Hindsight is certainly a luxury we enjoy that the candidates don't. As with many things we watch, it's much easier to be a Monday morning quarterback than to actually be in the pressure situation of doing the tasks. Which is why you'll never get me doing anything like The Apprentice!

Good grief.

If motivational speaking was such a frivolity, I doubt there's be hundreds of people making a living from doing it, or companies willing to pay for them to do so.

never suggested it was

I said it stood out because the other team had done it themselves and got positive feedback from the customer

I don't recall her murdering anyone.

You said what I quoted in my previous post and it wasn't this.

if u go back and look carefully I referred to the other team taking this responsibility themselves and getting good feedback which would have appealed to LS on a few occasions

and btw we aint talking about someone wanting to make a career out of it and therefore needing the repertoire to sustain it , we were talking about someone doing a one-off 10-15 minute talk showing the importance of communications and teamwork in a business environment

given how well this lot seem to be able to talk about themselves at the drop of a hat that shouldn't have been beyond any of them

Rebecca is a follower (and a very good one) but not a leader. AS is looking for someone to invest in and not hold hands.

Many Apprentice candidates end up being 'motivational speakers'.

To be fair, we hadn't seen her as a PM. You can't tell if someone is a leader until they have led a task.

I'm still none the wiser.....
Some people suggested her business plan might have been rubbish.

I think she'd (Rebecca) basically given up, probably as a result of the awful people she was having to deal with in the house. I thought she was one of the stronger candidates, a little cold, but professional. On this task, Francesca should have gone, but I think Sugar recognised R's heart wasn't in it any more and did her a favour.

Joke decision.

I think she held back a bit after Uzma and Luisa's treatment of her in Week 2, I was really disappointed in Sir Alan for attacking her for not getting on with them when it was quite clear that they were simply jealous of the fact that she was a much better sales person than them. At the end of the day, I thought Rebecca had far better entrepreneurial skills than Luisa or Francesca, I would have fired Francesca though Jordan didn't exactly help things either.

The blonde shoulda gone

Yup, thought Rebecca seemed like a leading candidate from early on but seems to have been withered down.

I certainly don't think she should have gone because of the motivational speaker decision. The other team struck lucky with Neil (or whoever it was ) I think she should have been commended for sticking with it as it can indeed be one of the best things about these kind of events.

However I don't think that's why she was fired. I think it was because she was too uptight and showed no sense of humour. She barely seemed human towards the end. I've got no idea why someone like her would allow someone like Luisa to suck the life out of her but some how or other she did. I think she was intimidated by her and it showed and she eventually suffered for it.

I guess it's a competition and people fall by the way side for all sorts of reasons. Rebecca simply fell by the way side.

Didn't she have a mini breakdown (crying) a few weeks back ?
And then yet again looked on the verge of crying in the boardroom on weds night.
Not the actions of a go-getter.

On a purely bitchy personal note (yes,I hold my hands up to it) her Audrey Hepburn impersonation and low cut LBDs in the boardroom were very annoying.To me.

When Dara asked her on You're Fired she showed the marcasite rings on her fingers and said to sell marcasite on-line, so it doesn't sound like a great innovative plan which Lord Sugar might be interested in to me.

Surely the failure of the task was down to the fact that they had to give the client a refund because they didn't stick to the brief, if they hadn't had to give the refund then the amount they spent on motivational speakers and flamingos would have been irrelevant as they would have won... And that was down to Francesca. I'm baffled as to why Rebecca was fired.

very plausible...you might be on to something there.

was that it?
I was expecting something more. also very plausible.

I really doubt that the decision was related to the failure off the task. I think her card was marked this week.

I think you'll find it was closer to 45mins talk as given by the professional speaker, thats a lot of time to talk. Neil was sort of used to this, and actually had a story to tell, which could be adapted to a "Motivational Speech" the other team didn't, hence why they had to hire one.

Still not sure if a "speaker" was actually part of the brief though.