Last year's 'Apprentice' has "no regrets"

Last year's Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry has insisted that she has no regrets about parting company with Sir Alan Sugar.

The 27-year-old businesswoman has admitted that she was extremely disappointed when Sugar put her in charge of his Xenon Green computer disposal firm - a project which would never be successful.

"I have absolutely no regrets about leaving Sir Alan Sugar's employment," Michelle told the Sunday Mirror. "When I won the show I signed up for the opportunity to build a business under his guidance. I was given a job trying to develop a recycling company. But the brief I was given meant that it would never make a profit.

"The idea was to sell recycling services to customers. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the customers, they already get that for free. So they were never going to pay us in a trillion years.

"At the time I was really disappointed in the business Alan selected for me. Perhaps people got carried away with the whole 'green' thing. In the end I was left with just a job - not this amazing career I expected. It wasn't what it said on the tin."