Hayley Forrester has become the sixth contestant to be fired by Lord Alan Sugar in Young Apprentice.
Team Kinetic won this week's challenge, which involved sourcing items and negotiating prices. Kinetic had a final costs total of £969.10, with Team Atomic costing £1,480.87 after fines were added.
Lord Sugar told the losing team: "The failure of this task is two-fold, you paid too much and your fines were quite high also."
Project Manager Lizzie Magee brought back Hayley and Zara Brownless into the boardroom. After Hayley and Lizzie both stated that Zara should be fired, she responded: "We are now playing this as individuals and I need to defend myself as an individual."
Lord Sugar deliberated: "Zara, I think it's fair to say you do tend to takeover, I have noticed a little bit that you do use what I say in this boardroom and then apply it in another way.
"Hayley, you are very quietly spoken and very polite and I don't see anything wrong with that. But I wanted to see if there was any steel beyond that politeness and I'm not sure whether you've shown me that.
"Lizzie, you're also a little bit quiet but you do speak up at the right times and you have put yourself forward, but in this particular task there have been some terrible mistakes. For that reason it's very hard for me to pass the blame for this task on to anyone else so it's a very difficult decision that I have to make."
Finally, he declared: "I think I've concluded that, Hayley, you seem to be a person that stays in the shadow, your politeness is great, and I know that you're enthusiastic, but at this point in this competitive environment that we have here, Hayley - you're fired."
During the taxi ride home, Hayley said: "I feel Lord Sugar's made a mistake in firing me, I wasn't aggressive enough in the boardroom but then that's not how I am as a person so I'm not going to be like that in the boardroom."
Young Apprentice continues next Monday at 9pm on BBC One.
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:17 am