Apprentice winner reveals anguish over losing baby

Dewberry, who was three months pregnant by fellow contestant Syed Ahmed when she miscarried, also admits she considered an abortion.

She told Hello! magazine: "My initial thought was, 'My God, what very, very bad timing.' I'd just won this prestigious show and then suddenly I was pregnant. I'm a normal human being and contemplated not keeping the baby. It was a very brief thought and I wouldn't have acted on I, but my career is my life."

However, the 26-year-old goes on to say she was left "devastated" by the loss.

"When I lost the little one I didn't want to do anything. While a child hadn't been part of my plan, it had become my plan and part of my future. But suddenly it was all snatched away. It was a tough time," she said.

"I was devastated. I was really frightened and lonely and wanted my mum," she said.

"It hit me really hard - I didn't want to go out or talk to anyone. I didn't even want to have a shower or brush my hair.

"It was a hard time and I still get sad about it now. People know me from television as this career-driven person but at the end of the day I'm human. I'm a woman. I had my child inside me and I lost it."

Dewberry has since split from Ahmed and said it was 'questionable' whether their relationship could ever have worked out.

The former supermarket checkout girl from Hull announced last week that she had quit the £100,000-a-year job with Sir Alan Sugar which was her prize for winning the show.

She had been running his computer disposal firm Xenon Green, but said: "When I became pregnant I re-evaluated what I wanted from life and that tied in nicely with the Xenon Green project coming to a natural end."

Asked how the tycoon reacted to news of her pregnancy, Dewberry admitted: "He was shocked - but that was a mutual reaction."

But she insisted Sir Alan had been nothing but supportive.

She has now set up her own freelance consultancy business, Michelle Dewberry Limited.