The Apprentice double exit as Kevin DArcy is fired minutes after Shannon quits

2023-01-12

The Apprentice viewers saw a surprising double departure on the BBC show Thursday evening (January 12) as Kevin D’Arcy received the firing treatment only minutes after Shannon Martin decided to drop out of the process early.

Kevin, a 32 year old accountant from Dublin, found himself on the losing team after the candidates attempted to make and sell Bao buns.

The candidate was ultimately fired by Lord Alan Sugar for pricing the products too low, after the boys' team unfortunately struggled to hit the ground running with their second task.

At one point, Lord Sugar's aide Tim Campbell even had to step in and help the boys when he suspected their business plan was going off the rails.

And when it came to the actual food product itself, the boys' green buns looked decidedly unappetising too.

As scenes in the boardroom came to a head, Lord Sugar decided the fault lay with Kevin during the task and told him he was fired from the show.

"I do think that Lord Sugar made a mistake in firing me," he said in the car away from the office. "I think there were other members of the team who made far bigger errors."

Reflecting on the experience, the Irish candidate said overall he'd enjoyed getting to know the other people and having a laugh more than anything.

Kevin also said that now it's over he focuses only on the "best bits" of the experience.

“Overall, I think I met some amazing people," Kevin said. "People I perhaps wouldn’t meet in my normal life, and I think being one of the slightly older contestants, it was interesting to meet some of the younger candidates and understand what they’re into and what their interests are.”

While the bun task was branded a disaster for the boys team, Kevin also looked back on how much "fun" selling their food was at the market.

"We had this thing when we steamed a new set of buns, we’d have a countdown ‘three, two one… fresh bao buns!’" the candidate laughed.

"That stopped the entire market, and everyone would come over to see what was going on," the star recalled.

He also revealed that sharing a bedroom in The Apprentice house “felt a bit like you were on a stag” and admitted he did get up to some mischief with his fellow candidates after the boys team won the first task, which saw them attempt to create and sell excursions to tourists in Antigua.

“We’d just won the task in Antigua and gone back to the house – after Lord Sugar told us to take good care of it and not wreck the house,” the cheeky candidate admitted.

“First thing I did was jump on Joe’s bed to see how comfy it was, and I went straight through it and broke it.

"Joe wasn’t there, so I think I just went into the other room and pretended nothing happened," Kevin added.

Shannon, meanwhile, decided to leave the competition because she realised that she didn't want the reality of having to leave her home and business behind in West Yorkshire.

The Apprentice airs every Thursday on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9pm.

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