The Apprentice: Always check the label – S16 ep 10

Warning: spoilers ahead

Phone call, 4am, yadda yadda yadda. But has the cellphone in The Apprentice dwelling often been a hippo?

In any case, the remaining six are off to KidZania, in which kids roleplay employment this kind of as health practitioner, banker and firefighter. For this obstacle, the candidates will have to regress to their more youthful times to make a healthier newborn meals. They’ve to style the branding and packaging prior to pitching their solution to two leading merchants.

Tim is not accessible for this episode so Mike Soutar, whom you may well recognise as an interviewer on prior sequence of The Apprentice, is stepping in.

Lord Sugar is shifting the teams all over again. Aaron and Brittany shift to Assorted and Stephanie moves to Infinity. Momentum is slow on Crew Assorted but as Aaron is the only candidate left who has young children, he usually takes on the function of venture supervisor in breezy vogue. Harpreet comes ahead for Infinity.

Group Infinity + Karren: Harpreet (venture manager), Stephanie and Akeem.

Crew Assorted + Mike: Aaron (project manager), Kathryn and Brittany.

Baby chat

The two groups are keen to go global in a bid to nurture some worldly babies. The challenge professionals are having to the kitchen area. Harpreet appreciates her flavours, incorporating salmon, spinach, onions, cauliflower, carrot, coconut milk and spices to make a salmon and spinach curry. Aaron tries to hook up with Mike for direction, but this aide is not providing any candidate any support. Violin plucking indicators that peril is in advance as he decides on a ‘Moroccan Medley’ of sweet potato, butternut squash, lentil, couscous, brown rice and cumin. “It must be alright if I retain ingesting it,” he reassures himself.

The other pairs are off to do the branding at the Dwelling of Fuji. Soon after a minimal define, Mike is anxious that the Kathryn and Brittany have not been presented enough direction.

Sub staff leader Stephanie appears eager on the phrase ‘bubba’ but I’m glad they swerved it as connotations of golfing, Gump and/or shrimp might occur a cropper. Phew. They choose on ‘First Time Foodies’. Karren spots an even even larger trouble with their emblem, nevertheless: “It says ‘First Time Dies’”. Yup, that’s absolutely even worse. Branding can usually be about tapping into peoples’ feelings, but they’ve inadvertently activated every parent’s finest fear – and that’s right before they even check the label for allergens.

Kathryn and Brittany plump for Little Flavor Adventure. Mike is bereft of a scooby on the logo: “It doesn’t necessarily mean something to any individual at all,” he states. Also, world Earth in a frying pan is sensitive imagery for involved local weather researchers.

Chewing it up and spitting it out

Harpreet and Stephanie’s pitch is accented by an eyebrow twitch from one of the reps from Ocado. They’re challenged on ‘First Time Dies’ and how they didn’t spot it.

Brittany and Aaron are on the pitch for the other group. The meals getting squeezed from the pouch is like a visible aid for constipation. “It’s so thick,” suggests a member of the panel. Oh, I’ve missed the poo jokes from before in the series. “It’s the most bland [sic] newborn foodstuff I have at any time tasted.”

Kathryn is with the market place analysis group: the mothers and fathers and infants. They are a large amount much less tactful than the adult reviewers but they are in settlement. The foods goes in and arrives back out on get hold of with a couple style buds. All in all, it is a bland blunder from the blender for Assorted.

Akeem is with the other mother and father and babies. The dad and mom see ‘dies’ to start with on the food packaging, as does the following retailer: Iceland.

A dressing down of bib-lical proportions

It is not prolonged ahead of Lord Sugar addresses the absolute circus elephant in the room. “What is the issue with you?” he barks at Team Infinity, exasperated.

It all comes undone at the stop for Team Various way too. Kathryn and Brittany complain as they felt they weren’t provided any course by Aaron.

The final outcomes are a shocker, although – acquire a search.

Staff Infinity
Higher road retailer: orders
On line retailer: orders

Staff Numerous
Higher street retailer: orders
On the internet retailer: orders

The on-line suppliers were amazed by Workforce Infinity’s child meals but had been let down by the atrocious branding. In point, they would have acquired 10,000 units if it weren’t for branding.

So, no person wins, no person loses. What comes about now? The disgrace-faced 6 head out to the café.

Aaron is questioned to leave the process much more or fewer straight away even though the rest are sent to reception so that Lord Sugar, Karren and Mike can examine their performances.

When they’re brought back, Lord Sugar claims “four of Ultimate Five”. Anyone else is about to go. Getting not designed a great deal of an influence on Lord Sugar, it is Akeem that’s despatched residence.

It’s a tale of two exits. Aaron’s departure is incredibly quick, with a shot of him wheeling his suitcase out the doorway and no back-of-the-cab soundbite. Akeem has a shot of him sitting on the couch, hugging the Ultimate 4, having in the taxi and chatting to digicam. Hmmm, curious.

There it is: Aaron and Akeem, the last two lads standing, are down. Not only does that make the standard Last Five a Last Four, but an all-female remaining.

Next week: The Final Five (kind of)

Much more is becoming disclosed about the ultimate four candidates and their businesses in the future episode. Additionally the return of Claude Littner. Join us then for the recap.

Enjoy the whole episode on BBC iPlayer.

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