I can't believe he gave Sophie the boot over Natalie, she was bloody useless.

I know Sophie didn't do very much this task but it was not her fault they lost the task. It was Natalie who was just witching around with fellow witch Luisa!

Boooo. No more Sophie and her super short skirt

Thought they both shouldve gone!

Natalie shouldve gone, the way she conducted herself in the boardroom was just disgusting.

I think Uzma should have gone! At the end of the day, this is a design task and Uzma claims that she's in a look-good industry.

But what can Sophie do?

She can do market research, plus she has gorgeous legs

I think LS should have fired Natalie and made Sophie PM in the next task to let her try and prove herself.

So do I. I think Sophie would have done quite well, plus she is not one of the skanky loud wenches (Luiza, Natalie, Uzma).

...She doesn't really have anything to offer Alan this is why she was cut loose, fact is she is more than happy to just sit on the sidelines. Sweet girl she is but she was on borrowed time from day one.

Probably the least objectionable of the girls, but by Sophie's own admission, her skill set was extremely limited. What was Sugar going to do with her?

Plus she looked like she was in a daydream most of the time - head to one side, staring into space.

No, perhaps in the original format, but not now he is giving them his cash.

I wonder what kind of the business plan Uzma has, as I would have fired her over Sophie (Natalie got praise from Lord Sugar in the boardroom, so was unlikely to be fired and apart from her outburst in the boardroom she did not much wrong herself).

Really wonder if Uzma might be the Tom (not from last year, but the winner from the year before) of this series.

OMG, that Tom from the year of Helen and Susan Ma. I actually dislike him as a candidate. Having said that, Tom did good on some tasks, though. I haven't seen Uzma in a good light. Uzma claims to be in a look-good industry, really? Seriously?

With the history with female winners in the past tending to be trouble. I think he prefers the rougher types like Natalie and Luisa to be honest

Natalie or Uzma for me as they were the reason they lost the task and had done nothing on previous weeks to save them. Neither did Sophie tbh, but she wasn't responsible for the task loss.

Really, Sugar could have fired any of the three and I wouldn't have complained. Sophie had, in truth, contributed very little in any of her three tasks and paid the price for staying too close to her comfort zone for too long.

On You're Fired she came across as very young and naive - even more so in the actual recording (which I was fortunate enough to go to) than in the broadcast edit. She could barely string two words together for much of the recording before finally coming to life in the last 15 minutes or so.

Sophie was delegated the role of market research.
If she tried to take over other people's roles it would defeat the purpose of delegation in the first place and be even more of a mess.
What about the people who were delegated the roles of design, pitching, and selling?

I guess that Alan Sugar didn't like her business proposal.
Because to be fair it didn't appear so much to be the case that the other girls felt that strongly that it was her fault. It was more Sugar prompting to get her back in the boardroom, then even despite the other two blaming each other more he still fired Sophie.

Now if you've made a right balls up of a task and the focus is on you, and the focus isn't on somebody else because they didn't do anything wrong, you can just accuse them of 'hiding' and probably get them fired.

I don't think that there's anything Sophie could have done to be honest. It was a crap product, and I don't think Sugar was interested in her business proposal. If he was then she would have stayed.

Sophie was her own worst enemy.

Once she started babbling about how she doesn't do pitches, and isn't creative you could hear LAS thinking "well what are you bloody bringing to the table?". Once she said that she had told Natalie that, and had been put in her safe place, it was a sure thing. She might've got off if she tried a pitch and failed but said "hey not my skillset but I gave it a go" (Think Lucinda and the computer).

In saying that, it was three weeks in and I still had no clue at anything Sophie was good at.

Natalie didn't get any praise, Sugar was very close to firing her. it was a toss up between her and Sophie.

Natalie failed in every department, she let Luisa control her team and even dictate on who to bring back t the boardroom. She oversaw the design and failed on that front as well, I would have spared Sophie and fired Natalie who was a waste of space.

At least Uzma tried to work the crap idea green lighted by Natalie,

and Sophie did try to tell them they need to listen to the market research and not Luisa. Natalie decided Luisa knows best.

Agreed.

Anyway, Sophie is lovely. Has Sugar no consideration for his male viewers?

I think so! He mentioned again his "gut feeling". I think it can be translated as "your business plan sucks!" .