Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry and runner up Syed Ahmed have put their relationship “on hold” following the loss of their unborn baby.

The pair met last year while battling on The Apprentice for a £100,000-a-year job with Sir Alan Sugar.

Apprentice winner Michelle, 26, from Hull, suffered a miscarriage after being taken to hospital last month.

The baby’s father Syed, 32, said: “We have got to the point where staying together is causing more problems.”

He told a magazine it was almost as though they had lost something more than a baby. They had lost a part of their chemistry too.