Do explain....?

Tbh I think the advert task cost Chris the job - with better colours and branding on the product they would have won that task, and Stella would have had another defeat to her name.

I don't think it matters that Chris didn't win. Lord Sugar did say that he could knock on his door, which to me, means a job offer would be there for him.

As I said in #18, he didn't. For me the key conversation was the one in the car, when Liz explicitly asks about colour.

In addition to her previous huge number of ONE. Which would make an abysmal TWO in total. Compared with Chris' glorious and magnificent SIX defeats.

I don't think it cost him the job at all, especially since Sugar took notice of this and would have probably called Liz out on it had she still been in the competition, but I do think Liz tried to sabotage him. How hard was it to make a phone call and run everything by Chris before it was too late?

she should have, and would have, had Stuart not released his field of ponies storming towards Sugar.

Well its worth reiterating it when people post comments saying Liz cost Chris the job. Unless she has been secretly going into Lord Sugar's offices for the last few months and sabotaging all Chris's work she clearly had absolutely nothing to do with Chris losing out to Stella.

As I already said I asked the question on what we all watched in the final episode. We are all aware that the candidates work for LS for months after it is filmed. But as we don't see that then I asked the question on what was actually shown.

Your question doesn't make sense.

You can't ask if something that happened a year ago lost someone a job when that person has been observed in a real work environment over the course of an entire twelve months.

Even if the result had been decided on the basis of the task, the salient point, as far as AS was concerned, was that he delegated that part of the task to someone else - which he didn't think was a particularly good idea. But since Stella did exactly the same thing it's unlikely it would have had any bearing on his decision.

It is Chris's fault the drink ended up pink. He should have checked all details, including colour, before the drink was finally made.

But it was something that was picked up by a couple of the experts on the night and although Stella did the same thing her team didn't go against her briefing.

What I'm saying is that I don't think AS would hold the colour against him as he didn't choose it and had told them (allegedly) to make it clear (although someone has posted that what he actually said was "don't use artificial colouring").

What he might have held against him was delegating that aspect of the task but as Stella had done the same thing (and her drink had been criticised for being 'too pungent'), that would cancel out.