{"id":30209,"date":"2023-02-16T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1786393"},"modified":"2023-02-17T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T06:42:24","slug":"the-apprentice-2023-recap-what-happened-in-episode-7","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-apprentice-2023-recap-what-happened-in-episode-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apprentice 2023 recap: What happened in episode 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The remaining candidates were tasked with designing a lunchbox and accompanying app for children\u00a0\u2013 but one particular entrepreneur was put on the naughty step. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>We returned to Lord Sugar\u2019s boardroom in tonight\u2019s episode of\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/apprentice-season-17-air-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Apprentice<\/a> as the remaining <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/apprentice-2023-cast-line-up\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">candidates<\/a> went back to school for their latest <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-tasks\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">task<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With just 10 wannabe entrepreneurs making it to Week 7, after <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-reece-donnelly-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Reece Donnelly<\/a> was forced to quit the show and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-joseph-phillips-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Phillips<\/a> was fired, the teams were given a shake-up and challenged to create a children\u2019s lunch box and app to encourage kids to eat healthily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"&quot;p1&quot;\">If you missed tonight\u2019s episode and want to find out whose packed lunch sent them packing, then make sure to watch <a href=\"&quot;http:\/\/RadioTimes.com&quot;\">RadioTimes.com<\/a>\u2018s latest recap video above.<\/p> <p>This week, Lord Alan Sugar asked <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-simba-rwambiwa-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Simba Rwambiwa<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-dani-donovan-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Dani Donovan<\/a> to join Team Apex, while <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-sohail-chowdhary-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Sohail Chowdhary<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-marnie-swindells-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Marnie Swindells<\/a> crossed over to Team Affinity before the two groups set about designing a lunchbox.<\/p>\n<p>Dani volunteered to be project manager for Apex, with big plans to make the lunchbox and app caterpillar-themed, while Sohail beat out Marnie to become Affinity\u2019s leader this time around, suggesting a pirate treasure chest for the lunchbox.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone was impressed with Dani\u2019s idea however, with <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-victoria-goulbourne-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Victoria Goulbourne<\/a> voicing concerns that the caterpillar idea would be too young for the audience of six-to-eight-year-olds \u2013 but Dani continued on with it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Over on Sohail\u2019s team, Marnie became agitated after he placed her on the character development sub-team under <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-apprentice-2023-rochelle-anthony-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Rochelle Anthony<\/a>\u2018s leadership. The two ultimately ended up clashing after Marnie kept disagreeing with Rochelle over design decisions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=354%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=354%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=404%2C269,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=404%2C269,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=554%2C369,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=554%2C369,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=407%2C271,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=407%2C271,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=555%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/420170-0261503.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=555%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> The Apprentice.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>BB<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Taking their products to an online retailer and ASDA, Dani\u2019s product received the feedback that it was too young for the target age group, while the lunchbox was too small.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sohail\u2019s Platinum Pirate Adventures was not received very well by either retailer, with the experts saying that the design was too boring and underdeveloped.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the boardroom, Apex were revealed to be the winners, receiving orders for 1,500 units, while Affinity received zero orders.<\/p>\n<p>Sohail decided to bring Marnie and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/the-apprentice-2023-bradley-johnson-contestant\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Bradley Johnson<\/a> back into the boardroom with him to face Lord Sugar and while Lord Sugar said Marnie was disruptive and that Bradley contributed little, he declared Sohail responsible for the failure of the task and fired him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Apprentice continues on BBC One and\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/b0071b63\/the-apprentice&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BBC iPlayer<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0next Thursday at 9pm. 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