The Apprentice’s Noor Bouzine reveals why she was missing from You’re Fired as she slams ‘controlling’ BBC
THE Apprentice’s axed candidate Noor Bouzine has taken to social media to reveal the real reason she was missing from spin-off show You’re Fired last week.
The 23-year-old hit back at what she called “controlling” behaviour on the BBC show in a video on TikTok.
Noor, the owner of a jewellery company, was axed from the show after becoming project manager but failing to deliver.
On last week’s episode she was fired without having the option to bring any of her teammates back to the boardroom – and raised eyebrows by failing to appear on You’re Fired.
Noor described her experience on and off the show as “traumatic” admitting she felt “controlled” by staff working on the series.
She said: “I did not get the support whatsoever, the support you get when you leave the show is zero, if anything they will add more to your stress.
“It will be 10 O’Clock in the night and the person who was meant to be supporting us and looking after us would literally call us ‘Noor why you doing this, why you posting this, why you liking this’.
“ You shouldn’t be calling anyone at 10 O’Clock at night, you can call me from 9 till 5.
“That added a lot of stress you’ll always be on edge. It’s very controlled, that’s the best way to describe it.
“It would be emails, it would be phone calls, it would be fake profiles, it was just a lot, so I was just thinking why am I getting controlled so much.”
The BBC contestant ended the video saying: “There was just a bigger, darker thing around this whole show. I’m so happy that I’m not a part of this anymore.”
A spokesperson for The Apprentice said: “Noor declined the opportunity to appear on last week’s episode of The Apprentice: You’re Fired! and we respect her decision.”
They added: “We have a duty of care to all candidates and their welfare is of the utmost importance to us.
We take the welfare of anyone involved in The Apprentice extremely seriously and have thorough and robust measures in place to ensure everyone feels supported before, during and after filming takes place.
We have a dedicated welfare team who are there to support candidates through the process, and we are proactive in ensuring our welfare procedures are under constant review and updated with each series. Like all candidates, Noor has had access to any support she needs, and this is ongoing, even now she has left the process.”
Apprentice candidate Asif Munaf, a doctor from Sheffield, was ‘cut’ from the spin-off show after controversial comments he made resurfaced.
Noor said: “Then they expected me to go on the show and give my time, my energy, my talents. No, no, no if you literally cancel one of us, you’ve cancelled all of us.”