The Apprentice UK S06E11 (2010)
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00:00From the moment they arrived, each of the candidates was convinced their talents were
00:18unique.
00:20There's absolutely nothing mediocre about me.
00:23I'm supremely intelligent, ambitious, I'm an all-round gifted individual.
00:28I left school at 15 with no qualifications. I now work for a top-notch investment bank.
00:33I got there through her all-talent.
00:35I don't think that anyone in this process has had to struggle to get to this point the
00:39way that I've had to struggle, and that is why I will see off the competition.
00:44I'm a born leader. I started my own company four years ago, and every second of every
00:48day I had to lead from the front.
00:51To be a success, you've got to work your nuts off. I've done that, and I've got the results
00:56to prove it.
00:58People will underestimate me. I might not have the qualifications, but I've built up
01:02a very successful business.
01:05Everything I've got, I've earned myself. Nothing's ever been handed to me on a plate.
01:12People aspire to have a flash sports car, maybe a house in the country. I've got all
01:16that already. Where's my glass ceiling? I don't have one.
01:19I am Stuart Baggs the brand. I'm confident, I'm unique, and I'm successful.
01:28But Lord Sugar has pushed them harder and further than they ever thought possible.
01:40Despite being in the losing team six times, Chris has shown clear leadership.
01:45I think, to be honest, compared to the other final five candidates, I think they all, in
01:49their individual ways, have kind of exaggerated skills in one set or another. I think I'm
01:53more of a complete package, and I equally think that I could learn a hell of a lot,
01:57and I don't see anyone you can learn from better than him. So, for me, I think it's
02:02a mutually beneficial relationship for both him and me.
02:06In the final three just once, outspoken Joanna, but her fiery nature has rankled with the
02:11boss.
02:12I think that Lord Sugar thinks I'm a bit of a sledgehammer, but I'm sure he appreciates
02:17that I get the job done, and I have done well throughout this process. I'm confident that
02:23I have been the backbone of all of these tasks and the reasons for winning them.
02:27Smooth-talking salesman Jamie has been on the winning team an impressive six times.
02:33I need this job, and I want this job. I got a company to 15 members of staff, and we did
02:38very, very well. But I now need to learn how to get a company to 1,500 staff and to turn
02:44it from millions to billions, and Lord Sugar is an excellent chooser for that.
02:50Stuart, three times in the firing line but blessed with the gift of the gab, has talked
02:55himself into the final five.
02:57I think Lord Sugar thinks I'm a bit of a joker. I don't think he really realises how serious
03:01I am, but at the same token, he's had three opportunities to fire me so far, and, you
03:07know, he hasn't. He did say that he saw a little bit of himself in me, and that can
03:12only be a compliment when he's as successful as he is.
03:15With seven wins out of ten, Stella's propelled herself into the final five through her professional
03:21personality.
03:22It's no coincidence that I've been on the winning team seven times. You know, it's my
03:27record speaks for itself. I'm a strong candidate. I knew that I would always be on the winning
03:32team because I contributed massively to what was going on. Luck is not part of this process.
03:44Stella speaking. I've been working in banking for the last 13 years.
03:50At 30 years old, Stella English is cool, calm and collected.
03:55You can't stop Stella from planning. She plans and plans meticulously.
03:58I'm happy to step up to that, and let's just get crack on with it.
04:03I'm sure she'll take one for the team, to be honest.
04:07I will do things that perhaps I would prefer not to in order to win.
04:12This is what you want in a project leader, isn't it, Stella?
04:16Look how excited he is. He loves that.
04:18Excellent. Let's move on.
04:20We're not going to shift this. It's just not happening.
04:24I'm not getting any buy-in from you lot, am I?
04:27We're in a competition and we're in the boardroom. We're in the final three, so we're going to
04:30disagree with each other.
04:33We need to get selling. Sod this. Let's get a move on.
04:39That was a real look of satisfaction.
04:41That's good.
04:43Stella's greatest strength is her ability to be a cool cucumber.
04:47She is very calm amidst a very fiery storm.
04:51Day one, the first task, and Stella was the one to watch.
04:55Our outlay for lamb is about 140 quid.
04:57Yeah. Well, yeah.
04:59Regardless of how many sausages they've made.
05:01In the sausage task, it was really important to have someone like Stella on the team
05:05that was good with numbers. She's really focused, you know.
05:08If you want a job to be done, Stella will get the job done.
05:11She was definitely one of the main reasons why we won the task.
05:14We need the maximum amount of units that we can possibly get, yeah?
05:18I actually find, you know, being labelled as the queen of the calculator amusing.
05:23I'm sure that that will create a lot of laughter throughout the city
05:27because I do love a calculator, it has to be said.
05:30Although the only danger of it is that people think that that's all I can do.
05:34You know, I'm not an accountant, and I would say that of all my strengths,
05:38that's not my strongest.
05:41The next week, she was sent in to sort out the boys.
05:47Everyone's confidence was a bit dented after the first task,
05:50and I think a lot of people actually had maybe misjudged the ability we had within our team.
05:54I remember Stuart in particular seeming desperate for Stella to be manager
05:58because in some way we were all rubbish because we'd lost one task.
06:01What I want to do is organise you all and get everyone gelled together.
06:05You know, we're going to win this thing.
06:08But to be fair, she came in, I think she was what was needed in some way.
06:11She was quite hard on the discipline side.
06:13If there's any disagreements, you know, I'm just not going to put up with that.
06:16I think that's probably what we needed.
06:18We need to nail this pitch.
06:20Instinctively, I'm a bit concerned about your delivery.
06:24In my heart, I feel that I want Jamie to do it.
06:27Stella's management style was tempered, in a way,
06:31by her career in a Japanese investment bank.
06:35A Japanese investment bank.
06:37Very controlled, very efficient, very quiet, very correct.
06:41Very smart.
06:43I think it's a bit unfair, just purely because...
06:45Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm doing this. I want us to win.
06:48If I've got a concern, I've got to air it.
06:50I think the fact that the boys accepted my leadership,
06:53got on with it, put all their silliness to one side and focused on the task,
06:58shows that I'm a strong candidate and that I've got excellent leadership qualities.
07:03Good team leader? Excellent.
07:05Good. There you are.
07:07They followed, they knew that we'd win, and we did.
07:10Well, well done, Synergy.
07:12There you are, women power. You see that, Karen?
07:14I've been telling you it for years.
07:16I know.
07:18Stella was raised in one of the world's largest housing estates,
07:23Thamesmead in London.
07:26My childhood was quite a painful one.
07:29I had problems coping with things in general.
07:32So, yeah, it was quite a lonely, hard time for me.
07:36On the brink of being put into a children's home,
07:39Stella was rescued by her great-aunt.
07:42Stella's upbringing was very...
07:44She had a very tough time because her mother, she wasn't a homemaker,
07:49she wasn't...
07:52What she was, she was unable to look after her.
07:55Simple as that.
07:58Stella was able to do more or less as she wished.
08:01She didn't know right from wrong,
08:03and she was getting to be a wild child, a proper street child.
08:10When I first saw Stella, I wondered what I'd taken on.
08:14She was very thin and very waif-like,
08:18and her hair was almost white, very thin, straggly.
08:22She was very scared.
08:24It must have been a big upheaval for her, really.
08:28But she took it all in her stride. She was very good.
08:33What I offered Stella, what she hadn't had before,
08:36was a stable background, family life.
08:40You know, being there for her, really, and giving her advice.
08:44I don't think she ever took it, but I gave it to her anyway.
08:51My inspiration has always been my great-aunt Stella.
08:54It's very hard to impress her,
08:56and even at times when I thought I'd done something that was really amazing,
08:59she'd be like, well, you know, you can do a lot better than that.
09:02And so that's the sort of stance that I've taken with myself,
09:06and I think that it's not good enough just to do a bit better.
09:09You've got to do something spectacular.
09:11And, you know, she believes that you can achieve anything,
09:14and she's made me believe that.
09:19Leaving school at 15 with no qualifications,
09:23Stella forced her way into the highly competitive world of investment banking.
09:29Investment banking is not a natural fit for Stella.
09:32But in the way that Stella is,
09:34she can turn her hand to anything and be a success at it.
09:38She's very organised, she's very focused and very committed.
09:43Once she has an idea, don't get in her way. That is for sure.
09:47While Stella builds a career in the city,
09:49her partner Ray looks after their two boys.
09:52Ray doesn't like to be called a house husband, he hates that,
09:55but a few of his friends have started calling him Mummy recently.
09:58Poor Ray.
10:00I think that if it wasn't for Ray,
10:02obviously it would be much more difficult,
10:04but we find a way around it.
10:06The minute that I come home,
10:08everything I do is just for them,
10:10playing with them, doing their dinners and bathing them,
10:13and, you know, myself and Ray do everything together,
10:16and we tackle it.
10:19I've got a fantastic life, so I'd never really grumble about it.
10:23It's important to me to have a strong family
10:25and have a successful job
10:27because that's something that just keeps me really motivated.
10:31In ten tasks, Stella's helped deliver seven wins.
10:35Very, very good.
10:38I'm somebody that will always do brilliantly in whatever I do.
10:42I'm a winner.
10:43I will always pass everything,
10:45I'll always do better than everyone else.
10:48I'm very competitive.
10:49It sounds really arrogant, but it's just the way I am
10:52and it's what's got me through my whole life.
10:55But in week nine, on the buying task,
10:58Stella's winning touch vanished when she failed to negotiate.
11:02£70 is the absolute lowest price you can do.
11:05How about £69, just the one pound?
11:08All right, I'll give you £1 back.
11:10Thank you very much, John.
11:12Stella's voyage through the process
11:14was swift and untroubled until week nine,
11:17when for the first time, she was hauled into the boardroom.
11:26You didn't negotiate with them well enough.
11:31I think I looked at the line of whether
11:33I was becoming too rude or too imposing
11:35and that was the mistake that I made.
11:37I should have been more aggressive with them.
11:39I heard you were a bit wooden, actually, a bit too corporate.
11:41She took a battering in that boardroom.
11:43Liz and Laura ganged up on her,
11:46called her one-dimensional
11:48and suddenly, for the first time, she was vulnerable.
11:52I would say from working with you
11:54is that sometimes I think you give off
11:56a quite negative, cold persona to people
11:58which might get their backs up
12:00rather than getting the best out of,
12:02maybe, somebody like Stuart...
12:04Well, I disagree because I've led teams twice and won twice,
12:06so I don't see your point, to be quite honest.
12:08Stella's just a very mysterious character.
12:10She keeps everything to herself.
12:12I mean, we're all here to compete
12:14but I don't really know much about Stella, really.
12:16I know snippets here and there
12:18but in terms of getting to know the real Stella,
12:20not at all.
12:22There's allegations of you being a bit...
12:24wooden.
12:26For that reason, I'm going to...
12:32move on to you, Laura,
12:34where, on balance, I've concluded
12:36you're fine.
12:38I've spent ten years working
12:40in a Japanese culture in a bank.
12:43Stella, it's because of your past performance
12:45you're still sitting here.
12:47You need to take on board what I've said.
12:49What I've had to do now is try to
12:51just let that go and just be myself
12:53and I've definitely done that.
12:55In week ten,
12:57against the ropes,
12:59Stella finally found her voice.
13:01Welcome to the Cockney Tour.
13:03Delighted to have you all here.
13:05I absolutely loved this task.
13:07It was really nice to be on my own
13:09for the first time in ages
13:12because I had control over what I was doing.
13:14If I'm honest, I did feel quite conscious
13:16that I'd taken a hell of a lot on my shoulders
13:18and it was very much a do or die
13:20thing for me and just hoped to God
13:22that it would pay off.
13:26I think that Lord Sugar was probably
13:28quite surprised to hear that I'd been
13:30going up and down London singing
13:32Knees Up Mother Brown
13:34and I probably took it a little bit too far
13:36if anything, but I think I've made my point.
13:42I am impressed with Stella.
13:44She is everything that depicts
13:46business women today.
13:48The ability to be in control,
13:50the ability to see the bigger picture,
13:52to be good at finance,
13:54the ability to lead a team
13:56and at the same time,
13:58she has been able to step up
14:00and face her criticism
14:02that she's far too corporate
14:04and has been able to show that she has
14:06a softer side, an emotional side
14:08that she can engage with people.
14:12Stella will be
14:14Lord Sugar's apprentice. I hope she will.
14:18But I'm as proud now as I'll ever be.
14:20I don't know why I'd be any prouder
14:22for Lord Sugar having her.
14:24I don't know.
14:32Hello, my name is Jamie
14:34and I do not bite.
14:36This task is going to require
14:38a huge amount of
14:40skills. I've got all of that in abundance.
14:42Salesman Jamie, a man not
14:44short on confidence.
14:46We sold £12,000 worth
14:48of units.
14:50We couldn't have done much better.
14:54Do you like the product?
14:56We're going to work with it.
14:58That was pants, wasn't it?
15:00That was diabolical.
15:02It's to show Lord Sugar that I've still got
15:04my spark.
15:06We have five children in our team.
15:09Not like that.
15:13On our left
15:15is the River Thames.
15:17It's the second largest
15:19river in London.
15:21The sooner you eat them the better
15:23because they were made this morning.
15:25Part of being good at business
15:27is being good at sales
15:29and I look at someone like Jamie who I
15:31undoubtedly think is a natural
15:33salesman. He has an ability
15:35to get on people's wavelength.
15:37You've got four stores.
15:39Commit to the thousands.
15:41I can meet you at that price.
15:43Task four
15:45we sold our hearts out.
15:47That village hasn't got a thousand showers.
15:49We pitched
15:51really well to some DIY stores
15:53and made some excellent sales
15:55and we are all ears.
15:57Brilliant order.
15:59Giving you a total
16:01of £76,518
16:04£76,518
16:06and 80p.
16:08That's a big number.
16:10I was
16:12chuffed to pieces that
16:14I broke a boardroom record
16:16but disappointed to hear
16:18that Chris then smashed it
16:20three seconds after.
16:22Well, when I heard that figure of
16:24£76,000 I just assumed you
16:26were home and dry.
16:28Lord Sugar saw that I conducted a very
16:30good team and he even said
16:32it was just bang out of luck
16:34that we lost that task.
16:36I think for me
16:38even though he was actually my
16:40opposing project manager, he
16:42still did very well to break a record.
16:44It just happened that I broke it afterwards.
16:46But equally I think
16:48he also showed the fact that
16:50he wasn't fired in that task
16:52and also won a very big order
16:54in his own right through pitching
16:56that he brings a hell of a lot to the table.
16:59Highest earner
17:01of the final five.
17:03From an early age, Jamie has revealed
17:05a skill for negotiation.
17:07When Jamie was 14
17:09he knew exactly where he wanted to go.
17:11He was absolutely determined to get a Saturday
17:13job. He went out
17:15and he actually got a Saturday job
17:17but then he decided that wasn't good enough
17:19so he went to another estate agent.
17:21Got a job there and then
17:23played the two estate agents off
17:25to get the highest salary.
17:28Which was absolutely amazing to watch.
17:30I had two job offers
17:32when I finished school through these two
17:34estate agencies as a junior negotiator
17:36and I saw it
17:38as a
17:40career race. You know, my
17:42friends stayed on to do college
17:44and then university
17:46and how far I could get
17:48in the career ladder
17:50by the time they came out at 21.
17:54So far I'm
17:56I think I'm ahead.
18:02I've been with Julie now
18:04six years nearly
18:06and
18:08she's just my
18:10my rock.
18:12You know, we've got a little dog
18:14as well which I adore
18:16and I miss both of them
18:18dreadfully and it's actually now towards
18:20the end of the process that I'm really
18:22really missing her.
18:24You know, that's a massive void
18:26in my life that I can't wait
18:28to fill again.
18:30Age 24,
18:32Jamie set up his own property company.
18:34One day Jamie came home
18:36and said, look, I'm very happy
18:38at work but there is a
18:40part of me who thinks I can do it by myself
18:42and
18:44I'm not the most entrepreneurial person
18:46so I was a bit like, ooh.
18:48We thought about it over and over and he's
18:50the one who would say, you know, let's just do it
18:52and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work
18:54then what can we lose?
18:58At its peak, Jamie's company
19:00turned over more than a million pounds.
19:02To set up your own business
19:04you need courage
19:06and buckets of it
19:08because it ain't easy.
19:10And when you set up your business
19:12especially in the
19:14first stages
19:16you need to excel
19:18in all the areas.
19:20You haven't got a boss telling you that
19:22you're no good or you're running behind deadlines
19:24have you? You live by the
19:26swords and you'll die by the sword.
19:28For the past four years, Jamie
19:30has been his own boss.
19:32I'm asking one of the team members
19:34to say to me, yes, I'm confident to do the pricing.
19:36I can't just pick things up halfway through.
19:38Before I came in here
19:40people told me I was really
19:42aggressive,
19:44a go-getter. Having your own
19:46business, when you're managing people as well
19:48you've got to address it
19:50because you can't make a successful company
19:52on your own. And I was so
19:54scared of coming in here being accused
19:56of being that. Pitch in is all I'm saying.
19:58I'm helping you all the way through with the pitch.
20:00Jamie's young, but he's
20:02been his own boss for years.
20:04One of the difficulties in that
20:06situation is it's hugely
20:08difficult suddenly to take
20:10instruction and discipline and authority
20:12from somebody else. And he struggled.
20:14You need to listen to what I'm saying.
20:16I am listening. That's important.
20:18I've got it, I've got it, I know. So what are you going to talk about
20:20from the dungeon? That's what I'm trying to figure out.
20:22That's why we're standing here. That's what, why not
20:24the front row? OK.
20:26Jamie, do you want to wait?
20:28I was the project manager and I don't think
20:30Jamie respected that.
20:32Unfortunately, it saddens me to say actually
20:34thinking about it, but he may just
20:36think about himself and not
20:38be able to work as part of a team.
20:42His inability to
20:44take orders followed him
20:46into the boardroom.
20:48I felt quite
20:50sorry for Sandesh at times because
20:52you were constantly pulling her to one side
20:54saying pricing,
20:56costumes. I'm being made out to be
20:58some kind of bulldozer here.
21:00It's feedback. It does come across as
21:02quite negative and it seems a bit sulky because
21:04you're not actually doing it yourself.
21:08In week nine,
21:10with all to prove, Jamie
21:12stepped up as project manager.
21:14I knew it was going to be a tough task.
21:16Lord Sugar said he felt that the fire
21:18was going out, so I thought there was no better
21:20way to show him that I have still got fire
21:22in my belly. A very risky strategy
21:24and then I further increased
21:26the risk by putting Stuart
21:28and Chris together and me
21:30all by myself.
21:32I need to find a
21:34wooden kitchen worktop
21:36four metres long. Four metres?
21:38Four metres.
21:40We're just three metres in.
21:42This kitchen worktop is
21:44haunting me. I think he feels
21:46like he's been fired already to be honest.
21:48Okay, that's cool.
21:50Bye. Jamie was really under
21:52pressure by week nine following some
21:54very lacklustre performances
21:56and as it happened, this was
21:58discount buying right up his street,
22:00play to all of his strengths,
22:02sales, negotiation
22:04and this was the chance for him to really
22:06shine. I need a good price on the gold.
22:08What I can do for you, I'll do six
22:10grams for you on £140.
22:12Unless I get my price, I'm going to go to Southall, so
22:14there's six grams, £130 and we've
22:16got a good deal. We're shaking hands, we'll meet in the middle.
22:18One, three, five, yeah?
22:20Alright, no problem. Thank you very much.
22:22It's very clear that Jamie's a great salesman.
22:24Much harder actually
22:26to teach others how to negotiate
22:28and that's exactly what he did as the PM.
22:30Start at 70%
22:32lower than what he's
22:34looking at. That will be kicking around
22:36their cost price.
22:38You can always go up.
22:40What I did do is tell my team
22:42the standards I wanted
22:44when it came to buying. I buy for my business
22:46and you never buy things at face value
22:48and that clearly saw us through
22:50to make a win. No.
22:52I can't believe that.
22:54Wow. You won.
22:56It didn't sound like you bloody won.
22:58£70 difference.
23:00I don't think we were expecting to win.
23:02You bought really well.
23:06I think
23:08that Jamie has the potential
23:10to slot into Lord Sugar's
23:12organisation. He's a good salesman.
23:14Good salesmen are hard
23:16to find. Good salesmen are those
23:18that people like to buy from
23:20and Jamie has
23:22got that ability.
23:24The big question confronting Jamie
23:26is
23:28is he adaptable?
23:30Can he take instructions
23:32from others? In other words, can he be
23:34a number two or has he always
23:36got to be his own boss?
23:46Have I got my point across clearly enough?
23:50Straight talking
23:52Joanna Riley stands out from the
23:54crowd.
23:56What you need to incorporate with these crisps
23:58are sausage and curry.
24:00Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo, please.
24:04I don't think it is
24:06all on you because if I don't think that you're doing it correctly
24:08I will take you on.
24:10Just so you know, you are making the wrong
24:12decision. That's how I feel.
24:14Just in here Jo, Jo, you all right?
24:16I reckon Jo's a bit of a scrubber.
24:18But Jo owns the cleaning company.
24:22We was hoping to start
24:24off at £50.
24:26Mum, what about you? Are you going to spoil yourself today?
24:28So Rob said I'd look after him.
24:30Well, I was hoping that you would as well regardless
24:32of what he said.
24:34It sounds good.
24:36What you see is what you get. She's to the point.
24:38She's direct.
24:40She's strong. She's opinionated.
24:42Week one and Joanna
24:44jumped in to take charge.
24:46Shall we just take a vote on who would actually like to put themselves
24:48forward for project manager?
24:52I'll take it if you're for it.
24:54Let's go for it.
24:56Really? Yeah.
24:58As soon as I said I was project manager
25:00it was absolute chaos.
25:02My head, I was spinning around.
25:04I thought, oh my God, what have I done?
25:06But I really thought
25:08you're going to come unstuck throughout this process
25:10so just put your neck on the line at the start
25:12and show them what you're made of.
25:14I feel my customer, we went there and pitched to him.
25:16I would like to finish it with him.
25:18No, I'm not doing that. We're all a team.
25:20It doesn't matter who closes it.
25:22I'm project manager for all of the team.
25:24Task one, a very tough task.
25:26Joanna had to control
25:28seven women.
25:30Egos galore.
25:32And yet she forged
25:34this lot of squabbling,
25:36squawking women
25:38into some sort of team and led them to victory.
25:40Good start.
25:42Good start for a tough task.
25:44Stepping up to be project manager in the first task
25:46for me is a fantastic
25:48statement of intent for the rest of the process
25:50and it shows somebody who really
25:52holds no fear so I'll have to give
25:54Joanna a great deal of respect for doing that.
25:56She's very tenacious. She won't take no for an answer
25:58and she'll knock down any walls in her way
26:00to make sure she gets what she wants.
26:02But Joanna's in-your-face style
26:04ruffled feathers.
26:06Melissa, I thought that you would have known how to nail this.
26:08I don't.
26:10No, I'm not being unfair.
26:12If it was unfair, I'd be saying it
26:14behind her back.
26:16I think Joanna in the initial stages
26:18didn't approach people in the correct way
26:20and when she disagreed with them, sometimes a little bit
26:22too forceful in her negativity effectively.
26:24I'm going to bring back Joanna.
26:26You are making the wrong decision.
26:28Who else did she bring back in?
26:30Joy and Paloma.
26:32Joy hasn't contributed much at all.
26:34Guys, listen to yourselves.
26:36Week two, there was
26:38a very unpleasant moment in the
26:40ballroom where the girls got completely
26:42out of hand, screaming and shouting
26:44and Joanna was really the focal
26:46point of that with her aggression,
26:48her determination to get her
26:50point across.
26:52Joanna, you're
26:54disruptive and loud and
26:56perceived to be quite aggressive
26:58and I cannot have that going
27:00forward. I will change that.
27:02If I don't see a
27:04remarkable recovery,
27:06then you will be shortly leaving the process.
27:08This is your last chance.
27:10I'm glad that I was brought into the boardroom
27:12at the early stage on the
27:14second test because I would have carried on being
27:16this aggressive person and
27:18as soon as he told me that, I changed
27:20and that is
27:22most definitely the reason why
27:24I'm here today.
27:26Stung by Lord Sugar's early warning,
27:28Joanna thrived.
27:30Please,
27:32that's worth the while. Let's get it nipped in the bud.
27:34Jo, you're really good at cold calling.
27:36Thanks, Jamie.
27:38She's excellent on the phone,
27:40like telesales.
27:42Very, very strong, very, very capable.
27:44She's a massive grafter.
27:46She's quite relentless, actually.
27:48Seven times on the
27:50winning side, she never faced
27:52the final boardroom again.
27:54I've had to raise my game
27:56to stay in this competition
27:58and that's something that I've learnt in life.
28:00You know, when you get knocked down,
28:02you've just got to dust yourself off and bounce back.
28:06Joanna grew up on a tough council
28:08estate in Leicestershire.
28:10As a child growing up, I was a pain
28:12in the backside. I was a nightmare.
28:14There was no direction. I was just
28:16a ticking time bomb,
28:18to be honest.
28:20At school, when you do
28:22PE and there'd be two captains
28:24and they could choose who they want to come on your team,
28:26I would always be the last person
28:28standing there. None of the kids would
28:30ever want me. Never used to get invited to any of the
28:32birthdays. I was a rotten
28:34child. I was awful.
28:36I can remember once
28:38ringing up the school and putting
28:40on a voice saying, oh, Joanna won't be here
28:42today. And the secretary was saying,
28:44hold on a minute, just while I go and tell Joanna's
28:46teacher. And then the headmaster came on the
28:48phone and he said, Joanna Riley, I know
28:50it's you. Get to school now.
28:52I was just a nightmare.
28:54At 16, and with
28:56few qualifications, Joanna
28:58left school. Because I grew
29:00up on a council estate, a lot of them
29:02unfortunately went on to
29:04drugs and to stealing and
29:06to prison and I thought,
29:08you know, it can go one way or the other
29:10but I was strong-minded and I thought,
29:12it's down to me. You can't feel sorry
29:14for yourself. You've just got to get on with it.
29:16And that's what I've done.
29:18Aged 22, with newly born
29:20twins, Kai and Riley,
29:22Joanna made a decision.
29:24I was laying
29:26in bed one night and I thought, what can I do
29:28where I can earn good money
29:30and I want to work for myself but I want to spend
29:32time with my children and I thought, you know,
29:34I'm good at cleaning. I love to clean
29:36and everyone needs a cleaner so
29:38I got the phone book and I called around
29:40local businesses in Leicester, got
29:42some meetings. I'd never ever even
29:44been to meetings with professional people before.
29:46You know, brought myself some suits
29:48and just went for it and from then on
29:50my business grew.
29:52Joanna makes it look easy running a
29:54business and being a mother
29:56but deep down inside, I know
29:58it's not. One side you've got a
30:00you've got a hardened
30:02business woman and ten minutes
30:04later you've got a soft, cuddly mum.
30:06You couldn't get a better mother
30:08than Joanna. It's her number one priority.
30:10She's just there for the boys
30:12every step of the way. She's a perfect mother.
30:14I don't want my children
30:16to have a life that I've had. That goes without
30:18saying and in order to do that you need to
30:20work hard and you need to earn money
30:22and that's why I'm here.
30:26I'm not surprised to see Joanna
30:28in the final five because I understood
30:30her to be a tenacious person.
30:32She was not going to give up until
30:34she got what she wanted out of it.
30:36To be honest, I was slightly surprised
30:38because of her background, you know
30:40that she had the skill set to do it.
30:42How do you reckon she'll do in the pictures
30:44today? I think it will go
30:46something like this.
30:48Do you want to buy some crisps? I think you should
30:50really buy some crisps guys because these are really high quality crisps.
30:52I'm going to talk really fast and really point my finger
30:54at you a lot like this. Are you going to buy some
30:56aren't you? But in Germany selling crisps
30:58So how I was thinking is
31:00maybe if we order them for the year
31:02and then we have a call off period.
31:04Joanna charmed one client into a
31:065,000 euro deal. And you can keep the crisps
31:08because we knew how much you enjoyed them.
31:10Share them with your friends. I must say Joanna
31:12that you were really fiery in all 12 cylinders.
31:14I've most definitely been
31:16underestimated throughout this competition.
31:18People have corporate jobs
31:20and earn a lot of money every year.
31:22It's apparent that they just see me
31:24as Joanna the cleaner from Leicester.
31:26Joanna, you run a cleaning business don't you?
31:28Yes I do Lord Sugar. So you're an expert
31:30in your midst. Did you take any notice of her?
31:32We did. We sort of asked Joanna for her input
31:34and we were looking at all. Unless she's got
31:36something wrong with her neck.
31:38She doesn't seem to agree. What they're forgetting
31:40is that Joanna the cleaner from Leicester
31:42started that own business. I done that on my own
31:44from not knowing anything.
31:46These people, some of them have been working at their
31:48business for 10 years. So what's that
31:50got to show for them really?
31:58Joanna came into this process
32:00with a little bit of a chip on her shoulder
32:02thinking that people were somehow looking down
32:04at her because of her lack of qualifications
32:06and used her aggression to overcome
32:08that. But Joanna shouldn't be underestimated.
32:10She's a business woman
32:12and she's determined and she's actually
32:14of everybody learnt
32:16to listen to what Lord Sugar is saying to her
32:18and that's why I think she would make a great
32:20apprentice.
32:24It's just desperation for a sell.
32:26Keep it as it is and move on.
32:28Wise beyond his years,
32:3024 year old Chris Bates marked himself
32:32out from the start.
32:34I keep a level head, I keep a strong
32:36firm grasp on this one.
32:38I'm really up for it. Could I interest you
32:40in a muffin?
32:42That's very very cool. You're right, it is
32:44that damn good.
32:50I don't believe that you wouldn't have maybe a little bit
32:52more than 40 in the bank. We actually
32:54executed another sale. It looks like it was built
32:56for a few minutes. It's fantastic. It really shapes your figure
32:58well. Maybe even just creep into the
33:00overdraw. Good work.
33:02You're not just a pretty face mate.
33:04You're a good salesman too.
33:06I don't know if you remember but I was also
33:08a William Clegane from last week.
33:10Chris gets on with everybody.
33:12He's a very likeable person.
33:14He's professional. He's got
33:16selling skills. He's good with numbers.
33:18I'd say he's an all rounder.
33:20Yes!
33:22Come on!
33:26In week four, it was time for Chris
33:28to shine.
33:30It was project manager. Really liked the look
33:32of the task. Picking different products,
33:34selling them to the trade. Thought it sounded like something you could really get
33:36stuck into. We call it the world's
33:38softest thermometer because it actually changes
33:40colour as the baby gets too hot.
33:42Absolutely fantastic product. I think
33:44if I'm honest, it's the best thing I've seen today.
33:46The critical element to the success
33:48of this task was getting the right product.
33:50Both teams
33:52spotted the baby grow but it was Chris's
33:54ability to persuade the inventor
33:56of the baby grow to let him
33:58have it. That was an absolutely key
34:00thing.
34:0224 year old
34:04bachelor, what does he know about baby grows?
34:06But he spotted the fact
34:08that that was the product to have
34:10and he got it.
34:12I'll be better
34:14doing this when I'm actually in there.
34:16It's alright, you were doing well.
34:18When it came to pitching the body sculpting t-shirt,
34:20Chris took the lead.
34:22A completely revolutionary
34:24men's undergarment, I introduce you
34:26the ripped T-Fusion t-shirt
34:28that succeeds in sucking in the gut.
34:30We were all completely
34:32amazed by Chris's
34:34pitching style. It was dull
34:36and it was monotone and it
34:38was boring. Pitching style,
34:40I've got to tell you Chris, it's monotonous.
34:42To me it sounded like a sort of a
34:44low-flying heavy bomber coming home.
34:46But content,
34:48excellent. I get a bit sick about that
34:50but it was quite funny
34:52and I'd like to take the compliment out of it
34:54and maybe forget the rest to be honest.
34:56Right, I think we'll get down to some
34:58numbers now. The total
35:00£122,625.
35:02Wow.
35:04Well done.
35:06That is
35:08a record for this boardroom.
35:10To be fair, it's always nice to hear that
35:12you're a record-breaking project manager.
35:14It was obviously a team effort but at the end of the day
35:16you kind of will fall if you
35:18lose as project manager so I think in some ways
35:20you're granted to take a bit of credit when you do
35:22win and it definitely gave me a bit of a boost
35:24in confidence for the rest of the process.
35:28Born in Epsom, Surrey,
35:30Chris has always had a passion
35:32to succeed. Chris has got this
35:34phenomenal drive.
35:36We've never had to push him.
35:38Everything he's done, he's done from within
35:40himself.
35:44We've grown up from
35:46working-class backgrounds
35:48and everything we've achieved, we've achieved
35:50through working hard and I think
35:52it does rub off on your children.
35:56To me, to sum up Chris's
35:58drive is to see him play rugby
36:00for the first time when it had become contact.
36:02As soon as he could pick up the ball
36:04and run through brick walls of people
36:06to score a try
36:08or whatever, that's when you know
36:10Chris has got drive. Incredible drive.
36:12A high achiever
36:14off the pitch, Chris left
36:16school with four As
36:18and a place at university.
36:20It was important to me to go
36:22first because the time I was
36:24finishing my studies was
36:26a recession and I wanted something which was going to
36:28separate me from the crowd but I guess
36:30as a personal thing, I've always kind of
36:32aimed to do the best that I possibly
36:34can. I would say that Chris is
36:36definitely very confident
36:38and when you first meet him, that may come
36:40across slightly as arrogance.
36:42In everything that he does, he always wants
36:44to be the best. From it being
36:46captain of rugby teams to
36:48everything that he's done throughout his life at university
36:50etc, he always wants to be the best.
36:52Bucking the credit crunch,
36:54Chris took a high-powered job
36:56at investment bank J.P. Morgan.
36:58He likes a challenge. Some people shy
37:00away from it but Chris likes it.
37:02We're proud of him in that way and he will succeed
37:04in what he sets out to do.
37:06He's a child of a man now
37:08that we always knew
37:10we would never have to worry
37:12about Chris. Chris will make his way
37:14in the world and he'll be a success at anything
37:16he does because he's just that
37:18sort of person.
37:20Despite
37:22his determination to be top,
37:24Chris has been on the losing side
37:26six times.
37:28I don't think that my record at all
37:30really reflects my ability or
37:32to be honest, my input. Times when I've been
37:34on the losing team, I genuinely feel like
37:36I've contributed a hell of a lot more than most
37:38other people and it's hard to really look at them
37:40and really criticise myself. I think the
37:42germinator task is the only one which I can
37:44genuinely say, okay,
37:46maybe I've got this one a bit wrong.
37:48That week,
37:50the task was to brand a cleaning
37:52product. It's quite
37:54cheesy but I had an idea for an advertising
37:56campaign you could do as well. Germinate.
37:58Keep them coming, lots and lots. I think germinate
38:00is a good one, like terminate the germs.
38:02Germinate will get laughter, I'm telling you.
38:04The ad agency will laugh it off.
38:06I've never professed to be a creative mind.
38:08You know, I work in an investment bank.
38:10I'm not a marketing genius
38:12but when nothing else is around, you have to
38:14try and push something. And maybe
38:16I got a bit carried away with the directing.
38:18Action. I just can't
38:20get rid of this gravy. Be even
38:22more dramatic, Sean, to be honest. I'm really kind of
38:24urgh. I just can't
38:26get rid of this gravy.
38:28That's great, actually.
38:30That's brilliant.
38:32The idea of the Germinator
38:34was that it kills all germs
38:36but the actual advert showed
38:38the product being used to take off gravy
38:40so the actual message
38:42in the advert didn't match at all.
38:44The Germinator!
38:46Chris, I think that this task
38:48is really not the one for you to
38:50have taken the helm on. It's an example
38:52of someone getting
38:54a little bit too cocky.
38:56It's really unforgivable.
38:58Chris found
39:00himself on the losing team
39:02two more times.
39:08Is this a message that I'm getting from above
39:10somewhere that's telling me that you are
39:12a loser?
39:14Being on the losing team
39:16six times
39:18is a dangerous place to be. It's like going around
39:20the Grand National Course at Aintree.
39:22Beecher's Brook will get
39:24you in the end.
39:26And Chris kept finding himself
39:28coming up to Beecher's Brook
39:30once again.
39:32Dangerous stuff.
39:34I don't think that I'm genuinely responsible
39:36for any of those losses.
39:38I find myself in the bottom three here
39:40because I at least stepped up to the plate
39:42and actually wanted to be project manager
39:44even though I've been in here the last two weeks.
39:46Whilst it doesn't annoy anyone more than it annoys me
39:48to hear those numbers,
39:50he's judging this on individuals, not on teams.
39:52And he's judging it on how you performed throughout.
39:54So the fact that I'm still here
39:56means that they see something in me.
39:58I'm not here just to make up the numbers or try and survive a few weeks.
40:00I want to win this thing.
40:02The more I sat and watched Chris
40:04in the boardrooms, the more I liked him.
40:06He's a young guy. We forget that.
40:08He's only 24.
40:10He's not long out of college.
40:12And yet he conducts himself
40:14in a very adult way.
40:16There is a bit of arrogance, but not over much.
40:18But most of all,
40:20I think he's got courage.
40:22And that's what you need
40:24in business, in hard times.
40:26Courage.
40:28Chris got the message.
40:32In week 10, it was London calling.
40:34Hi Colin, nice to meet you.
40:36How's it going?
40:38I think my highlight of the bus tour task
40:40was almost certainly the securing of the pitch
40:42at the tourist centre.
40:44It's a really tough thing to do on your own,
40:46to go in and pitch with no real background information
40:48from the rest of your team.
40:50You're really relying on your own instincts.
40:52Basically, we give them 20% of our sales
40:54if they chose us.
40:56And how many tickets they sell?
40:58No, it's our total sales.
41:00Oh, 20% of everything?
41:02Oh, jeez.
41:04I took a real gamble, to be honest,
41:06offering the amount of money that I did.
41:08I think at this stage of the process,
41:10you have to take risks.
41:12He's not looking for somebody who's going to turn down
41:14a potentially lucrative deal.
41:16Total profit, after exactly everything,
41:18including the rather remarkable
41:20came in at £1,099.33.
41:22Well done.
41:24That deal,
41:26that 20% guarantee,
41:28was absolutely the sole reason
41:30why Chris and his team
41:32won this task.
41:34You rolled the dice there, Chris,
41:36with this rather innovative way of doing things.
41:38You've come in with a good win.
41:50Chris really is
41:52a risk-taker, he's strategic,
41:54and actually, very importantly
41:56in business, is able to see
41:58the bigger picture.
42:00He's the one to watch.
42:06Stuart Baggs, a man who shoots
42:08from the lip.
42:10Guys, it's your funeral. What's in the sausage?
42:12Done.
42:14How many sausages did you make yesterday?
42:16What a deal. I managed a team that produced over 1,100 sausages.
42:18That's, on a calculator,
42:20nought.
42:22I'm just going to use my psychic instinct here
42:24and predict what they are now saying.
42:26I need everything spoon-fed to me.
42:28Where's the spoon?
42:30Give me some spoon.
42:32Tourists are essentially just juicy moneybags, aren't they?
42:34Dip my hands into their pockets.
42:36I saw you looking.
42:38I saw you looking.
42:40That's his thunder bar.
42:42Tomorrow's a new dawn, a new day.
42:44Let's make some money.
42:46You sold less, but at a higher price.
42:48That's where you made the profit.
42:50That's a thumbs up.
42:52If I'm given the opportunity to work
42:54for you, then with your
42:56massive resources, I can
42:58make millions of pounds for you.
43:00I've done it already
43:02selling yo-yos in a school playground.
43:06I can take your resources
43:08and make you so much
43:10money. I will absolutely shine.
43:16When it came to Stuart,
43:18I always thought he's the type of person
43:20he's either going to be super, super successful
43:22or he's going to crash and burn,
43:24such is his volatile and
43:26crazy character.
43:28In week one...
43:30Sausages?
43:32His aggressive sales technique got him noticed.
43:34If I trip over, I'm going to be very upset.
43:36Would you like to buy some sausages?
43:38Thank you very much.
43:40And there's your lovely sausages.
43:42If you have any problems, feel free to keep them to yourself.
43:44Thanks very much.
43:46I can't believe Stuart is still here.
43:48By 12 o'clock on our very first
43:50task, 12 o'clock midday,
43:52he had upset
43:54two members of the public,
43:56me.
43:58There's a line, and I think you're stepping over it.
44:00Well, I just think it's a key to good sales,
44:02to be honest. I mean, I've never had a problem with it.
44:04Your energy's great.
44:06And you're doing very well.
44:08Who's sold the most? You.
44:11Would you like to buy some sausages?
44:13I really threw myself in,
44:15as if it was a sprint, really,
44:17as opposed to a marathon. And I went
44:19all guns blazing, and I tried to sell
44:21as many sausages as I could.
44:23And really, I didn't think about what I was saying,
44:25and, you know, I thought we were going to win,
44:27so I didn't think it would matter, but we lost.
44:29And that really bit me in the arse,
44:31and we went back into the boardroom.
44:33Stuart. Yes, Lord Sugar? Why shouldn't I fire you?
44:35If you give me 100 grand a year,
44:37I will deliver to you ten times that.
44:39And if I don't, take it back.
44:41I'll give it back to you, a money-back guarantee.
44:43I'm that confident.
44:45And that's why you shouldn't fire me, Lord Sugar.
44:47Stuart, you've made some ridiculous statements
44:49across the table here to me.
44:51It ain't going to get you anywhere.
44:53When Lord Sugar reacted
44:55almost angrily to my offer,
44:57I honestly was incredibly surprised.
44:59And, you know, I make
45:01offers like that to people.
45:03You give people money-back guarantees,
45:05and it's what happens in business.
45:07I just was never expecting anybody to have the balls
45:09to say that to him.
45:11Say you'd fired me there and then,
45:13then we would have never been compatible
45:15as boss and employee anyway,
45:17so there's no point in hiding who I am.
45:19You're counting him out, and you can count me straight back in.
45:21Oh!
45:23Over the next weeks,
45:25Stuart's mouth continued to talk him into trouble.
45:27Am I right in thinking that a baby would be dead
45:29if it reached 39 or 40 degrees Celsius,
45:31so the product actually would never...
45:33That's dangerous.
45:35The product wouldn't be completely white
45:37when you needed to look.
45:39Don't you dare speak to somebody like that.
45:41You still find it hard
45:43to control your mouth,
45:45which is something that I cannot accept at all.
45:47Stuart is a really funny one.
45:49He's a wild card.
45:51You know, he is intelligent, I'll give him that,
45:53but, you know,
45:55is he hero or zero, I don't know.
45:59In week seven, Stuart finally got
46:01the opportunity to prove himself.
46:03Quick, turn, turn!
46:05Two orders.
46:07It was time for Stuart to prove
46:09that he wasn't just all gong and no dinner.
46:11Time for him to prove there was some substance
46:13behind the rather vacuous Stuart the Brand.
46:17I threw myself in as project manager,
46:19and it was something that I'd never done before,
46:21selling DVDs in front of a grey screen.
46:23Oh, look who's won the race.
46:25You've got a key.
46:2715 quid. Up the price, right?
46:29I didn't want to fix rigid pricing strategy
46:31because people that come in
46:33with expensive handbags and purses
46:35are going to pay a lot more,
46:37and I think if somebody had a diamond engagement ring
46:39the size of a golf ball on their finger,
46:41they need to pay £35 for a DVD.
46:43We won, and we won
46:45because of my strategy,
46:47my pricing strategy.
46:49Well done. I'm so proud of everyone.
46:51I've laid on a masterclass
46:53of champagne tasting.
46:55Wow!
46:57Are you old enough to drink?
46:59It's OK.
47:01The youngest candidate ever,
47:03at just 21,
47:05Stuart spent his early years
47:07above his parents' pub on the Isle of Man.
47:09Stuart gets all his business acumen,
47:11really,
47:13the wheeler-dealer type of cut-and-thrust
47:15business thing from his father.
47:17He's grown up the whole time
47:19with his father sitting there counting the money.
47:21He wasn't that interested in doing the work
47:23to get the money,
47:25but he used to love counting it.
47:27Money!
47:31When you live in a pub
47:33where every day there's business occurring,
47:35you naturally become curious,
47:37and I've been trying to sell stuff all my life,
47:39some with success, some without,
47:41and this is what shaped me,
47:43and I think I want a better car,
47:45I want a better house,
47:47I want a better holiday, I want better everything,
47:49and the way to do that is to make more money,
47:51and you make more money by working harder
47:53and having better ideas.
47:55He always wanted to do things
47:57which normal children probably didn't want to do.
47:59He never, ever,
48:01I don't think he even has even to today,
48:03read a fiction book.
48:05The books he read were always
48:07manuals of some sort or another,
48:09really boring manuals.
48:11Only boring for you.
48:13He loved them.
48:15How things worked,
48:17mobile phones when they came out, computers.
48:19The number of books he read about computers,
48:21I can't believe it.
48:23I'm not a serious IT geek,
48:25but maybe with a little bit of a personality,
48:27I absolutely love technology,
48:29but I've managed to get myself a girlfriend,
48:31which kind of makes me a little bit different
48:33from all the other IT geeks out there,
48:35but I absolutely love
48:37communications,
48:39I love basic business,
48:41and really I've been driven throughout my life
48:43to make as much money as possible.
48:45At 18, Stuart launched himself into business
48:47as a broadband provider.
48:49We're really proud of Stuart
48:51for what he's achieved at such an early age.
48:53We haven't really helped him or given him
48:55any financial backing,
48:57so everything he's done, he's achieved himself
48:59and his parents were sometimes amazed
49:01as well as being proud.
49:03He's a one-off.
49:05I mean, as is Lord Sugar.
49:07In his own right, he's a one-off
49:09and we think Stuart is a one-off.
49:13I think Stuart, without doubt,
49:15identifies with Lord Sugar.
49:17He models himself on Lord Sugar.
49:19He wants to be him.
49:21The difference between Stuart and Lord Sugar,
49:23well, there's many differences,
49:25but the main one is
49:27that Stuart has to understand
49:29that working as a team,
49:31listening to people, being strategic,
49:33getting the best out of people
49:35is what makes you a great business person.
49:37In week 10,
49:39Stuart took his fight to the streets.
49:41Anyone that Joe sells to,
49:43we can neutralise by stealing them on the way.
49:45Stuart, can you get off our pitch, please?
49:47This is all of our pitch now.
49:49No, it's not.
49:51Sorry to hassle you, but we would do it
49:53for £5 cheaper, the exact same tour.
49:55Can you just ignore this little idiot?
49:57These idiots are just amateurs, frankly.
50:01Hi, guys.
50:03Can I trust you on a tour today?
50:05What the hell is going on?
50:07You've got the most spectacular open-top tour bus
50:09that you've got on today.
50:11It's absolutely amazing.
50:13It's a waste of time, definitely.
50:15It's £5 a ticket.
50:17Just ignore him. It's not worth it.
50:19It's just obviously they're nervous.
50:21I've had a couple of really close encounters
50:23with a black cab since I've been in this process.
50:27The toughest fight that I've had, though,
50:29was after the tour bus task.
50:37Stuart, you see yourself as some kind of
50:39entrepreneurial, young, rough diamond.
50:41Let's start a new company,
50:43and not only will you be able to put me in an existing one,
50:45I can run one for you.
50:47There have been some great speeches from the Doc,
50:49but none greater than Stuart's,
50:51when he faced Lord Sugar
50:53and went into
50:55the most eloquent plea
50:57for a reprieve.
50:59I want you to wake up in the morning
51:01and check the bank balance and think,
51:03he has made me millions,
51:05and I won't be happy with myself unless I've done that for you.
51:07I'm not a one-trick pony. I'm not a ten-trick pony.
51:09I've got a field of ponies waiting to
51:11literally run towards this.
51:15I thought I was so fired,
51:17and I fought my corner,
51:19and it really was a comeback from the ropes.
51:21There's 60 million people in the country.
51:23There's bound to be one of them which shines through.
51:25I'm thinking, yeah, you're right.
51:27Out of 60-odd million people, there's got to be another one around.
51:29Are you that person?
51:31I'm not going to lie to you.
51:33Betting on me will be a punt,
51:35but it will be one that is going to pay off massively.
51:39Well...
51:41OK.
51:43When you think you're about to be fired,
51:45you have a very strange feeling
51:47come over you, and I imagine it's
51:49kind of like you feel when you're about to die.
51:51It's a strange sense of acceptance.
51:59You do start drifting almost
52:01towards a white light.
52:03So as hard as you work,
52:05and as hard as you have worked,
52:07I'm going to let you go.
52:11Liz,
52:13you're fired.
52:17He even looked at me as he said,
52:19you're fired, Liz.
52:21So, really, that was the toughest fight,
52:23not only this process,
52:25but I think the toughest fight of my life.
52:31Lord Sugar said right at the outset of this process,
52:33that he wasn't looking for some sort of, you know,
52:35boring, staid sort of character.
52:37He wanted flair.
52:39He wanted people who would take a chance.
52:41Stuart Baggs will take chances.
52:43Stuart Baggs has got flair.
52:45So in that sense,
52:47he's a candidate
52:49that, given time, could be tailored
52:51into something really quite valuable.
52:53It's certainly worth putting a few pounds
52:55on Stuart Baggs as a candidate.
53:03Hold on.
53:05I'm coming.
53:07Hold on.
53:09I'm coming.
53:11Hold on.
53:13I'm coming.
53:15Hold on.
53:17I'm coming.
53:19Hold on.
53:21Well done, guys.
53:23Well done.
53:25Well done.
53:27What else did you expect?
53:29I am so glad that I have made it through
53:31to the final five, because this is where I think I belong.
53:33And, you know, I am full of passion and ambition.
53:35And I have absolutely no doubt
53:37that that is why I'm in the final five.
53:39Get in, Stella.
53:41It's been a really gruelling process.
53:43It takes an incredible amount of stamina to come through
53:45all these tasks.
53:47It's just a massively character-building experience, to be honest.
53:49It's that as much as anything else which is driving me forward now.
53:51The fact that I've come through so much already,
53:53I'm desperate to see it through to the end.
53:55We're in the final five.
53:57Two girls, three boys.
53:59Bring it on. We're on our way.
54:01Jesus.
54:07Ten weeks gone,
54:09two to go.
54:15Next, the final five
54:17face their toughest trial yet.
54:21Now it's crunch time,
54:23because for the first time
54:25they'll be on a one-to-one
54:27interrogation with somebody
54:29they've never met before.
54:31With somebody that Lord Sugar knows
54:33very well. And let me tell you,
54:35these are hard men.
54:37These guys know where to find the skeletons.
54:39There is no hiding place.
54:43I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.
54:49Throughout my whole life,
54:51I've always set myself a goal.
54:53Something that at the time
54:55is a real challenge
54:57for me. The point in my life now,
54:59this is it. It's all about winning
55:01this process.
55:03It would be my proudest moment of my whole
55:05life for sure.
55:11I don't settle ever for
55:13second best. I just don't see any point in living
55:15if you're not going to push yourself, really try
55:17and excel in every single thing that you do.
55:19This situation is a prime example.
55:21I'm not satisfied with getting to the top
55:23five. I want to win it. I want to go the whole
55:25way. And, you know,
55:27I will fight every single inch to make
55:29sure that that happens.
55:33I want this job to give
55:35myself and all my family a better quality of
55:37life. And the fact that I've left my children
55:39for such a long time shows how passionate
55:41I am about getting this job. But also
55:43to show people out there that haven't
55:45had a good education, dust yourself
55:47off, work hard and be
55:49determined and good will come out of it.
55:53I
55:55can't tell you enough how much
55:57I want to win. Going home
55:59is just, it's just not an option.
56:01I need to get to the final
56:03and then I need to win.
56:05I really, really want this job.
56:13I have no doubt in my mind
56:15that I'm going to be the next apprentice. And the reason
56:17really is that this is
56:19tough times and Lord Sugar could
56:21go out there and hire any of these
56:23other four people any day of the week.
56:25They're just professionals that have reached a certain path
56:27in their career. I am something
56:29completely different. There aren't
56:31thousands of me around,
56:33there is one. And
56:35he needs to hire me, otherwise he'll
56:37never see anybody like me again.