Lord Alan Sugar fires 'Young Apprentice' after deodorant task

Gbemi Okunlola has been fired by Lord Alan Sugar in the latest Young Apprentice episode, following a deodorant designer task.

The two teams had to design and pitch new antiperspirants, with Team Atomic crowned this week's winners with their male deodorant RAW.


Team Kinetic were criticised for their design flaws and poor selling points for the female product Vanity.

Project Manager Harry Maxwell reacted to his team challenging his performance as leader by saying: "This is all getting a bit pathetic and a bit erratic. I'm not going to stoop to that level. I'm going to keep my integrity in tact so just save it!"

In the boardroom, he defended himself, adding: "This team were quite a hard team to manage but they gelled together under my leadership. James you tried to cause trouble every step of the way."

Harry M decided to bring back Gbemi for her poor product design and James Mccullagh for his various disruptions during the task.

Gbemi challenged Harry M's qualities, saying: "You didn't listen to anyone else in the team! It is not all about you Harry, it is about the people in the team as well."

Lord Sugar came to his decision, telling the three hopefuls: "Harry this is the fifth time you have been in the losing team, there's got to be a reason. James you came into this process like a bull in a china shop but you have improved.

"Gbemi, you're a designer and it is in my opinion the main culprit in the failure of this task. Because of that serious design error, Gbemi - you're fired."

While being driven away, the 16-year-old student reflected: "This definitely isn't going to put me off the designing that I do. With every mistake I make I learn to make it 100 times better."

Young Apprentice continues next Monday at 9pm on BBC One.