The latest contestant to be fired on BBC One's The Apprentice received their marching orders after a mix-up involving soap and soup.
Marketing and design company owner Rebecca Jeffery said she was "a bit relieved" to be going home having survived some gruelling boardroom encounters with boss Alan Sugar in previous weeks.
In this week's late night challenge, Sugar tasked the two teams with finding nine specific items at the cheapest prices before a 6am deadline.
Two of the items were African black soap and a tagine dish with Jeffery thinking she had found both after a phone conversation with the owner of an international food shop. However, on arrival she discovered tahini sauce and soup were what was on offer, with the blunder leading to a fine for her team.
"I was gutted when we went into the shop and they didn't have a tagine," she told the Press Association. "They had tahini, then they didn't have soap... they had soup. Doh.
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"I felt very responsible as I had made the phone call myself and somehow these items had become mine to negotiate too. At the time it felt dreadful."
Jeffery said she was like a cat that used up its nine lives.
"To be fair I had been on the losing team every week, I had been brought back into the boardroom twice and I hadn't really had any moments of excellence in the process," she continued.
“I haven’t been enough of a t**t.”
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"It didn't feel like a horrible firing to me, I knew that I had probably used up all of my chances. I was like a cat with nine lives. At that point I had also lost heart a bit because I was missing my little boy so much, so I was a bit relieved to go home."
The Apprentice continues on BBC One next Thursday.
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