Former The Apprentice winner Mark Wright has claimed Lord flipped out and suddenly fled the boardroom during filming.
recalled a particularly tense boardroom meeting, where the 76-year-old actually left the set for a considerable amount of time mid-filming as people were ‘getting too comfortable’.Â
‘One day out of the blue [he] just went ballistic for no reason,’ Mark stated.
Mark alleges that Lord Sugar went ‘completely psycho’ and even compared him to ‘a wild dog’.
‘He walked out of the boardroom and left everyone in there.’
This included the film crew, production, Karren Brady, Nick Hewer and all the contestants.
‘He left us there for 25 minutes,’ Mark disclosed in the , which is hosted by Ellie McKay.
Mark was actually impressed by his ability to gain control of an environment, even calling the scenes ‘magic’.
‘I absolutely loved it and he’s the master of the power move!’
He concluded: ‘Being in business with Alan Sugar is like sitting in a boardroom with a hand grenade where someone’s let the pin out.’
Mark worked with Lord Sugar for eight years, insisting he ‘never saw a softer side’, but acknowledged that this style of working isn’t for everyone. However, he found it was ‘the best mentoring ever’, and is now very financially secure.Â
Mark recently sold the online marketing company that he launched with Lord Sugar for a staggering £10million.
Lord Sugar is equally impressed by Mark’s business journey.
He previously told PA: ‘A young boy comes from Australia, skint, totally skint. He sees an advert on BBC to enter into The Apprentice programme.
‘He then goes on and wins it and he wins a partnership with me of £250,000 and from acorns, big oak trees have grown and this young lad who came with no money is now going back to Australia with millions.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Lord Alan Sugar’s representatives for comment.
The most recent series of The Apprentice is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
