"I won The Apprentice but Lord Sugar didn't want to know. I feel angry and used: Stella English reveals why she quit her £100,000 job after just nine months"
Stella, who became known on the 2010 series as an ‘ice maiden’, has now lifted the lid on the reality of winning the coveted title, saying she has been left frustrated and humiliated.
Contrary to claims that winners secure a job working directly for Lord Sugar, ambitious Stella found herself shunted into a company where she claims she had no clearly defined role and little contact with the man who just nine months earlier had told her: ‘You’re hired!’
She gave up a prominent role at a City bank to take part in the show but was told after winning the TV series that, actually, there was no real job – with real duties, responsibilities and targets – for her to do.
Furious Stella tried to quit once before and was talked into taking on a different role. But, she says, Lord Sugar later admitted this was little more than an attempt to ‘preserve the integrity of the BBC, the show and me’.
Stella finally resigned last week and has now decided to speak out about how she feels ‘used’ by Lord Sugar.
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Those doubts were intensified after she met Tkachuk in early January.
‘He said, “The cameras have stopped rolling now. Welcome to the real world. There is no job.”
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On September 28, Lord Sugar called Stella to a meeting, where he pointed out that her contract would be up at the end of December. She said he told her: ‘I dunno what to do with you after that. Maybe you should think about what you want to do.’ Stella told him she wanted to stay where she was.
But, she said, he told her that YouView couldn’t afford to pay her and added: ‘I’ve met my obligations to you as far as I’m concerned. If you think Lord Sugar was s****ing himself when you left the Viglen job, you’re wrong, ’cos I don’t give a s**t.’
Stella said: ‘He told me I was there to protect the BBC and to protect the integrity of the show, to protect himself and – finally – to protect me.’
Stella understands that Lord Sugar’s prime concern was to avoid bad publicity.
‘I couldn’t believe he said that. I’d gone to work there under a pretence. He had strung me along and now he was washing his hands of me.’
Stella has not been back into the office since and on Thursday, posted her resignation letter.
She said: ‘I’m relieved it’s over and angry that I’ve been used. I just don’t understand why he had to stick the knife in.’
Source: Apprentice winner Stella English on why she quit her £100k job with Lord Sugar | Mail Online
Never liked that program - next worst thing to the so called "Dragons"...
Stella, who became known on the 2010 series as an ‘ice maiden’, has now lifted the lid on the reality of winning the coveted title, saying she has been left frustrated and humiliated.
Contrary to claims that winners secure a job working directly for Lord Sugar, ambitious Stella found herself shunted into a company where she claims she had no clearly defined role and little contact with the man who just nine months earlier had told her: ‘You’re hired!’
She gave up a prominent role at a City bank to take part in the show but was told after winning the TV series that, actually, there was no real job – with real duties, responsibilities and targets – for her to do.
Furious Stella tried to quit once before and was talked into taking on a different role. But, she says, Lord Sugar later admitted this was little more than an attempt to ‘preserve the integrity of the BBC, the show and me’.
Stella finally resigned last week and has now decided to speak out about how she feels ‘used’ by Lord Sugar.
...
Those doubts were intensified after she met Tkachuk in early January.
‘He said, “The cameras have stopped rolling now. Welcome to the real world. There is no job.”
...
On September 28, Lord Sugar called Stella to a meeting, where he pointed out that her contract would be up at the end of December. She said he told her: ‘I dunno what to do with you after that. Maybe you should think about what you want to do.’ Stella told him she wanted to stay where she was.
But, she said, he told her that YouView couldn’t afford to pay her and added: ‘I’ve met my obligations to you as far as I’m concerned. If you think Lord Sugar was s****ing himself when you left the Viglen job, you’re wrong, ’cos I don’t give a s**t.’
Stella said: ‘He told me I was there to protect the BBC and to protect the integrity of the show, to protect himself and – finally – to protect me.’
Stella understands that Lord Sugar’s prime concern was to avoid bad publicity.
‘I couldn’t believe he said that. I’d gone to work there under a pretence. He had strung me along and now he was washing his hands of me.’
Stella has not been back into the office since and on Thursday, posted her resignation letter.
She said: ‘I’m relieved it’s over and angry that I’ve been used. I just don’t understand why he had to stick the knife in.’
Source: Apprentice winner Stella English on why she quit her £100k job with Lord Sugar | Mail Online
Never liked that program - next worst thing to the so called "Dragons"...
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