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Bank manager Kevin Shaw gets The Apprentice axe

01/05/2008

Kevin Shaw has admitted he deserved to become the sixth contestant to be fired on The Apprentice.

The bank manager, who lives in Woking, Surrey, was shown the door by Sir Alan Sugar on last night's show after his team lost heavily in a greeting cards task.

And the 24-year-old has admitted that he was the right choice to be fired after his team Renaissance sold just 6,000 of their Save the Environment cards compared to the 22,500 Singles Day cards sold by the Alpha team led by Michael Sophocles.

"I wanted to go into the boardroom on my own. I was the right one to go," he said.

"If you're running a company, when the business goes under so does the manager for the company. My team lost so surely I must take responsibility for the task.

"The whole task was a disaster... The idea and the pitches were awful," he added.

Sir Alan had criticised Shaw's sales approach after the West Country-born contestant had lectured potential clients about the environment.

"Clinton Cards reported that your pitch was dreadful. Not selling them cards but preaching to them," he said in the boardroom.

"[There was] a smell of arrogance about you."

Shaw also got the boot after agreeing with Jenny Celerier and Claire Young that Sara Dhada had been responsible for the team's failure, despite Celerier having come up with the unpopular card idea.

"Trust me, I'm wise enough and old enough to know when people are ganging up on somebody so I discount 75 per cent of what I'm hearing," Sir Alan said after Celerier, Young and Shaw had tried to pin the blame on Dhada.