‘Really unhappy’ The Apprentice star shares poignant confession after ‘extraordinary’ firing – and divulges primary mistake he made on the very begin of collection

Harry Clough was the eleventh candidate to be fired on Thursday’s episode of The Apprentice. 

The financial sales manager, from Battersea, London, waved goodbye to his £250,000 investment and partnership from Lord Sugar on the latest instalment of the BBC show. 

Harry has followed in the footsteps of his fellow fired co-stars Rajan Gill, Megan Ruiter, Carrington Saunders, Andrea Cooper, Vanessa Tetteh-Squire, Roxanne Hamedi, Tanmay Hingorani, Marcus Donkoh, Georgina Newton and Nikki Jetha. 

As viewers will remember, the two teams were sent to Hong Kong during the first episode and were tasked with completing the classic scavenger hunt challenge. 

They had to find a certain number of items in a certain amount of time, however, both teams failed miserably, and Lord Sugar revealed before the episode aired that a ‘heated exchange’ was cut from the premiere after their ‘shocking’ performance. 

So Lord Sugar decided to let the teams have a second go at it in the Isle of Wight.

Unfortunately Kieran McCartney and his team lost the task, meaning that he had to pick two of his co-stars to bring back to the boardroom. 

The estate agent decided to bring back Harry and Conor Galvin, and Lord Sugar decided to get rid of Harry because of how expensive he bought the stand up paddle board for. 

When asked about how he felt after being fired, Harry said: ‘It was extraordinary. 

‘I mean, seeing Lord Sugar’s finger point and then saying ”you’re fired” was such a weird experience, it was pretty surreal.

‘I kind of felt it coming because I was in the boardroom with Kieran and Conor, who are the biggest characters on the show. 

‘So, I thought I didn’t stand a chance against those guys.

But then I was just really sad. I loved the whole process, filming was insane and everything was awesome. 

‘But then you just leave and you didn’t see them again and then it is just back to normal life.

‘I was happy with how far I got, but I was definitely gutted to go.’

And when asked if he thinks that he deserved it, Harry added: ‘I mean, there’s all this argument about the SUP (stand up paddle board). 

‘I think it was the right decision to buy it there and then. 

‘Obviously it was unlucky that the other team managed to get a second-hand one but that was sort of out of my control.

‘I don’t think that was all on me and I think there were other things that happened, but everyone did so well in that task, so it was always going to come down to the smallest thing. 

‘Someone had to be fired at the end of the day.’

He also think that the wrong person was sent home. 

Harry said: ‘I would say it was so close and I think it’s so easy to blame a PM and put it on them. 

‘I was saying Kieran should have been fired when I was in the boardroom because obviously there was that whole joke about them going on a lad’s day out and tasting wine and stuff like that. 

‘They went against Kieran’s motto of what we should do in terms of pricing in terms of doing this quickly.  

‘But also at the same time, they did really good deals. So, I think it was such a close one.

‘It was so difficult and when it came down to me, Conor, and Kieran, it was always going to be me.’ 

It comes after candidate Rajan launched an attack towards Levi Hague, saying he instead should have been fired in his place after ‘putting himself out there’ more than his rival last week. 

Last Thursday saw Lord Sugar task the remaining candidates with creating a virtual reality demo of a new game, designing a brand to score investments. 

The losing team, led by Lawrence Rosenburg, opted to create an aerobics game where huge frogs chase the user – however they received only £55,000 worth of investment.

This was in stark comparison to the opposing team, which had Harry Clough and thanks to Karishma Vijay’s expertise in gaming, soared to victory by securing £205,000 investment for their futuristic running game. 

Lawrence, 28, decided to bring Levi and Rajan back into the boardroom with him to face Lord Sugar’s wrath – but it was Rajan who was eventually given the boot.

Hitting back against the decision, he said: ‘Ultimately, Lord Sugar makes the decision based on the task and the overall performance, and I respect that. But I don’t think I deserve to be fired, to be honest. 

‘One of the things that Lord Sugar said to me before he fired me was that he felt like he didn’t really see much of me throughout the process.

‘But if I had the chance to speak to him right now, I would remind him I was sub-PM twice throughout the process. I held, I think, three corporate negotiations throughout the process of which every negotiation outweighed and smashed the other team. 

‘And I put my all into every single task and I feel like there were some individuals who didn’t do that and they should be facing the repercussions themselves.’

Laying into former co-star Levi, he added: ‘I feel like in terms of consistency throughout the process, I didn’t really see much of it. 

‘I think he was sub-PM once in the first task in Hong Kong and I feel like I put myself out there a lot more than he did…’

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