Former Apprentice candidate, Lindi Mngaza, has dumped her boyfriend of three years so she can start a relationship with fellow contestant, Michael Sophocles.

Mngaza’s ex-boyfriend Donovan O’Hagan is said to be upset by the callous way he has been treated.

A friend of Donovan told The People: “He’s a gentle giant who wouldn’t hurt a fly. But inside he is furious about what Lindi and Michael have done. They have humiliated him. He had planned to marry her and start a family but all of that has been blown away now.

“As soon as Lindi got involved with The Apprentice she changed and turned her back on her old life in Birmingham, looking for excitement with her new friends in London. From then on she lost interest in Donovan and took up with this bloke Sophocles. But it won’t last. The only person Sophocles really loves is himself.”