'Apprentice' Mone: 'I hate bitchiness'

Michelle Mone has said that she cannot stand bitchiness after she reportedly fell out with Patsy Palmer on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice.

The lingerie brand founder told The Sun that there had been some "difficult moments" when she appeared on the celebrity special of the business-based show

Mone said: "I handled them to the best of my ability and I don't regret how I handled them.

"But I will not accept any bitchiness. I've had it before from Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins in 2007.

"I've learned you can be firm but fair - you don't need to be bitchy. All I can say is I'm sure Patsy is very talented at whatever it is she does."

Mone said that she got "a b****cking" from Sir Alan Sugar on the programme which she "found very hard to take".

Palmer will reportedly not attend a promotional party for the show after she was said to have "flipped" during filming.

Comic Relief Does The Apprentice airs tonight at 9pm on BBC One.