Week seven of Lord Sugar’s present noticed each teams go into the longer term to design, model and pitch their very own electrical driverless pod.
The contestants had been whisked off to the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park to give you concepts, which included a celebration pod from Numerous and a driverless taxi from crew Infinity.
They then needed to pitch their designs to model specialists earlier than being introduced again to the boardroom to see which crew had gained essentially the most gross sales.
Sadly, it was Sophie’s crew who had been unsuccessful, with lots of the patrons taking concern with the design of the automobile, in addition to the identify and emblem.
After a tense showdown involving the venture supervisor, Akshay Thakrar and Nick Showering, it was time for Sophie to go away the competitors.
Cocktail bar proprietor Sophie, 32, from Cheltenham, caught up with Metro.co.uk and different press to talk about her firing and gave away some prime boardroom secrets and techniques.
By way of the crew’s automobile titled Star Pod, Sophie defined the thought behind the idea: ‘I simply wished to do one thing which was sort of like, out of the abnormal, one thing actually modern.
‘So I knew from the offset, it was both going to be superb, or it was going to be a flop, so I knew it was a danger.
‘After we had been arising with concepts, there have been patrons, which was purported to be within the viewers to purchase celebration pods, so I assumed there was an viewers for it, I assumed I might take this activity to be actually modern.’
Sophie designed her personal cocktail bar Imperial Haus from scratch, which she famous she had far more time to do than on this activity.
She added: ‘Your arms are tied to a sure extent since you’ve solely obtained a sure collection of colors and supplies and designs. So you possibly can’t be as artistic as I've been up to now.’
‘When Lord Sugar, Karen [Brady] and Tim [Campbell] are speaking concerning the completely different groups, you’re at all times like, “Oh, are they the winners? Are they the losers? Are they successful?”
‘One thing which I picked up on, I believe [Lord Sugar] at all times speaks to the successful crew greater than the shedding crew within the boardroom, so I used to at all times attempt to like keep in mind how lengthy he’s talking to every facet earlier than the precise verdict of the winner or the loser is talked about. A prime tip, that!’
Sophie went on to reiterate how ‘lengthy’ the scenes had been, with a number of repeats and edits happening, and precisely why you at all times wished to be sat down while filming these scenes.
She added: ‘One factor you at all times need is to be sat down as a result of you possibly can assume extra and also you’re extra comfy whenever you’re sat down quite than stood up in heels. And a number of the ladies will like Christian Louboutins.
‘All of them have them on since you had been in the identical footwear that you just’re carrying and your entrance footage. As soon as I used to be sat down and my leg went useless. This was on a successful crew, truly, and I actually couldn’t rise up.
‘As a lot as I wished to get out of that room, I truly had cramps and I couldn’t transfer! So that they needed to redo that shoot.
‘However yeah, it’s it appears very, it appears very lengthy. I assume it’s most likely like an hour.’
However who would be the subsequent candidate to be fired from the competitors?
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