Week 7 of The Apprentice and there was a big surprise for the candidates. They were told to pack their bags for Morocco.

In Morocco, the candidates were joined by Margaret and Nick where they revealed Lee is this weeks team leader for Alpha, with Jennifer leading for Renascence. This is the first time that Lee and Jennifer have been team leaders.

The task this week, to purchase products from a shopping list specified by Sir Alan. On Jennifer’s team, Alex and Claire were the first to make an offer for an orange juicer. They finally manage to negotiate the price down, but only by a pound cheaper, not their finest bargaining moment I’m sure! Next time round, and they clearly hadn’t learnt from last time and Alex disappoint bought a rug for £60 more than he wanted to.

Under Lee’s management, his team attempt to make their first purchase for the alarm clock, but negotiations fell through so they walked away with nothing. Second time round at another stall however and they managed to purchase the alarm clock for £10.

Over at Renascence, a conflict of negotiations between Jennifer, Claire and Alex resulted in Alex have to close the deal on the bed spread at £60 more than he aimed to pay. The other half of the team seemed to be having better luck, with Jenny and Michael bargaining the cow hide down to £50, a third of the original price. Over at team Alpha though, Raef couldn’t believe his luck when he managed to scoop a cow hide for £15!

After research, Lee and his half of the team were pin-pointed to the perfect place to buy the required Kosher chicken, the Marrakesh Jewish Quarter. Team Renascence weren’t having the same luck in finding the Kosher chicken.

In searching for the tennis rackets, both teams met at the same sports shop, but team Renascence got there first and closed a deal. Alpha however managed to strike a better deal, but not wanting to be beaten, Jenny and Michael tried to sabotage the deal, a pretty cheap shot! Renascence made another mistake when purchasing the alarm clock by not ensuring they purchased a green one, forcing them to search for the green variety.

Late in the day, and Alpha are desperately trying to locate their last remain item from Sir Alan’s shopping list, the juicer. After extensive searching, they finally manage to locate a second hand juicer for £75, the same price it would cost for a brand new one – beggars can’t be choosers though!
The results, and team Alpha took the victory. Having spent more and purchased incorrect items, Renascence were subject to a £155 fine, just to add insult to injury. Delighted they won this weeks task, team Alpha were treated to a hot air balloon ride whilst Renascence were restricted to the cafe having lost the task.

Back at the boardroom, team Renascence were in for a slating from Sir Alan. Disgusted at the overall performance from the team, he probed for answers as to why. Threatening to “fire the whole bloody lot of you”, Sir Alan asked them to speak up and say why they shouldn’t be fired. The team members then began turning on each other to justify their own actions. In turn, Jenny came under fire from Sir Alan trying to establish whether she did know about the Jewish Kosher procedure and the attempted sabotage over the tennis rackets. So frustrated at the whole episode, Sir Alan sent to whole team outside for a breather.

Upon returning to the boardroom, Sir Alan had heard enough and quickly dispatched Jenny from the boardroom by firing her! To the surprise of the rest of the team, Sir Alan asked “right, who’s next”! The question of who should be fried was murmured which set the infighting off yet again. Alex however was let off the hook by Sir Alan and was allowed to return to the house. Then it was down to Jennifer, Claire and Michael. In order to justify her existence, Claire made an outstanding speech, where she spouted how she was sick of the game play and bull sh*t. Michael, not wanting to be left out, jumped on the “please don’t fire me” band wagon by stating how it is more important an anything else in his life!

Having revealed that Jenny was a bit of a “snake in the grass”, Sir Alan decided that the failure of the team this week was ultimately the result of poor management from Jennifer. Therefore Jennifer you’re fired!

So there you have it, the first double eviction. As always we want to hear your option, so head over to the forum now >>