to one retail floor
25:59and we'll change it to 60-40 residential offices.
26:02Are you saying that you've got problems
26:04in terms of you being able to do this in the time frame that we've got
26:07and that's why you're not doing 70-30?
26:09Or are you just saying that you'd prefer not to do 70-30?
26:12It's OK, mate, we'll just move the boundary, it's not a problem.
26:15Unsure what her building now looks like,
26:18Christina rushes back to have a look.
26:21New building.
26:23Oh, wow!
26:26OK, so we've raised one of the wings
26:28just to sort of give it more of a flowing feel.
26:31And also I think it improves the look of the building as well.
26:34But when he said we need to increase the amount of accommodation,
26:37we needed to increase the frontage on the river.
26:40We've done that by creating these sort of secondary echoes
26:43on the front of the building.
26:45Do I trust Paul? Probably not.
26:48But can I manage Paul? Probably yes.
26:51And I think that in a task like this that is business-orientated,
26:56then as long as I manage him well and as long as I keep an eye on him,
27:01then, you know, I can deal with the trust element of it.
27:05OK, tell me where my 70-30 comes from.
27:08OK, this volume here... Is 70%?
27:1164%. Is about 64%.
27:14Right, so what I said to you on the phone, you can't carry through, OK?
27:18Cos you didn't say that on the phone, did you,
27:20when I explained it to you in terms of the brief?
27:23But I'm not going to go down, you know, I'm not going to pipe on about that,
27:27but this is not changeable, is it?
27:29I would say this is too late in the day to change.
27:32This is the best solution. This is the best solution.
27:389pm. Simon calls a meeting to discuss presentation.
27:44Rory wants to sell the concept to Sir Alan with dancing showgirls.
27:49It is an evening that these guys have come out for, you know,
27:52and if there is a certain amount of entertainment,
27:54that is also relevant to it, and then why not?
27:57If we've just had no dancers and just a sculpture, come on, snore.
28:01The presentation is all great and well, but we have to remember
28:04the main thing that we have to wow the people with is the building.
28:07If the lighting in the room is too dark and seedy and party-ish
28:11and people don't get to enjoy the pictures, then we're screwed.
28:14Honestly, if you came up with that idea, most people would run for the hills.
28:18Architects would go, what are you like?
28:20Accountants would just fry up, their heads would fall off.
28:24This is really brave from potentially a very, very brave man.
28:28We've always had a great interest in women, full stop,
28:31and actually, I mean, they are pretty bloody awesome things.
28:34And then suddenly it says we could have dancing girls,
28:37that was like a cat got milk.
28:40But obviously I've got to tone that down, be careful that it's not some sex show.
28:44It's a very, very big development, it's going to be a huge, huge budget,
28:48and why not go for something that's going to potentially blow the socks off?
28:52If it works, it'll work really, really well.
28:54If it doesn't, I'll look like a pillock.
28:57LAUGHTER
29:14Next morning, Rory's up early to choreograph the dance.
29:18He plans to theme it on the building's name, The Wave.
29:22Are you choreographing the dance? Yeah.
29:24Do you know anything about dance? Yeah, fine, trust me.
29:27Are you an ex-ballet dancer? Er, no.
29:29Are you a gymnast? Er, no.
29:31Can you dance? I've got an imagination trait.
29:34Anyway, so look, the first part is the girls with their things,
29:37with these dress things, OK, and they're doing this sort of...
29:40They've got these, um...
29:42You know, sort of...
29:44Anyway, these dresses go up and it starts very, very gently.
29:47Are they just flowing straight down or are they coming out?
29:50I'm about to tell you.
29:51The bottom of the dress is actually attached to their hands.
29:54Right, OK. So what they have is a sort of thing where they move around.
29:58So it starts very, very calmly.
30:00If you listen to the music as well, it does...
30:02I love the music. Yeah.
30:03And then it gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
30:05Now, once these people start doing this big thing here,
30:08behind, you start seeing this effect going on.
30:11Right. So...
30:12So the girls behind don't have their hands tied to their dresses?
30:15We need to see what they... Cos I think...
30:17Cos you don't want them to have their hands tied to their dresses
30:19and not rotate ribbons at the same time,
30:21cos I'm sure some of the guests would appreciate it,
30:23but most probably won't.
30:24There's no way I'm leaving this whole section to Rory.
30:27I cannot risk that whatsoever,
30:29especially with his circular motion that he wants to do.
30:33Oh! It's awful.
30:40After breakfast, Trey, Lohit, Rory and Jadine
30:43head off to buy props for the dancers.
30:46These sticks, right, how are they capped off?
30:49They're just like canes. They're very heavy.
30:51So they're just flat, straight all the way down, right?
30:53Do you know how silk works? They're wooden.
30:55She's going to swing it.
30:56The silk's going to go flying off with the pin.
30:58So how the fuck are you going to keep the silk on the stick?
31:00The stick is like that. OK.
31:02And you've got... It's quite thick and it's wooden.
31:04Yep, yep, that's fine. All the way down.
31:06What you're doing is simply taking the end of the material,
31:08wrapping it around once, pin, pin, pin, pin.
31:11And that's not going to slip?
31:12It's not going to slide off when she swings it?
31:14No, because it's sticking straight in through the silk into the pole.
31:17Why are you all suddenly so interested in this suddenly?
31:19Because we don't trust you to do it.
31:21Is that the fucking honest truth, yeah?
31:23It's because you're not doing it right.
31:25Rory, we are a team. When no-one's working against you,
31:27we are trying to work with you.
31:28What we are trying to make you understand
31:30is that we don't have the time.
31:31How was this morning working with you?
31:33If you stop having your fucking hissy fits
31:34and acting like a big, silly little bitch...
31:36Hissy fit? You're a fucking pro!
31:38He's a moron.
31:40You're a complete moron.
31:42Fucking nuts.
31:46Driving me mad, they don't seem to trust me at all.
31:49I've been fanning around for seven years, setting stuff up.
31:53We're asking for silk.
31:55This is about the simplest task we've been asked to do
31:57and they all want to get in charge.
32:01Tomorrow, each team will have a room to display plans and models.
32:06Christina calls her team together
32:08to discuss how to present her building.
32:12You know, we're not going down the tacky route whatsoever.
32:15Whatever you get from them, it's got to...
32:18It's going to enhance the surroundings,
32:20not bring us down a level, OK?
32:22Try and keep it as clean and as tidy
32:24and as kind of smart-looking as possible,
32:27because we don't want a jungle-esque effect,
32:30if you know what I mean.
32:31No leopard skin, my darling.
32:34It's not pantomime, it's class.
32:37OK, you guys, you happy with what you're doing?
32:39Yeah. OK, good luck.
32:41See you, guys.
32:42Thank you very much. Bye.
32:45Christina sent Natalie and Adam off to get props for their presentation
32:48and their room, their theme room.
32:50A dangerous choice, I would have thought.
32:52Lord knows what they'll bring back.
32:54We just need to keep it really classy.
32:56Yeah, exactly.
32:57And not go overboard and get loads of stuff.
32:59Yeah.
33:04The teams have the rest of the day to prepare for the presentations.
33:08They have a big box in them and they have a roaring flame up to about here.
33:12Finalise their buildings.
33:16That just says wave to you.
33:17Yeah, well, it does if you look at the cross-section
33:20rather than the three-dimensional angle to it.
33:22I think from above it'll look a lot better.
33:25And make the figures add up.
33:28Just lost 53.5 million pounds there.
33:31I think you were very sanguine about the whole thing.
33:33Thanks. No problem.
33:35Cos I saw the big polystyrene polar bear when I was here.
33:38I didn't know whether we could do something, you know,
33:40in the shape of a phoenix design.
33:42No, I don't like it. It's too 1930s Germany again.
33:46Is it? Yeah, I don't like it.
33:48Wow, that is...
33:49Do you know, we were told to give the wow factor
33:51and that does give the wow factor.
33:54Actually, that building looks quite good.
33:58It's bold. No-one can say that it's not bold.
34:00No, no-one could accuse you of being timid.
34:02Yeah.
34:03Absolutely.
34:14The morning of the presentation.
34:17At six this evening, Simon and Christina must present
34:20their building designs to Sir Alan Sugar and 100 property experts.
34:26At Old Biddingsgate Market,
34:28Natalie and Adam put the finishing touches to Christina's exhibit room.
34:35Happy? Hmm, we are then. It's good.
34:45Hey! You like?
34:47What do you think?
34:49I'm not sure about them.
34:51About the backdrop on the back?
34:53Yeah, there's just something not going on there for me.
34:56What, the skyscraper? Yeah.
34:58Oh, I really like that. Oh, dear.
35:00I just don't see what... What they're achieving?
35:03Yeah, what is it that that's achieving?
35:05I felt like as if I'd arrived in a brothel or something like that
35:08and, you know, some can-can girls were going to jump out
35:10from behind the buildings or something,
35:12but it was just bulky, it's...
35:14It's... It's cheap.
35:17It's cheap.
35:19It's... It's cheap-looking.
35:22You know, there's nothing cheap about this building
35:24and that's why I didn't want, you know, these kind of silly props.
35:28I think... I think the decision is they go.
35:30Take them down. They go. Come on, let's take them down.
35:35To be quite honest, I'm not feeling much like I've been motivated
35:39to help her win a £100,000-a-year job.
35:42Right now, I couldn't give a toss if she wins or Simon wins,
35:45to be quite honest.
35:48On Simon's team, Rory's dancers have arrived.
35:52But don't try to choreograph it and direct it as such.
35:55Just give them an idea and an inspiration and a kind of direction.
36:00Is it getting motion now?
36:04Hmm.
36:06OK, that's what we'll do. And it gets faster and faster and faster.
36:09The music's getting wilder and wilder and wilder.
36:11Fix this fucking dance, please.
36:14What's happening? It was quite nice outside.
36:16He's trying to get them to do all sorts of funny shit with this stuff,
36:19and it's not looking right.
36:21Give them creative rein. They're dancers.
36:23Just tell them what you're looking for and let them do it.
36:25He really wants it to be a certain way,
36:27but you've got to let them do what they're naturally good at.
36:30Otherwise, you might as well just have hired monkeys off the street
36:32to swing these things around.
36:34Girls at the front are going, absolutely, and then suddenly,
36:36you know, there's the big boom.
36:39MUSIC CONTINUES
36:466pm.
36:48As 100 hard-nosed property people arrive at Old Billingsgate,
36:52it's almost time for the finalists
36:54to take the wraps off 72 hours of non-stop creativity.
37:03At stake, just one job.
37:09Sir Alan is about to find out who has delivered and who has not.
37:21Good luck, everyone. Bye.
37:23And let's knock them dead.
37:25Knock them fucking dead!
37:31Ladies and gentlemen,
37:33it's now my great pleasure to introduce
37:35the first presentation of the evening.
37:37So, please, a round of applause.
37:39APPLAUSE
37:46MUSIC PLAYS
38:07APPLAUSE
38:31Sir Alan, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
38:35I said good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
38:38Good evening.
38:40We welcome you tonight to the presentation of The Wave.
38:46A radical new design.
38:49A major development to propel London to a new era.
38:55Transforming the skyline forever.
38:58Incorporating state-of-the-art office facilities.
39:03A luxury boutique hotel.
39:06Premium residential living over fifth floors
39:11with fantastic panoramic views.
39:15Giving to the South Bank
39:17an iconic and inspiring new concept.
39:22Welcome to Wave.
39:28MUSIC PLAYS
39:32Let's make no bones about it.
39:34This is a big project.
39:37We are looking to radically change, alter, add to,
39:41improve the London skyline forever.
39:45We have estimated the total cost of the project
39:48to be £730 million.
39:51Our mid-range scenario is what we think is most likely to happen,
39:55which is a 40% return.
39:58It will become a major attraction
40:00to all of London's residents and visitors alike
40:04who will come to marvel and wonder
40:06at the sheer magnificence, scale and beauty of The Wave.
40:11And we hope you will too.
40:13I'd like to open the floor to questions.
40:15APPLAUSE
40:18How many icons do you think central London can accommodate?
40:23Well, as many as is possible, perhaps.
40:27I think we've got some in the city.
40:29The question is, do we have any in the South Bank?
40:31Can you single out any constructions
40:33on the southern side of the river that you'd describe as iconic?
40:36London Eye?
40:37London Eye?
40:38No, apart from London Eye, I've said that already.
40:40LAUGHTER
40:42APPLAUSE
40:45As a hotelier, can I just ask,
40:47are you satisfied you can get 100 bedrooms
40:49out of 64,000 square feet because it seems a little tight?
40:53It's a very good question, and it's going to be tight, absolutely.
40:57And we're going to have to take the Ian Schrager approach
41:00of giving people small boxes to sleep in
41:02but with flashy lights and gizmos and stuff.
41:05But let's make no bones about it, this is a fantastic location.
41:08It's a great, signature, iconic development.
41:11It's a great, signature, iconic development.
41:13And people are going to want to pay for that, I believe.
41:15I believe they will.
41:17APPLAUSE
41:22Well done. Well done.
41:24Well done. You did very well, Simon.
41:27Thank you. Congratulations.
41:29If you said to me, look, there's another day, Christina,
41:31have another day, it's your choice, you can go up there on that podium
41:34and you can go and do it now or you can do it in 24 hours' time
41:37when you've had a bit more thought,
41:39it would kill me to have another 24 hours because I'm ready,
41:42and it's as ready as it ever will be.
41:49Ladies and gentlemen, the second presentation.
41:53APPLAUSE
41:55APPLAUSE
42:08Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Phoenix,
42:13a truly inspirational building that makes business sense.
42:18This building brings regeneration to the South Bank area,
42:22bringing new services, stunning residential dwellings
42:26and office buildings, and unbelievable commercial opportunities.
42:31We decided on this basis that we would commit 64% of this building
42:36to residential.
42:38We then committed the other 36% to office space.
42:42The return in this current environment is excellent.
42:46But also, the opportunity that we are giving you today
42:50to be part of something like this,
42:52a building that makes such an impression,
42:55that moulds the city of London's future,
42:58whilst offering real high quality, both in finish and design.
43:03Now I would like you to look at the video and see how it will look today.
43:08Thank you very much.
43:11Soaring 180 metres above the River Thames,
43:14the Phoenix combines iconic architecture with dramatic views,
43:18providing a deluxe living and working environment.
43:21The Phoenix rises like the mythical bird from the thriving South Bank,
43:25ideally located for the city and West End.
43:28507 luxury river view apartments,
43:32375,000 square feet of inspirational and flexible office space.
43:37The Phoenix has truly risen.
43:40APPLAUSE
43:45Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
43:47It's now over to you for questions.
43:49Hello. The return you mentioned, is that per annum?
43:54Is that over a four or five year period?
43:56How is it equated?
43:58It's based on 20 years.
44:05LAUGHTER
44:06Short and sweet.
44:08What consideration have you given to the likely tenant profile
44:12in the office building?
44:14We're thinking a lot of legal, media, cultural,
44:18that's the kind of advertising as well,
44:20that's the kind of industries that are in an area like this.
44:23Did your due diligence tell you
44:25that those businesses were already located in that area,
44:28or are you speculating on that?
44:30I think that we looked at the areas surrounding that area as well as within,
44:34although there isn't a huge amount of office space committed to that area
44:37at the moment, and that was the feedback that we got
44:39from the types of people that would be interested in this building.
44:42Well done.
44:43Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen.
44:46APPLAUSE
44:51They're in front of a group of people that spend their lives doing this,
44:54are trained to do this, are experienced in doing this,
44:57and were able to speak with real clarity, conviction and eloquence
45:02on a very, very complex subject,
45:04so I thought they did really, really well. Really impressed.
45:07So if you win this task, we're off to Barcelona.
45:10Rome.
45:11Italy. New York.
45:12Fuck it. Yeah, New York's better. Exchange rate.
45:14We're going to New York. Fuck it. We're going to New York.
45:17I think as an architect, we have seven years' training
45:20and 20 or 30 years' experience to get to designing a tower in London.
45:24What's amazing is these two guys, these two teams,
45:27have actually done in five days this incredible presentation.
45:31I think it's exhilarating to sort of see it.
45:34Cheers to Christina. Well done, Christina.
45:36Cheers.
45:37You've done a good job, and regardless of this task,
45:40everything I saw before I left means you should be the next apprentice,
45:43and here's to that.
45:44Here's to that.
45:46And if not, you've got a glorious future in property development.
45:51LAUGHTER
46:0612 weeks ago, 16 candidates entered this house.
46:13Today, the final two are leaving for the last time.
46:20I wouldn't have done a thing different.
46:22I think we did a flap from the presentation.
46:24I think that we handled ourself really, really well.
46:27Nothing had to change at all.
46:30I think my strategy has rewarded me no end during the whole process.
46:35I mean, I've been happy to play the fool and to be the joker
46:38and the village idiot, but beneath the surface of the idiot,
46:42you know, is someone quite smart.
46:45At the boardroom, Simon and Christina,
46:49joined by the teams they chose to help them, wait.
46:54At the boardroom, Simon and Christina,
46:58joined by the teams they chose to help them, wait.
47:02At the boardroom, Simon and Christina,
47:05joined by the teams they chose to help them, wait.
47:22PHONE RINGS
47:24Hello?
47:25Yeah, Frances, can you send the people in, please? Thank you.
47:28Yes, sir, I'll do it.
47:32Soran's ready for you now.
47:53Well, a very interesting event last night.
47:58First of all, I think I'd like to hear
48:01how you felt the team leaders got on.
48:05How about Christina?
48:07Paul, you've had clashes with Christina in the past?
48:12I think Christina's management style is quite delegatory.
48:15She split up the tasks into different chunks
48:17and then gave it to people who she felt were best equipped
48:20to do those chunks and gave them ownership
48:22of that particular bit of the task.
48:24So I think that was a very good thing to do.
48:26Bit of a blessing in disguise, wasn't it, Paul?
48:29Oh, I mean, I had a bit of luck there, I think, definitely.
48:32Great luck. Yeah, yeah.
48:34Adam, what have you got to say?
48:37There were times when me and Natalie found ourselves
48:39a little bit sort of out of sorts
48:41with some bits and pieces that we were doing,
48:43but overall, the whole thing came together.
48:45Out of sorts? What do you mean by out of sorts?
48:47In any project that you manage, you've got to utilise
48:49the members of the team that have got the most experience.
48:51We just didn't need any distraction,
48:53we just wanted to get on with the job in hand and get it done.
48:56Rory. Yes.
48:58Glad to be back in the fold?
49:00Yes, sir, I'm very, very pleased to be back.
49:02Trying to convince you that I wasn't a complete disaster.
49:07How did you do that, then, with the dancing girls?
49:10I gave you some very exciting shape to start with.
49:13Simon, I think it's fair enough for me to say
49:16that it's the type of thing that people are either going to love it
49:22or they're going to hate it.
49:24You told us to come up with something that would become a legacy.
49:27We've come up with something that there's nothing else in the world like it.
49:30No, certainly nothing else like it.
49:32I mean, yeah, I agree.
49:34That don't make it good, though, does it?
49:36How was Jan with your team leader?
49:39He did a very much better job at dealing with Trey than I ever did,
49:43so I think well done to him.
49:45And Trey, how about your mate Simon here?
49:48Good team leader?
49:50No, he was very good.
49:51He looks for people's strengths and their weaknesses
49:53and he gives you your task and then gives you the autonomy to get on with it.
49:56Would you have been so complimentary
49:57if you hadn't been offered a trip to Barcelona?
49:59What?
50:01Where are you going?
50:03I said to the guys if we were to win this task,
50:05I'd take them all away for a weekend.
50:07Why did you do that?
50:08To replace the...
50:09Bribery and corruption.
50:10No.
50:11Did you not...
50:12Incentivisation.
50:13In all fairness, Simon, you picked us on merit
50:15and that's why, you know, we would work hard for you.
50:18You don't need to, you know, bribe us or put sweets on the table.
50:21Well, as far as the past candidates are concerned,
50:27I just want to thank you for coming back
50:29and assisting your colleagues here.
50:49Would you two kindly step outside at the moment?
50:52I'm going to have a chat with Nick and Margaret
50:54and then I'm going to bring you back in
50:56and then one of you is going to get hired.
51:08Both very, very impliable.
51:10Both very different.
51:11Both different.
51:12Both very different.
51:14Both very, very impliable.
51:16Both very different.
51:17Both different.
51:18My feeling is I think Simon can see over the horizon
51:22and I don't think Christina can.
51:25I think she will slog all day long for you.
51:28Will Simon? I'm not sure. I think he'll get distracted.
51:31He needs a bigger stage than her
51:34and if you can provide one at his young age,
51:37I think he could prove to be a great success to you.
51:41Well, I'm wondering if when he's seeing over the horizon
51:44he's actually going to be paying attention
51:46to where he's going at the time.
51:48Christina's more focused, Simon's got more ideas.
51:51Christina's more mature than Simon.
51:54You could leave her alone more to get on with something.
51:57He would need more direction.
52:03Thanks for that
52:06and thanks for the 12 weeks once again.
52:10You've been an exceptional help.
52:12It's down to me now. It's the last two.
52:15Thanks a lot for everything.
52:17Thanks, bye.
52:19PHONE RINGS
52:21Hello?
52:23OK, could you send the two of them in, please?
52:27Sir Alan will see you now.
52:35PHONE RINGS
52:37MUSIC PLAYS
53:00Well, it's...
53:02That time is a very, very difficult time for me.
53:07You both are very, very employable.
53:10You both have different skills
53:13and it's just a very, very tough decision that I've got to make.
53:18Christina, why should I hire you?
53:21I think, Sir Alan, I lead from the front.
53:24I lead by example.
53:26I've got great leadership skills.
53:28I've got great business acumen.
53:30I'm focused, I'm determined.
53:32I so want this as well, which I think is so important in it.
53:36I'm a good decision-maker and you take me into your organisation
53:40and, you know, I'll only just take it forward, that's all.
53:43And you will not have to hold my hand or point me in the right direction.
53:47I've got the business acumen, I've got the sense,
53:50I've got the drive, I've got the skills.
53:52You don't need to manage me.
53:54I will just work with whatever you give me and I will bring in the money.
54:01Simon?
54:03I've never attested to be the finished article
54:06and I'm not the finished article.
54:08I've still got a lot to learn and I appreciate that.
54:10I'm prepared to work as hard as you want me to work.
54:12I will work all day and all night long.
54:14I've got an iron backbone that says passion, self-belief,
54:18self-determination, force of will and enthusiasm.
54:20And I will do whatever you tell me to do
54:22and I will take it on to the next level.
54:24And I will work my cotton socks off for you.
54:26I've proved myself financially, I've proved myself I can deal with people,
54:29I can give speeches, I can motivate people.
54:31I will work my cotton socks off.
54:33If you give me something to do, I will go out there and I'll do it
54:35and I'll bring you back twice as much.
54:45It's a tough decision.
54:49There's...
54:51There's only one job.
54:56I've got someone who's very experienced.
54:59I've got someone who's enthusiastic,
55:02a great talker,
55:04willing to learn.
55:06And then there's me.
55:08Do I need...
55:11..to be the headmaster again?
55:15Simon, you're not a good leader of people
55:19and that's something that you will need to work on.
55:23And yet, you suddenly surprised me
55:26with, you know, very, very good, innovative ideas,
55:31very well-thought-out presentations.
55:38Christina, you're a thinker.
55:40I don't think you rush into anything.
55:43You push hard to clinch a deal, which is what I like.
55:46You're a great salesperson.
55:48You've brought your child up under difficult circumstances.
55:51He's gone off to school.
55:53It's Christina time now, as we've discussed before.
55:56Simon, there's something also inside me,
56:00some devil inside me that says,
56:02I wouldn't like to let you go either.
56:08It's time for me to make a decision and...
56:24Simon...
56:26..do you know what?
56:28A bloody old fool as I am, I'm going to take that risk.
56:31Simon...
56:33..you're hired. Yes!
56:35Thank you so much.
56:51I feel absolutely ecstatic, over the moon, to have won.
56:54I mean, I just can't believe I've come this far, really.
56:57It's been an absolute marathon rather than a sprint.
57:00To have won, I just... I'm lost for words.
57:03I really can't describe how I feel right now.
57:05It's amazing. It's just the most wonderful feeling.
57:10For me, this is a dream come true in a lot of ways.
57:13I mean, I've been aware of Sir Alan since I was about five years old
57:17and my dad bought me a computer,
57:19an Amsterdam computer that I learnt to programme on.
57:22And having won The Apprentice is almost like the wheel coming around full circle.
57:2716 candidates, one job.
57:30Sir Alan's search for his apprentice is over.
57:35Sir Alan's search for his apprentice is over.