The Apprentice 2007 Episode 3 'Start-up Service'

Another cracking episode finally saw a female fired!

Sir Alan set the challengers the task of starting up a business. Each team was given £200 and the team which made the most profit won. Katie and Jadine swapped teams.

Eclipse, led by Tre decided that they would start up a gardening business. Stealth decided that they would run a face painting service.

Tre led his team superbly and I am becoming more and more impressed by his determination to lead and succeed. The team appeared to be struggling at first (mostly because of Katie, Paul and Adam's poor salesmanship - they hardly drummed up any business). Katie and Paul didn't really seem to take the challenge seriously enough. However, the hard work from Tre's part of the team meant that they pulled through and earned some good money. Gardening wasn't a bad idea, although perhaps it wasn't the right idea to tackle in Richmond.

Stealth's team leader was Naomi. Her team leading skills were poor and she didn't really make any decisions - Jadine was right when she said that she would do whatever Kristina suggested. Let's be honest - face painting is a great success if there are lots of children. To do this on a school day was just stupid. To then fail to realise that all the children would be leaving school at 3.30pm was once again ridiculous. This is the sole reason that Stealth lost in the end - their idea was pathetic.

Both teams completely overlooked the fact that they would need to change businesses in the evening. Why they didn't prepare for this before the day started I do not know, as it was obvious that it would be crucial in helping them win. Eclipse came up with a Sing-a-gram idea. It seemed to make money, but hardly the work of business geniuses. Stealth, in desperation, came up with Kiss-a-gram. This was never going to impress Sir Alan (remember when he told off the girls' team last year!)

Jadine might be annoying, but she does talk a lot of success. The girls this year seem a bit clique-y - and Jadine didn't seem to fit in. It was clear that Naomi would try to get her fired. However, Jadine should not have even been in the room. Her contribution to the task was fantastic. I'd have put Kristina in the boardroom just for coming up with the idea of kiss-a-grams! Naomi could quite easily have gone, as she didn't handle herself very well. In the end, I think Sir Alan made the right decision to fire Jerry. Once again she had been given the job of finding the right location, and again she tried to shirk any responsibility of this in the boardroom. She had contributed nothing to any of the tasks we've seen so far and she deserved to go.

As for potential winners, there's only one I've spotted with any potential so far - Tre!