SIR ALAN SUGAR - MAJID NAGRA BECOMES THIRD APPRENTICE HOPEFUL FIRED

MAJID NAGRA BECOMES THIRD APPRENTICE HOPEFUL FIRED

Sir Alan Sugar has picked Majid Nagra as the third contestant to be fired from the new series of The Apprentice.

The 28-year-old found himself in the boardroom along with Ben Clarke and James McQuillan after the boys' team lost a task of creating fitness equipment.

Debra Barr had earlier led the girls' Ignite team to victory, with 10,180 orders for their re-designed exercise ball.

And after project manager James - in the boardroom for the second week running - took Ben and Majid to face a grilling from Sir Alan, Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford, it was Coventry-native Majid who got the boor from the BBC1 show.

Sir Alan told Majid: "General feeling amongst my two colleagues here is that you just hang around on the periphery and don't actually do anything."

He added: "My instincts are that I can't really have someone that is perceived not to contribute and you may not agree with this but Maj - you're fired!"

Speaking after his firing, Majid said James should have been fired as the project manager in charge of the boys' defeat.

Majid, a business development manager, was expelled from school but had turned his life around and works with youth centres and charities while running his own car hire business.