Lord Sugar ‘fires The Apprentice candidate BEFORE the tip of the episode’ in surprising present first’

Lord Sugar is reportedly set to fire a candidate on The Apprentice before the end of the episode, in a show first and shocking stray from the rule book on Thursday.

The reality TV series sees business hopefuls compete in team-based tasks to win a job with a top executive, with eliminations each week leading to a final winner.

However, the firings always happen at the very end of each instalment, after the winning team has been revealed and the Project Manager of the losing team chooses two people to re-enter the boardroom with them. 

Then, from the three people who return, at least one of them gets fired by Lord Sugar and is sent packing in a taxi home.

But this week, according to The Mirror, someone will have the finger pointed at them before the candidates are even narrowed down to three.

Instead, Lord Sugar will allegedly go against the usual format of the show and fire someone in front of everyone.

The business mogul reportedly says: ‘I’ve heard enough. ‘It seems like a completely disjointed organisation you were running there, completely disjointed. 

‘I don’t like wasting my time. I think the dynamics of the team is terrible at the moment, listening to everybody, I think that you missed an opportunity.’

He then points at the unlucky candidate and fires them there and then, to the shock of the other contestants.

MailOnline has contacted the BBC for comment.

The episode will see the contestants think up a new educational banking app and accompanying money box aimed at six-to-nine-year-olds.

It comes after The Apprentice star Jonny Heaver revealed the mortifying way he ’embarrassed himself’ after being fired by Lord Sugar in his final moment cut from the BBC show.

The 23-year-old, who owns his own tutoring business Achieve Tutoring, was the fifth entrepreneur to be given the boot from Lord Alan Sugar on Thursday night.

The latest episode of the programme saw the remaining contestants head to Turkey to put on some amazing events for corporate clients.

Unfortunately Chisola Chitambala’s team lost the task and she decided to bring back Frederick Afrifa and Jonny to the board room.

When Lord Sugar told Jonny the dreaded words ‘You’re fired’ – he unfortunately suffered something of a blunder.

Speaking to Yahoo, Jonny confessed: ‘The bit I’m so happy that didn’t make the edit… I pushed the pull door.

‘It was so embarrassing! I went straight into the door on my way out, so I’m just so happy that it didn’t make the edit — it made my day.

‘One time you cannot push a pull door is when being fired by Lord Sugar, do you know what I mean? It’s not the time or the place, so I’m glad I didn’t make the edit.

‘They were kind to me with that — because I feel like they’re not always kind!’

Thursday’s episode of The Apprentice marked week six of the competition – where the contestants headed off to Turkey, with one team going to Bodrum and the other in Cappadocia.

Each team had to impress Lord Sugar by creating their own day experiences for a very important client, and the team that made the most profit would be crowner winner.

Chisola Chitambala was voted project manager for her team, and picked Anisa Khan as sub team leader.

Frederick Afrifa did point out that Jonny hadn’t been PM or sub team leader at all throughout the process, but he said that he wouldn’t be the best fit for this task.

Meanwhile Keir Shave was given the role of PM for his team, and chose Mia Collins to be his second in command.

Throughout the episode the teams tried to haggle their prices down as much as they could.

Kier took their guests on an incredible hot air balloon activity, while Mia managed her team in the kitchen.

There was a little bit of tension between Mia and Melica Moshiri, when she told her that it doesn’t take much initiative to lay a table.

Chisola and the team took theirs out in Jeeps – where their clients from Vodafone were told to turn their phones off and enjoy each other’s company.

And things were a little awkward as they tried to make small talk in the vehicles.

They hit a bump in the road when the clients asked to finish the tour early and wanted to eat instead.

Meanwhile Chisola’s sub team, led by Anisa, got stuck in the kitchen on the yacht.

The guests were desperate for a glass of wine, but they very awkwardly didn’t have any, so they had to go and get some.

They managed to pick things up, but then really wanted some more booze and had to tell them that they had run out.

In the boardroom, Lord Sugar was told that Kier’s team made a profit of €1580 and the corporate client really enjoyed themselves.

Chisola’s team made a profit of €2070, but unfortunately they didn’t feel like they had a luxury service and asked for a 40% refund, meaning that they actually made €470 profit.

She decided to bring back Frederik and Jonny to the boardroom.

Lord Sugar said: ‘Chisola, the underlying thing that has come through it that you were very much focused on profit and not the customer experience.’

He added: ‘Jonny, your tour chat was unfortunately drier than your drinks cabinet.’

Jonny replied: ‘Despite me not being on the tour time on the first day, I put myself forward and I led the second part of the tour.

‘How could it be boring? It was two and a half minutes.’

Lord Sugar asked the trio who they think should be fired for the task.

Frederik said that it should be Jonny as he ‘always sits on the fence’ and he clapped back: ‘That is not fair.

‘Lord Sugar, I put myself forward for project manager on this task. I didn’t think I put myself forward for sub team because I didn’t think I had the skills.’

Chisola also agreed and said that it should be Jonny too.

Unfortunately Lord Sugar agreed and said in the boardroom: ‘Jonny, I haven’t seen much from you in these six weeks.

‘What I have seen is a tendency to make excuses; it’s not your fault or “I don’t want to do that because I’m not experienced in this”.

‘My mind leads me in one direction and I’m afraid to say it’s because after six weeks, I haven’t seen much from you, that Jonny…

‘You’re fired.’

Jonny said in the taxi: ‘Do you know what? Absolutely gutted.

‘Lord Sugar, Tim, Baroness Brady are my absolute heroes and I would have loved them to see me as project manager but I have had a fantastic experience and I leave with my head held high.’

The fifth week, which saw the teams create their own Easter eggs, saw Dr Jana Denzel shockingly step away from the process, meaning that the rest of his team managed to stay in the competition.

Jonny has now sadly followed in the footsteps of his co-stars Nadia Suliaman, Carlo Brancati, Aoibheann Walsh and Emma Rothwell.

The Apprentice airs Thursdays at 9pm on BBC One and is available to stream on iPlayer