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Fired Apprentice calls rivals 'two-faced'
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Sam (32), from Knocklyon in Dublin, was booted off the reality show on Monday, after her team fell down on marketing a Cadbury's product.
The teacher said that she had no regrets about applying to become Bill Cullen's next Apprentice, but found the tense atmosphere in the house difficult to deal with.
Speaking to the Evening Herald she said: "It's a very psychological place. You have to get up and have breakfast with someone you have had an argument with the day before," she said.
"What shocked me the most was how people would be absolutely delightful to your face and then dig the knife in the middle of your back when you weren't looking," she added.
"School is full of love, we don't have conflicts like that in school," Sam said about the bust-up she had with the two Steves in the boardroom.
The contestant was slated for insisting that music was introduced into every task and was criticised by her rivals for her lack of business acumen.
"People have questioned my legitimacy for being in the house," she agreed. "But it's called the Apprentice for a reason, to be a trainee for Bill.
"I knew that I had a bit of cop on and creativity and that was the way for me to go," she added.
While Sam's team fell down on the task, Breffni was commended for standing up to Aoiffe and Ruth and insisting that they go with his suggested name, Blasta, Irish for tasty.
But although there has been an on-screen relationship brewing between Geraldine and Breffni, single Sam said that love was not her priority.
"I didn't go into the house looking for love," she said. "I don't think a love affair would have been an option. The students would have loved that, and think of my mother watching too!"
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