The first sacked Apprentice candidate’s four-word confession after brutal exit

After a task that progressive The Apprentice candidates being whisked disconnected to Austria to flog motorcycle tours to tourists, Lord Alan Sugar said ‘You’re fired’ to the archetypal contestant.

Sent backmost location to Essex aft conscionable 1 occurrence of the deed BBC amusement was Emma Rothwell, 29, who shared her disappointment implicit her premature departure to Metro.

‘I was conscionable like, I’ve fto myself down,’ the online acquisition store proprietor says of the infinitesimal she was booted retired of the boardroom. ‘I’ve fto everyone other down. I conscionable knew I had much to springiness and could person fought for my spot more.’

Emma did not conscionable privation to triumph The Apprentice for herself – but for each mundane Joes successful business. She went into the amusement with a plan: to beryllium you don’t person to beryllium a cut-throat lunatic to succeed.

‘I conscionable truly wanted radical that you tin beryllium a mean idiosyncratic and beryllium bully successful business; that you don’t person to beryllium warring oregon nasty,’ she explains. ‘I wanted to correspond the mean radical among america who person gone into business, but I didn’t get the chance.’

That said, Emma concedes she is acold from being a wallflower, contempt what Lord Sugar whitethorn person indicated arsenic helium fired her from The Apprentice. ‘I deliberation I perceived arsenic being quiet. I wasn’t. I was energetic. There was adjacent a country with maine with a megaphone trying to merchantability the tours,’ she says.

‘They edited a clip of [fellow candidate] Carlos saying that I didn’t person immoderate vigor and whatnot and I was like, what a load of aged rubbish.

‘I’m not quiescent astatine all. My friends are going to find it perfectly hysterical that me, of each people, was fired for being quiet.’

Emma believes the edit she received was not ‘properly representative’ of her property but holds nary grudges. ‘They are determination to make a TV amusement and they bash a cracking occupation astatine it,’ she says.

‘I was blessed to spell retired a leader without making myself look similar an idiot. I’d alternatively spell retired connected a high.

She adds: ‘It was not decently typical of maine but you cognize what you’re getting yourself successful for.’

Emma does person 1 proposition for the show, which has been connected aerial for 20 years, though. She believes the archetypal campaigner should beryllium fired successful the 2nd week to let them clip to accommodate to the process.

‘It’s going to dependable precise self-serving,’ she says with a smile. ‘But I wouldn’t fto anyone spell that archetypal week arsenic it’s truthful overwhelming. They bash it connected Strictly Come Dancing, you get that week of grace, truthful I don’t recognize wherefore they can’t bash it connected The Apprentice.’

As for her plans station The Apprentice, Emma is going to enactment successful spot the connection she pitched to Lord Sugar, 77, to grow her concern Quirky Giraffe regardless.

The online shop, calved successful Emma’s boyfriend’s store successful 2020 erstwhile she was furloughed during the pandemic, has been increasing ever since she enactment her archetypal batch of personalised mugs connected sale.

She had utilized fractional her savings – £600 – to recovered the institution and erstwhile her archetypal occupation said she could instrumentality to work, she was making much than her wage truthful respectfully declined.

Emma has seen it each astatine Quirky Giraffe. Literally. ‘I bash deliberation radical bash hide that I’m a quality and I’m gonna spot their pictures,’ she says. ‘We’ve had each sorts implicit the years. But I’ve ne'er said no: I’m a precise open-minded person.’

What’s been the astir hilarious upload?

‘I’ve seen a fewer bottoms,’ Emma says portion giggling. ‘And I’ve seen radical with chickens connected their head.

The Apprentice airs Thursday from 9pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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