Mona Lewis got sacked on tonight’s Apprentice after failing to bring the gay people to Margate.
The teams were sent to the seaside town and asked to rebrand it. Ignite went for the family market, Empire chased the pink pound.
It didn’t pay off as they filled their posters with too many words but there weren’t enough on their promotional leaflets. They instead were filled with blank spaces, which they tried to tell experts were left deliberately for local advertisers.
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.
Last night the newest series of The Apprentice kicked off and though Sir Alan praises them as his best candidates yet, I thought they were all a bunch of bumbling idiots.
In the end the girls lost the cleaning challenge and Anita Shah got fired but I would have much preferred to see Mona Lewis go.
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.
Mona Lewis
Age: 28
Career: Senior Financial Manager
Qualifications: A-Levels
Lives: Kent
Born in Karachi, former Tanzanian beauty-queen and stubborn mother-of-one Mona would love to have been the brains behind Tesco. She sees herself as shrewd and honest in business and believes that personal emotions should never interfere with decision making. Describing herself as an open-minded decision maker, Mona chose to apply for The Apprentice based on her desire to step out of her comfort zone and change the lives of herself and her son.