The second candidate to be fired on BBC's The Apprentice has said she made the wrong choice when deciding who should accompany her to face boss Alan Sugar in the boardroom.
Project Manager Aisha Kasim said she regretted bringing Vana Koutsomitis with her after their task to name and brand a new shampoo ended in failure.
Koutsomitis was chosen by Kasim because she had suggested the product should be marketed to the over-50s. They were accompanied to the showdown by Natalie Dean.
However, while Sugar said Dean had delivered a terrible pitch, he did not agree that Koutsomitis should be in the firing line.
"One thing I am sure about, though, is that Vana - I don't personally think you should be sitting here today in this last boardroom," he said.
"So on that basis, you're going to remain in the process. Aisha - you brought the wrong person back in the case of Vana. I haven't got a clue why you brought her back and that's a sign of your poor judgement."
After her sacking, Kasim said: "I definitely shouldn't have brought Vana back in with me. I should have brought someone else in, maybe Selina (Waterman-Smith) for the catastrophe of the advert. That advert was terrible. I should have brought Selina in or Elle (Stevenson)."
Aisha Kasim
However, Kasim was adamant she was not the weakest candidate of the three.
"Natalie should have gone, simply because she says she pitches for a living and that's what she does, but she couldn't deliver," she claimed.
Despite losing the challenge and her place on the show, Kasim said she could still find some consolation in defeat.
"I was really proud of the women because we didn't have any bickering on the project," she said.
"Yeah, there's an element that if it was mixed, it wouldn't have been as intense. But I don't care, I'm sticking with the girls. It was a sense of 'we all crashed and burned together'."
