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The Apprentice stars just can’t keep apart
Mark BlundenUpdated 14:12pm on 8 Jun 2009
Apprentice rivals Kate Walsh and Yasmina Siadatan could not escape each other today as they dashed to a series of post-final interviews.
Strained: Kate and Yasmina at Radio 1 today
The two 27-year-olds have reportedly fallen out after Yasmina allegedly described Kate and her boyfriend — fellow contestant Philip Taylor — as “a poor man's Posh and Becks”.
Sir Alan Sugar chose Yasmina to become his £100,000 apprentice after last night's task, in which the two finalists created and pitched a new brand of chocolate to industry experts.
Yasmina's Cocoa Electric brand featured strawberry and basil chocolates, beating Kate's Choc D'Amour box of chocolate for a couple to share.
Afterwards, the two were desperate to enjoy some time apart after spending 12 weeks cooped up together in the penthouse used in the BBC1 show.
But they kept bumping in to each other at interviews such as today's Chris Moyles show on Radio 1. This put a further strain on relations after they reportedly clashed at a post-filming party.
One source said: “They have divided the other contestants.” Kate said today that she deliberately did not pick estate agent Taylor, 29, for her team last night after their romance was blamed for messing up a previous task.
She told BBC Breakfast: “I didn't want to choose Philip because I didn't want the final task to be about Kate and Philip flirting.”
Yasmina, a former restaurateur, said Sir Alan was right to trust his “gut instinct” to choose her over the 14 other candidates.She added: “I don't feel like I've beaten Kate because I don't feel we both deserved the job, and we just had different qualities.”
Kate, a licensing development manager, has also reconciled herself with being best remembered for her energetic air guitar performance on the task involving a TV shopping channel.
She said: “I've been described as a female Alan Partridge. It was quite cringeworthy when I watched that back.”
Yasmina will sell Amscreen Health Care electronic information and advertising boards to the NHS with last year's winner, Lee McQueen.
Reader views (9)
David, if you had watched the programme you would know that the electronic advertisment boards are installed free of charge, allowing the NHS to display information in return for some advert space. Sounds like a good product for the NHS and something that should be applauded and not derided.
- Daisy Chain, London, 08/06/2009 17:07
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Hmmm..I think the current Programme Format has reached its sell-buy-date...Perhaps Lord Allan should take some less well educated young people some unemployed whom really have " Drive and Ambition" but are never given the Opportunity!....After all in times gone past an Apprentice was somebody straight from school/college who served several years gaining a specialised qualification....Why give a job to somebody whom has already made it?...
- Justice, London, 08/06/2009 16:42
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So basiclaly she is a glorified sales person trying to sell advertising space? And let's not forget who pays into the NHS, ALL WE LOVELY TAX PAYERS!
- David Sanderson, london, 08/06/2009 15:46
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Concept of the programme is good, but is seriously let down by the content ie the quality of the tasks leave alot to be desired. ...and then the prize !!! Yasmina would be better off starting another restaurant. Unfortunately the prize on offer never match those that Donald Trump gave in the American series.
Lord Alan, should have better things to do with his time, perhaps giving the Cabinet and Gordon some tasks to do.
- Don Elwin, Landeleau France, 08/06/2009 15:38
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Mick, I totally agree with you - her new role sounds rather dull!
- Isabel, Woking, 08/06/2009 15:24
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Am I the only person who cannot stand Alan Sugar or this show?
- Steve, London, 08/06/2009 14:39
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I give her 6 months tops before she announces her resignation to embark on a media career.....
- Ali Sichilongo, London, 08/06/2009 14:36
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Poor sugar has to look at that body all day long
- Ge, Kernow, 08/06/2009 14:27
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Its been compulsive veiwing over the weeks, with it cumulating in Yasmina being declared a worthy winner, but after all the bitching and shifting of blame it ends up that the big prize is the opportunity to sell health care information in surgeries. What an anti-climax
- Mick Andrews, north east lincolnshire, 08/06/2009 14:20
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