Sir Alan Sugar’s helper Nick Hewer has blasted Apprentice reject Howard Ebison for lacking in “courage and flair”.

“When I asked if he thought he was a ‘brave warrior’ his face betrayed, I thought, the realisation that he is, in fact, lacking in ambition and courage – something Sir Alan has in spades,” the former PR boss told The Mirror.

“He’s a decent young man but is destined for now to remain in middle management because he lacks that vital entrepreneurial flair.”

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Howard Ebison has become the latest candidate to be fired by Sir Alan Sugar after he accused him of being “ordinary” and not taking enough risks.

On last night’s Apprentice show the teams were required to pick four items each and then sell them on a TV shopping channel during one of their primetime slots. SAS was initially impressed with Ignite and their choices of products. He liked the chip fryer, air guitar toy and expensive leather jackets though no one could quite understand why anyone would choose to sell the creepy looking cat and dog figures.

Empire on the other hand opted to sell cheap tat including a fleece poncho thing and some seriously 80′s looking hair clips. The strategy worked, proving that there are a lot of stylishly challenged people watching these channels and Empire finished with a total of £1,541.88 compared to Ignite’s £1,376.73.

Sir Alan told Howard:

“Howard, I think you’re a Steady Eddie. We’re going through very, very tough times at the moment and I need the winner of this contest to be something special…It had to come to an end for one of you today. Howard – you’re fired!”

Speaking in the black cab journey home, the Maths and Business graduate said: “I’m gutted, really gutted. There’s no denying that. I really, really wanted to go all the way through this process.

“If Sir Alan thinks that I’m risk-averse then ok, I’ll take on the feedback and maybe I do need to be a bit more of a maverick in the future.”

if I had been in Sir Alan’s shoes I most definitely would have fired Lorraine. She made little or no contribution to the task in hand. In fact all she was good for was eating chips and boosting Howard’s confidence by repeatedly telling him how handsome he looked and how the camera’s loved him. Howard may have been a bore but at least he had more than an ounce of common sense……and clean hair!

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On this week’s Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar sends his bunch of useless candidates to Margate where they must market the town as a tourist destination. No doubt the neighbouring seaside resort of Ramsgate were rubbing their hands with glee.

The clip over the jumshows Howard and and Debra casting for their same sex photoshoot, after their team decided that the Pink Pound was one to capitalise on.

The Apprentice, Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.

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The Apprentice candidate Mona Lewis has become embroiled in a homophobic scandal during filming for the BBC TV show.

According to the Sunday Mirror, the row began when Sir Alan Sugar set a task for the teams to create a new image for the seaside town of Margate.

Howard Ebison suggested rebranding the location as a gay resort, but Lewis rejected the idea saying that she would not like her six-year-old son to meet a homosexual man.

An insider told the newspaper: “Howard did very well to keep his cool as he was extremely offended. He had to put up with a certain amount of homophobic abuse when he was growing up, so this really upset him.

“The group was stunned that someone as intelligent as Mona could have such old-fashioned views. Even though she was raised in a country with more traditional values, her comments were indefensible.”

Show producers are still said to be considering how much of the incident will air amid fears that it could offend viewers.

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OMG!!! Sir Alan Sugar appeared on The One Show tonight saying that this years bunch of Apprentice candidates are his best yet, but to me they look like a bunch of bumbling idiots.

Their first task consisted of Sir Alan providing them with a van and some cleaning materials (all of which they paid for out of their budget). They then had to clean some stuff and make as much money as they could in just one day.

The girls in particular astounded me by trying to charge £300 to clean three cars! When the customer pointed out that his current cleaner does the job for £60, Mona Lewis told him he was wrong and basically implied that he was a liar. They landed the contract in the end but after dropping their price dramatically they then had to summon their customer to help them work the pressure washer.

The boys, to their credit, landed a contract to clean 30 minicabs, but would only be paid for the ones which passed the customers inspection. There seemed to be way too many of them trying to clean at the same time, they took one and a half hours to clean their first car and even then they were forgetting to clean roofs, backs of seats and other pretty obvious spots.

In the end Ignite (the girls team) took £357, they spent £196.45 and so made a profit of £160.55. Empire (the boys team) took £347, spent £107.39 and so made a profit of just over £239. So the boys won, but really not through any great margin and not because of any great planning or talent. I can only hope that this bunch get better with practice!

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Howard Ebison
Age: 24
Career: Retail Business Manager
Qualifications: CIMA part-qualified accountant – BSc (Hons) Maths and Business Studies
Lives: Derby

Born in Surrey, Howard is an enthusiastic businessman who thrives in managerial positions. Howard, an award-winning dancer, self-trained musician and area manager to 10 pubs, believes that people enjoy working for him. Howard, whose teenage jobs included a paper round he got sacked from and a fish and chip shop shift he despised, now describes himself as family-orientated yet equally ambitious within his career. He hopes to one day set up his own consultancy specialising in customer service.

He says: “I am a credible businessman who wants to go far. I’m incredibly ambitious. If I don’t go far down this route I shall go far down another route.”

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