The Apprentice: Who got fired? Selina Waterman-Smith labels contest 'crap' as Scott Saunders quits
Waterman-Smith was booted out for her 'negative' attitude and lack of sales while Saunders left in anger
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Your support makes all the difference.This year’s The Apprentice might be the most dramatic since Katie Hopkins, with Scott Saunders quitting and Selina Waterman-Smith threatening a “tell all interview” about how “shameful” she considers the BBC One show to be.
Waterman-Smith was fired as Lord Sugar’s business partner on Wednesday night after her 'negative' attitude riled her fellow candidates and she failed to sell any properties in the task.
A quick look at her Twitter feed reveals she is fuming about her reported treatment by producers.
“I pity a show that’s so crap it has to discuss anything non-business related about its candidates,” she wrote in one tweet. “Shameful, poor taste and lame.”
In another, she confirmed she is “prepared to do a tell-all interview to any papers about the dreadful producers and what happens”.
Last month, Waterman-Smith revealed that she would not be appearing on BBC Two spin-off The Apprentice: You’re Fired because she has “broken contract with the show”. Her tweet has since been deleted but was screen-grabbed by Digital Spy.
“I feel like I’ve been bullied and verbally and physically attacked, which hasn’t been shown,” she said, after reports emerged of a clash with fellow candidate Charleine Wain outside the boardroom.
“If I could turn back time I would not have applied for The Apprentice. I thought it was a credible business show but I now can see that I was naive.”
Representatives for The Apprentice are yet to respond to our request for comment.
The Apprentice airs at 9pm on Wednesdays.
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