Conor Galvin, the Cork entrepreneur on the new series of BBC One's The Apprentice, has told The Oliver Callan Show on RTÉ Radio 1 that he had "the fear of God" in him when filming of the opening episode of the new series began in Hong Kong.
On last Thursday's opening episode, the Glengarriff man was on the winning team and lives to fight another day in Alan Sugar's boardroom, having butted heads with team leader Kieran McCartney during the task.
"If I thought something, I was going to say it!" Galvin told host Dermot Whelan on Tuesday's show on RTÉ Radio 1.
"I had the fear of God in me heading over to Hong Kong. It was the most intimidating experience of my life."
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"You've cameras on you, you've 20 huge personalities, and everyone is trying to impress," the owner of the photobooth business Press Print Paper continued.
"I think my fight-or-flight response was to take this like life or death!
"I would be pretty jokey and light-hearted as normal, and I just had a fear that, 'Oh, they've brought me in as a joke almost'. So, I knew I needed to lay my mark from the beginning!"
The Apprentice continues on BBC One on Thursdays at 9:00pm.
The Oliver Callan Show, weekdays, RTÉ Radio 1, 11am
