Lord Alan Sugar 'parts company' with historic Apprentice winner Sarah Lynn

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Lord Alan Sugar has reportedly parted company with The Apprentice 2017 winner Sarah Lynn. Back in 2017, Sarah made show history by becoming the first joint-winner alongside James White, who split from the Amstrad founder himself in 2020.

An insider told the Sun : "This will have come as a huge blow for Sarah, though it shouldn’t have been too big a surprise for her. "She joins a long line of entrepreneurs who won The Apprentice only to find themselves splitting with Lord Sugar some time later. "The situation is obviously likely to attract greater attention because she was the first joint winner on the Beeb show."Sarah runs a confectionary delivery service called Sweets In The City.A statement on the company's website reads: "In 2017, Sarah decided that her confectionery business was ready for huge growth and she applied to be a candidate on BBC One’s The Apprentice.

Sarah walked away as one of two winners in a historic £500,000 'double hiring'. This was the first time in 13 series of The Apprentice that Lord Sugar doubled his investment in the final, naming two Apprentice winners for 2017 and declaring Sarah a 'fantastic expert in her field'."Sarah won The Apprentice because she demonstrated the potential of her business and all of the innovations she had planned for the future, such as the very well-received Letterbox Treats that are now available online." Mogul Mr Sugar is yet to comment on the split.

Last month, however, he confessed that the original format of the show backfired badly he decided to change it. When it began in 2005 he rewarded winners with a mega-paid job, but this led to other staff amongst his firms becoming jealous.The tycoon, 75, revealed: "A lot of people ignore the fact that the original format