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Lord Sugar fires broadside for BBC

Apprentice 2009 Alan Sugar
The Apprentice: Lord Sugar. Photograph: Talkback Thames/BBC

Lord Sugar has been on the attack, and this time he's not bawling out a rubbish Apprentice contestant. The Daily Mirror reports that Sugar told culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to "mind his bloody business" over BBC finances. "Go and learn how to fill out expenses form, because he made a cock-up of it twice," said Sugar. "Once you're forgiven, but twice you think 'Are you that clever to be a minister?'" Sugar, the former government's business tsar, said the BBC was "incredible value". Not least with shows such as The Apprentice, presumably.

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