The Apprentice biggest show secrets exposed - rule breaks, ugly ratings and booze bans

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The Apprentice star Thomas Skinner has chatted exclusively to the Daily Star to reveal some shocking behind-the-scenes elements of the show.The BBC One business contest is currently airing series 16 of the show and has welcomed a new batch of hopefuls who are battling it out for Lord Sugar's investment.While catching up with the BOSH Beds owner and much-loved contestant from series 15, we uncovered some surprising facts about the programme.Thomas chatted to Carly in Convo host Carly Hacon during a Facebook Live interview where he unveiled the show's biggest secrets.Let's take a look at what he told us...The Apprentice favourite Thomas Skinner has revealed a shocking insight into the audition process which sees hopefuls forced to line themselves up by who’s the most attractive.The brutal interview process requires dozens of budding strangers, all desperate to be chosen for the next series of the BBC show, to line themselves up from "ugliest to prettiest" as producers watch their conduct.The London-born star said: “Before you go on the show you go through the interview stages and you’ve got people from all over - from London, from Ireland, from Manchester, and you’re in this room and they told us to line up from ugliest to prettiest."And you don’t even know who these people are and you’ve got people arguing about who’s the prettiest, it was carnage."I went straight down the ugly end sod that but there were girls and fellas arguing about 'I'm much better looking than what you are.'"Thomas also explained that when viewers see the contestants receive their daily call to go on a task, it is true that they only get 20 minutes to get downstairs.He explained: "What people don't realise is when you watch the show it's one hour.