'The Apprentice' week 2 - money, money, money

All they had to do this week was make money, they were given £200 to run a business during the day and a business at night.

The key here was get your business idea right and you could make a mint. You needed to go for simple ideas and volume sales.

The boys with Tre as leader went for gardening on a rainy day and sing-a-grams.

The girls with Naomi as leader went for face painting and kiss-a-grams.

The boys ideas were pretty poor, gardening took too long and anyone that wanted any gardening done would already be paying someone to do it. The sing-a-grams main plus was that there were no start up costs.

The girls did ok with the facepainting but location and a lack of customers on a school day let them down. Again the kiss-a-grams had no start up costs.

For the evening I might have gone for rose selling, selling single red roses to lovers for £5 a shot.

Both teams argued a lot with Tre and Jadine standing out on each side as the opiniated ones but Sir Alan has got his eye on both of them. They better start delivering results or Sir Alan will get bored of their attitude.

In the end the boys put in some hard effort and won the task.

Geri got fired for being a slow starter and failing on two tasks to pick a good enough location for the sales team. Jadine had her card marked by Sir Alan for her disruptive behaviour, he is watching her closely and she could be next if she doesn't start working with the team.

Episode in quotes:

Katie: "Girls are so different to boys"
(As the only girl on the boys team, referring to their secret ballot for leader)

Nick Hewer: "Tre confuses physical work with leadership..."
(After Tre rushes around doing the gardening)

Katie:"Eat your heart out Charlie Dimmock...and I do it in underwear"
(Whilst sweeping up some leaves)

Naomi:"I am a busineeswoman not a prostitute."
(when told about the kiss-a-gram idea)

Tre: "We just need to ******* make some ******* money... Quite frankly I'm getting tired of all this bullshit."
(one of Tre's rants)

Sir Alan: "Give me some money, would you like to kiss me...sounds like another old profession"
(talking in the boardroom about the girls kiss-a-gram scheme)

Next week: Flog candy to the public at London Zoo