A former The Apprentice star has claimed that contestants were made to line themselves up from 'ugliest to prettiest' during the audition stage.
Thomas Skinner, who appeared on series 15, said that there were dozens of people who were hoping to be part of the show and lined up.
"Before you go on the show you go through the interview stages and you’ve got people from all over - from London, from Ireland, from Manchester, and you’re in this room and they told us to line up from ugliest to prettiest," he claimed to Daily Star.
"And you don’t know who these people are and you’ve got people arguing about who’s the prettiest."
According to the former market trader, it was complete 'carnage' as hopeful contestants started squabbling about who was better looking.
Mirror have contacted The Apprentice for comment.
Since appearing on the show, Thomas welcomed a baby named Henry with his partner Sinead at the end of 2020.
The entrepreneur previously opened up about the sheer "panic" he felt when his crying fiancée told him their baby's heart rate dropped during induced labour.
But the dad wasn't allowed to go into the hospital because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Henry's heart rate went back up but Sinead was kept in overnight before she went into labour.
Thomas told OK! magazine of the experience: "It was well scary. Sinead rang me up crying, and I couldn’t do anything to help. It was the day before lockdown, I couldn’t even go to the hospital.
"I just panicked so much. I kept telling her it was gonna be fine, but I was proper scared. But the team that looked after her, the midwives and the doctors, were fantastic."
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Meanwhile, The Apprentice recently returned a fter being off the air for two years due to the pandemic.
The Apprentice had recruited a new line-up of candidates for 2022, with all of them hoping to get the £250,000 investment.
However, things weren't all smooth sailing after contestant Shama Amin quit the show due to her crippling arthritis.
Stunning her fellow contestants and Lord Sugar, the mother-of-five told them she had to make the decision for her health.
Speaking exclusively to the Mirror, Shama, 41, confirmed she felt she had no choice but to leave after facing exhausting 19-hour days.
She said: “The audition process was gruelling but once the show started, it was very physically demanding.
“I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. And it affects your joints, your physical mobility. In my personal life, when I need to rest I put my feet up.”
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