BUDDING businesswoman Michaela Wain has made it through the third round of The Apprentice.
In the episode which aired on BBC1 last night 33-year-old Michaela was moved over to team Vitality with the boys, where she was made project manager.
Michaela admits she was worried when she made the move.
"I really struggled because I had never worked with the boys before, so I didn't know who was good at what.
"If I had been made project manager of the girls team it would have been easier because I had worked with the girls so I sort of knew who was good at what."
The teams were tasked with designing robots to provide household support to elderly people and selling them to nationwide retailers.
Unfortunately for Michaela, who lives in Heaton, team Vitality suffered a loss for a third week running.
They struggled to pitch the innovative product after changing the name of the machine from Jeffrii to Siimon and printing an obvious grammatical error on their branding board.
Miss Wain opted to bring Elliot Van Emden and Harrison Jones back in to the boardroom to face Lord Sugar.
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Law firm owner Elliot was the third contestant to be fired by Lord Sugar, where he was criticised for his lack of contribution to the team.
Michaela admits that she believes her mistake was to blame for the failing of the task, however she does think the right person went.
"Sometimes you have to make decisions in business and they aren't always the right one. I think it helped that Claude pointed out I smashed the selling, whereas Elliot didn't add much."
Claude Littner has continued to defend Michaela's position on Twitter.
She was excellent at selling the product and defended her position well in the Boardroom. Elliot was the scapegoat https://t.co/ypSbmCSU5Z
— Claude Littner (@claudelittner) 18 October 2017
Team Vitality made a profit of just over £5,785 in the third task of the season, compared to the girls impressive sum of £57, 827.55, even after Van Emden told prospective buyers about his friend's grandmother, Doris, who would benefit from the helpful robot.
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