Ooh, I was expecting this episode to be exciting! I thought the idea of giving each team £200 to start their own business – any business (well, two in fact, one daytime, one nightime) – for the day was a good one. Except neither team came up with a particularly good idea. The boys did gardening and didn’t realise how much hard work it would involve or how to appropriately charge people; then pontificated for ages about what to do during the evening, and ended up being singagrams. The girls did face-painting for children. Except it was term-time and there were no kids about! At night they became kissagrams. And at £1 a kiss, they were hardly likely to see the cash rolling in. End result: boys win.

So yeah, not the best episode. Although they did show a bit of the romance between Katie and Paul. Well, when I saw “a bit of the romance” I mean she put her head on his shoulder (this image was on the front cover of Heat yesterday – talk about scraping the barrel!), and there was a shot of them walking arm in arm. Wowee.

So the task this week was to design a doggy accessory, and pitch it to three pet-store type retailers. Both teams seemed to struggle for ideas – the girls even considering a good nappy at one point (ooh, how practical…!) – before deciding on a doggy cabinet (girls) and a body pouch for carrying everything you need when you take your dog for a walk (boys)…otherwise known as pockets, or perhaps a bag.

The girls team won by basically selling their item in quantity to the major pet retailer with nearly 200 stores in this country. The boys got minor sales, but only to retailers with one store each. A lesson in there for all of us, ladies and gentlemen.

 So what did we learn from this episode?

• Tre is easily the most annoying contestant, possibly ever – mouthy and argumentative, and with very few redeeming features
• If you’re going to miss your family a lot (and hey, I don’t doubt that that’s very possible), it’s probably not a best idea to go on a reality TV show and do so publicly and then do NOTHING of note and get booted out early on
• Related to the above point – in my experience, if people brag about how much money they’re going to have by the time they’re XX…they’re spending too much time talking about it, and not enough time making it!
• Don’t underestimate Sir Alan. EVER. He’ll do crazy things like fire TWO people in the same show! Wow!

Next week’s task sounds very interesting. Each team gets given £200, and told they can do anything…as long as they make a profit. Seems like one team was “out of control”….hmmm, I wonder what they sold?