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Solomon Akhtar, who went to Skinners School in St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, survives another week in BBC One's The Apprentice

Former Tunbridge Wells schoolboy Solomon Akhtar has survived another week in BBC One's The Apprentice.

Mr Akhtar, who went to the Skinners School in St John's Road, found himself in the winning team for a second week running following a task that challenged candidates to come up with their own luxury desserts.

His team created three different cheesecakes with a tea flavour and received orders for 25,500 products compared to the rivals 13,500.

Left to right: Solomon Akhtar, Daniel Lassman and Nick Hewer. Copyright: Boundless
Left to right: Solomon Akhtar, Daniel Lassman and Nick Hewer. Copyright: Boundless

A 6am wakeup call prompted candidates to meet Lord Sugar at the Tate Britain art gallery where they were instructed to create a dessert and pitch it to three supermarkets.

Solomon, who was in Team Summit, suggested creating British inspired cheesecakes and new team member Daniel Lassman added it should have a tea theme.

They ended up creating three tea infused cheesecakes, with flavours including green tea and white chocolate, lemon and Earl Grey and peach and oolong vanilla.

Solomon was initially asked to be in the kitchen manufacturing but successfully convinced team leader to have his role switched to branding.

Bianca questioned the decision behind her teams back by saying: “I think Solomon likes to think he’s a creative spirit but often he doesn’t have creativity that is valuable.”

Left to right: Daniel Lassman, Solomon Akhtar, Bianca Miller, Roisin Hogan. Copyright: Boundless
Left to right: Daniel Lassman, Solomon Akhtar, Bianca Miller, Roisin Hogan. Copyright: Boundless

Despite this he impressed Nick Hewer, one of Lord Sugar's associates, with his input in creating the branding for their desserts, which they called Tea Pot.

His input was also welcomed in the pitches with one of the supermarket experts supposedly winking at him.

The other team came up with a trifle and called the product A Trifle Different.

Black cherry, saffron and honey tmade up one of the flavours but a panel of supermarket experts found the ingredients overpowering.

Karen Brady observed: “They certainly weren’t interested in Saffron in their custard.”

Another expert said the saffron made the trifle taste earthy.

Businessman Lord Sugar with advisors Karren Brady and Nick Hewer Copyright: BBC Pictures
Businessman Lord Sugar with advisors Karren Brady and Nick Hewer Copyright: BBC Pictures

The defeat left Team Summit, which only consisted of Katie Bulmer-Cooke, Sanjay Sood-Smith and Mark Wright facing the sack.

Miss Bulmer-Cooke was fired because Lord Sugar was unimpressed with her proposal to create a restaurant in Sunderland with the show's £250,000 prize.

That left Sanjay and Mark arguing with eachother about who's business plan was the best for Lord Sugar to invest in.

After listening to them argue the businessman decided he did not have the confidence in Sanjay's proposal to create a website specialising in the fitness industry.

Mark meanwhile was handed a last chance.

Solomon meanwhile was enjoying victory in a yacht that was used in a James Bond movie- tucking into the macaroons and Martini while onboard.

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