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04-02-2009, 02:43 PM
Sandwich chain boss Rocky Andrews has become the latest Apprentice candidate to be fired - after a catering task where his team walked away with a £160 loss.
The 21-year-old Yorkshireman blasted southern city bosses and said he would have won the task if it had taken place in the north.
He said he was looking forward to getting back to the north - where people are "straight-talking".
Andrews was the youngest candidate this year and the only one who already earns more cash than he would have done as Sir Alan Sugar's Apprentice.
He left school aged 16 to pursue a career with Middlesbrough Football Club but was diagnosed with arthritis and now runs 15 sandwich shops across north east England.
Last night's episode on BBC1 once again saw men versus women as in a City catering task.
The candidates swapped tie pins for rolling pins and had to buy their ingredients, deliver a lunch service and cater for a prestigious corporate function.
The women's team, Ignite, took £1,006.20 and spent £354.77, making a profit of £651.43.
The men, who named themselves Empire and were led this week by Andrews, took £660.61 and spent £821.37 - making a loss of £160.76.
Speaking after the show, Andrews said: "Obviously I dont think I should've went (sic).
"But I'm looking forward to getting back to the north east of England and straight-talking people. People with a bit of crack in 'em."
He said that the Apprentice show saw people say one thing to your face and another behind your back.
He continued: "We pitched to city bosses for the catering task. We had an Olympic theme... Pret's around the corner from everyone, so we thought we'd do something a bit different."
The Olympic theme involved "doing something from each continent" - including peanut butter sandwiches and mayonnaise wraps.
Andrews said: "If we'd pitched in the north rather than the south we'd have come through and won the task on the back of getting the business."
Andrews said he had not got a bad impression of southerners in general - "but the city bosses, I think they all take themselves a little bit too seriously and they don't get the northern type of thing. If they moved the financial districts (up) to the north, I don't think we'd be in the mess we are now, to be honest with you."
Andrews said of the other candidates: "I think I'm stronger than them all."
He is also considering having another go at the show next year.
Andrews said: "To be honest I might have another crack at it next year, 'cos I love the show that much."
Firing Andrews, Sir Alan told him: "Rocky you stood up and said you were going to take this job and I would've thought that this is the right bloke to do the job because he runs these 15 shops, employs 150 people and he sells sandwiches for a living.
"I've concluded that Rocky, you're 21-years-old but one cannot ignore what I call immature mistakes. Your career at Middlesbrough was halted and you got taken off the pitch on a stretcher. This time you're off the pitch in a black cab. You're fired!"
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The 21-year-old Yorkshireman blasted southern city bosses and said he would have won the task if it had taken place in the north.
He said he was looking forward to getting back to the north - where people are "straight-talking".
Andrews was the youngest candidate this year and the only one who already earns more cash than he would have done as Sir Alan Sugar's Apprentice.
He left school aged 16 to pursue a career with Middlesbrough Football Club but was diagnosed with arthritis and now runs 15 sandwich shops across north east England.
Last night's episode on BBC1 once again saw men versus women as in a City catering task.
The candidates swapped tie pins for rolling pins and had to buy their ingredients, deliver a lunch service and cater for a prestigious corporate function.
The women's team, Ignite, took £1,006.20 and spent £354.77, making a profit of £651.43.
The men, who named themselves Empire and were led this week by Andrews, took £660.61 and spent £821.37 - making a loss of £160.76.
Speaking after the show, Andrews said: "Obviously I dont think I should've went (sic).
"But I'm looking forward to getting back to the north east of England and straight-talking people. People with a bit of crack in 'em."
He said that the Apprentice show saw people say one thing to your face and another behind your back.
He continued: "We pitched to city bosses for the catering task. We had an Olympic theme... Pret's around the corner from everyone, so we thought we'd do something a bit different."
The Olympic theme involved "doing something from each continent" - including peanut butter sandwiches and mayonnaise wraps.
Andrews said: "If we'd pitched in the north rather than the south we'd have come through and won the task on the back of getting the business."
Andrews said he had not got a bad impression of southerners in general - "but the city bosses, I think they all take themselves a little bit too seriously and they don't get the northern type of thing. If they moved the financial districts (up) to the north, I don't think we'd be in the mess we are now, to be honest with you."
Andrews said of the other candidates: "I think I'm stronger than them all."
He is also considering having another go at the show next year.
Andrews said: "To be honest I might have another crack at it next year, 'cos I love the show that much."
Firing Andrews, Sir Alan told him: "Rocky you stood up and said you were going to take this job and I would've thought that this is the right bloke to do the job because he runs these 15 shops, employs 150 people and he sells sandwiches for a living.
"I've concluded that Rocky, you're 21-years-old but one cannot ignore what I call immature mistakes. Your career at Middlesbrough was halted and you got taken off the pitch on a stretcher. This time you're off the pitch in a black cab. You're fired!"
RTE