The latest candidate to be fired on the Apprentice - Jenny Garbis - thinks she would still be in the competition - if she had chosen the easy task of finding 30kg of manure.
The task in the third episode was to buy a series of objects, including champagne flutes and an inflatable boat, by negotiating the lowest price possible - with the teams split between Calais and Kent.
Garbis,was on the English sub-team and was originally allocated Leavers Lace, until the team realised it was a speciality of Calais and decided to buy it in France. She was then asked by project manager Vana Koutsomitis to find mussels, but after a series of visits to restaurants on the Kent coast was unable to purchase any late in the afternoon.
The rest of the team managed to purchase seven of the nine items on the list: an inflatable boat, seven champagne flutes, a cheese (but not the right one), an anchor and snails. Ruth Whiteley, in charge of finding manure, obtained her item free of charge from a friendly farmer.
Elle Stevenson, Vana Koutsomitis and Jenny Garbis
Koutsomitis brought Garbis back into the boardroom for being "dead weight", alongside Elle Stevenson who had been in charge of the team on the English side of the Channel. But it was Garbis who ended up on the manure heap.
Garbis defended herself in front of Lord Sugar in the boardroom saying: "I felt like I'd been dealt a bad hand here. If I'd have been given the manure, I wouldn't have been in this boardroom, because I'd have had 'an item' to my name. It would have been ticked off the list: tick, she's got an item."
Afterwards the business studies graduate said: "Who gives somebody two different items to source in the UK, when you can only source them in France? It's almost like I was set up to fail. I'm not saying there are any conspiracy theories, but I think it was just very unlucky. And actually I think a lot of the process is about luck."
Looking back, Garbis said she and Lord Sugar could still be a good match as partners in her business, which centres on creating a funding platform for renewable energy projects. However, she added: "Lord Sugar certainly isn't the only investor out there. There are a lot of other options."
