The Apprentice EXCLUSIVE: Fired Rick Monk SLAMS Kurran Pooni for being ‘a dead weight’

Lord Sugar shocked viewers on Wednesday night’s edition of The Apprentice when he fired a candidate who he’d already told to go back to the house.

Thinking they were safe, Rick Monk, Jasmine Kundra and Sarah Ann Magson were asked to return to the boardroom after project manager of the losing team Jackie Fast decided they weren’t culpable for the failure of the task.

This turn of events – which has never happened before on The Apprentice – resulted in Rick getting fired, for which he told MailOnline he ‘blames Kurran Pooni’.

Bad blood: The Apprentice’s Rick Monk [L] has slammed co-star Kurran Pooni [R] for being ‘a dead weight’ and for ‘hypnotising’ Lord Sugar into giving him a third chance at becoming his business partner

‘I don’t really understand why he’s still in the process when no-one’s got a good word to say about him,’ Rick, 33, said. ‘At least I actually did something on the tasks. Kurran not only did nothing, he threw me under the bus.’

In the final scenes of the latest episode, Jackie had opted to keep Kurran and Kayode Damali in the boardroom, but Lord Sugar wasn’t convinced Kayode was responsible.

He brought back the other three, who argued why they should stay in the show, with Kurran, 22, somehow talking Lord Sugar into giving him another shot, promising to be project manager in the next task.

Kurran had already promised to do this last week, but failed to step up to the plate during the latest episode, which saw the teams design women’s shoes.

Fury: Thinking they were safe, Rick Monk, Jasmine Kundra and Sarah Ann Magson were asked to return to the boardroom after project manager of the losing team Jackie Fast decided they weren’t culpable for the failure of the task

Not happy: This turn of events – which has never happened before on The Apprentice – resulted in Rick getting fired, for which he told MailOnline he ‘blames Kurran Pooni’

‘He said that he was going to be PM to save his skin last week,’ Rick said. ‘But then he finds out this week is a shoe task and he pulls his hat out of the ring.

‘He went back on his word and I thought no-one dares go back on their word to Lord Sugar. He should have been fired. He didn’t make any sales, he didn’t pull his weight, he seemed disinterested in the task and was a dead weight.’

Rick expressed an annoyance that Lord Sugar, for some reason, let Kurran speak over him – something he doesn’t let people do ordinarily.

Take a chance on me: Kurran, 22, somehow talked Lord Sugar into giving him another shot, promising to be project manager in the next task

‘I was cut off when I was trying to talk and I wasn’t given the chance to defend myself,’ he said. ‘If, when Lord Sugar had been laying into me, I’d have been given the chance to say, “let me have one opportunity and I’ll show you my worth”, then I would have proved myself.

‘You’d think the evidence speaks for itself with Kurran. It’s getting silly now, with him still in it. His time is surely up. It’s not fair for those that are actual professionals in there.

‘But he’s an actor after all, I guess. He must have some sort of hypnotic trick for Lord Sugar.’

No promises: Kurran had already promised to do this last week, but failed to step up to the plate during the latest episode, which saw the teams design women’s shoes

Outraged: ‘He said that he was going to be PM to save his skin last week,’ Rick said. ‘But then he finds out this week is a shoe task and he pulls his hat out of the ring’

Elaborating on being brought back into the boardroom after believing himself to be safe, Rick said: ‘I 100 percent walked into the boardroom for the second time not expected to be fired. I was devastated being brought back in.

‘It was only when we sat down and Lord Sugar said that he wasn’t happy – that’s when we thought, oh crap, we are all in the firing line now.

‘I thought I was safe. I had in my mind that I had pulled my weight and done a lot. I know I hadn’t made a sale, and when Lord Sugar mentioned that I hadn’t sold in the second task – I knew he had that on his mind when it came to me.

‘I think its unfair. But I guess I pee’d off Lord Sugar.’

It seems, however, that every cloud has a silver lining for children’s play area entrepreneur Rick. 

‘I’ve made Apprentice history! This has never happened before. So that’s something,’ he concluded.

The Apprentice continues on Wednesday at 9PM on BBC One.