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.

“He kept calling me Jessica Rabbit from the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and playfully slapped my bottom. He even compared me to the back of a racing car, saying my bottom was all trim and full of oomph. I just laughed in his face.”

Asked to make an official statement, human resources consultant Paula said: “Sorry, I can’t comment. I am still contracted to the show.”

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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…

“I think he took it personally that I took him into the boardroom. He accepted no responsibility whatsoever and just behaved like a child, like a bully.

“He’s very, very opinionated about everybody he comes into contact with and if you’re going to behave in that way you’ve got be pretty slick yourself and he just isn’t. The lad’s a no-mark. And it won’t surprise me if he gets fired fairly soon, because nobody likes a bully.”

However, Paula says she has “no regrets” about being fired, especially as Sir Alan complimented her on the sandalwood and seaweed soap she produced for the show, and he was even complimentary about her management skills.

Paula added, “I had a brilliant firing and you couldn’t ask for any more that that.

“I was a good team manager, I’ve got a lot to offer, my product was fantastic.

“I’d clearly delegated the costings away – I’m aware of my own strengths and the people that I was relying on to deliver on the one area where I couldn’t didn’t do that for me.”

I have to say, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard anyone use that phrase; “I’ve had a brilliant firing…”. Who does that??

Can you imagine strolling into work, late for the tenth time in a row, getting hauled into the manager’s office and sacked but coming out beaming saying, “Oh yeah, I’m well chuffed… got a brilliant firing there…”

Bless her. Good luck for the future Paula!

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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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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.

She says: “I am the girl with a plan. I have great wit and strength of character, and I am resilient to the core.”

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