Two boys down, five to go! This has to be the year a woman wins BBC’s Apprentice.

Majid Nagra has become the third person to be sacked by Sir Alan Sugar during the latest Apprentice series. The 28-year-old found himself in the boardroom along with Ben Clarke and James McQuillan after the boys’ team lost a task of creating fitness equipment.

Nagra’s Empire team gained only 500 orders from buyers, whilst Debra Barr led the girls’ Ignite team to victory, with 10,180 orders for their re-designed exercise ball.

Sir Alan told Majid: “General feeling amongst my two colleagues here is that you just hang around on the periphery and don’t actually do anything.”

He added: “My instincts are that I can’t really have someone that is perceived not to contribute and you may not agree with this but Maj – you’re fired!”

After being fired, Nagra defended himself, blaming James for the team’s failure.

“I feel like Sir Alan didn’t get to see the best of me and I just think he got rid of the wrong person,” he said. “James has been in the firing line twice, he’s failed twice and he’s still in there fighting for a job with Sir Alan.”

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OMG!!! Sir Alan Sugar appeared on The One Show tonight saying that this years bunch of Apprentice candidates are his best yet, but to me they look like a bunch of bumbling idiots.

Their first task consisted of Sir Alan providing them with a van and some cleaning materials (all of which they paid for out of their budget). They then had to clean some stuff and make as much money as they could in just one day.

The girls in particular astounded me by trying to charge £300 to clean three cars! When the customer pointed out that his current cleaner does the job for £60, Mona Lewis told him he was wrong and basically implied that he was a liar. They landed the contract in the end but after dropping their price dramatically they then had to summon their customer to help them work the pressure washer.

The boys, to their credit, landed a contract to clean 30 minicabs, but would only be paid for the ones which passed the customers inspection. There seemed to be way too many of them trying to clean at the same time, they took one and a half hours to clean their first car and even then they were forgetting to clean roofs, backs of seats and other pretty obvious spots.

In the end Ignite (the girls team) took £357, they spent £196.45 and so made a profit of £160.55. Empire (the boys team) took £347, spent £107.39 and so made a profit of just over £239. So the boys won, but really not through any great margin and not because of any great planning or talent. I can only hope that this bunch get better with practice!

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Majid Nagra
Age: 28
Career: Business Development Manager
Qualifications: BSc Computer Science
Lives: Coventry

Reformed rebel Maj sees himself as loyal with the belief that business is the backbone to the world. Born in Coventry, Maj, who describes his attitude as “never say die”, was expelled from school for wayward behaviour but, having changed his life around, he now works with youth centres and charities while running his own car hire business. Describing himself as funny and talkative, Maj says he never shies away from the spotlight.

He says: “I think that business is the backbone to this world – without companies buying and selling, there wouldn’t be any economy”

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