Last night the latest candidate to fail in their bid to win this year’s Apprentice was fired by Lord Sugar.
Business psychologist Edna Agbarha lost out after failing a junk removal challenge. The 37-year-old laid the blame for the failure of the task with project manager Zoe Beresford who was reduced to tears on the first day of the task.
Agbartha said "In this case, Zoe should have gone. Her leadership skills were non-existent, there were no decisions and no strategy, she was quite shambolic. She fell apart by her own admission and Lord Sugar said she fell apart too."
The teams were given a tipper truck and told to make money by collecting and selling on rubbish.
Team Logic was led by executive assistant Helen Milligan who went on to win the task by a margin of just £6. They won two contracts on the first day by offering to clear out waste from an office with furniture for free, in the hope of selling the items.
Beresford was reduced to tears when she found out she had not won the contracts after putting a price of £100 for collecting the office furniture.
Edna failed to impress
Beresford brought team members Agbartha and Susan Ma back into the boardroom where Agbartha failed to sell herself to Lord Sugar.
He told the project manager: "You lost it, by your own admission you lost it, and I'm pleased that you admitted you lost it ... but there's a limit to how long I'm going to put up with someone telling me I got this wrong, I got that wrong."
The tycoon then turned on Agbarha, and said her performance did not match up to her impressive CV, which includes three degrees and two Masters qualifications. Firing her, he added: "Edna, I just don't think you and I are going to gel in business."
Tempers got a little frayed in the boardroom
