The Apprentice 2007 Episode 7 'The 97 Pence Victory'

Another thoroughly enjoyable episode saw me feel a little sorry for one candidate, and grow to really dislike another...

The candidates had a day to buy ten products. Sir Alan insisted that every price must be negotiated and they must pay less than the initial asking price. The teams had one day to buy all the items and then return by 6pm. Simon headed up Eclipse and Adam, after surviving three weeks running in the boardroom, leads Stealth. The shopping list included a white rabbit, a house plant, leather trousers and a unicycle, but the one item which caused most trouble was 'nigella seeds'.

Adam's team, Stealth broke into two teams. Kristina and Katie worked really well together and, to be fair, gained some good discounts. Adam and Ghazal, who is hopeless, found a couple of items. Adam's negotiating skills appear to consist of asking, 'Is there any way you can reduce the price?... Anything?...' Of course, rubbing his chin makes his negotiating even better! He and the hopeless one fail to find nigella seeds, despite Adam's bright idea that they might be used to lay astroturf(?)!

Eclipse, led by Simon, worked quick to gain fast discounts. They managed to find all the items, even striking really lucky at the last minute, finding nigella seeds!

In the Boardroom, there was an uncomfortable silence as Sir Alan announced Eclipse won by a 97 pence margin. This was when I started to feel sorry for Adam. He really worked hard and I felt he was unlucky not to win. Whilst the others went off enjoying Adam's dream prize of car racing, he was left to battle against the Wicked Witch of the West, Katie.

Adam dragged out Katie's relationship with Paul as the reason for her having 'her head down' at the start of the task. We saw hard-nosed Kristina squirm as Sir Alan exposed the conversation about Katie and Paul's relationship in the previous week's boardroom. A furious Katie concentrated her attack on Adam - calling him 'dull', 'slow' and that his best friend was 'Mr Pinot and Mr Grigio'. I seem to dislike her more and more every week. She is just horrible and totally self-centred. She must go soon.

It was a tough call whether to fire the troublesome Katie, the 'too young' Ghazal or Adam. However, Adam has been so unpopular amongst all the housemates that he had been dragged into the boardroom four times and you could almosy predict the way he would be fired - 'Your luck has run out. You're fired!' He was unlucky to go. He didn't deserve to be so unpopular, and well I'd sooner hopeless Ghazal or wicked witch Katie left instead.