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In a manner of speaking, Gavin was taken to the cleaners in the Discount Buying task. It just happened to be a dry cleaners with no top hats for sale whatsoever. Lord Sugar's dreaded finger was soon pointing in the direction of the mild-mannered Project Manager, who struggled to control his team and found himself embroiled in Clochegate. The Apprentice Insider caught up with Gavin and here are his thoughts on the tasks…

"I wasn't shocked that the result was so close because I knew we negotiated really well throughout the task," explained Gavin. "I don't think we really got enough credit for the performance of the actual negotiating. We negotiated better than the other team but we just didn't locate enough items. If we would have got one more item we would have won the task.Ìý We lost by £7.50, which is ridiculous. They got an extra three items on top of what we got. They should have blown us out the water."

But what would Gavin have done differently in hindsight? "If I had to do everything again I'd probably get out of the hotel a lot earlier," admitted the Liverpudlian. "We stayed there too long but we had nowhere to go. There were six people in the team and no one had located any of the items – so there was literally nowhere to leave the hotel for… we all have to accept some responsibility for some poor calls at the beginning."

As for the top hat quest, what possessed him to try a dry cleaners? "Basically we were looking for a top hat," Gavin clarified. "We'd rung every supplier that we could think of and we drove past a location that said Top Hat Cleaners' so it was a punt. I didn't think, cast iron, that there were definitely going to be top hats available there. I didn't even think that they would sell them. I just thought that they might know somewhere that sells top hats – purely by chance. We were grabbing at straws."

The very mention of the word 'cloche' makes poor Gavin shudder. "Trying to pronounce it in the first place was difficult enough," he joked, before seeking to unravel what happened in terms of identifying what a cloche actually is. "All of us had different ideas – at one point it was a garden item and at one point it was something that you put a hat on," Gavin revealed. "It's probably going to haunt me for the rest of my life..."
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Coming tomorrow, Gavin talks about getting fired and life at home with the other candidates.

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