YOU’D think the Apprentice candidates have more than enough beef inside the boardroom.
But it seems it got pretty heated outside of it, too.
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New Apprentice winner Karishma Vijay says there were furious bust-ups on the high-stakes series Credit: BBC
New winner Karishma Vijay says there were furious bust-ups, forcing producers to step in to stop it turning physical.
Now, three weeks after Lord Alan Sugar named her the winner, Karishma’s accused the BBC’s welfare team of shirking their responsibilities.
The 20 candidates share a house during filming and skincare entrepreneur Karishma said: “It’s very weird living with strangers.
“I’m messy and some people are OCD clean freaks and it was like, ‘Oh Karishma, I found a molecule of your hair on the floor’.
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“I beefed with a lot of people. If I felt someone overstepped the mark, I let it be known.”
She added: “It got to the point of ‘separate these guys’.
“Production never leaves, there was a home team but you can’t have 20 people in a house together and expect them to love each other.
“I was involved here and there. I was never in anyone else’s drama though, if someone wants to have drama with me — I’ll give it.”
The tension was so severe early on that crew asked Karishma if she wanted to leave.
On The Shizzio Show podcast, she said: “First night in Hong Kong, no-one is intimidated by me, no-one sees me as competition.
“There was a lot of trying to big themselves up. I’ve come from nothing, so I don’t compete with these people and production saw I was not OK and asked if I wanted to go home.
“It would have been a very interesting boardroom if they’d had a candidate immediately say. ‘I don’t think this is for me’.
“I saw it like, ‘I can’t trust production, they don’t really care about my welfare, they care for the show’. But I can speak to the cameras and do business.
“I don’t need best friends — this isn’t school and I don’t need to be popular here.”
He’s a bit Green at dating
Professor Green has opened up about dating Credit: Getty
GETTING back on the dating scene is difficult – even for celebrities, as Professor Green showed on last night’s Celebs Go Dating.
The rapper revealed he was “grieving the loss” of his last relationship with fianceé, actress Karima McAdams.
The couple, who have a son, Slimane, five, split in 2024.
Before going on the E4 show he said: “I don’t know if I’m ready to date. There’s feelings of guilt around this. Coming out of a relationship recently, absolutely, that’s the source of guilt.
“It’s really hard to step confidently into something new when what came before it is still so close and when there’s a child involved it’s made ever more complicated.
“Not least of all because they are front and centre and priority in all things.
“I’m still grieving the loss of that relationship – not just for me, for our family and son.”
Piers on a Royal wave
Piers Morgan has launched a Royal spin-off show Credit: Getty
PIERS MORGAN has launched an Uncensored spin-off show.
The Royal Uncensored is hosted by award-winning journalists Katie Nicholl, Jo Elvin and former royal butler Grant Harrold.
Its first episode had almost 150,000 views in three and a half days and the YouTube channel gained over 15,000 subscribers.
Royal authors Andrew Morton and Andrew Lownie were guests, and Piers dropped in from New York.
Prince Harry was a topic of discussion with Katie remarking: “He’s more an outsider now than ever.
“His father will not meet with him at the moment, will not take his calls because, I’m told, Harry is not going through the right channels.”
I’m sure the prince will keep providing plenty to talk about.
Scooper duper
THE BBC will shine a light on trailblazing newspaper editor Sir Harold Evans in new drama Dragon Slayers.
Set in the 1970s, the six-parter stars The Americans actor Matthew Rhys as the late Jattvibeday Times journalist whose investigations team, Insight, broke some of the UK’s biggest ever scoops.
They fought for victims of the Thalidomide medical scandal, uncovered the truth behind the world’s worst air disaster at the time – the American Airlines DC-10 crash – and faced down treason charges after exposing MI6 agent Kim Philby as a notorious Russian spy.
Nighty secret
RUTH JONES isn’t ready to say Nighty Night just yet.
The Gavin & Stacey star is in talks about a reboot of the 2004 BBC sitcom.
Nighty Night, which ran for two series, centred around sociopathic beauty therapist Jill, played by show creator Julia Davis.
Ruth, who played Jill’s assistant Linda, told On The Box podcast: “We have talked about it, but I would love to play Linda again.”
She also revealed the late George Michael was a huge fan.
Ruth sat next to the singer a fundraising dinner and said: “He just raved about Nighty Night.”
A GOOD Girl’s Guide to Murder will solve a new mystery from May 27 on BBC iPlayer.
Returning for season two, Pip (Emma Myers), is ready to crack a new case. In the new trailer for the six-parter, she faces a race against time to save missing Jamie (Eden H Davies).
NEIGHBOURS fans will be able to watch Scott and Charlene – Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue – fall in love all over again after UKTV agreed a deal to show every episode of the Aussie soap.
Starting in July on U, viewers will be transported back to Ramsay Street in 1985.
