Fired Apprentice Natasha Scribbins: I ran out of energy on the show

Fired Apprentice hopeful Natasha Scribbins has suggested she missed on a place in Sunday’s final after ‘giving up’ halfway through the 12-week job interview from hell. Speaking to Dara O’Briain on BBC Two spin-off You’re Hired last night, Natasha said she had ran out of energy by the end of the series.

Lord Sugar told openly bisexual Natasha: “You started like a house on fire but I’ve found you lacklustre in the last few weeks.”

And the 31-year-old recruitment consultant agreed, saying: “I showed him a lot of energy at the start but the weakness that he saw was that I didn’t carry it through in the end.”

“I wanted to jump in the screen and give myself an extra energy boost,” she said after watching her final episode back. “I gave so much energy in the beginning that by the time I got to the end I had run out of gas.”

Natasha became the latest candidate of the boardroom on last night’s penultimate show after Lord Sugar tasked the teams with creating their own brands of fast food restaurants in the centre of London. However while Natasha may have lacked enough energy to put herself forward – especially given her degree in Hospitality – she had plenty to use when it came to clashing with Susan Ma.

“Susan is only 21 and hasn’t been in a corporate environment for nine years like me,” Natasha explained. “So it’s difficult to adapt to working with someone in that way. It is quite an aggressive environment.”

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The Apprentice 2011 final will see Helen Milligan, Jim Eastwood, Susan Ma and Tom Pellereau battle it out this Sunday at 9PM on BBC One.

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DINESH R MAKWANA
People often refer to mathematics, one of favourite and strongest subjects, as an art as well as a science and I can really understand and see what they mean by this; the number line is so complex and artistic in patterns that spring up and vast area of different topics that crop up in mathematics. You can also see how mathematics is what you make of it; there is no definite label on how maths should be done, throughout history many cultures have used maths in their daily lives probably right back thousands of years ago when people would evenly share food between a family (the theme of division is evident here). The ancient Egyptians used complex hieroglyphs for their fractions that still only a trained interpreter would be able to understand and make the correct calculations with. It is this that intrigues me the most about mathematics; how different cultures used mathematics in a variety of different ways and the history behind discovery’s and great advances in maths…..and the cultures and the new company being formed by Lord Sugar will need mathematics!…..and so Jim goes into the final with a rather sad minus to say the least for not knowing his 60 times table or worse still his 7 times table!
This was a very tough challenge week but in my opinion both the ideas from the teams were poor. The fast food industry is a walk out pace industry where the product is already made in most respects and sometimes making a very simple product pays….even ready hot baguettes pay!
Jim’s lack of business fundamentals was a disaster and any Director or Managing Partner would be horrified, just like I was; and Helen’s 23% margin….well that’s a different type of financial meltdown in view of the huge overheads of these business models. Nevertheless, Helen flew through because she had numbers and not because they were good numbers. This should give an indication of why I do not believe Helen, as good as she is, is not the one to win The Apprentice this year, and despite her ten wins so far.
Natasha’s long overdue sacking at last happened; proving that the dynamics of this show also allows weaker candidates their longer stays but eventually they are weeded out too. Personally both Leon and Glenn were much better candidates than Natasha in this series; and whilst both would not feature in my last four, they were far better than Natasha.
So again, Susan Ma is my choice this year and for all her competencies and superb attributes and those that I have mentioned before. So, good luck Susan again.
Continuing best wishes,
DINESH R MAKWANA (DREAMWORDS AND INORBITS)