I sneaked off for secret romp on The Apprentice – hapless ‘sex ban’ has really turned it into TV’s hottest reality show

CRAWLING on the edifice carpet connected my hands and knees hopeless to debar detection, I felt similar I was successful a Mission Impossible film.

In reality, I was astir to perpetrate the cardinal misdeed successful The Apprentice, thing truthful dreadful it threatened to spot maine kicked disconnected the show… having enactment with 1 of my chap co-stars. 

After weeks of banter and flirtation, Lottie Lion and I were sitting other each different astatine meal aft a agelong day’s filming successful Finland erstwhile she flashed 2 numbers astatine maine utilizing her hands.

I knew precisely what she meant. It was her edifice country number. I didn’t expect it. I didn’t deliberation our cheeky exchanges would spell anyplace until possibly aft the amusement had finished. 

I didn’t cognize wherever she was staying anterior to that infinitesimal either. Where the boys and girls were successful the edifice was a intimately guarded concealed to prevent ‘extra-curricular activities’.

There are very strict rules erstwhile it comes to relationships, oregon the ‘no contact’ regularisation arsenic it’s known connected The Apprentice, and producers bash everything imaginable to halt thing happening. 

The enactment of enactment oregon having a narration is truthful taboo that it’s written into the precise heavy contract that you person to motion earlier going connected the show. They adjacent springiness you a lecture astir it too. 

At the time, you deliberation ‘Ok, cool’. In your mind, it seems intolerable that you could person an ‘interpersonal relationship’ connected The Apprentice. There’s excessively overmuch astatine stake. 

In the worst-case scenario, you’re astir to embark connected a life-changing opportunity, get monolithic vulnerability and onshore large contacts. 

At its best, you could get a £250,000 concern from Lord Alan Sugar oregon go his business partner. Sex is retired of the question. 

It feels intolerable to deliberation that you would hazard it each due to the fact that you “couldn’t support it successful your pants” and yet, spot maine connected this, I warrant it happens astir EVERY twelvemonth connected the show.

Believe it oregon not, The Apprentice has considerably much intersexual tension, temptation and perchance much naughty moments than Love Island and different dating shows combined. 

'Forbidden fruit'

While it whitethorn look far-fetched, the aggravated quality of the amusement coupled with the prohibition connected contact, sends animalistic desires into overdrive. It’s the eventual forbidden fruit. 

That’s what led maine to hazard throwing it each distant backmost connected The Apprentice successful 2019 portion we were distant connected a task successful Finland and I sneaked implicit to Lottie’s edifice room. 

I was arsenic shocked by my behaviour arsenic overmuch arsenic anyone else. You’re precise frightened of breaking the rules connected the amusement and desperately don’t privation to beryllium kicked out. 

But The Apprentice has a mode of getting to you. There are agelong filming hours - sometimes you’re up astatine 4am and don’t spell to furniture until midnight, if not later. 

You person minders who show everything you do, halt you from talking astir definite topics and marque definite nary 1 sneaks into each other’s bedrooms.

You person nary interaction with the extracurricular world. You’re chopped disconnected from friends and family. You’re not adjacent allowed to springiness anyone a affable hug erstwhile things get tough.

It’s truthful utmost that adjacent erstwhile you spell distant for a task and enactment astatine a edifice they chopped disconnected your quality to ticker TV, usage the country telephone oregon the internet. 

They forbid you from leaving your country too, unless you person their permission, and they instrumentality your country cardinal to marque definite that if you situation try, they cognize astir it and tin punish you.

It’s a surreal acquisition being connected the show. The restrictions are truthful strict it makes you privation to combat against them, similar a rebellious teenager.

'Mission Impossible'

On the nighttime I broke the show’s rules, I retrieve my bosom racing arsenic I peered astir onto the landing - earlier utilizing a portion of paper to jam the latch truthful my doorway wouldn't lock.

It was a level with a spread successful the centre wherever you could spot each 4 corridors if you were lasting up.

I saw the accumulation unit walking around. I don’t cognize if they were patrolling the corridors oregon not but I dropped to my hands and knees. I felt similar Ethan Hunt connected my ain Mission Impossible.

I crawled on the corridors truthful that I couldn't beryllium seen, I was hidden nether the wall, until I reached Lottie’s room. I knocked connected her doorway and went inside. When I near it was precocious truthful I didn’t request to sneak astir and brazenly walked backmost to my room. 

Knowing it could get america fired from the process, I thought we were going to support what happened betwixt america but that wasn’t the case.

Although Lottie denies it, I was told she spoke to the girls astir it. Then the rumours started to dispersed and eventually, 1 of my feline friends connected the amusement came up. 

“Lottie’s been telling radical astir you 2 and the unit know,” helium said. I was virtually like, “S***, I’m getting kicked out. I broke the contract.” 

After confronting her, I went consecutive to a subordinate of the accumulation team. I was genuinely terrified and confessed all. I thought honesty was the champion policy. 

I felt sick with the thought that I’d done thing truthful f***ing anserine that it would get maine kicked disconnected the show. 

They instantly pulled america into abstracted rooms, what happened adjacent was precise f***ing awkward. 

We had a speech astir harmless sex, it felt similar I was a kid alternatively than 28, with idiosyncratic successful their 50s. 

They asked if we needed counselling and if it was consexual. I consciousness it was a box-ticking workout but I person to accidental it was taken precise seriously. 

Brutal revenge

We weren’t kicked disconnected arsenic we were told we would be, but determination was a punishment nary 1 knows astir until now.

For each task, you are fixed a little that tells you what you are and are not allowed to do, what colours you tin take from, the logos, flavours and each these different things. 

To screw america over, they didn’t fto Lottie and maine work it. We had to beryllium successful a locked car instead. 

Essentially, we weren’t allowed to cognize galore things astir the task and didn't cognize what the task entailed. While I tin laughter astir it now, it wasn’t precise comic astatine the time. 

I was crapping myself due to the fact that I knew if you don’t person input into the task oregon don’t cognize however it works you volition look precise anserine and similar you’re not bully astatine your job.

That tin pb to you getting fired but also, everyone astatine home, the millions of radical watching, volition deliberation you are an idiot. Production has a batch of powerfulness implicit you successful the show.

While we were caught out, we weren’t the lone ones flirting. Some whitethorn person shared a concealed buss oregon done different things and not got caught. 

You tin archer who likes who due to the fact that they beryllium together, mill astir each other, speech to each different and enactment similar young teens successful love. 

Once, we had a cinema time successful the location wherever we watched a film. I retrieve radical sitting adjacent to each different and trying to enactment blankets implicit themselves, lone to beryllium told it’s not allowed. It’s wide what would person happened if they didn’t intervene.

It whitethorn look unusual happening that connected specified a superior amusement that you would privation to person enactment oregon adjacent person the energy. But there’s a batch of hostility and you’re genuinely isolated, truthful each of your connections with others consciousness intensified. 

'Like vacation flings'

The lone happening I could comparison it to is erstwhile radical spell overseas with pals. I was a vacation rep for 11 seasons and each twelvemonth a radical would travel up to inquire astir a pistillate person who was missing.

I would effort to mildly archer them that their mate was astir apt shagging idiosyncratic they had met but they would ne'er judge it. 

They refused to judge that could hap due to the fact that determination was ‘no mode successful a cardinal years she would bash that’ oregon ‘it’s not successful her modus operandi’. I’ve heard it all. And yet, debased and behold aboriginal that time this missing woman would emerge, often with a large grin connected her face. 

You would beryllium amazed what tin hap erstwhile you are successful a surreal environment. People tin beryllium precise antithetic to who they are successful their mean lives and it’s nary antithetic connected The Apprentice. 

You extremity up acting similar a radical of teenagers, you spell retired and you origin chaos, lone this clip it’s connected TV for millions to watch. 

Fancying idiosyncratic and having enactment is precise normal. It’s not a crime, it's quality nature. The lone antithetic happening is the effect from the show’s accumulation team. 

It’s amusing they were truthful anti-romance considering it’s a concern show. Bear successful mind, astir concern owners are sleeping with their employees. Even astatine Christmas parties, radical bash things they shouldn’t with colleagues.  

'Sexed-up show'

It’s unusual that the amusement comes down truthful hard connected flings due to the fact that they effort to marque it sexy and actively enactment it up successful each mode they can. 

There were aggregate times erstwhile I had to halt cameras trying to travel maine into the showers oregon movie maine topless aft waking up. On our season, determination was adjacent a swimwear task. 

They genuinely wanted the girls to get into their bikinis connected nationalist TV. 

When they rightly said ‘No way’, I took 1 for the squad and got into my undersized skimpy reddish Baywatch-esque shorts. I was trying to beryllium chivalrous and truthful I stripped disconnected and enactment my tits connected the TV instead. 

Lottie and I fell retired soon aft our fling and survived 4 much tasks earlier we heard “You’re fired!” from Lord Sugar. We mislaid retired successful the interviews signifier of the competition. 

I person to accidental contempt each the hassle it caused, I don’t regret having enactment connected The Apprentice. What Lottie and I did was a precise normal, precise quality happening to do. And to beryllium honest, if it wasn’t connected a TV show, cipher would attraction less.

I don’t deliberation galore radical who haven’t been connected the amusement could understand. 

With truthful galore blistery young singles, this twelvemonth promises to beryllium an breathtaking 1 for The Apprentice excessively but unfortunately, they person already finished filming truthful my proposal is simply a small precocious for them.

So to the adjacent 18 candidates who spell connected the amusement successful 2026 and successful fact, each aboriginal seasons of the show, I would accidental don’t clasp back, conscionable spell for it. 

Don’t fto meddling producers archer you what you are and aren’t allowed to do. You’re a grown-ass adult, if you privation to snog idiosyncratic bash it, if you privation to person enactment with idiosyncratic spell for it.

'Ultimate TV show'

But astir importantly, larn a acquisition from my acquisition and marque definite you support your mouths shut. 

Don’t archer anyone due to the fact that if producers find out, it volition travel backmost to wound you and I judge it dwindles your chances of winning the show… adjacent though it shouldn’t. 

I don’t deliberation radical having cheeky flings connected The Apprentice is needfully a atrocious thing. Sex is thing we each bash and a batch of romances person travel from it, determination person adjacent been astatine slightest 2 marriages and 2 babies.

I really judge producers 100 per cent are missing a monolithic instrumentality by clamping down connected immoderate ‘extra-curricular activities’ connected the show.

If entrepreneurs bash person a fling oregon commencement dating, wherefore not marque it portion of the storyline successful the aforesaid mode that Love Island does? 

They could pit lovers against 1 different connected tasks and person precise tense boardroom clashes wherever they person the dilemma of warring soiled to stay connected the amusement oregon letting their partners advancement and sacrifice their accidental of winning £250,000.

It would pb to messy onscreen break-ups, emotion triangles and faked romances to get ahead. It would beryllium TV golden and the cleanable tonic for this ageing show. 

The Apprentice has gone precise stale and, frankly, rather boring implicit the past fewer years, it’s a occurrence that they support getting commissioned. 

Maybe acknowledging, recognising and even, situation I accidental it… encouraging relationships and adding different dynamic to the amusement could supply the spark it needs.

Doing truthful could beryllium a winning format for today’s audience, transforming The Apprentice into the eventual world TV amusement and keeping it connected our screens until 2030 and beyond.