Solomon Akhtar
Soloman Akhtar was last night seen to be fired from The Apprentice, and the young businessman says it came as a relief.
Leaving the process in the final five he has revealed he wouldn't now want to go into business with Lord Alan Sugar after seeing how controlling he is.
Speaking to BANG Showbiz he explained: "Yeah in a way. Obviously I wanted to win it but I don't think I would want to be under Lord Sugar's iron fist for the rest of my life and I want to do other things. Lord Sugar and I just wouldn't have got on. I don't think we see eye to eye yet and I think that's because I'm a bit of a free spirit."
Continuing to chat about the leadership style of the 67-year-old he admitted that the focus on forward planning by Sugar was too restrictive, and he feels that he's too young to go into business with him.
"I don't think we were suited at all, I don't think it would have worked. I'm probably too immature, I just want to live in the moment. He wants a five year business plan but no one plans five years in advance. I don't know what I'm going to be doing in five years."
The hopeful said it was his failure to charm the four interviewers in a gruelling grilling of his business plan which led to him leaving the competition.
"I found it quite stressful. I think I'm quite wide-eyed, so I just went into it with an open mind thinking I could just charm them and Nick and Karen were quite easy to charm, but Lord Sugar's advisers were a completely different thing. With Claudine [Collins] I think I was fine - I think I get on better with girls - so I found her quite easy, but Claude [Littner] and Mike [Soutarg] just didn't put up with any of my bulls**t, so that's basically why I got fired."
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