SANDWICH shop owner Rocky Andrews became the second contestant to be fired from reality-TV show The Apprentice last night.

The 21-year-old got the boot after his men's team lost out to their female counterparts in a catering task to serve busy city workers.

Last week, business strategist Anita Shah became the first contender to be thrown off the BBC One show.

Here our very own Apprentice drop-out - Chigwell's Adam Freeman, who runs loans website www.mrlender.com, and who quit the show hours before he was due to meet Sir Alan - gives the first of his weekly verdicts on the remaining candidates and ranks them on their performances in last night's show.

THE BOYS

ROCKY ANDREWS: If he had taken Philip or Ben into the boardroom I think he could have made a narrow escape. I am shocked he was fired - I would have put my money on him reaching the final.

JAMES MCQUILLAN: Ah, bless him. He has got to try to separate his emotions from his business head. It was great to watch him backchat Sir Alan, although it was slightly out of his control.

MAJID NAGRA: He did well to come up with the Olympic 2012 theme. He seemed to keep his head down and get on with the task ahead. Good sport to wear that Toga.

PHILLIP TAYLOR: His negotiating tactics were appalling. He should have asked straight-up what their budget was and met them in the middle. It was also stupid of him to offer the same quantity of food for a quarter of the price.

BEN CLARKE: Apart from strutting his Monty Python silly walk, we didn’t really see much of what Ben had to offer in this week's task.

HOWARD EBISON: He seemed quite tense throughout and needed to loosen up a bit. Apparently he runs 10 pubs, but I feel he took a backseat and played it safe in this task.

NOORUL CHOUDHURY: Was Noorul actually in this week's episode? I think my 60-second clip last week on Your Fired had more air time!

THE GIRLS

YASMINA SIADATAN: ‘Chef’ showed strong leadership skills from the start. The menu was a bit lame - given her expertise in the field - but her mark-up on the figures was spot on. If she went to the boardroom she would have taken Kimberley and Debra with her.

KATE WALSH: She seemed to be battling more for herself than her team, and was quite smug about it. Her sales pitch had awkward moments in it and it was quite uncomfortable to watch. At least she learnt something from the task – chicken wraps should contain chicken.

LORRAINE TIGHE: I'm thinking that may have been Lorraine’s hair lurking in the salad. The cameras panned to her when Sir Alan mentioned it and she looked very suspicious.

DEBRA BARR: She showed good technical skills by answering her Nokia mobile phone on loudspeaker on behalf of Team Ignite.

KIMBERLY DAVIS: She sliced tomatoes this week. Great. Couldn’t really have done much of that, either, because the salads were apparently “too green”. Wonder what else she did?

MONA LEWIS: Spread tuna on sandwiches.

PAULA JONES: Apart from suggesting her team purchase “bits of frozen bits of chicken - ‘cause their cheap”, I’m not really sure what else she did. Maybe she sliced the cucumbers and they just didn’t have time to edit that scene in.