Apprentice candidates Phillip Taylor and Kate Walsh may look all loved up now but rumour has it that Kate was not the Phillip’s first choice.

Paula Jones, who was fired from the show in week four, reportedly claimed that Phillip tried to bed her in the early days of filming but after she rebuffed him, he moved on to wooing Kate.

The People report that Paula told a friend: “It was obvious from the moment we met that he wanted to bed me. One night he tried to pull me on to a sofa but I wasn’t having any of it.

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The now ex-Apprentice contestant Paula Jones has blasted her team mate Ben Clarke and accused him of being a “bully” after they metaphorically butted heads in the boardroom.

Before being fired by Sir Alan, Paula had been appointed Project Manager of Empire and was challenged to make “cosmetic products”.

So, taking the reins, she delegated the job of costing the production of their products to Ben and Yasmina Siadatan but a “miscalculation”
led to the team’s costs going up to £1,141.24 and so they lost the task.

Ben denied having been at fault and he and Paula got into a heated row. Paula said, “Ben became completely unnecessarily aggressive towards me… Read more & comment »

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.

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Paula Jones
Age: 29
Career: Human Resource Consultant
Qualifications: Masters Degree in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
Lives: Walsall, West Midlands

Fashion conscious Paula is an academic with a love for interior design. Born and raised in Walsall, Paula, a self-confessed scatter brain, admits to liking being liked and shying away from conflict, finding that as a result she is often left with issues unresolved. At the age of 18, Paula was a four-star sergeant in the army cadets and represented the army at county level in shooting.

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