I was on The Apprentice and made a desperate plea to Lord Sugar off camera when he was in the loo
AVI Sharma has opened up on his off-camera plea to Lord Sugar after being fired from The Apprentice in Week 9.
The youngest of the bunch, Avi performed well throughout the contest, achieving team wins during his tenure as Project Manager, but it all came crashing down after a disastrous task that saw his skin turn green.
Attempting to create a new men’s skincare product turned out to be a failure after Avi and Rochelle Anthony failed to accurately test the product before finalising it.
Lord Sugar was left less than impressed as he blasted the product as he remarked: “Avi that concoction you put it on your skin, and it dyed your skin green….”
Avi was fired inevitably soon after but now he has revealed that he made a secret plea to Lord Sugar during a chance encounter in the bathroom prior to his firing.
The 24 year old recalled: “I was desperate for Lord Sugar to know how I really felt.
“I knew that if I waited for the boardroom then it just wouldn’t be possible.
“You don’t get one on one time with him ever and he was walking past me outside the toilets.”
Avi continued that Lord Sugar asked him how he was as he walked past before he took the moment to plead his case to the big boss.
He added: “This was my one chance, so I asked Lord Sugar, ‘can I quickly say something to you?’
“He mocked me and he said, ‘yes, what do you want to say,’ mimicking my tone to which I told him straight how I really felt and say ‘I just wanna thank you for choosing me’.
“Whilst walking away from me, he turned around and said ‘you will achieve fame and popularity my boy’ and I was over the moon as I’d finally got to say what I really felt.”
It appeared that Lord Sugar and his aides Karren Brady and Tim Campbell had taken a particular shine to Avi as they offered him up some words of encouragement following his exit from the process.
Encouraging him to stay in contact, Lord Sugar told him as he walked out of the boardroom: “Good luck, keep in touch and keep the enthusiasm up.”
Reflecting on his exit in the taxi, he said: “I’m only 24 and my potential is sky high, so this is not the last you will see of this tall, dark, handsome gentleman.”
However, Avi thinks Lord Sugar ultimately made the wrong call as he declared: “I deserved to win!
“But clearly, it is his money, so he has ideas of what he wants to do with that and I think that’s absolutely fair enough.”