You're fired! Celebrity Apprentice Carr gets boot

You're fired! Celebrity Apprentice Carr gets boot
You're fired! Celebrity Apprentice Carr gets boot (Image credit: BBC)

Comedian Alan Carr was given his marching orders on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice after the girls' team were voted winners. The funnyman was sent packing in a boardroom showdown during the Comic Relief telethon on Friday night. In Thursday night's edition of the show the girls' team, which included EastEnders star Patsy Palmer, comedienne Ruby Wax, GMTV's Fiona Phillips and TV presenter Carol Vorderman, won a task in which they had to design and market a childrens' toy. However the boys' team - whose members included Jonathan Ross,Gok Wan and jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner - had to face Sir Alan in the boardroom after their failure. And he told Carr, as he dismissed him, that he was "doing him a favour". "I don’t like you mixing with this lot, they’re deluded," he said. "There's something wrong with them. I'm doing it for your own benefit to make sure that I’m sending you out that door. Start a new life. Do you understand what I mean?" Carr admitted afterwards he had had trouble keeping up with some of the egos on the boys' team. "It was all about Jonathan and Gok," he said. "I just ran round after them with a binliner, picking up things."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.