I didn't shout loudly enough, says fired Apprentice hopeful

The unemployed marketing and PR director said she became the second candidate to be told to leave because she didn't shout loudly enough.

She said after her exit from the BBC1 show: "It's come across that I didn't particularly participate. The truth is that I didn't participate in the madness.

"I did participate but it probably didn't make such good television. I wasn't prepared to do it in a way that discredited myself."

The 31-year-old, from Birmingham, said that she was fired partly for business reasons.

Stefanicki, who lost her "dream job" in New York and had to fly home when she was made redundant before signing up for The Apprentice, was fired after her team – the girls led by Laura Moore – failed to make a single sale of their product, a book stand for the beach.