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The Apprentice 2018: Tom Bunday hopes to sit down with Lord Sugar to discuss firing

Fired: Tom Bunday lost his third task in a row (Picture: BBC)

The Apprentice’s Tom Bunday has revealed that he hopes to “sit down” with Lord Sugar after the process ends because he’s “owed it”.

Bunday was fired after losing his third task as project manager, ousted before given a chance to explain himself in the boardroom.

But Bunday has said that he plans to contact Lord Sugar when the competition is over to chat about his time on the BBC show.

The tree surgeon told Standard Online: “We don’t have contact with him [while it's on air].

Fired: Tom Bunday (BBC)

“I’ve heard snippets from people that he’s mentioned me but when the process is done I’m definitely going to get in contact with him and say ‘I want a five or 10 minute sit down, you owe me that…let’s go!”

Despite his abrupt end to the competition during week nine, Bunday admitted he had “learned a lot about himself” from the process.

The 28-year-old said: “Everyone kept coming to me for advice and I was the level-headed one and that they could rely on. So you think ‘oh that’s a quality if people say and feel that’.

“At the beginning, I had the best sales out of three tasks and I’ve never classed myself as a salesman and I think that after proving that to myself it spoke a lot to me.”

Six candidates remain in the process with the competition tougher than ever, although the tasks are over for Jackie Fast who was also fired after the live TV sales task .

The Apprentice continues Wednesday at 9pm on BBC One.

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