THE Apprentice candidate Reece Donnelly was fired from the show after he got drunk on a flight to Dubai to take part in a task.
Viewers and fellow competitors in the BBC1 show were told he had been forced to leave for “health reasons” but the truth was he was sacked by bosses.
Theatre school boss Reece, 25, was so drunk by the time he landed that it was deemed unsafe for him to take part and he was sent home again.
A TV insider said: “The Apprentice has never had anything quite like this happen before. “It’s the first one someone has been shown the door in the contest by someone other than Lord Sugar. “But producers take health and safety extremely seriously and have a duty of care to all the candidates.
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